BASF and partners collaborate to reliably and precisely identify the composition of plastic waste during the recycling process to improve the quality of recycled plastics

Optimizing Mechanical Recycling of Plastics

Practical Path to Multiple Trifluoromethylation of Phenols
Visible-light-promoted reaction using commercially available CF3I

Lanthanum-Mediated Synthesis of Tert-Alkyl Amines
Convenient transformation via a double addition of Grignard reagents
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Solvents Change Outcome of Bicyclo[1.1.0]butane Cyclizations
Divergent transformation gives either oxygen-containing bicycloheptanes or highly functionalized cyclobutanes

European Alliance Paves Way for Sustainable PMMA Recycling
Röhm and POLYVANTIS lead circular economy initiative for polymethyl methacrylate (PMMA) recycling in Europe

Total Synthesis of (+)-Mannolide B
Path to a natural product with a complex, fused hexacyclic scaffold

Benzene Leads EU’s Hazardous Chemical Trade
In 2023, benzene constituted 98 % of EU exports and 99 % of imports of hazardous chemicals according to Prior Informed Consent (PIC) Regulation report

How Chiral Tellurium Nanowires Grow
Growth mechanism of chiral nanocrystals studied using high-resolution electron microscopy

Polymer Nanoparticles with Silicon-Based Linkers for Drug Release
Tunable, acid-sensitive drug release of active pharmaceutical ingredients

Monodisperse Gold Nanospheres as Hot Spots
Highly spherical, single crystalline nanospheres used to create reproducible hot spots with a nanosphere-on-mirror configuration