The Magazine of Chemistry Europe

A study showing parabens are present in breast tumor tissue was quickly picked up by the tabloid media, but was their reporting accurate?

A novel drug delivery mechanism based on polymeric meshes uses air as a barrier to control the rate at which drug is released

Stereoselectively deuterated group can probe the behavior of solvent molecules during self-assembly processes

Gold nanoparticles promote the aerobic oxidative coupling of amines to alcohols or aldehydes to make useful amides

New approach to creating hierarchical polymer components on a surface for developing novel devices

Simple coordination complex of copper acts as efficient, selective fluorescent sensor for histidine in aqueous solution at neutral pH

Introducing chelating groups into metal-organic frameworks by vapor-phase post-synthetic modification boosts their catalytic potential

New class of near-infrared fluorescent molecules can be used in imaging of living animals without damaging tissue

CO usually poisons catalytic reactions - Dutch team demonstrates that it can promote the oxidation of alcohols on a gold catalyst

Synthetic viral capsules can be constructed easily and might be used in highly efficient gene therapy to deliver genetic agents to cells