Critics demand improved quality of registration dossiers for the EU's regulation of chemicals; industry offers voluntary action plan

Improvement of REACH Registration Dossiers

A Safe Way to Nitriles
Asymmetric hydrocyanation of alkenes without cyanide reagents gives synthetic chemists more pleasure in synthesizing nitriles

Printing on Water
Inkjet printing of self-supporting structured objects onto liquid surfaces

Guess the Chemist (91)
Can you guess the famous scientist from the description?

Behind the Science: Calibrating Light Sources for Photochemistry
D. Nolan, ChemPhotoChem, talked to A. Heckel, University of Frankfurt about his work on a new universal chemical actinometer

Behind the Science: How to Store Hydrogen
Cordula Buse talked to Karsten Müller, University of Erlangen-Nürnberg, Germany, about the state of hydrogen storage technologies

First Penta- and Hexacoordinated Beryllium
Beryllium with unprecedented coordination numbers found under high pressures

Detecting Harmful Gases with Nanodiamonds
Phosphine-functionalized diamantanes for sensing air pollutants

Nickel- and Photoredox Catalysts Team Up to Make Ethers
Light-mediated cross-couplings of aryl bromides with alcohols

100th Anniversary: Death of Lord Rayleigh
Nobel Laureate co-discovered argon and explained the phenomenon of Rayleigh scattering