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

Making Quarternary Carbon Centers

Angewandte Chemie 12/2011: Worth Its Price
An overview of the latest issue of Angewandte Chemie

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

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

Rapid Approach to Diverse Alkaloid-Like Compounds
A rapid approach to diverse alkaloid-like compounds which may lead to novel biological active small molecules

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

Stronger than Weak Bonds
Homonuclear dihydrogen bonds link alkanes in the crystal state. But are these purportedly weak bonds stronger than we think?

Micro Devices for Nano Fibers
Microfluidic technologies used to produce fibers of coordination polymers more easily than conventional techniques

Chemistry of Make Up
To produce the rainbow of colors on today's make up racks, chemists derive dyes from a variety of compounds

2010 Trends in Organic Chemistry
An overview of the latest trend report published annually in Nachrichten aus der Chemie, the GDCh magazine