Highlights from Chemistry Europe, ACES, and GDCh journals

Overview of the latest issue of Angewandte Chemie

Her groundbreaking research on creating photophysically active materials and nanostructures for healthcare applications and her communication skills honored

Straightforward procedure uses safe precursors and gives air-stable nanoparticle catalysts

Elusive lithium–aluminium heterobimetallic dimetallocene synthesized

Monoanionic cluster shows unprecedented communication between the boron centers of opposing substituents

New compound reacts with CO₂ and nitriles like a frustrated Lewis pair and with amines and metal complexes via 1,2-addition reactions

Promising materials for advanced applications in X-ray imaging

Who is the first person to have an element named after them in their lifetime? And who is the second?

Formal Mg(II)–Be(0) complex with a significantly polarized bond