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ChemistryViews Discoveries (05/2024)
Highlights from the chemistry community, with a special focus on Europe

Experimental Evidence for H2SO3 Formation in the Atmosphere
Elusive sulfurous acid formed in a gas-phase reaction of OH radicals with H3CS(O)OH

Transforming CO2 and Ethane into Carbon Nanotubes
Generating high-value nanotubes and facilitating long-term carbon storage

Total Synthesis of Lissodendoric Acid A
Twelve-step synthesis using an enantiospecific Diels–Alder cycloaddition involving a strained azacyclic allene

Purely Organic Room-Temperature Phosphorescence Molecule
Materials for high-performance non-doped organic light-emitting diodes (OLEDs)

Making Perfectly Isotactic Polythioesters
Stereocontrolled ring-opening polymerization catalyzed by binaphthalene-salen aluminium

Most Accessed Articles: March 2024
Highlights from Chemistry Europe, ACES, and GDCh journals

Angewandte Chemie 19/2024: Activation
Overview of the latest issue of Angewandte Chemie

First Planar Tetranuclear Uranium Hydride Cluster
Unprecedented species supported by an ansa-bis(cyclopentadienyl) ligand system