Finding out which is the carbonyl ligand on your catalyst just got easier thanks to X-ray emission spectroscopy

New Technique for Analyzing Transition-Metal Catalysts

A Transport to be Forbidden
Mycobacteria tuberculosis infections could be blocked by targeting the amino acid transporter AnsP1

Amide Hydrogenation in Flow Reactor
Amines are produced by amide hydrogenation over a bimetallic platinum-rhenium catalyst in a high-throughput vertical flow reactor

OECD’s Cooperative Chemicals Assessment Programme (CoCAP)
The OECD will review its chemical hazard assessment programme to provide a more specialized service for member countries

A Fluorescent Guide to the Right Treatment
5-Amminolevulinic acid can be use to optimize the allocation of gliomas patients to the correct post-operative treatment

Food and Nutrition Research Trends and Strategies
Major topics in nutrition and health are moving closer together with research focussing, e.g., on olfaction and intestinal metagenomics

New Low-Cost Catalyst for Fuel Cells
Titanium nitride nanoparticles grown on nitrogen-doped graphene sheets are better than Pt-based catalysts for the oxygen reduction reaction

Alzheimer's Image Problem Solved
Copper-based radiopharmaceuticals for diagnostic imaging can target the amyloid-β plaques implicated in Alzheimer's disease

A Simple Route to Chiral Synthesis
Asymmetric conjugate addition reactions of alkenylaluminums to enones

Electrochemistry as a Sizing Technique
An electrochemical technique can be used to derive the size distribution of organic nanoparticles