The Magazine of Chemistry Europe

Peter Bruce, University of St Andrews, Scotland, has received the Arfvedson Schlenk Prize for his work on lithium chemistry

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Simple and apparently benign molecule cleaves strong bonds and opens the way for organocatalytic substrate activation

Ferdi Schüth, Max Planck Institute for Coal Research, Germany, receives GDCh prize for processes that conserve resources

Andreas Pfaltz, University of Basel, Switzerland, is the first Swiss scientist to give the Heilbronner Hückel Lecture

Nickel catalyst can produce methyl acrylate in up to 56 % yield from carbon dioxide and ethene

The Adolf von Baeyer Medal of the GDCh is awarded to François Diederich, ETH Zurich, Switzerland

Aromatic planar boron rings with metal centers display unusual bonding and aromaticity

Hans-Joachim Freund, director of the Fritz-Haber-Institut der Max-Planck-Gesellschaft, Germany, will be awarded the Karl Ziegler Prize

Pumpkin-shaped molecular container displays high affinity and selectivity for small hydrocarbons with applications in gas separation