The Magazine of Chemistry Europe

Much of sunlight’s energy is wasted as it lies in the near-infrared (NIR) region. New, stable NIR dyes collect and use this energy

Kurt Bock takes over from Jürgen Hambrecht as the chairman of the Board of Executive Directors for BASF

Hydroboration of challenging beta-substituted vinylarene substrates can be efficiently performed with copper catalyst with high selectivies

Atomic radii of the main group elements vary in a predictable and explicable manner across the periodic table

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

Synthesis of the core ring structure of marine natural product with anti-malarial properties achieved in five steps

Understanding how the passivating layer on a gold surface forms could see more accurate biosensors developed

The successful generation of bare [CuO]⁺ has revealed the final piece of the puzzle about the activation of methane

Engineered enzyme mimics human drug metabolism and produces metabolites on a scale suitable for characterization and testing

First chemosensor that turns fluorescence on in the presence of fluoride ions developed by researchers in Korea