Ken Sakata and Yoshiaki Nishibayashi from Japan, found new iron complexes to efficiently catalyze selective C(sp³)-H borylation of methoxy groups in aryl and alkyl methyl ethers
Authors discuss their recent research article

Selective C(sp³)-H Borylation of Methoxy Groups via Iron Complexes

Overcoming Resistance to Aminoglycoside Antibiotics in Enterococcus
Corinne Lionne and Elise Kaplan from Montpellier, France, discuss a new family of inhibitors they have discovered that reverse aminoglycoside resistance in Enterococcus strain

Combining Prodrug Design With Nanotechnology for Improved Chemotherapy
New prodrug of gemcitabine synthesized and encapsulated in nanoparticles, significantly improving its anticancer efficacy in pancreatic and lung cancer cell lines

From Inspiration to Discovery: Small Ligand Alloying for Multifunctional Magnetic Materials
How alloying different ligands within a unique FeII-WIV framework leads to tunable magnetic and optical properties

Tuning Quantum Mechanical Tunneling Reactivity with Electron-Donating Substituents
Cláudio M. Nunes and Peter R. Schreiner discuss controlling quantum mechanical tunneling (QMT) reactivity by modifying electronic substituents and why QMT should be included in general chemistry curricula

Chiral Pd Lantern Cage Synthesized with Peptide
The design principles of metallo-organic ligands were applied to polyproline peptides, leading to the synthesis of a stable, stereoselective Pd lantern cage in water

Bioinspired CO2 Capture: Exploring Dipeptides for Efficient Carbon Sequestration
The use of dipetides for CO2 capture and a new computational workflow and statistical analysis of effective binding sites

Phosphine-Stabilized P4C4 Cage Compound
First synthetic access to a phosphine-stabilized P4C4 cage, expanding the exploration of P,C phases in contrast to the well-studied P,N phases

Magnetized Droplet Chains in Liquid Crystals
Varun Chandrasekhar, Jian Ren Lu, Ingo Dierking, University of Manchester, explore how ferrofluids, when dispersed in liquid crystals, form unique droplet chains with magnetic functionality

Crown Ether-Based Calcium Detection in Partially Aqueous Solutions
Simon Wheeler, UK, discusses his new fluorescent sensor for Ca²⁺