Professor Katja Becker, Justus Liebig University Gießen, elected President of the German Research Foundation (DFG)

The new President of the Italian Chemical Society (SCI) is Professor Gaetano Guerra, University of Salerno

Professor Peter Schreiner, University of Gießen, has been elected President of the German Chemical Society (GDCh)

Dr. Monika Jerigova, Bratislava, has been elected President of the Slovak Chemical Society (SCHS, Slovenská chemická spoločnosť)

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Laurent Provins, UCB Pharma, Belgium, will be President of the Société Royale de Chimie (SRC)

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Design and synthesis of two families of molecular‐gear prototypes

Attachment of four benzo units electronically stabilizes a nonacene core without heteroatom substitution at/on the aromatic backbone

Carbonylative protocol for the acetylation of hererocycles with organic peroxides as the methyl source