Only a limited number of studies examined the environmental impacts of small-scale wastewater treatment alternatives

Overview of the chemical synthesis of cardiotonic steroid glycosides – recently neglected, but promising field

Rainfall can mobilize hormones from biosolids-amended agricultural fields directly to surface waters or redistribute them to terrestrial sites

Hugh Aldersey-Williams' book, Periodic Tales – A Cultural History of the Elements, from Arsenic to Zinc, is reviewed by Matthias Driess

Largest molecular supertetrahedral Tn cluster known to date synthesized by using organic superbases

Nazario Martín, President of the Spanish Royal Society of Chemistry (RSEQ), discusses how to make Spanish science internationally competitive

Two-step chemical mechanism proposed for ribosome-catalysed peptide bond formation

Self-assembling strategies and covalent capture employed to construct a robust, inexpensive, efficient artificial light-harvesting system

Dramatic dye uptake by newly synthesized hydrogelator which will guide the production of novel inexpensive and easy to use water purification platforms

Synchroton-based characterization techniques to illuminate properties of compound semiconductor thin-film solar cell absorbers reviewed