This year's New Year's Reception of the Cluster of Excellence Ruhr Explores Solvation (RESOLV) took place on February 26 in the Rudolf-Chaudoire-Pavillon at TU Dortmund University. Over 100 participants came together to look back on the past year and look ahead to the future. The guest speaker was Dr. Alessandro Curioni, Vice President of IBM Europe and Africa and Director of the IBM Research Lab…

Representatives from politics, science and industry discuss how regional transformation can succeed at the annual conference “Regionale Transformation Gestalten” in Essen. The conference is organized by the Federal Ministry for Economic Affairs and Climate Action.

Nature: RESOLV PI Benjamin List and his team discribe a process of converting homofarnesol into ambrox, using a special catalyst that ensures the reaction happens in a specific, controlled way.

Phys. Chem. Chem. Phys.: RESOLV researchers characterize the effect of rubidium ions on water–ice nanoislands in terms of area, fractal dimension, and apparent height by low-temperature scanning tunneling microscopy.

Angew. Chem. Int. Ed.: Coupling of Aryl Chlorides with Lithium Nucleophiles Enabled by Molecularly Defined Alkynyllithium Palladium Catalysts

Chem. Sus. Chem.: Decarboxylative Ketonization of Aliphatic Carboxylic Acids in a Continuous Flow Reactor Catalysed by Manganese Oxide on Silica

Angew. Chem. Int. Ed.: Gold clusters in supercritical aqueous solutions exhibit strong interactions with the solvent, resulting in the formation of well-defined metal-water solvation complexes.

J. Am. Chem. Soc: RESOLV Scientists have found new paths to steer and optimize electrochemical processes. Their novel understanding of processes on electrified surfaces opens up new possibilities.

This year's retreat of the Cluster of Excellence RESOLV was held from the 13th to the 15th of March at the Hotel Klosterpforte. The annual event offers all of RESOLV’s members the opportunity to come together and talk about the latest developments in Solvation Science and discuss future goals. This year's event was all about focusing, preparing and refining the application for RESOLV 3.0.

Nat. Chem.: Exploring biological structures at the atomic level reveals a fascinating complexity of shapes and functions that form the foundation of all life on earth. While nature has developed intricate networks of interacting molecular structures over billions of years, synthetic chemists face significant challenges in the synthesis of complex molecules.