Professor Nicholas J. Turro, Columbia University, USA, has passed away

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Overview of the latest issue of Angewandte Chemie

Depending on the number of fluorine atoms in the alkylating agent, β-ketoesters are regioselectively C- or O-alkylated

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

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The structural arrangement of Au/γ-Fe2O3 binary nanoparticle assemblies can be controlled resulting in integrated and segregated assemblies