New method for adding methyl groups to aldehydes gives the highest enantioselectivities and yields reported and can be used for longer alkyl chains

A diverse library of compounds for pharmaceutical screening can be created starting with a single reactive natural product, according to US chemists

Hindered photochromic benzo- and naphtho[1,3]oxazines can switch rapidly between colorless and colored forms under ultraviolet irradiation

Production of biofuel from forests will increase greenhouse emissions according to study  on the US West Coast

Agilent Technologies Inc. and the University of Technology, Sydney, establish a joint NMR research facility

Production of 5-hydroxymethylfurfural (HMF) from fructose with a yield of up to 87 %

The Polanyi rules which describe the partitioning of energy in reaction barriers have been shown to neglect long-range steric forces

Designing small-molecule ligands for class B GPCRs despite the lack of structural information for this receptor class

Simple way to recover and reuse chiral copper bis(oxazoline) complexes reported by French researchers

Polyprenylated polycyclic acylphloroglucines which have a range of activities can now be synthesized in just seven steps