A low-cost copper system that forms nitrogen-rich rings in minutes and serves as a light-activated tool for further transformations

🧪 Article Highlight: Bench-Stable Copper Catalyst Simplifies Aziridination

Nobel Prize in Chemistry 2025
Susumu Kitagawa (Japan), Richard Robson (Australia) and Omar M. Yaghi (USA) are awarded for the development of metal-organic frameworks (MOFs)

Who’s Next? Nobel Prize in Chemistry 2025 – Final Voting Results (October 8)
Latest results of your predictions for the Nobel Prize in Chemistry

Nobel Prize in Physics 2025
John Clarke, Michel H. Devoret and John M. Martinis showed that an electrical circuit small enough to hold in one’s hand can display quantum tunneling and energy quantization

Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine 2025
Mary E. Brunkow (USA), Fred Ramsdell (USA), and Shimon Sakaguchi (Japan) awarded for their discoveries concerning peripheral immune tolerance

Reversible Self-Assembly of Organic Nanoparticles with Fluorescence Modulation
Organic nanoparticles reversibly self-assemble and show fatigue-resistant fluorescence modulation, offering new opportunities for smart optoelectronics

Who’s Next? Nobel Prize in Chemistry 2025 – Voting Results October 3
Latest results of your predictions for the Nobel Prize in Chemistry

🧪 Article Highlight: Expanding the Toolbox of Fluorinated Lewis Acids with B(C₆F₄Br)₃
B(C₆F₄Br)₃, prepared via silver-to-boron transmetalation, represents a new soft Lewis superacid with potential applications in catalysis and materials chemistry

Karl Ziegler Prize for Stefan Mecking
One of the highest German honors in chemistry presented for work that combines

Gene Editing Boosts Cacao Disease Resistance
CRISPR was used to make cacao plants less susceptible to black pod disease, a major threat to the global chocolate industry, without introducing foreign DNA