Most Accessed Articles: February 2025
Highlights from Chemistry Europe, ACES, and GDCh journals
A 20-Year Journey with GDCh and Wiley-VCH
Wolfram Koch, who led the GDCh for over 20 years and strengthened its partnership with Wiley-VCH and other chemical societies, reflects on this memorable time
Sustainable Diesel from Rapeseed Oil Esters
Sequential semi-hydrogenation, double-bond isomerization, and metathesis gives fuel for use in modern diesel engines
Ferrocene-Water Complex: Spectroscopic and Computational Insights
Characterizing the structure of the ferrocene-water ((Cp)2Fe:H2O) complex using rotational spectroscopy and computational chemistry
Enhanced Battery Modeling: Improving Charge and Lifetime Predictions
Limei Jin and Christoph Scheurer discuss their advanced method to enhance electrochemical impedance spectroscopy to improve the accuracy of estimating battery charge levels and aging over time
A Series of Iron-Trielyl Complexes
Iron aluminyl, gallyl, and indyl complexes synthesized
Selective C(sp³)-H Borylation of Methoxy Groups via Iron Complexes
Ken Sakata and Yoshiaki Nishibayashi from Japan, found new iron complexes to efficiently catalyze selective C(sp³)-H borylation of methoxy groups in aryl and alkyl methyl ethers
Zinc on a Cotton Cloth for High‐Performance Zn‐Ion Batteries
Facile method to fabricate flexible Zn anode via electroplating developed
Renewable Ethanol and Methanol Used for the Synthesis of 1,5-Diketones
Nickel-catalyzed coupling of alcohols with ketones also allows for a one-pot aminomethylation
Plant-Synthesized Quantum Dots for Colorectal Cancer Therapy
Rhododendron luteum extract-based carbon dots (RL-CDs) synthesized via a simple, green approach
Pt-Catalyzed Hydroboration of Terminal Alkynes: A Regioselective Approach to Vinyl Boronates
A platinum-catalyzed hydroboration method that enables highly selective (E)-1,2-vinyl boronate synthesis, overcoming heteroatom coordination challenges
Overcoming Resistance to Aminoglycoside Antibiotics in Enterococcus
Corinne Lionne and Elise Kaplan from Montpellier, France, discuss a new family of inhibitors they have discovered that reverse aminoglycoside resistance in Enterococcus strain
Chiral Isothiourea-Catalyzed Asymmetric (3+3) Cycloaddition
Enantioselective path to fluoroalkyl-substituted caprolactone-fused coumarins
One-Pot Baeyer-Villiger Oxidation of Biomass-Derived Levoglucosenones
Microwave-assisted method gives chiral 5-hydoxymethyl-γ-butyrolactones
Combining Prodrug Design With Nanotechnology for Improved Chemotherapy
New prodrug of gemcitabine synthesized and encapsulated in nanoparticles, significantly improving its anticancer efficacy in pancreatic and lung cancer cell lines
Solvent-Directed Regioselective Cascade Reaction of Diazo Compounds
Green, efficient, and regioselective synthesis of pyrazoles
Controlling the Photoluminescence of Arylated Carbon Nanotubes
Luminescence intensity and wavelength of functionalized single-walled carbon nanotubes (SWCNTs) controlled by substituents
Most Accessed Articles: December 2024
Highlights from Chemistry Europe, ACES, and GDCh journals
Manganese-Catalyzed ortho-Deuteration of Aromatic Amidines
Efficient deuterium incorporation using D2O