A non-stop polycyclization approach to the synthesis of strained terpenes has been devised by chemists in the US

Overview of the latest issue of Angewandte Chemie

Latest results for the predictions for the 2012 Nobel Prize in Chemistry

Natural product secreted by a soil bacterium shows promise as a new drug to treat tuberculosis

Monodisperse conjugated oligomers self-assemble into folded helical structures that form intermolecular aggregates in water

First total synthesis of wild-type erythropoietin glycoprotein, hormone stimulating red blood cell production, has been accomplished

Horst Prinzbach, University of Freiburg, Germany, creator of the world's smallest helium balloon, has passed away

Professor Herbert Waldmann, Germany, is the recipient of the 2012 Emil Fischer Medal, awarded for work in organic chemistry

The first catalytic synthesis of an acrylate from CO2 and an alkene could lead to greener diapers

Humans and animals can distinguish smells by the vibrations of the odorant molecules