The most-accessed chemistry articles from ChemPubSoc Europe and GDCh journals for March 2012

Micelles with enhanced chemical exchange saturation transfer (CEST) sensitivity synthesized

Dual-enzyme responsive capped mesoporous silica particles allow a controlled delivery profile of the entrapped cargo

Interesting method for future structure–odour studies to determine the lowest energy conformations of odorants and flavors

A large number of representative examples of mechanically interlocked molecules from the past decade have been described and discussed

Bicyclic peptides with optimized ring size inhibit enzyme that cleaves peptide bonds while sparing paralogous proteases

A series of Ni-promoted W2C catalysts was prepared and evaluated for the catalytic conversion of cellulose into ethylene glycol

A simple fluorescent indicator that undergoes a new type of reaction only in the presence of Hg(II) developed

A rhodopsin protein mimic has been designed where wavelength absorption can be drastically tuned

Several new synthetic routes to soluble magnesium parent-amidoborane complexes are reported