A simple, mild, methodology for the transformation of nickel porphyrins to the corresponding free-base porphyrins

The most-accessed chemistry articles from ChemPubSoc Europe and GDCh journals for May 2013

A way to analyze novel organic reactions and determine whether they will have wide or limited utility in organic syntheses has been developed

Michael Hampe, ETH Zurich, Switzerland, argues that scientists should not oversell their work in the pursuit of competitive funding

A device for the genetic detection of pathogenic bacteria has emerged from microfluidics research coupled with NMR spectroscopy

In his 1000st paper Fraser Stoddart describes a direct exfoliation of graphene sheets from graphite in water

Protein microcapsules with iron oxide magnetic nanoparticles embedded in the shells as potential drug-delivery carriers

Deltarasin is a novel anti-tumoral drug which targets KRAS by inhibiting its association with PDEδ

Tetrahedral semiconductor framework from boron and silicon is a promising material for lithium-ion batteries

Sir John Meurig Thomas, Chi-Ming Che, Rai-Shung Liu, Stephan Sieber, Gautam Desiraju, and Herbert Roesky were interviewed this month