The Morita-Baylis-Hillman coupling reaction is catalyzed by a guanidine-azole binary system

A Binary Coupling

RCM/Beynon Award
Prize for best paper in Rapid Communication in Mass Spectrometry (RCM) has been awarded to J. Roeraade et al., Sweden

Detecting Tumor Cells with Iron
Magnetoferritin nanoparticles are a new promising diagnostic tool to visualize tumor tissues

Off-Line Particle Analysis
New efficient thermophoretic precipitator designed and tested for collection of NaCl and Mo nanoparticles at three sample flow rates

Australian Chemistry under the Spotlight
Colin L. Raston outlines how Australian research has been advanced through a range of fellowships and research programs

Delivering Drugs with Titanium
The sustained release of ibuprofen in a biological environment is possible by using new TiO2-based drug-delivery systems

Ilan Marek Honored
Ilan Marek, Technion Israel Institute of Technology, receives the Janssen Pharmaceutica Prize for Creativity in Organic Synthesis

Escherichia Coli, The Super Cell
E. coli cells are permeabilized to optimize multienzymatic flaviolin production, a polyketide-based secondary metabolite

Currant Seeds Defend DNA
Currant seed extracts exert protective functions on human lymphocytes DNA and chromosome aberration

From Poppies to Noscapine
The biosynthetic pathway of the anticancer alkaloid noscapine has been identified