When scurvy was identified as a form of malnutrition, an exciting race for the isolation, structure determination, and synthesis of vitamin C started

Vitamin C Deficiency – Part 2

Periodicity of Melting Points
The phenomenon of periodicity is particularly clear in the melting points of the elements

Behind the Scenes of the Wonderlab Cartoon
Interview with Sophie Lin, a chemist in Taiwan, who started drawing the Wonderlab Cartoon Series for ChemistryViews.org in 2010

Building Anticancer Drugs Without Side Effects
Late-stage divergent synthetic route allows the synthesis of analogues of bleomycin, a common anticancer drug

Chemical Poems: Fluorine
Poems based on the natural properties of each of the elements of the periodic table

The Early Career Series
ChemPlusChem features up and coming researchers whose focus is on multidisciplinary research centering on chemistry

Launch of the International Year of Crystallography
IUCr and UNESCO launched the International Year of Crystallography (IYCr) in Paris

Oh the Shark Has Pretty Teeth Dear …
Atomic resolution imaging of fluorine in shark tooth enamel

Hunt for the Killer Bug
Identification of living Legionella by using specific metabolic lipopolysaccharides

Silenced
Overcoming multidrug resistance in cancer cells by silencing genes with RNA