New method for bis-alkylation of amides and lactams used in combination with ring-closing metathesis for the synthesis of (±)-cephalotaxine

New membrane increases efficiencies and long-term cycling stability at high current density of vanadium flow batteries

Free-flowing crystalline powder based on a NHC framework reacts rapidly and stoichiometrically with CO2 as a solid carbon-capture reagent

Copper(II) salts are used to catalyze the synthesis of four classes of chalcogenophene derivatives

Half-sandwich complexes can be prepared easily by microwave heating

How to make functionalized multi-walled carbon nanotubes soluble under mild conditions

A new 1,3-phenylene-bridged hexameric porphyrin wheel shows promise as an artificial light-harvesting photosynthetic antenna

Solid-state NMR (SSNMR) spectroscopy is used to study sediments of soluble beta-amyloid assemblies obtained by ultracentrifugation

Zeolites modified with aminoalkoxysilanes and cyclodextrin show different uptake and release properties depending on which silane is used

Substituted 1,4-diazabutadienes show unprecedented "innocent" behavior to give indium-based equivalent of N-heterocyclic carbenes