Flow-based syntheses to accelerate multistep routes to highly complex, medically relevant compounds have been evaluated

The most-accessed chemistry articles from ChemPubSoc Europe and GDCh journals for March 2013

Ta₃N₅ has been found to act as a photocatalyst for water oxidation under visible light

Steric and electronic properties of chlorophosphite ligands have been studied by using multinuclear NMR spectroscopy and X-ray crystallography

Modified emulsion polymerization gives excellent control of the shape and thickness of shells of core-shell nanoparticles

Silicon nanowires can be doped with surprisingly high amounts of aluminium during their growth

Cristina Nevado, Zurich, and Clément Mazet, Genève, have been awarded the Werner Prize of the Swiss Chemical Society

Hexagonal macrocycles with a diameter of 21.3 Å can be synthesized on a Cu(111) surface to produce hexagonal arrays of "nanotroughs"

Basic alkali–metal salts improve a catalyst for steam reforming of methanol

The first pyrazole-based expanded porphyrin has been obtained and found to be highly twisted, implying helical chirality