Light-triggered microscale robotic arm makes bending and stretching motions

The wisdom of crowds can help improve molecular diversity in a library of potential pharmaceutical candidates

An overview of the latest issue of Angewandte Chemie

New organic dye gives the best performance for a dye-sensitized solar cell in the near-IR range thanks to flexible alkyl chains

Room temperature arylation is possible with new catalytic concept that combines light-activated catalysis with Pd-based functionalization

The most-accessed chemistry articles from ChemPubSoc Europe and GDCh journals for October 2011

Very simple, chiral, non-racemic diselenides prepared and their corresponding selenium electrophiles used for stereoselective functionalization of alkenes

A framework for the total synthesis of nanoparticles using processes analogous to the reactions in a synthetic scheme

Prodrugs selectively activated by high levels of reactive oxygen species in cancer cells could lead to more active and less toxic treatments

First example of the induction of point chirality in which two of the substituents around an sp3 carbon atom are geometric isomers