German-Japanese research team receives Eugen and Ilse Seibold Prize 2011

This year's Wolf Prize in chemistry goes jointly to Stuart A. Rice, Ching Tang, and Krzysztof Matyjaszewski

The continuous in situ generation of diazomethane in a safe manner is possible with new dual-channel microreactor

Daniel J. Mindiola, Dieter Schlüter, Takashi Kato, Buxing Han and are interviewed this month

Star-shaped polymer could be used in white light-emitting diodes (LEDs) for low energy light sources

First direct measurement of electron transport in single molecules shows stacked aromatics could be used as molecular wires

A tool for synthetic organic chemists, (E,E)-1,5-cyclooctadiene, could find wide utility in chemical biology and polymer chemistry

The most-accessed chemistry articles from ChemPubSoc Europe and GDCh journals for April 2011

Overview of the latest issue of Angewandte Chemie

Related to the famous Maya blue: Indigo compounds give Mayan art their yellow color