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

Ferdi Schüth, Max Planck Institute for Coal Research, Germany, receives GDCh prize for processes that conserve resources

Aromatic planar boron rings with metal centers display unusual bonding and aromaticity

The Adolf von Baeyer Medal of the GDCh is awarded to François Diederich, ETH Zurich, Switzerland

The Young Chemists Forum (JCF) of the GDCh represents nearly one-fifth of the German Chemical Society (GDCh)

IYC 2011 Balloon Competition is organized by the JungChemikerForum (Young Chemists Forum; JCF) of the Gesellschaft Deutscher Chemiker

Promising anode material for high-power lithium-ion batteries has lithium-ion diffusivity 400 times faster than in Si

Hans-Joachim Freund, director of the Fritz-Haber-Institut der Max-Planck-Gesellschaft, Germany, will be awarded the Karl Ziegler Prize