Exploring the chemical reactions during the baking of the bread and the skills trained and experienced bakers need

Our Daily Bread — Part 3

Like a Detective Story: The Discovery of C60
The discovery of fullerenes was neither quick nor easy, and was rich in surprising twists

Wonderlab Comic – April Fools' Day
Sophie and Jin-Jo play a practical joke on Catman and not only ruin his reaction, but also his day

Straight to the Mesopore: Special Issue on Functional Porous Materials
Functionalized porous materials, an exciting expanse of catalytic materials have tremendous catalytic potential

Guess the Chemist (16)
Can you guess the famous scientist from the description?

Synthesis of Functionalized Terminal Allenes
Practical reaction for the CuI-catalyzed synthesis of terminal allenes from terminal alkynes, paraformaldehyde, and iPr2NH developed

Angewandte Author Profiles March 2013
Xile Hu, Burkhard König, C. Oliver Kappe, Tomás Torres, and Chien-Hong Cheng were interviewed this month

Let Those Without Syn Cast the First Post
If you are publishing the recipe for your synthesis, then you had better be precise. Why? Because the bloggers are watching!

Blocking Hypoxia Inducible Factors Allosterically
US scientists have developed a small molecule which antagonizes the transcriptional factor HIF-2 by inducing allosteric changes

An Olive Branch for Lignin: Pass the Hydrogen
The microwave-assisted depolymerization of lignin to bio-oil from olive tree waste is achieved in hydrogen-donating solvents