Richard Zare discusses how helping China develop scientifically can benefit the West

Record power conversion efficiency for polymer-based solar cells achieved by the incorporation of vertically oriented nanorods

A new dual catalyst approach to cycloaddition makes a formerly diastereoselective reaction scheme enantioselective

The selective halogenation of ligands of a trinuclear copper complex has been obtained under extremely mild conditions

Catalyst with MgF₂ support is four times more active than catalysts supported on commercial Al₂O₃

New family of NHCs suitable for benzoin-type coupling reactions and might enable new or improved organocatalytic processes

Rechargeable batteries in cars could give way to microporous polymer that is an unusually powerful supercapacitor

Practical, cheap, and general protocol that uses iron for olefin isomerization could be used in fine chemical or pharmaceutical synthesis

New understanding of carbon catalyst surface could aid development of commercial catalyst for oxidative dehydrogenation of hydrocarbons

Complicated trifluoromethylations could be a thing of the past with new procedure that is simple, safe and done at room temperature