Fused indolines made by asymmetrical carbon–carbon coupling

Vivian Yam, University of Hong Kong, was the youngest member to join the Chinese Academy of Sciences

How can a tiny molecule like ethanol be at the root of so much human misery?

Richpunzel poors her lab-based sorrows out to her diary in the latest Wonderlab installment

Christian Reichardt, Marburg, Germany, discusses the fourth edition of his highly successful book

Veronique Gouverneur, University of Oxford, UK, has worked in research groups on both sides of the Atlantic with renown scientists

Improved light harvesting in the visible region with addition of a coumarin group to iridium(III) complex

Jean-Claude Volta, Institut de Recherches sur la Catalyse IRC, Villeurbanne, France, passed away last week

Classics in Total Synthesis III by K. C. Nicolaou and Jason Chen, reviewed by Dirk Menche and Sebastian Essig

Progress toward smell television: targeted release of various scents from individually addressable chambers