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

New Catalyst for Hydrogenation

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

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

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

Angewandte Chemie 35/2011: In Your Brain
An overview of the latest issue of Angewandte Chemie

Active Nanotube Adsorption Sites Uncovered
New understanding of carbon catalyst surface could aid development of commercial catalyst for oxidative dehydrogenation of hydrocarbons

Pietro Biginelli: The Man Behind the Reaction
The Biginelli dihydropyrimidine synthesis is a very important and old multicomponent reaction—so why has its creator been forgotten?

Potential Anti-Alzheimer’s Compound Synthesized
The shortest synthesis of biologically interesting bryostatin 7 uses a C—C bond forming hydrogenation

New Boron Complexes with Unpredicted Reactivity
First boron-containing allenylidene-like complexes display reactivity not predicted by DFT calculations

UK Chemists Respond to Organic Chemistry Cuts
Over 100 of world's top chemists have written to the UK Prime Minister to warn of impacts of proposed cuts in research funding