Roberta Sessoli, University of Florence, Italy, is a pioneer in the field of magnetic bistability and quantum effects in mesoscopic materials

Women in Chemistry — Interview with Roberta Sessoli

The Chemist’s Fear of the Fugu
The chemist’s fear of the fugu or pufferfish extends as far as the distinctive and intriguing poison it carries

Mass Appeal of Serotonin Binding
Screening technique using a nonlabeled reporter ligand for the human serotonin transporter could improve depression drugs

Angewandte Chemie 32/2011: Pearls On A String
An overview of the latest issue of Angewandte Chemie

Women in Chemistry and EurJOC
EurJOC's special issue on women chemists demonstrates that the possibility for women to excel in chemistry is only limited by perception

Fast Assignment
A rapid method for determining absolute configuration using kinetic resolution catalysts has been developed by US chemists

Sugars Can Aggregate Too
Defined, reversible aggregates of sugar chains have been observed for the first time and could enable on-site detection of diseases

Green Polymers
Supercritical carbon dioxide can be used as the "solvent" for the polymerization of lactide with an organo-catalyst

Chromogenic Ni2+ Receptor
First example of a coumarin-based chromogenic receptor exhibiting a reconfigurable logic gate pattern

Helical Organosilica Synthesized
Chiral helical organosilica materials with ultrasmall mesopores have been prepared in less than one hour