Potassium salts released by plants and fungi initialize the formation of organic aerosols in the Amazonian rainforest

Potassium’s Influence on Clouds in Rainforest

Visual Effects on β Cells
New technique for noninvasive imaging of β cells could help understanding islet formation and the pathophysiology of diabetes

Hierarchical Zeolites Make It to Refinery
First successful commercial scale manufacture of mesostructured zeolite Y promising as fluid catalytic cracking (FCC) catalyst

Limonoid Extracts Give New Natural Products
Two new potential anticancer natural products from the bark of the tree Chisocheton erythrocarpus isolated and characterized

Sunshine and Meerwein
The classic Meerwein arylation is impoved by irradiation with visible light (sunshine)

Ceri-ously Simple
Organocerium reagents help to transform unreactive amides into reactive ketones in one step

Golden Bullets for Cancer
Alkynyl phosphine gold complexes show antiproliferative effects in tumor cells, enzyme inhibition, and influence angiogenesis

European Federation for Medicinal Chemistry Awards
European Federation for Medicinal Chemistry (EFMC) awarded several prizes for outstanding medicinal chemistry research

Lanthanoid Single-Ion Magnets
Polyoxometalate-based mononuclear lanthanoid complexes provide new examples of single-ion magnets

Molecular Reaction Flasks
Hemicarcerands are well suited as molecular reaction flasks for the inner-phase stabilization of reactive intermediates