D. Nolan, ChemPhotoChem, talked to A. Heckel, University of Frankfurt about his work on a new universal chemical actinometer

Behind the Science: Calibrating Light Sources for Photochemistry

Improvement of REACH Registration Dossiers
Critics demand improved quality of registration dossiers for the EU's regulation of chemicals; industry offers voluntary action plan

A Safe Way to Nitriles
Asymmetric hydrocyanation of alkenes without cyanide reagents gives synthetic chemists more pleasure in synthesizing nitriles

100th Anniversary: Death of Lord Rayleigh
Nobel Laureate co-discovered argon and explained the phenomenon of Rayleigh scattering

Research and Art Benefit from Each Other
Experiences with an art exhibition held at SETAC Europe’s Annual Meeting in Helsinki, Finland

Pharmaceutical Production with Reduced Waste
Platform technology for producing cephalosporin antibiotics

Milestone for Structural Chemistry
Cambridge Structural Database (CSD) now contains one million crystal structures

Mordecai Rabinovitz (1933 – 2019)
Professor Emeritus at Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Israel, passed away

Transition-Metal-Free Synthesis of Phenanthridinones
First phenanthridinone synthesis that progresses via a direct C–H amidation under visible-light irradiation

Single Cells Get Their Shells
Nanocomposite exoskeleton makes mammalian cells more resilient and incorporated inorganic building blocks provide many possibilities