The Magazine of Chemistry Europe

Joseph Wang, University of California — San Diego, USA, is honored by the University of Alcalá, Spain

Manfred Reetz, Director of the Max-Planck-Institute for Coal Research, receives the Otto Hahn Prize from the GDCh

New organic dye gives the best performance for a dye-sensitized solar cell in the near-IR range thanks to flexible alkyl chains

Evaluation of platinum–ethacrynic acid conjugates in the treatment of mesothelioma

The most-accessed chemistry articles from ChemPubSoc Europe and GDCh journals for October 2011

Very simple, chiral, non-racemic diselenides prepared and their corresponding selenium electrophiles used for stereoselective functionalization of alkenes

New one-step procedure for the synthesis of two of the most widely used and synthetically relevant diboranes(4), B2Cat2 and B2Pin2

First example of the induction of point chirality in which two of the substituents around an sp3 carbon atom are geometric isomers

Carolyn Bertozzi, University of California, Berkeley, USA, has been awarded the Emanuel Merck Lectureship

The Nagoya Medal of Organic Chemistry has been awarded to Eric Jacobsen (Gold Medal) and Keiji Tanino (Silver Medal)