Overview of the latest issue of Angewandte Chemie

Angewandte Chemie 18/2022: Direct Bonds

LyondellBasell to Exit Refinery Business
LyondellBasell plans to cease operations at its refinery in Houston, TX, USA, in December 2023

Fluoride Sensing using a Tripodal Salicylaldimine
Aggregation-induced emission, mechanofluorochromism, and selective fluoride detection by a tripodal salicylaldimine

Autonomous Fuelled Directional Rotation
First autonomous 360° rotation in one direction around a single bond

European Commission Approved Three GE Crops
Three genetically engineered (GE) soybean, rapeseed, and cotton crops approved for food and animal feed imports in the EU

A Molecular Four-Way Connector
Synthesis of a new air stable and thermally robust tetrahedral tetravalent inorganic cage

To Process Syngas into Feedstocks for Virgin-Grade Plastics
A NOVA Chemicals and Enerkem joint venture will build a pilot project that uses recycling to convert syngas into feedstocks for virgin-grade plastics

Fullerene-Binding Nanocage Prepared on a Gram Scale
Cage made from readily accessible porphyrin components can solubilize fullerenes

Reductive Coupling Approach to Organohydrosilanes
Ni-catalyzed coupling of chlorohydrosilanes and carbon electrophiles

Short Total Synthesis of (±)-Mersicarpine
Visible-light-induced cascade photooxygenation used as a key step