12 videos – one for each month of IYC 2011 – will be released showing which role chemistry plays in our daily lives and in our future

Biodegradable elastomers with properties that resemble human tissues now have improved strength and elasticity

New compound which destabilizes the molecular chaperone, heat-shock protein 90, has anticancer potential

Maurizio Peruzzini is the new Director of the Institute of Chemistry of Organometallic Compounds (ICCOM), Florence, Italy

Enantioselective construction of quarternary carbons with a range of functionalities achieved with tertiary boronic esters

An overview of the latest issue of Angewandte Chemie

Individual and unfavorable reactions can be performed if molecules are immobilized and correctly aligned

Simple, non-toxic, efficient and cyanide-free protocol for the cyanation of aryl halides uses formamide as a cyanide source

A rapid approach to diverse alkaloid-like compounds which may lead to novel biological active small molecules

Antibiotic’s backbone monitored by Raman optical activity to show preferred conformations in dioxane and methanol