Highlights from Chemistry Europe, ACES, and GDCh journals

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New azaspirocycles with potential applications in drug discovery

Multicationic quaternary phosphonium compounds act as novel disinfectants with potent bioactivities and low toxicity

Overview of the latest issue of Angewandte Chemie

"Smart lab" on a wearable patch provides rapid detection of changes in sodium ion and uric acid levels

Five new heterocyclic ring systems that could have uses in medicinal chemistry

New protocol can be used for the late-stage functionalization of complex, drug-like molecules under mild conditions

Physiological thiol gradient between extra- and intracellular areas used to trigger novel cleavable linkers

About the tragic fall of Fredrick Accum, the continuing importance of his work, and how things stand with food adulteration today