Engineering methylaspartate ammonia lyase has helped researchers with the asymmetric synthesis of unnatural amino acids

Unnatural Amino Acids

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Combatting Designer Drugs Head On
New methods to help law enforcement keep up with the dizzying array of new designer drugs designed to escape detection

The Field of Chemistry
The incredible breadth of contemporary scientific research makes browsing journal issues a worthwhile investment

Wonderlab Comic — Student vs. Teacher
We discover the real reason that chemistry T-shirts are popular as Sophie and friends take on the teacher in this latest installment

Angewandte Chemie 18/2012: No End in Sight
An overview of the latest issue of Angewandte Chemie

ACS Meeting San Diego: L. Scott and M. Petrukhina on Fullerene Fragments
Lawrence Scott and Marina Petrukhina discuss their new book on fullerene fragments and other open geodesic polyaromatic molecules

David Milstein Awarded
Professor David Milstein, Weizmann Institute of Science, has been awarded the 2012 Israel Prize in Chemistry and Physics

Assessing Academic Researchers
Richard N. Zare states that in judging researchers early in their career, the h-index seems to be a poor measure

New Biprivileged Molecular Scaffolds
Compounds with several heteroaromatic functionalities present multiple rigid privileged structures for drug discovery