The Adolf von Baeyer Medal of the GDCh is awarded to François Diederich, ETH Zurich, Switzerland

Aromatic planar boron rings with metal centers display unusual bonding and aromaticity

Nickel catalyst can produce methyl acrylate in up to 56 % yield from carbon dioxide and ethene

Promising anode material for high-power lithium-ion batteries has lithium-ion diffusivity 400 times faster than in Si

Hans-Joachim Freund, director of the Fritz-Haber-Institut der Max-Planck-Gesellschaft, Germany, will be awarded the Karl Ziegler Prize

BASF and Lynas Corporation establish long-term rare earth supply agreement

Metal–organic framework that selectively binds oxygen could separate oxygen from air in a less energy-intensive way

Discovery of a new binary system that includes a planet made of diamond

Peter Atkins discusses the future of chemical education and the role of the multimedia electronic textbook

Positively charged nanoparticles generated for the first time by versatile and general method that wraps them in amphiphilic polymers