Angewandte Chemie International Edition
Articles in this Issue
Computer Vision Enables Monitoring and Kinetic Analysis of Structurally Diverse Carbon Monoxide Surrogates
ABSTRACT Carbon monoxide (CO) surrogates are valuable synthetic reagents that circumvent the hazards of handling CO gas directly. However, owing to the structural diversity of availa...
Benzodithiolane‐Enabled C─O Bond Activation for Deoxygenative Functionalization of Carbohydrates and Nucleosides
ABSTRACT Carbohydrates and nucleosides are central to biological systems and medicinal chemistry, yet their selective chemical modification remains challenging....
Controlling the Guanidinium Cation Rotation by Cation–π Interactions
ABSTRACT Guanidinium plays an essential role in many disciplines of biology and chemistry, particularly due to its unique role of being engaged in a variety of m...
Deoxygenative Single‐Carbon Atom Transfer: Accessing Strained Carbocycles From Alkenes and Aldehydes With Designer Dual‐Functional Reagent
ABSTRACT Single‐carbon atom transfer is an attractive approach to increasing molecular complexity through the concurrent formation of four new covalent bonds. Yet, the success of the...
A Borane Sandwich Analogue of Ferrocene
ABSTRACT Sandwich complexes built from planar aromatic ligands are a central class of compounds in organometallic chemistry, yet a boron‐ring analogue of ferroce...
Linker Nitrogen Tunes Charge Polarity to Strengthen Built‐In Electric Fields in Covalent Organic Frameworks for Photocatalytic Oxidation
ABSTRACT Covalent organic frameworks (COFs) are attractive platforms for heterogeneous photocatalysis, yet efficient exciton dissociation and charge separation remain intrinsically c...
Halogen‐Rich Design Strategy: Rational Synthesis of High‐Performance Tetrahedron‐Based Chalcohalides for Advanced Infrared Optical Materials
ABSTRACT Based on the latest anisotropic structure building units with diverse chemical bonds (ABUCB) concept, tetrahedron‐based chalcohalides constructed from t...
Bio‐Based Covalent Adaptable Oligorotaxane Networks
ABSTRACT The construction of high‐performance polymers from sustainable resources represents a forefront direction in materials science. Dynamic covalent chemist...
Diastereomeric Configuration Modulates Liquid–Liquid Phase Separation and Catalysis in Minimalist Dipeptide Coacervates
ABSTRACT Although coacervates formed via liquid–liquid phase separation (LLPS) of small molecules are widely recognized as plausible protocell models relevant to...
Overcrowded Alkene Photo‐Redox‐Switches Based on Quinolinium/Carbene Building Blocks
ABSTRACT The design and characterization of a novel class of overcrowded alkene‐based photo/redox switches are presented. Folded and twisted tetrasubstituted alk...
An Insensitive Energetic Material as a High‐Performance Organic Cathode Toward Dual‐Mode Batteries
ABSTRACT Bridging long‐duration electrochemical power delivery with on‐demand, ultrafast explosive output within a single material could enable next‐generation m...
Programmable Solid‐Electrolyte Interfaces for Efficient and Selective Electrochemical Hydrogenations
ABSTRACT Electrode binders, typically regarded as passive mechanical additives, in fact define a solid‐liquid interface that governs charge screening and local proton‐electron transf...
Mitochondria‐Targeting Moieties Based on N‐Tethered Pyridinium Cations
ABSTRACT Mitochondria‐targeting moieties (MTMs) are molecular fragments designed to deliver covalently tethered functional cargo to mitochondria, providing a mod...
Slowing Down Water: Enhanced and Cation‐responsive MRI Contrast
ABSTRACT The confinement of paramagnetic centres to the internal channels of mesoporous nanoparticles brings with it a much greater contribution from outer spher...
Frustrated Lewis Pair‐Induced Pre‐Adsorbed Oxygen Coupled With Reactant Availability as a Design Strategy for High‐Performance Single‐Atom Nanozymes
ABSTRACT Single‐atom nanozymes (SANs) have recently been recognized as a promising artificial counterpart to natural enzymes. Nevertheless, their catalytic performance remains hinder...
Transition‐Metal Chalcogenide, FeTe: Unveiling Molecular Mechanism of Phase‐Selective Synthesis
ABSTRACT Phase‐selective chemical vapor deposition synthesis of two‐dimensional (2D) transition‐metal chalcogenides (TMCs) has garnered broad interest, yet its c...
Highly Selective Bioinspired Peptide Channels for Rapid Water Transport
ABSTRACT Innovative water‐purification technologies are urgently needed to address the global scarcity of clean water. In nature, aquaporin proteins enable rapid...
Fast‐Kinetic and Stable Li‐CO <sub>2</sub> Batteries Driven by an Oxygen‐Defective Cu <sub>2</sub> O‐ZnNb <sub>2</sub> O <sub>6</sub> Catalyst Through d‐p‐d Orbital Hybridization
ABSTRACT Lithium‐carbon dioxide (Li‐CO 2 ) batteries provide a distinctive energy storage route by directly capturing and...
Surface Gradient Doping Enables High‐Capacity and Long‐Life Manganese‐Based Prussian Blue Cathodes for Sodium‐Ion Batteries
ABSTRACT Manganese‐based Prussian blue analogues (MnPBAs) are attractive cathodes for sodium‐ion batteries (SIBs) due to their high operating voltage, low cost,...
Substrate‐Dependent Selectivity in Alkyne Semihydrogenation Over a Hydrogen‐Competent Pd <sub>3</sub> Sn <sub>2</sub> Intermetallic Catalyst
ABSTRACT A recurring challenge in heterogeneous hydrogenation is to maintain rapid H 2 activation while preventing the pr...
Steric‐Engineered Thermodynamic Gating: Metastable Assemblies for Chemical‐Class Discrimination of Synthetic Cannabinoids
ABSTRACT Synthetic cannabinoids (SCs), a rapidly evolving class of new psychoactive substances (NPS), trigger severe neurotoxicity and fatalities while evading rapid, structure‐selec...
Unraveling Water–Defect Coupled Degradation via Deuterium Isotope Labeling in Prussian Blue Analogue Cathodes for Long‐Life Sodium‐Ion Batteries
ABSTRACT Sodium‐based Prussian blue analogues (NaPBA) are promising cathodes for sodium‐ion batteries owing to their high capacity and low cost. Nonetheless, rap...
A New Metal‐Ester Bonding Motif for the Synthesis of Hybrid Molecular Catalysts on Metal Oxide Supports Leads to Tunable Reactivity
ABSTRACT The synthesis, characterization, and structure‐function properties for a new class of hybrid catalysts comprised of molecular catalysts with ligands cov...
A Decoupled Cycling Architecture of Asymmetric Zinc‐Air Battery Unlocks Stable Catalyst Strategy and pH‐Dynamic Influence
ABSTRACT An asymmetric zinc–air battery (AZAB) employing membrane‐separated acidic and alkaline electrolytes exhibits high output voltage and superior energy density. However, the bi...