W.-Y. Huang’s 90th birthday is celebrated in a special issue of the Chinese Journal of Chemistry on organofluorine chemistry

Special Issue: Wei-Yuan Huang’s 90th Birthday

Lab Space for Californian Start-Ups
Bayer HealthCare plans to share lab space with start-up companies

Carbon Monoxide Promotion
CO usually poisons catalytic reactions - Dutch team demonstrates that it can promote the oxidation of alcohols on a gold catalyst

Enantiopure Triazolium Salts
Simple, robust, and straightforward synthetic method for the production of enantiopure 1,4-dialkyl-1,2,4-triazolium salts

EROS Best Reagent Award 2011
Paul Knochel has won the EROS Best Reagent Award 2011 for the development of Turbo-Grignard™

Novel Renewable Carbon Source
Oil palm trunk sap used as growth medium for bacteria is a novel inexpensive renewable carbon source

Sensing Ions with Nitrile Gloves
A variety of metal ions can be detected with ultrasmall fluorescent sensors that can be incorporated into clothing

Removing Cd2+ From Blood
Heavy metal pollution in humans: supermagnetic nanocomposite effectively removes cadmium ions from blood

Angewandte Chemie 52/2011: Quo Vadis?
An overview of the latest issue of Angewandte Chemie

Aerosol Emissions from Outdoor Firework
Due to the increasing number of firework displays, investigations on environmental impacts are necessary