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Overview of the latest issue of Angewandte Chemie

Organic dyes with persistent delayed fluorescence and ultralong phosphorescence

Ring contraction of metallacyclobutadiene to metallacyclopropene driven by aromaticity

Synthesis of marine sesterterpenoid also leads to phorbadione via a dehydrative transformation

Biphenylated N-heterocyclic carbenes (NHCs) undergo one-electron reductions into isolable species

Friedel–Crafts reaction of trisfuryl and bis-isopropenyl precursors gives π-electron-rich cage

Overview of the latest issue of Angewandte Chemie

Direct [2 + 4] annulation of alkyl(phenyl)phosphinic chlorides and α,β-enones

Preparation of dynamic covalent poly(aminoketoenamide) networks from polyureas via vinylogous amides