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Angewandte Chemie 8/2025: Performance Improvements

Radical Fluorosulfonylation of Allyl Bromides
Catalyst-free protocol under electroreductive conditions

Atropisomerism in Triarylboranes
First series of atropisomeric triarylboranes composed of a naphthyl rotor and a dihydro-9-bora-anthracenyl stator

Call for Nominations: Prize for Ludic Sciences 2025
Recognition of a scientific work resulting from research carried out not with a view to a specific application, but out of sheer curiosity

Argon Atmosphere Allows On-Surface Synthesis of Extended Nanostructures
Annealing in a noble-gas atmosphere kinetically inhibits desorption and allows covalent coupling on inert surfaces

Enantioselective Heteroarylalkylation Combines Photoredox and Chromium Catalysis
Radical-polar crossover three-component transformation for the functionalization of 1,3-dienes

Site-Selective C–H Functionalization Used to Prepare Atropisomers
Organic photoredox catalysis provides a general approach to the coupling of biaryls with a range of nucleophiles

Selective C(sp³)-H Borylation of Methoxy Groups via Iron Complexes
Ken Sakata and Yoshiaki Nishibayashi from Japan, found new iron complexes to efficiently catalyze selective C(sp³)-H borylation of methoxy groups in aryl and alkyl methyl ethers

Angewandte Chemie 7/2025: Activation
Overview of the latest issue of Angewandte Chemie

Rh(III)-Catalyzed Formal Cycloaddition Provides a Path to Furanones
Formal [3+2] cycloaddition reaction between cyclopropenones and aldehydes