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Robert Woodward was the first to make it in 1954 – and you?

Highly efficient electrocatalyst for the reduction of oxygen in fuel cells and batteries

US researchers have created a DNA-based hydrogel with unique mechanical features useful in electronics or for medical purposes

Planned boycott of rankings of the German Chemistry Departments at the Universities

An organocatalytic method yields 2,3-disubstituted dihydrobenzofurans with high optical purity

Zinc bis(alkanesulphinate) salts are a chemical toolkit enabling the synthesis of novel heterocycles for drug discovery

Zinc(II) porphyrin–octadeoxythymidine is a highly sensitive and selective fluorescence and absorption sensor for mercury ions in water

A new isomer of a higher fullerene, Cs-C82 (4), captured by chlorination and characterized

First example of addition of any C-nucleophiles to nitrilium derivatives of boron clusters