K. Anker Jorgensen, D. Stalke, A. Osuka, N. Mizuno, A. Ajayaghosh, M. Jansen, D. A. Leigh, B. M. Trost, and others are interviewed this month

Mathematics of materials emerges from information entropy; could lead to nimbler way to predict crystal structures from chemical formula

Overview of the latest issue of Angewandte Chemie

The most-accessed chemistry articles from ChemPubSoc Europe and GDCh journals for June 2012

Never mind tedious doping procedures to optimize your catalyst: just get some slag and have a blast

Carboxylic acid additives improve the directed Ru-catalyzed C(sp3)–H α-alkylation of cyclic amines with alkenes

Homogeneous catalysis: ruthenium phosphine complex hydrogenates carbon dioxide to make methanol

The sustained release of ibuprofen in a biological environment is possible by using new TiO2-based drug-delivery systems

Colin L. Raston outlines how Australian research has been advanced through a range of fellowships and research programs

Hydrogenation catalyst, that can be easily isolated with a magnet, performs well under mild solvent-free conditions