Highlights from Chemistry Europe, ACES, and GDCh journals

Attractive route for the preparation of secondary β-aminoesters

Highly efficient ruthenium-catalyzed transformation

New class of 4-aminoquinoline-trifluoromethyltriazolines shows promising antiplasmodial activity

Efficient production of L-2-aminobutyrate from L-threonine

Single-step syntheses of derivatives with promising cytotoxic activities

Using acetonitrile as the main proton donor in a mixed-solvent electrochemical reduction system

High cytotoxicity against different tumor cells observed

Library of antifungal agents synthesized via Glaser–Hay and Cadiot–Chodkiewicz coupling reactions

Two open-[60]fullerenols synthesized through a selective bond cleavage by reactions with N-oxide or singlet oxygen