The most-accessed chemistry articles from ChemPubSoc Europe and GDCh journals for October 2011

Very simple, chiral, non-racemic diselenides prepared and their corresponding selenium electrophiles used for stereoselective functionalization of alkenes

A framework for the total synthesis of nanoparticles using processes analogous to the reactions in a synthetic scheme

New one-step procedure for the synthesis of two of the most widely used and synthetically relevant diboranes(4), B2Cat2 and B2Pin2

Hybrid made from nanofibers and glue from mussel protein can be used as substrate for tissue culture

Prodrugs selectively activated by high levels of reactive oxygen species in cancer cells could lead to more active and less toxic treatments

First example of the induction of point chirality in which two of the substituents around an sp3 carbon atom are geometric isomers

The timing of the key steps in antibiotic and potential anti-cancer compound, salinomycin's biosynthesis has been uncovered

TimesHE ranks the American universities top in league table headed by Caltech with Harvard and Stanford second and third

A [2]catenane and a pretzelane that incorporate porphyrin by axial ligation have been made by researchers in China