A Collection of Articles Highlighting Women Chemists in France in 2024 by Cossy, Janine

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The need for Open Labs for fostering interdisciplinarities in Modern Chemistry. Biocatalysis: a necessary tool for synthetic chemists by Martin, Juliette

“…Among the different fields of chemical approaches available to the synthetic chemists, biocatalysis is only being slowly adopted, especially due to a lack of know-how and practical experience. …”
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Pasteur : sous le savant l’artiste by Perrot, Annick

“…This largely ignored trait of the scientist did not propel him into an artistic career but certainly helped to develop gifts for observation and precision, which the chemist later took the most of in his scientific work. …”
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Jean-Antoine Chaptal (1756–1832) : premier chimiste disciple de Lavoisier by Jacques, Éric

“…This article traces Antoine Chaptal’s career as a chemist and teacher from 1780 to 1798 and shows how in many ways, although distant from Antoine-Laurent de Lavoisier in Paris, he proved to be one of the first chemists to turn to the new chemistry devised by Lavoisier.…”
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Jean-Antoine Chaptal (1756–1832), agronome et chimiste by Fournier, Josette

“…He embraced several schools of thought, from the Encyclopaedists to the Saint-Simonians. The chemist is remembered for his work on wine, the bleaching and dyeing of cotton, and the extraction of beet sugar. …”
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Louis Pasteur face à la maladie du ver à soie (1865–1870) : du chimiste au biologiste by Carton, Yves

“…He devoted 5 years of his life (1865–1870) to it, years in which he discovered biology, which represented for him a real epistemological rupture and a profound paradigm shift: from the chemist he was, he discovered and converted to biology. …”
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Nucleophilic addition to carbonyl groups from qualitative to quantitative computational studies. A historical perspective by Eisenstein, Odile

“…The mechanism of this reaction for various nucleophiles (especially the early main group hydride and the Grignard reagents) and the various noncyclic and cyclic aldehydes or ketones has fascinated computational chemists for nearly 40 years. This article describes the research that has been done on this topic, the incentive for the present author being that she started her research with this topic and is returning to it in recent years.…”
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Progress in the structural modification and pharmacological activity of isosteviol by Tao Wang, Bowen Pan, Lijuan Liu, Zhangchao Dong, Wenhui Zhang, Xiongwei Liu, Ying Zhou, Yang Shi

“…Because of its unique diterpene skeleton, isosteviol is frequently used as an active framework in drug synthesis, thus helping medicinal chemists design highly selective, potentially active, and multifunctional isosteviol analogs for the treatment of various diseases. …”
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Polymeric nanoreactors for catalytic applications by Abou-Fayssal, Chantal Joseph, Poli, Rinaldo, Philippot, Karine, Riisager, Anders, Manoury, Eric

“…Mimicking Nature is one drive for chemists to design efficient architectures matching the activity and selectivity of natural catalytic systems, such as enzymes. …”
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Stereoselective strategies to access spirotetronate natural products by Brion, Aurélien, Neuville, Luc, Masson, Géraldine

“…These compounds share a common spirocyclic 4-hydroxy-1-oxaspiro[4.5]deca-3,7-dien-2-one unit, whose synthesis has been actively pursued by chemists. In this review, we highlight various approaches to accessing diversely substituted spirotetronates, including methods that enable the total synthesis of selected natural targets. …”
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Nature-inspired and medicinally relevant short peptides by Maria G. Ciulla, Monica Civera, Sara Sattin, Kamal Kumar

“…While nature has mastered the cycle of creation, application, and destruction of large and short peptides to the benefit of the host organism, organic and medicinal chemists have in their capacity and small steps, made big developments in the field of peptide synthesis as well as in developing them as therapeutics. …”
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The Lignicolous Fungus Hericium erinaceus (Lion’s Mane Mushroom): A Promising Natural Source of Antiradical and DPPH Inhibitory Agents by Akbar Jahedi, Saeideh Ahmadifar, Rahman Mohammadi, Ebrahim Mohammadi Goltapeh

“…After preparing mushroom samples, the amount of mineral and mycochemical substances have been respectively evaluated by the Association of Official Analytical Chemists and Folin–Ciocalteu assay. In conclusion, among the fruiting bodies’ samples harvested from 19 substrates, the substrates sawdust 30% + wheat straw 30% + bagasse 15% + rice bran 15% + corn flour 10% recorded the highest phenol and flavonoid contents, with values of 27 mg GAE/g DW ext. and 8 mg QE/g DW ext. as well as the IC50 (88.7 μg/mL). …”
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Creation and interpretation of machine learning models for aqueous solubility prediction by Minyi Su, Enric Herrero

“…Conclusions: Overall, for certain applications simple ML algorithms such as RF work well and can outperform more complex methods and that combining them with fragment-coloring can offer guidance for chemists to modify the structure with a desired property. …”
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Antimicrobial and ADME properties of methoxylated, methylated and nitrated 2-hydroxynaphthalene-1 carboxanilides by Lucia Vrablova, Tomas Gonec, Tereza Kauerova, Michal Oravec, Izabela Jendrzejewska, Peter Kollar, Alois Cizek, Josef Jampilek

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Chemical analysis of buffalo meat in a self-consumption system in northeastern of Argentina by Gladis Rébak, Gladys Obregón, Diego Gómez, Laura Vázquez-Acosta, Mariano Pino, Julia Obregón, Rosa Molina, Victoria Cantero, Luz Segovia-Espinola

“…With the steak samples (n: 15), we determined the chemical composition of the meat and the food supplied to the buffaloes, referencing the standard methods of the Official Association of Analytical Chemists (AOAC). The fatty acid profile was also determined, with extraction according to the Folch technique and gas chromatography (GC), identifying saturated (SFA), unsat-urated (UFA): monounsaturated (MUFA) and polyunsaturated (PUFA) fatty acids present in the intramuscular fat. …”
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