Press releases featuring articles published in Chemistry Europe and GDCh journals.

Antibacterial Nanozymes
Healing chronic wounds with nanochemistry

Cheaper Hydrogen Production
Efficient water and urea electrolysis with bimetallic yolk-shell nanoparticles

Cancer Treatment with Built-in Light
Deep photodynamic therapy: photosensitizer irradiates itself

Cellular Communication Agent
Tracking the NO signaling pathway

Overcoming False Optical Activity
Interference leads to inaccurate Raman spectroscopic analysis of vitamin B12

Electrons Passed Around
Ultrafast processes in light-induced charge transfer in a manganese-containing Prussian blue analogue elucidated

Increasing the Selectivity of Porous Crystalline Materials
New material binds acetylene with unusual strength and allows for highly selective separation of acetylene from ethylene or carbon dioxid

Organic Mixed Valence Pigments Absorb in the Near Infrared
Unusual organic pigment is “switched on” by an electrical charge to become a potent dye

Controlling Asymmetry for Drug Synthesis
Iridium-catalyzed hydrogen addition gives plant- and insect-based natural substances

A Near‐Infrared‐II Emissive Chromium(III) Complex
Tridentate chelate ligand combines π-donating amido with π-accepting pyridine units

How Green Is Your Plastic?
Economical synthesis of polyacrylates and polymethacrylates from biobased materials

Amidation of Light Alkanes
Copper-catalyzed dehydrogenative amidation

Buttoned Up Biomolecules
Click reaction for living systems: bioorthogonal hydroamination of activated linear alkynes

Molecular Assistance
Molecule layer aids chemoselective hydrogenation on solid palladium catalysts

Heat-Insulating Titanate
Discovering new leads for functional materials guided by artificial intelligence

Active Platinum Species
Catalytic high-temperature oxidations: Individual atom or metal cluster?

Cyclic Hypervalent Bromines as Aryne Precursors
General, safe, and high-yielding synthesis of cyclic diaryl λ3-bromanes

DNA Circuits
Changing the shape of soft matter using logic circuits made from DNA

A Hairpin to Fight Cancer
Bicyclic protein mimetics inhibit the oncogene β-catenin