This meeting united science and Portuguese culture and had a special EurJOC and ChemPubSoc Europe session

The 6th Spanish-Portuguese-Japanese Organic Chemistry Symposium

Roots of our Practice of Science
Banska Stiavnica, Banská Štavnica, Schemnitz, or Selmecbánya, a town with a lively political history and groundbreaking for science

Glowing Fingerprints
Researchers make latent fingerprints visible with help from electrochemiluminescence

Self-Inflicted Asymmetry
Crystallization-induced asymmetric synthesis of nonracemic platinum(IV) polysulfide tris(chelate) complexes

Richard Neidlein (1930 – 2012)
Richard Neidlein, Heidelberg University, Germany, passed away on July 20

Fischer-Tropsch Refining
Book covering the production and refining of Fischer-Tropsch syncrude is reviewed by Malcolm Green, UK

Timely Delivery
Ribonucleoside 3'-phosphates as pro-moieties for the timed release of orally available drugs

Designing Dendrimers
Book on developments in the field of dendrimers and is reviewed by David K. Smith, University of York, UK

The Challenges of Accounting for Spin-States of Molecules
Quantum chemists hope to provide greater insights into areas as diverse as magnetic devices and metabolic processes in the human body

CO2 as a Carbon Source?
Homogeneous catalysis: ruthenium phosphine complex hydrogenates carbon dioxide to make methanol