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

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

Chemists have studied 9000 copolymer materials to calculate the optimal polymer for making organic photovoltaic solar cells

The Jacques Villermaux Medal of the European Federation of Chemical Engineering has been awarded to Ryszard Pohorecki

Alfred Pühler and Jens Weitkamp have been awarded Honorary Memberships of the DECHEMA

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

Clusters composed of rare-earth and d-transition metals exhibit unique reactivity properties pointing the way to new hydrogen storage techniques

Gold nanoparticles shown to convert specialty sugar into renewable feedstock for fine chemicals

An overview of the latest issue of Angewandte Chemie

UNESCO granted its patronage to the book The Chemical Element