First facile and efficient one pot catalytic process of converting glycerol to value added products with a robust CoAl alloy

Stefan Berger, University of Leipzig, Germany, author of Classics in Spectroscopy, celebrates his 65th birthday

The photocatalytic activity of titania moves from UV to visible light if trapped within carbon nanotubes, opening up new applications

Peter Bruce, University of St Andrews, Scotland, has received the Arfvedson Schlenk Prize for his work on lithium chemistry

Asymmetric aminocatalysis opens the Diels—Alder reaction to a new class of dienes

Cambridge University, UK, has topped a league table of the world's best universities, with Harvard and MIT, USA, ranked second and third

Making complexes that absorb light and split water can be as difficult as making porridge for Goldilocks as steric and electronic factors clash

Simple and apparently benign molecule cleaves strong bonds and opens the way for organocatalytic substrate activation

Evidence for under-reported western European emissions of the potent greenhouse gas HFC-23 link to EU chemical industry

Panda poop contains bacteria that could help produce cheaper, more abundant biofuels