Klaus Kümmerer on green and sustainable chemistry, the importance of kinetics, and why it is important to do something outside your area of interest once in a while

Don’t Forget Thermodynamics

Thermoelectric Fibers Made Using Nickel-Backboned Polymers
Flexible metal-backboned polymer/carbon nanotube composite fibers could be useful in wearable power devices

Cyclooctatetraene-Embedded Carbon Nanorings
Carbon nanorings prepared in a Yamamoto coupling can form host-guest complexes with fullerenes

Bis(Aluminyl)Magnesium Compound with Dual Reactivity
Al–Mg–Al system shows both radical chemistry and nucleophilic behavior at aluminium

Salts of Protonated Sulfur Dioxide Synthesized
Elusive hemi- and monoprotonated SO2 cations isolated as Sb2F11− salts

The First Crystalline Compound with a –C≡C–COO– Anion
Double deprotonation of propiolic acid gives elusive, Y-shaped anion

Angewandte Chemie 13/2024: Innovation and Team Spirit
Overview of the latest issue of Angewandte Chemie

First Total Synthesis of Pepluacetal
Route relying on a Wolff rearrangement/lactonization cascade, a ring-closing metathesis/cyclopropanation sequence, and a late-stage transannular carbenoid insertion

Behind the Science: Singlet Fission in a New Series of Tetracene Oligomers
Novel molecular system with a hexaphenylbenzene core and multiple tetracene chromophores arranged to dictate through-space coupling, addressing low singlet fission efficiencies in tetracene dimers

Angewandte Chemie 12/2024: Cooperation
Overview of the latest issue of Angewandte Chemie