Professor Emeritus of Inorganic Chemistry at the University of Heidelberg, Germany, has passed away

Gottfried Huttner (1937 – 2021)

Top Ten Chemical Companies in 2020
BASF saw the highest sales in 2020, followed by Sinopec and Dow. Overall, combined chemical sales declined compared to 2019

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

Chemistry & Sports
A compilation of articles on chemistry related to sports

Olympic Torch Quiz
How much do you know about the background of the reliable and media-effective transport of the flame?

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

Molecule Story: 2,6-Diisopropylphenol
Miklos Simonyi, Hungary, is fascinated by the structure of this molecule

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

Amidation of Light Alkanes
Copper-catalyzed dehydrogenative amidation

115th Birthday: Allene Jeanes
American chemist known for the development of large-scale dextran production and xanthan gum