Simple, low-cost, green, and efficient method to extract and isolate natural products from biomaterials

New Extraction Media for Phenolic Compounds

European Crisis Effects Higher Education Funding
EUA Public Funding Observatory report looks at impact of the economic crisis on universities

Double-clicking on Nanoparticles
A click chemistry approach to consecutively functionalize nanoparticle surfaces by using the thiol-yne reaction

Gut Feeling for Obesity Treatment
Newly synthesized benzimidazole-type compounds work directly in the gut rather than circulating in the blood to lower triglycerides

New Type of Water Splitting Catalyst
A modified, d0-type tantalum-oxynitride photocatalyst has been used to promote water splitting using only visible light

Spinoza Prize to Bert Weckhuysen
The NWO Spinoza Prize is the highest Dutch award in science

100th Anniversary: Clemmensen Reduction
The Clemmensen reduction of ketones and aldehydes is the simplest direct method for converting the carbonyl group into a methylene group

Job: Assistant Editor Wiley-VCH’s Chemistry journals
Explore a career in publishing: Assistant Editor, Wiley-VCH's Chemistry journals

First Commercial-scale Plant for Eco-friendly Flame Retarding Polymer
Uhde Inventa-Fischer to build world’s first plant for the production of flame-retardant Nofia™ polymer

Organolithium Cross-Coupling
Practical method for the fast and highly selective direct cross-coupling of organolithium reagents has been developed