Simple and compact synthesis of a tricyclic resorcinol could provide route to novel analogs of conformationally restricted cannabinoids
Access to 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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Glowing Fingerprints
Researchers make latent fingerprints visible with help from electrochemiluminescence
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
Self-Inflicted Asymmetry
Crystallization-induced asymmetric synthesis of nonracemic platinum(IV) polysulfide tris(chelate) complexes
The Cut and Thrust of Spectroscopy
Novel spectroscopic technique dubbed SABRE can cut data acquisition times for 2D nuclear magnetic resonance spectroscopy experiments
Hydrogen Generation with Visible Light
Iridium complexes coordinated to coumarin dyes perform well in directing sunlight energy for producing hydrogen from water