The organic dye peryline bisimide PB-1 was modified in a single step, changing its alignment and dichroic properties

Easily Changing an Organic Dye

A Step Closer to Artificial Photosynthesis?
Photochemical, electrochemical, and photoelectrochemical water oxidation

Detecting Chemical Warfare Agents
A colorimetric probe selectively detects a sarin and soman nerve gas mimic

A New Class of Single-Molecule Magnets
New single-molecule magnets make functionalization and processing easier while retaining high blocking temperatures

Carbohydrate Orientation
Incorporation of a photosensitive azobenzene linker for controllable carbohydrate orientation

Reasons to Avoid Heavy Metals in Photosystems
Nature avoids heavy metals in photosystems for toxicity reasons; maybe also for the sake of the efficiency of the antenna effect

Observing Weak Interactions
Novel NMR and EPR techniques for the characterization of weak and transient protein–protein/ligand interactions

Behind the Science: Effect of Various Zinc Binding Groups on Inhibition of HDACs
Dr. Scott Williams, ChemMedChem, talks to Professor Christian A. Olsen, University of Copenhagen, Denmark, about his research

Time-Resolved Mass Spectrometry
Mechanistic characterization of dynamic biological processes with an improved continuous-flow mixing apparatus

Most Accessed Articles: July 2014
Read the most-accessed ChemPubSoc Europe and GDCh journal articles for July 2014