Bioorganic chemist and President of the Göttingen Academy of Sciences and Humanities has passed away

Ulf Diederichsen (1963 – 2021)

Synthesis of Cyclobutanes via Ring Contraction
Readily accessible pyrrolidines converted to substituted cyclobutanes with multiple stereocenters

Nickel Metallacyclobutane with a Twist
Pincer scaffold bearing a metallacyclobutane ring

Do Glass Reactors Influence the Miller–Urey Experiment?
Silica and silicates change products of classic experiment simulating the chemical origin of life

Synthesis of Dibenzylic Diselenides Using Elemental Selenium
Reaction of quaternary ammonium salts with selenium

Total Synthesis of (±)-Furanether A
Biologically active tetracyclic compound prepared in 13 linear steps

Continuous-Flow Catalysis Using a Lewis Acid
Heterogeneously catalyzed enantioselective Friedel–Crafts reactions with scandium-based Lewis acid

Synthesis of Aryl-Dichlorophosphines
One-pot reaction using organozinc reagents

150th Anniversary: Death of Adolph Strecker
Chemist well-known for the Strecker amino acid synthesis

Angewandte Chemie 46/2021: Chemistry on Any Scale
Overview of the latest issue of Angewandte Chemie