Making active ingredients recovered from old pharmaceuticals available as chemicals for research and education

Drug Ingredient Reuse

Carbonylative Difunctionalization of Ethylene Gives 4-Oxobutanoates
Ligand-free, cobalt-catalyzed four-component radical reaction

Catalyst-Free Photochemical Aerobic Oxidation of Boronic Acids
Reaction under UV-A light gives phenols and aliphatic alcohols

Chinese Battery Producer Considers Major Investment in Finland
Ningbo Shanshan is planning a large battery chemical plant in Europe

Upgrading Waste Polylactide
Effective transformation of polylactide (PLA) waste achieved via supported metal catalysts

Scalable Synthesis of 3-Phosphonorhodamines
Useful fluorophores for biological imaging

Stereoselective Path to Densely Substituted Pyrrolidines
Cycloaddition between chiral N-tert-butanesulfinylazadienes and azomethine ylides

Expanding Fidaxomicin’s Spectrum of Antibiotic Activity
Semisynthetic approach to the development of next-generation antibiotics

Nobel Prize in Chemistry 2023
Moungi Bawendi, Louis Brus, and Alexei Ekimov were honored for “the discovery and synthesis of quantum dots”

Who’s Next? Nobel Prize in Chemistry 2023 – Final Voting Results
Results of your predictions for the Nobel Prize in Chemistry