Joachim Krueger, André P. Dieskau, Jorma Hassfeld, Joerg Gries, Oliver Block, Hilmar Weinmann, Daniel Kaufmann, Stefan Hildbrand, Volker Kraft, Robert Moeckel, Juan R. Dehli, Ulrich Scholz, Carl Friedrich Nising
{"title":"Inside Front Cover: Chemical Process Development in the Pharmaceutical Industry in Europe: Insights and Perspectives from Industry Scientists","authors":"Joachim Krueger, André P. Dieskau, Jorma Hassfeld, Joerg Gries, Oliver Block, Hilmar Weinmann, Daniel Kaufmann, Stefan Hildbrand, Volker Kraft, Robert Moeckel, Juan R. Dehli, Ulrich Scholz, Carl Friedrich Nising","doi":"10.1002/anie.202505858","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1002/anie.202505858","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":125,"journal":{"name":"Angewandte Chemie International Edition","volume":"34 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":16.6,"publicationDate":"2025-03-28","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143723317","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":1,"RegionCategory":"化学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Outside Front Cover: Roadmap to Catalytic Abatement of Gas Phase Per‐ and Polyfluoroalkyl Substances (PFAS)","authors":"Patrick Lott, Florian Maurer, Arik Beck","doi":"10.1002/anie.202506110","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1002/anie.202506110","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":125,"journal":{"name":"Angewandte Chemie International Edition","volume":"63 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":16.6,"publicationDate":"2025-03-28","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143723369","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":1,"RegionCategory":"化学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Functional Ambidexterity of an Ancient Nucleic Acid‐Binding Domain","authors":"Liam Longo, Orit Weil-Ktorza, Segev Naveh-Tassa, Yael Fridmann-Sirkis, Dragana Despotović, Kesava Phaneendra Cherukuri, Tatsuya Corlett, Yaakov Levy, Norman Metanis","doi":"10.1002/anie.202505188","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1002/anie.202505188","url":null,"abstract":"The helix‐hairpin‐helix (HhH) motif is an ancient and ubiquitous nucleic acid‐binding element that has emerged as a model system for studying the evolution of dsDNA‐binding domains from simple peptides that phase separate with RNA. We analyzed the entire putative evolutionary trajectory of the HhH motif – from a flexible peptide to a folded domain – for functional robustness to total chiral inversion. Against expectations, functional ‘ambidexterity’ was observed for both the phase separation of HhH peptides with RNA and binding of the duplicated (HhH)2‐Fold to dsDNA. Moreover, dissociation kinetics, mutational analysis, and molecular dynamics simulations revealed overlap between the binding modes adopted by the natural and mirror‐image proteins to natural dsDNA. The similarity of several dissociation phases upon chiral inversion may reflect the history of (HhH)2‐Fold binding, with the ultimate emergence of a high‐affinity binding mode, supported by a bridging metal ion, depopulating but not displacing more primitive (potentially ambidextrous) modes. These data underscore the surprising functional robustness of the HhH protein family and suggest that the veil between worlds with alternative chiral preferences may not be as impenetrable as is often assumed.","PeriodicalId":125,"journal":{"name":"Angewandte Chemie International Edition","volume":"50 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":16.6,"publicationDate":"2025-03-28","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143723375","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":1,"RegionCategory":"化学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Long Zheng, Yan Zhang, Weiwei Chen, Xiangou Xu, Ruiqi Zhang, Xiao Ren, Xiaozhi Liu, Wenbin Wang, Junlei Qi, Gang Wang, Chen Ma, Lei Xu, Peng Han, Qiyuan He, Ding Ma, Jinlan Wang, Chongyi Ling, Dong Su, Minhua Shao, Ye Chen
{"title":"Carbon‐Extraction‐Triggered Phase Engineering of Rhodium Nanomaterials for Efficient Electrocatalytic Nitrate Reduction Reaction","authors":"Long Zheng, Yan Zhang, Weiwei Chen, Xiangou Xu, Ruiqi Zhang, Xiao Ren, Xiaozhi Liu, Wenbin Wang, Junlei Qi, Gang Wang, Chen Ma, Lei Xu, Peng Han, Qiyuan He, Ding Ma, Jinlan Wang, Chongyi Ling, Dong Su, Minhua Shao, Ye Chen","doi":"10.1002/anie.202500985","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1002/anie.202500985","url":null,"abstract":"Phase engineering plays a crucial role in tuning the physicochemical properties of noble metal nanomaterials. However, synthesis of high‐purity unconventional‐phase noble metal nanomaterials remains highly challenging via current wet‐chemical methods. Herein, we develop a unique synthetic methodology to prepare freestanding unconventional hexagonal‐close packed (2H) Rh nanoplates (NPLs) via a rationally designed two‐step strategy. By extracting C from pre‐synthesized rhodium carbide of different sizes and morphology, phase‐controlled synthesis of Rh nanomaterials can be achieved. Impressively, the obtained