The first report of a CO2-in-ionic liquid microemulsion is easily tunable and has many potential applications

The enantioselective, palladium-catalyzed Overman rearrangement of allylic imidates has been accomplished with a new catalyst

Barbara Albert, Techincal University Darmstadt, Germany, takes over the presidency of the GDCh from January 2012

Michael Dröscher, GDCh President, introduces the theme of the Wissenschaftsforum and the GDCh study “Perspectives in Chemistry”

Ferdi Schüth, Max Planck Institute for Coal Research, Germany, talks about his work on catalysts for alternative fuels

Peter Atkins, author of many chemistry textbooks, talks about the importance of illustrations in chemistry

Emily Carter, Princeton University, USA, discusses her work on using quantum mechanics to solve the World's energy problems

Peter Bruce, University of St Andrews, Scotland, has received the Arfvedson Schlenk Prize for his work on lithium chemistry

Simple and apparently benign molecule cleaves strong bonds and opens the way for organocatalytic substrate activation

Andreas Pfaltz, University of Basel, Switzerland, is the first Swiss scientist to give the Heilbronner Hückel Lecture