From cure-all to most notorious drug of the 20th century

The Misjudgment of Heroin

Who is Nature’s Biggest Stinker?
The striped skunk’s secretion is a highly complex natural substance and a masterpiece of sulfur chemistry

A Multifunctional Overcrowded Alkene-Based Molecular Motor
Distinct dynamic properties in solution and aggregate states

Angewandte Chemie 23/2024: Direction of Chemistry
Overview of the latest issue of Angewandte Chemie

Di-π-Ethane Rearrangement of Cyano Groups
Translocation of cyano groups enabled by energy-transfer catalysis under visible light

Carborane-Fused Boron Heterocycles
Pd-catalyzed path connects nitrogen-functionalized heterocycles with neighboring boron centers of a carborane cluster

85th Birthday: Hans-Jürgen Quadbeck-Seeger
Chemist, inventor, author, former Research Director at BASF and President of the German Chemical Society (GDCh)

Relay Catalysis Combined with Dynamic Kinetic Resolution
Ru and Pd complexes for the regio- and enantioselective C−H bond arylation of aliphatic alcohols

Nickel-Catalyzed Construction of Nonadjacent Stereocenters
Stereoselective path to substituted oxindoles

Hydroformylation of Vinyl Arenes
Enantioselective hydroformylation of vinyl arenes via copper hydride catalysis