parallelogram 2H Rh NPLs have high phase purity, well‐defined 2H (0001)h and (10[[EQUATION]]0)h facets, and good thermostability (stable up to 300 °C). In the proof‐of‐concept electrocatalytic nitrate reduction reaction (NO3RR), the 2H Rh NPLs achieve higher ammonia (NH3) Faradaic efficiency (91.9%) and NH3 yield rate (156.97 mg h‐1 mgcat‐1) with lower overpotentials compared to the conventional face‐centered cubic Rh nanocubes with (100)f facets. Density functional theory calculations reveal that the unconventional (0001)h surface has energetically favored NO3RR pathway and stronger H*absorption ability compared to the (100)f surface, which may lead to the higher activity and selectivity of NH3 production on 2H Rh NPLs. This work opens new avenues to the rational synthesis of unconventional‐phase metal nanomaterials and provides important guidelines to design high‐performance electrocatalysts.","PeriodicalId":125,"journal":{"name":"Angewandte Chemie International Edition","volume":"25 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":16.6,"publicationDate":"2025-03-28","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143723314","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":1,"RegionCategory":"化学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Ethan D E Calder, Isobel R J Hawes, Andrew R. Jupp
{"title":"Dual-responsive phosphorus-based fluorescent sensors: synthesis and selective metal sensing of pyrazolyl phosphine oxides","authors":"Ethan D E Calder, Isobel R J Hawes, Andrew R. Jupp","doi":"10.1002/anie.202501421","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1002/anie.202501421","url":null,"abstract":"Despite a wealth of previously reported frameworks for fluorescent metal sensors, there are few examples of phosphorus-based fluorophores being used in metal sensing applications. Here, we report the synthesis and characterisation of a new family of pyrazolyl-phosphine oxides and their use in metal sensing applications. The mechanism of their formation has been probed in detail with both computational and experimental studies, rationalising the selectivity of the reaction. Their use as dual-responsive fluorescent metal sensors is then demonstrated, with ‘turn-off’ and ‘turn-on’ responses observed for Fe3+ and Al3+, respectively. These systems exhibit good selectivity, large Stokes shifts, and submicromolar limits of detection, and will open new avenues in phosphorus-based fluorophores and metal-sensing applications.","PeriodicalId":125,"journal":{"name":"Angewandte Chemie International Edition","volume":"100 5 Pt 1 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":16.6,"publicationDate":"2025-03-28","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143723882","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":1,"RegionCategory":"化学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Wenguang Zhao, Mingyang Li, Zijian Li, Hengyu Ren, Xiaohu Wang, Xingxing Yin, Wangyang Ding, Guojie Chen, Shiming Chen, Haocong Yi, Shunning Li, Jun Wang, Dong Zhou, Lin Zhou, Hai Lin, Bin Fei, Feng Pan, Qinghe Zhao
{"title":"Stabilizing Surface Lattice On- (0","authors":"Wenguang Zhao, Mingyang Li, Zijian Li, Hengyu Ren, Xiaohu Wang, Xingxing Yin, Wangyang Ding, Guojie Chen, Shiming Chen, Haocong Yi, Shunning Li, Jun Wang, Dong Zhou, Lin Zhou, Hai Lin, Bin Fei, Feng Pan, Qinghe Zhao","doi":"10.1002/anie.202503100","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1002/anie.202503100","url":null,"abstract":"The instability of surface lattice On- (0<n<2) in the charged LiCoO₂ (LCO) limits its long-term cycling stability beyond 4.55 V vs. Li/Li⁺. Herein, the spinel and rock-salt (RS) phases are constructed on the LCO surface to stabilize lattice On-, namely S-LCO and R-LCO, respectively. Upon long-term cycling at 4.6 V, the loss of lattice On- leads to a progressive deterioration of surface spinel phase, which ultimately transfers to a strong Li+-blocking phase. In contrast, for R-LCO, the surface lattice On- in the RS phase retains stable in long-term cycles. Theoretical calculations reveal that the migration barriers of lattice On- are significantly higher in the RS phase than that in the spinel phase. Due to the stabilized surface lattice On-, the R-LCO||Li cell shows a impressive capacity retention of 78.6% in 1000 cycles at 4.6 V (current of 1 C), and superior floating charge durability at 45℃. This study highlights the importance of surface structure tailoring in developing the advanced LCO cathodes.","PeriodicalId":125,"journal":{"name":"Angewandte Chemie International Edition","volume":"72 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":16.6,"publicationDate":"2025-03-28","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143723892","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":1,"RegionCategory":"化学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Pedro H. R. Oliveira, Marieli O. Rodrigues, Caren D. G. da Silva, Josina Bohlen, Merle Arrowsmith, Arumugam Jayaraman, Lukas Lubczyk, Felipe Fantuzzi, Eufrânio N. da Silva Júnior, Holger Braunschweig
