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🧪 Article Highlight: Calcium Joins the Organometallic Toolbox
French chemists capture and study long-sought di-n-butylcalcium, showing it can perform useful reactions when kept ice-cold
Editors’ Choice: Daily Highlights from Chemistry Europe Journals
Selection of just published articles from Chemistry Europe, GDCh, and ACES journals

BASF, AkzoNobel, and Arkema Collaborate to Cut CO₂ Footprint of Powder Coatings
The companies report up to a 40% reduction in the carbon footprint of AkzoNobel’s super-durable Interpon D architectural powder coatings and published a study detailing methods, calculations, and transition strategies

Fast, Accurate, and Data-Efficient: The Future of Electron Density Prediction
GED-CRN model reaches MP2-level accuracy with only 19 training molecules, revolutionizing the design of aggregation-induced emission (AIE) materials with 1000x faster computation

Who’s Next? Nobel Prize in Chemistry 2025 – Voting Results September 12
Latest results of your predictions for the Nobel Prize in Chemistry

Ultrathin Gold Nanorods with Remarkable Optical Properties
A new synthesis method reveals how gold clusters assemble into ultrathin “quantum needles” with unique near-infrared optical behavior