Catalyst with MgF2 support is four times more active than catalysts supported on commercial Al2O3

New Catalyst for Hydrogenation

Catalyst for Methane Activation
Facile and rapid preparation method for a wide variety of medium surface area perovskite-type catalysts on the laboratory scale

New Probes for DNA Replication
Two new chemical probes could help shed light on DNA replication pathways and their role in human diseases

Cheap and Simple Olefin Isomerization
Practical, cheap, and general protocol that uses iron for olefin isomerization could be used in fine chemical or pharmaceutical synthesis

Active Nanotube Adsorption Sites Uncovered
New understanding of carbon catalyst surface could aid development of commercial catalyst for oxidative dehydrogenation of hydrocarbons

Pietro Biginelli: The Man Behind the Reaction
The Biginelli dihydropyrimidine synthesis is a very important and old multicomponent reaction—so why has its creator been forgotten?

New Method for Antibody Synthesis
Synthetic antibodies can be built from readily available peptides thanks to new technique

Synthesis of Cyclic Peptides by Amide Bond Rearrangement
Intramolecular amide-bond rearrangement gives a simple new route to cyclic peptides from unactivated linear precursors

Interview with Editors of ChemistryOpen
Interview with the editors of the new ChemPubSoc Europe journal ChemistryOpen – youngest member, but a first in many aspects

Calixarenes with Sulfur Bridges
The synthesis and solid-state structures of the less studied homothiacalix[n]arenes are investigated