Daniel Seidel, Rutgers University, awarded the Carl Duisberg Memorial Award for his work on organocatalysis and C–H bond activation

Vera Köster, Wiley-VCH, is awarded for the planning, development, and running of the ChemistryViews website

An overview of the latest issue of Angewandte Chemie

An overview of the latest issue of Angewandte Chemie

A heterogeneous porous Sr–MgO nanocomposite catalyst allows for the mild transesterification of palm oil to methanol

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

Hugh Aldersey-Williams' book, Periodic Tales – A Cultural History of the Elements, from Arsenic to Zinc, is reviewed by Matthias Driess

Self-assembling strategies and covalent capture employed to construct a robust, inexpensive, efficient artificial light-harvesting system

Synchroton-based characterization techniques to illuminate properties of compound semiconductor thin-film solar cell absorbers reviewed

New and simple procedure for cleaning nanoparticles removes organic contaminants without affecting size, shape, or structure