New catalysts for SHINERS—a surface-sensitive spectroscopic technique useful in catalysis research

Active Nickel Catalysts for Spectroscopy

Enantioselective Synthesis of Tetrasubstituted Chromanones
Stereoelective conjugate addition catalyzed by palladium complexes with new chiral ligands

What Impact Can Materials Have on the Energy Cost of Desalination?
Inherent limitations of advanced materials for improving the energy efficiency of water desalination studied

ChemistryViews Wishes Happy Easter
A bit of reading and guessing material for the Easter holidays and experiments that can easily be done in the kitchen with children

Water Hexamer on a Metal Surface
Most stable structure of the water hexamer on Cu(111) surfaces investigated

Angewandte Chemie 17/2020: A Sunny Outlook
Overview of the latest issue of Angewandte Chemie

Tetrazine Turns on Fluorophores
Tetrazine quenches the fluorescence of various dyes; can be removed by light irradiation to switch the fluorescence back on

Highly Effective Membrane Cleaning
High-pressure jet cleaning of microfiltration membranes can restore up to 80 % of the original throughput

Selective Thiolation of Halogenated Heteroarenes
Mild, site-selective reaction of electron-rich heteroarenes with thiols

Chiral Organosuperbase Catalyst
Brønsted-base catalyst with dual function