Earth's atmosphere seems less sensitive to pollutants than previously thought: concentration of pollutant-degrading hydroxyl radicals remains stable worldwide

Atmosphere Less Sensitive to Pollutants?

Experience New On-Screen Journal Browsing
Selected Wiley-VCH chemistry journals now available for browsing on screen

Thirdhand Smoke — Big Health Hazard
Nicotine interacts with ozone, in indoor air, to form potentially toxic pollutants on surfaces like cellulose, cotton, and paper

Intelligent Metal-Storage Nanocapsules
New metal-storage nanocapsules created from self-assembly of dendrimers with soft aliphatic units

Modifying Titania Disinfectants with Silica
Technique to make common disinfectant, TiO2, three times more effective is quick, simple, and cheap

Solvent-Free Sugar Anomers
The puzzle of how, why or even if, sugars change shape has been solved by studying anomeric effect under solvent-free conditions

Historic Contract for Korea
Samsung Engineering, first Korean contractor to enter US plant market, signed contract for chlor-alkali plant with Dow-Mitsui Chlor-Alkali LLC

Vanadium Complexes of Reduced Schiff Bases
Reduced Schiff base ligands less susceptible to hydrolysis and form more stable V complexes than corresponding Schiff bases

Watching Protein Folding with LC-MS
Fast chemical reaction and LC-MS could unlock the secrets of protein folding by taking snapshots of folding in action

Direct Observation of CO Binding
Porphyrin rings observed to assume saddle-like shape to bind two CO molecules or flatten to bind one NO molecule