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

Pretreating cobalt-based catalysts with reaction gas improves their performance in the partial oxidation of methane

Antibody-based immunoassay helps in the search for new chemical reactions by screening thousands of reactions at once

An overview of the latest issue of Angewandte Chemie

Metal-organic framework based on a [2]rotaxane stops random dispersion and incoherent motion seen with rotaxanes in solution

Ionic liquids can function as solvents even if water is present after all. The discovery opens up a new range of applications

Bowman-James, Bianchi, and Garcìa-España' book, Anion Coordination Chemistry, is reviewed by Philip Gale, UK

Potassium borosulfate created which crystallizes in a polar space group

Prize from the European Materials Research Society awarded to Molly Stevens, UK, and Francesco Stellacci, Switzerland