Each of the 34 designs of the official Olympic torch has relyed on chemistry to stay alight throughout the torch relay
The Chemical Journey of the Olympic Torch
Kinetics of Chemical Reactions
Book looking at experimental and theoretical kinetic methods is reviewed by Frerich Keil, Germany
Electrophilic Sneeze
Terpenoids isolated from common ragweed show ability to induce airways irritation
Heinz A. Staab (1926 ‒ 2012)
Heinz A. Staab, former President of the Max Planck Society and GDCh, died on July 29
The 6th Spanish-Portuguese-Japanese Organic Chemistry Symposium
This meeting united science and Portuguese culture and had a special EurJOC and ChemPubSoc Europe session
Roots of our Practice of Science
Banska Stiavnica, Banská Štavnica, Schemnitz, or Selmecbánya, a town with a lively political history and groundbreaking for science
Glowing Fingerprints
Researchers make latent fingerprints visible with help from electrochemiluminescence
Self-Inflicted Asymmetry
Crystallization-induced asymmetric synthesis of nonracemic platinum(IV) polysulfide tris(chelate) complexes
Richard Neidlein (1930 – 2012)
Richard Neidlein, Heidelberg University, Germany, passed away on July 20
Fischer-Tropsch Refining
Book covering the production and refining of Fischer-Tropsch syncrude is reviewed by Malcolm Green, UK