W.-Y. Huang’s 90th birthday is celebrated in a special issue of the Chinese Journal of Chemistry on organofluorine chemistry

New process for converting microalgae oil produces saturated hydrocarbons suitable for high-grade fuels for vehicles

Bayer HealthCare plans to share lab space with start-up companies

CO usually poisons catalytic reactions - Dutch team demonstrates that it can promote the oxidation of alcohols on a gold catalyst

Simple, robust, and straightforward synthetic method for the production of enantiopure 1,4-dialkyl-1,2,4-triazolium salts

Paul Knochel has won the EROS Best Reagent Award 2011 for the development of Turbo-Grignard™

Persilastaffanes: silicon frameworks with delocalized sigma electrons are intriguing candidates for electronic applications

Oil palm trunk sap used as growth medium for bacteria is a novel inexpensive renewable carbon source

A variety of metal ions can be detected with ultrasmall fluorescent sensors that can be incorporated into clothing

Heavy metal pollution in humans: supermagnetic nanocomposite effectively removes cadmium ions from blood