The Magazine of Chemistry Europe

Artificial helical peptide chains can induce enantioselectivity in some organic reactions, offering another clue to nature's chiral bias

With pressure on oil, industrious chemists are seeking alternative routes to the feedstocks that can be transformed into useful products

A statistical approach can extract signals dynamically from Surface Enhanced Raman Spectra (SERS) of nanoparticles

A two-directional total synthesis has been used by US chemists to construct microbial molecules with anticancer properties

A non-stop polycyclization approach to the synthesis of strained terpenes has been devised by chemists in the US

Chemists in Germany have used a thiophene-based twin monomer to generate microporous carbon doped with sulfur atoms

A new synthetic route to p-xylene from ethylene has been developed by chemists in the USA

Chemists in China have emulsified two immiscible ionic liquids and used the mixture as a solvent for making porous nanorods

Replacing rare earth metals in photovoltaic cells with readily available materials could provide 50 % of America's energy say US researchers

New vaporization technique can help analytical chemists detect toxic heavy metal cadmium even at very low concentrations