The most-accessed chemistry articles from ChemPubSoc Europe and GDCh journals for September 2014

Most Accessed Articles: September 2014

Spirooxindoles from Enantioselective Tandem Reactions
Catalytic asymmetric construction of 3,3'-spirooxindoles fused with seven-membered rings

Fall Meeting 2014 of the Korean Chemical Society (KCS)
Snapshots of the 114th General Meeting of the Korean Chemical Society (KCS)

Ekkehard Winterfeldt (1932 – 2014)
Ekkehard Winterfeldt, former President of the GDCh (German Chemical Society), passed away on October 11

Computational Organic Chemistry
J. E. Hums, Germany, reviews the book "Computational Organic Chemistry" by Steven M. Bachrach

Reiner Sustmann (1939 – 2014)
Reiner Sustmann, Professor Emeritus, University of Essen, Germany, passed away last week

50th Anniversary: Nobel Prize for Feodor Lynen
Feodor Lynen received the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine 1964; answer to Guess the Chemist (34)

Catalytic Nitration of Anilines
A copper-catalyzed mild nitration of protected anilines

Synthesis of β-Lapachone
A potential anticancer agent from the Lapacho tree

Chemoenzymatic Synthesis
The insecticide spinoysn A was synthesized by a chemoenzymatic approach