German researchers unravel a long-standing puzzle about the structure of spheroidene in the photosynthetic purple bacteria

Understanding Bacterial Photosynthesis with Quantum Mechanics

Protecting an Apple a Day
Extracts and metabolites from the Gingko biloba tree can be used to prevent infestation of apple trees

Put Your 5'-Cap on for Sensitive Detection
Closely related microRNAs can be detected selectively with new 5' quinolone cap

Angewandte Chemie 41/2011: Surprising Ions
An overview of the latest issue of Angewandte Chemie

Guidelines for Isotope and Gas Ratios
The terminology and concepts behind the terms for expressing relative differences in stable isotope ratios have been clarified

DECHEMA Student Prizes Awarded
The DECHEMA Student Prizes recognize graduates with outstanding results that completed their studies in a particular short time

Gautam Desiraju New IUCr President
Gautam Desiraju, Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore, has been elected President of the International Union of Crystallography (IUCr)

Arnold Eucken Prize Awarded
The Arnold Eucken Prize has been awarded to Dr. Marco Haumann and Dr. Martin Seipenbusch

Efficient Trifluoromethylation of Alkenes
Copper catalyst and hypervalent iodine give a rare example of general and highly efficient direct trifluoromethylation of terminal olefins

Reverse Engineering Organic Solar Cells
Chemists have studied 9000 copolymer materials to calculate the optimal polymer for making organic photovoltaic solar cells