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

Bayer HealthCare plans to share lab space with start-up companies

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

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

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

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

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

Heavy metal pollution in humans: supermagnetic nanocomposite effectively removes cadmium ions from blood

An overview of the latest issue of Angewandte Chemie

Due to the increasing number of firework displays, investigations on environmental impacts are necessary