Cristina Nevado, Zurich, and Clément Mazet, Genève, have been awarded the Werner Prize of the Swiss Chemical Society

Werner Prize for C. Nevado and C. Mazet

More Power for US Industry
Discussion on new bill bringing changes to the Science Advisory Board (SAB) of the US Environmental Protection Agency (EPA)

Surface-assisted Synthesis of Large Macrocycles
Hexagonal macrocycles with a diameter of 21.3 Å can be synthesized on a Cu(111) surface to produce hexagonal arrays of "nanotroughs"

Allergic to Animal Tests?
BASF and Promega develop an alternative method to identify allergenic substances

Investigation of Hyperconjugation by UV-Photoelectron Spectroscopy
UV-photoelectron spectroscopy studies of highly strained cages prove neutral hyperconjugation

Arsenic in Rice
Global pattern in rice As speciation, the factors causing the variation, and origin and transport mechanisms of methylated As

New Alkoxylation Facility in Singapore
Solvay announces project to build large-scale alkoxylation facility in Singapore to start operations by 2015

New Route to Antimalarial Artemisinin
A molybdenum-catalyzed synthesis of 1,2,4-trioxanes provides access to artemisinin and active analogues

Clicking for Cyclic Peptides
A straightforward method to synthesize cyclic peptides from cysteine-containing peptides

Arsenic in Beer
Arsenic is released into beer from kieselguhr, a widely used filtering material