Frustration can lead to ring-opening reaction yielding phosphonium borate products with potential as metal-free catalysts

Chemical Frustration Opens Synthetic Routes

Algae Powered Gunboat
US Navy completes successfully testing of river-based command boat run on alternative fuels

Solvent-Free Nopinone Synthesis
Solvent-free ball milling conditions prove superior to ozonolysis in the synthesis of nopinone from β-pinene

Industrial-scale CO2 'Storage' Plant
First industrial-scale plant for CO2 'storage' by algae

Metal–Organic Wires
New series of metallosupramolecular functional complexes are investigated as electroswitchable magnetic wires

Quality Of Society Journals
Quality of publishing of ChemPubSoc Europe, RSC, and ACS journals

Alloy Surfaces
Atomic-scale structure, composition, and catalytic properties of Pd–Au and Pd–Cu bimetallic alloys have been investigated

Soft Drink Supports Anti-cancer Drug
Experiments with an artificial stomach suggest that Sprite could improve the effectiveness of an oral anticancer drug

Up Close and Organic
Microscopy could beat NMR and crystallography for powerful 3D structure determinations of complex organic molecules

Angewandte Chemie 45/2010: Resonant Interactions
An overview of the current issue of Angewandte Chemie International Edition