C. N. R. Rao talks to ChemViews about naomaterials, research in India, and the EurJIC special issue of which he is the guest editor

Key steps in new route to morphine include Suzuki-Miyaura coupling, intramolecular 1,6-addition and ozonolysis

Design and synthesis of rigid fluorophores could lead to novel dyes with extended planarity and higher quantum yields

Activation of methane under near-room-temperature conditions is possible with vanadium–silicon heteronuclear oxide clusters

Modern Electrochemistry: Interdisciplinary Research at the Forefront of Science - special issue edited by C. Amatore, D. Kolb and R. Compton

Communication between two iron centers can be modified by the presence of Co and has implications for molecular devices

Easily modified building blocks open way for stereoselective synthesis for drug design by using enzymes

Orginally isolated from frogs, bombesin analouges are now proving useful for tracing cancers through chelation to Tc

Surface-science based models for heterogeneous catalysis illuminated with examples

Elucidation of design rules for iridium-based emitters could lead to improvements in OLEDS