The Magazine of Chemistry Europe

The Fresenius Prize and Arfvedson Schlenk Prize were presented to Professor Tortsen Schmidt and Professor Robert Mulvey, respectively

Since the discovery of liquid crystals in 1888, the Nobel Prize in Physics in 1991 was awarded for research into liquid crystals and they have become essential to our everyday lives

Professor Bernhard Rieger, Technische Universität München, was awarded the Wöhler Prize for Sustainable Chemistry

Professor Manfred Scheer, University of Regensburg, was awarded the Wilhelm Klemm Prize

Alois Fürstner, Max Planck Institute for Coal Research, Germany, has been awarded prestigious prize by the GDCh

Can you guess the famous scientist from the description?

The Adolf von Baeyer Medal of the Gesellschaft Deutscher Chemiker (GDCh; German Chemical Society) has been presented to Professor Klaus Müllen

First synthesis of ruthenium-allenylidene complexes with a pentacenequinone-based ligand

Production method for polyvinyl chloride (PVC) first patented 100 years ago by Friedrich Klatte; answer to Guess the Chemist (20)

A highly convergent total synthesis of attenols A and B utilizing a double alkylation tosylmethyl isocyanide (TosMIC) strategy to construct the spiro acetal segment