120th Birthday of Sir Chistopher Ingold, one of the chief pioneers of physical-organic chemistry

120th Birthday: Sir Christopher Ingold

Scientists (of the World) Behave!
Katharina Al-Shamery discusses ethics with regards to scientific publishing

New Route to Benzodioxin Derivatives
A new hetero-Diels-Alder reaction opens up a new route to the 1,4-benzodioxin framework

Amide Hydrogenation in Flow Reactor
Amines are produced by amide hydrogenation over a bimetallic platinum-rhenium catalyst in a high-throughput vertical flow reactor

A Simple Route to Chiral Synthesis
Asymmetric conjugate addition reactions of alkenylaluminums to enones

Mix and Shake NMR Method
A simple "mix and shake" proton NMR method for determining the chirality of amines and amino alcohols

Building Blocks to Sustainable Synthesis
Efficient one-pot procedure for the synthesis of homosubstituted imidazolium compounds on the basis of renewable precursors

New Route to 3'-Aminoacyl-tRNASec Mimics
Solid-state synthesis for selenocystein cognate transfer RNA (tRNASec) mimics could help understand the biosynthesis of selenocysteine

The Portable Chemist’s Consultant
Yoshihiro Ishihara, Ana Montero, and Phil S. Baran's book is reviewed by Robert Webster, Henrik Teller, and Thomas Krämer, Germany

Medicine Can be Sweet
Glycosylated analogues of pramlintide were synthesized by a combination of solid-phase peptide synthesis and enzymatic glycosylation