New class of phosphorescent iridium(III) porphyrin complexes leads to tunable oxygen indicators

Sensitive to Oxygen

Glowing Spirals From Chemical Gradients
Chemical scaffolds guide fluorescing bacteria into precisely defined three-dimensional spiral patterns

Women in Chemistry — Interview with Zuriati Zakaria
Professor Zuriati Zakaria, Universiti Kebangsaan Malaysia (UKM), is the first Malay woman from Malaysia to receive a PhD in chemistry

Six Steps to Strychnine
The nightmarish effects of strychnine are nothing compared to its systematic name, which hints at how difficult it is to make

Biotech Crops Over 1 Billion Hectares
Developing nations drive growth at adoption rates exceeding industrialized countries

Combined Diagnosis and Treatment of Tumors
Gold microcapsules with air-filled cavities act as contrast agent for ultrasound and photothermically activated drug for cancer

Wonderlab Comic — Litmus Paper
Sophie and friends discover the joys and pitfalls of litmus paper

Switching Qubits with a Terahertz Source?
Rotational transitions induced in molecules on a chip could have important applications in quantum computing

Small Molecule, Big Role
How the simplest molecule – H2 – governed the cosmological development of our universe

Medicinal Chemistry and Ice Hockey
Report from the 10th Winter Conference on Medicinal and Bioorganic Chemistry, January 2011, Steamboat Springs, Colorado, USA