Melanie Maas-Brunner appointed BASF's new Chief Technology Officer with effect from February 1, 2021

BASF Appoints New Head of Research

A 1,4-Disilabenzene in Stable Radical Cation Form
Silicon-substituted benzene derivative converted to radical cation and dication variants

Nanofiber Swabs Could Improve Sensitivity of COVID-19 Tests
Improved sample collection reduces false negative rate

Silver Enables Access to Imidazoles
Silver-catalyzed [3+1+1] annulation of nitrones with isocyanoacetates

Does the Juicing Method Change the Health Benefits of Vegetable Juice?
Phytochemical content and antioxidant activity of common vegetable juices analyzed

Angewandte Chemie 5/2021: Mechanistic Mysteries
Overview of the latest issue of Angewandte Chemie

Large Perovskite Solar Modules
Large‐area, uniform, micrometer‐thick perovskite films produced via a two‐step coating process

Self-Assembled Formation of an Organic Chemical Garden
Reaction conditions control structure, morphology, and properties

Sanofi to Support BioNTech in Manufacturing Their COVID-19 Vaccine
From summer 2021, Sanofi will perform late-stage manufacturing to supply over 125 million doses of vaccine for the EU

Total Syntheses of (+)-Peniciketals A and B
Structurally complex spiroketals originally isolated from a Penicillium fungus