Self-assembling cholesterol-succinic acid-cisplatinum II-based nanoparticles display high antitumor activity and reduce nephrotoxicity

Making Cisplatin Nanoparticles

Organic Compounds Suitable For Printable Electronics
Synthesis and optoelectronic properties of thiazolothiazole derivatives for use in organic field-effect transistors are described

BASF and Sinopec Explore Building iso-Nonanol Plant
BASF and Sinopec further strengthen their cooperation

Access to Cannabinoids
Simple and compact synthesis of a tricyclic resorcinol could provide route to novel analogs of conformationally restricted cannabinoids

New Term of Office for H. Schwarz
Professor Helmut Schwarz, TU Berlin, Germany, elected to another five-year term as President of the Humboldt Foundation

Collaborative Projects
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Origin of Compensation in Heterogenous Catalysis
Entropic origin of compensation in heterogeneous catalysis revealed by in situ surface coverage analysis of RuO2-catalysed HCl oxidation

Hypusine Keeps Tumor Away
Hypusine synthesis prevents development of lymphomas by relying on the polyamine–hypusine axis

Assembly of Gold Nanoparticles
One-dimensional assembly of gold nanoparticles (see picture) is achieved by a sphere-to-cylinder transformation of polymer shells

The Cut and Thrust of Spectroscopy
Novel spectroscopic technique dubbed SABRE can cut data acquisition times for 2D nuclear magnetic resonance spectroscopy experiments