Synthesizing highly fatigue-resistant diarylethene photoswitches by minimizing byproduct formation

Making Robust Photochemical Switches

The Future of Distillation – Industries’ Most Energy-Intense Technology
A. Górak, TU Dortmund, discusses opportunities on how to improve the energy consumption and efficiency of distillation

Angewandte Chemie 9/2015: Off the Beaten Track
Overview of the latest issue of Angewandte Chemie

Ring Opening Metathesis Polymerization without Metals
New approach to ring-opening metathesis polymerization (ROMP) uses an organic initiator instead of a transition metal

Lab-Grown Meat
Molecular biology increasingly contributes to the production and preparation of food

Dispersion Correction for Hydrogen Bonds?
Does considering van der Waals interactions improve calculations on hydrogen-bonded systems?

Optimized Production of Plasticizer Alcohols
Evonik optimizes the production of plasticizer alcohol 2-propyl heptanol (2-PH)

Most Accessed Articles: January 2015
The most-accessed chemistry articles from ChemPubSoc Europe, ACES, and GDCh journals for January 2015

Israel Chemical Society Medal Awarded
Eliezer Gileadi and Abraham Nitzan, Tel Aviv University, Israel, honored

Frozen Fluorenyl Cations
Antiaromatic compound with short lifespan synthesized in ice matrix and spectroscopically characterized