Droplets could have protected chemically unstable compounds in the primordial soup

How Were the First Building Blocks of Life Stabilized?

ULTIMATE Reagent for End-Labeling Any Nucleic Acid
Regiospecific and reversible labeling with Universal Light-cleaved TerminI-Modifying And TaggablE (ULTIMATE) reagent

Cheap and Versatile Reagent For Making Trifluoromethyl Ethers
Trifluoromethyl benzoate is easy to synthesize and use

Improved Synthesis of Functionalized Pyrimidines
Copper-catalyzed cyclization of ketones with nitriles

Group 15 Carbene Analogues
Divalent bismuthenium and stibenium ions with bulky substituents and weakly coordinating anions synthesized

Optical "Tweezers" Turn Two Atoms into Molecule
Ultracold individual sodium and cesium atoms combined into NaCs molecule without the help of a surface

Gold(I)-Mediated Diyne Cyclization
Domino reaction gives fused diphenyl phosphoniumfluorenes

Telling Real Water Buffalo Mozzarella From Cheap Fakes
Liquid chromatography−tandem mass spectrometry (LC-MS) analyses identify adulteration with cow milk

Efficiently Switching Circularly Polarized Luminescence
Photochromic molecule shows on‐off photoswitching of circularly polarized luminescence (CPL) of a pyrene‐excimer‐like state

Angewandte Chemie 22/2018: The Mind Gap
Overview of the latest issue of Angewandte Chemie