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Various strategies to quell QTM effects in Lanthanide SMMs were discussed. These include the role of (i) symmetry, (ii) super-exchange coupling, (iii) direct exchange coupling, (iv) external stimuli, and (v) toroidal moments.

The synthesis of crystalline chalcogenidometalate-based compounds obtained in uncommon reaction media—in particular ionic liquids, surfactants, or hydrazine—allows access to unusual architectures and functional chemical as well as physical properties.

In this perspective we assess the current status of high entropy metal chalcogenides, the synthetic techniques for them, the currently obtained properties and demonstrated applications and a discussion on the possible future directions.

Nature utilizes a diverse set of tetrapyrrole-based macrocycles (referred to as porphyrinoids) for catalyzing various biological processes.

This review highlights the recent trends in synthesis of organic cages including advantages and drawbacks of the different methodologies used. It also details the recent development in the field of water-soluble organic cages.

Orthogonal ligand scaffolds, consisting of soft and hard donor sites, are useful tools for the selective synthesis of heteronuclear coinage metal compounds, controlling their coordination geometry and tuning their photophysical properties.

In this feature article, the photolysis and dye-sensitized reactions of diazoalkanes are discussed and applications in organic synthesis are presented.

Racemization barriers are the key! Molecular nanographenes can show a dynamic behavior which eventually controls their chiroptical and photophysical properties.

The rich surface chemistry of metal–organic polyhedra (MOPs) enables their functionalization and tuning their properties.

Next-generation vancomycin analogues developed through semisynthetic modifications tackle vancomycin resistance and complex infections.

Precise surface control of cathode materials for stable Li-ion batteries: materials design, kinetics control and stabilization mechanism.

Cationic cyclization reactions are useful processes in organic synthesis and, particularly, the use of alkynes as the terminating groups offers wide synthetic possibilities because this group can serve as a precursor of different functionalities.

In the last decade, small-molecule fluorescent probes brightened the bacteria and infections.

Herein, the recent progress of an annulative alkyne-insertion π-extension (AAIPEX) strategy to construct opto-electronically significant cationic polycyclic heteroaromatic compounds (cPHACs) is showcased.

This feature article discusses the synthetic methods, functionalisation approaches and application potential of pillararene-based molecular-scale porous materials.

We review the advances in the integration of single-molecule fluorescence imaging with nucleic acid amplification for in vitro and in vivo biosensing.

This article discusses the use of various Raman spectroscopy techniques and how they have been applied to different methods of detection for the diagnosis of cancer and in monitoring cancer treatment, with an outlook on how they can progress into a clinical environment.

Luminescent molecular probes and nanoscale materials have become important tools in biosensing and bioimaging applications because of their high sensitivity, fast response, specificity, and methodological simplicity.

Macrocyclic compounds, including crown ether, cyclodextrin, cucurbituril and pillararene, bound to various specific guest molecules through various non-covalent interactions, can make the system multifunctional and endow system with intelligence.

The considerable importance of α-arylated carbonyl compounds, which are widely used in the pharmaceutical industry, has prompted efficient synthetic strategies for their preparation.

Aim for cyanation: a comprehensive overview on various approaches on C–CN bond formation in arenes/heteroarenes by activated halides/pseudohalide, directed, non-directed, electro-catalyzed, photoredox-catalyzed, and radical approaches.

This review summarizes recent advances in the development of electrocatalysts for non-enzymatic glucose detection. The sensing mechanism and influencing factors are discussed, and the perspectives and challenges are also addressed.

This feature article reflects a personal overview of the importance of complexity as an additional parameter to be considered in chemical research, being illustrated with selected examples in molecular recognition and catalysis.

Intercalation and flexibility as two new chemical perspectives are introduced in soft layered materials for designing the structures and dynamic functions.

This feature article summarizes the current status of metal–metalloligand phosphonates including the synthetic strategies, crystal structures and properties. Future challenges in this field are discussed.

This feature article highlights and compares the structural and physical properties of typical examples of one-dimensional metal-chain complexes and organic conductors.

High-resolution structure elucidation of Alzheimer's amyloid-β oligomer is crucial to delineate its pathological phenotype. NMR provides atomic-resolution details of amyloid-β oligomer that could aid in the development of structure-based therapeutics.

Building on mechanistic perspective, the review intends to demonstrate how the uniqueness of Au-catalysts has realized a myriad of electrophilic functional group transfer reactions with the use of hypervalent iodine(III) reagents over the last decade.

Helical and twisted silica nanoribbons, deposited in an in-plane direction and with a random orientation, on a quartz substrate showed chiral optical scattering, and helical nanoribbons had a g-factor of the order of 10⁻² below 250 nm.

Operating via a special type of Zn/Zn′ cooperation, a new transition-metal free and atom efficient method of arylating N,O-acetals has been developed combining nucleophilic ZnPh₂ with Lewis acidic Zn(C₆F₅)₂.