{"title":"Outside Back Cover: Straightforward Formation of Borirenes from Boroles and Dialkynes","authors":"Pedro H. R. Oliveira, Marieli O. Rodrigues, Caren D. G. da Silva, Josina Bohlen, Merle Arrowsmith, Arumugam Jayaraman, Lukas Lubczyk, Felipe Fantuzzi, Eufrânio N. da Silva Júnior, Holger Braunschweig","doi":"10.1002/anie.202506308","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1002/anie.202506308","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":125,"journal":{"name":"Angewandte Chemie International Edition","volume":"125 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":16.6,"publicationDate":"2025-03-28","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143723316","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":1,"RegionCategory":"化学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Nora Janssen, Kam C. Poon, Alexander C. Craze, Chang Gao, Charlotte K. Williams
{"title":"Controlled Catalysis Delivering High Molecular Weight Polyesters as Recyclable Alternatives to Polystyrenes","authors":"Nora Janssen, Kam C. Poon, Alexander C. Craze, Chang Gao, Charlotte K. Williams","doi":"10.1002/anie.202505070","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1002/anie.202505070","url":null,"abstract":"An organometallic Al(III)K(I) catalyst shows exceptional control in the epoxide/anhydride ROCOP producing high molecular weight polyesters (Mn ~ 100 kg·mol-1). The catalysis is highly effective using cyclohexene oxide, cyclopentane oxide, substituted cyclohexene oxide, and butylene oxide, each combined with phthalic anhydride. The polyesters show entanglement molecular weights, determined by oscillatory shear rheology, from 13 - 50 kg·mol-1 with cyclopentene and substituted cyclohexene moieties being particularly effective (highly entangled). The lead polyesters show high glass transition temperatures (94 °C<Tg<137 °C), high tensile strengths (40 MPa<σ<47 MPa) and tensile modulii (0.6 GPa<Ey<0.9 GPa); their properties are similar to polystyrene. The polyesters are all recyclable, by repeated cycles of compression moulding, and show equivalently high thermal-mechanical performances even over repeated recycles.","PeriodicalId":125,"journal":{"name":"Angewandte Chemie International Edition","volume":"38 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":16.6,"publicationDate":"2025-03-28","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143723889","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":1,"RegionCategory":"化学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Moritz Ernst, Andrey Petrov, Mirjam Schröder, Björn Corzilius, Christian Müller
{"title":"Cyclo-P5− Revisited: The Surprisingly Stable Uncoordinated Pentaphospholide Anion","authors":"Moritz Ernst, Andrey Petrov, Mirjam Schröder, Björn Corzilius, Christian Müller","doi":"10.1002/anie.202505853","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1002/anie.202505853","url":null,"abstract":"The addition of [2.2.2]cryptand to alkali metal heptaphosphides M3P7 (M = Na, K) leads to the formation of the salts [M([2.2.2]cryptand)][cyclo-P5]. Although the cyclo-P5− anion is spectroscopically known since the 1980s it was so far prepared and handled only in solution. By complexing the alkali metal cation with [2.2.2]cryptand, the product was found to be surprisingly stable in the solid state. Cyclo-P5−, which is isolobal to the well-known cyclopentadienide anion, was now characterized crystallographically for the first time. The structural elucidation proves its planar D5h symmetry, not only as ligand in different sandwich complexes but also in its uncoordinated form. Cyclo-P5− was further characterized by UV-vis spectroscopy in solution and in the solid-state by Raman and 31P MAS NMR spectroscopy. Accompanying DFT studies were performed to support the experimental results.","PeriodicalId":125,"journal":{"name":"Angewandte Chemie International Edition","volume":"31 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":16.6,"publicationDate":"2025-03-28","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143723890","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":1,"RegionCategory":"化学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"3‐Oxabicyclo[3.1.1]heptane as an Isostere for meta‐Benzene","authors":"Pavel K. Mykhailiuk, Dmitry Dibchak","doi":"10.1002/anie.202505519","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1002/anie.202505519","url":null,"abstract":"3‑Oxabicyclo[3.1.1]heptanes were designed as saturated isosteres of meta‐benzene. Crystallographic analysis revealed that these structures and meta‐benzene have identical geometric properties. Replacement of the central benzene ring in the anticancer drug Sonidegib with 3‐oxabicyclo[3.1.1]heptane provided a patent‐free analogue with a nanomolar potency, reduced lipophilicity and improved water solubility (>500%).","PeriodicalId":125,"journal":{"name":"Angewandte Chemie International Edition","volume":"30 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":16.6,"publicationDate":"2025-03-28","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143723315","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":1,"RegionCategory":"化学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}