Heinz A. Staab, former President of the Max Planck Society and GDCh, died on July 29

This meeting united science and Portuguese culture and had a special EurJOC and ChemPubSoc Europe session

Banska Stiavnica, Banská Štavnica, Schemnitz, or Selmecbánya, a town with a lively political history and groundbreaking for science

Researchers make latent fingerprints visible with help from electrochemiluminescence

Crystallization-induced asymmetric synthesis of nonracemic platinum(IV) polysulfide tris(chelate) complexes

Richard Neidlein, Heidelberg University, Germany, passed away on July 20

Book covering the production and refining of Fischer-Tropsch syncrude is reviewed by Malcolm Green, UK

Ribonucleoside 3'-phosphates as pro-moieties for the timed release of orally available drugs

Book on developments in the field of dendrimers and is reviewed by David K. Smith, University of York, UK

Quantum chemists hope to provide greater insights into areas as diverse as magnetic devices and metabolic processes in the human body