Highlights from Chemistry Europe, ACES, and GDCh journals

Using advanced calculations to create a detailed model of H₂CO₃'s vibrations, new spectral features were identified and previous uncertainties resolved, simplifying its detection in complex environments

"Molecular docking" electrolytes improve lithium-ion batteries by making solvation and desolvation easier, using normally non-coordinating solvents

Professor George M. Whitesides, Cambridge, USA, celebrates his birthday on August 3

Documentary film describes a little-known three-week stay in Italy to find new sources of radium

Identifying the degradation products of phenoxazine in halogenated and non-halogenated solvents

Quantum chemical calculations reveal how aromatic polycyclics of different sizes act as Lewis bases in halogen bonds, which is valuable for pharmaceutical drug design

Theoretical chemist and long time Executive Director of the Gesellschaft Deutscher Chemiker (GDCh, German Chemical Society)

Former Chancellor of Germany is the first woman to hold that office—and a quantum chemist by training

Highlights from Chemistry Europe, ACES, and GDCh journals