The Clemmensen reduction of ketones and aldehydes is the simplest direct method for converting the carbonyl group into a methylene group

100th Anniversary: Clemmensen Reduction

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

Carbon Nanotubes: Gas Tank of the Future?
Storing pressurized hydrogen in carbon nanotubes could already be approaching the US Department of Energy's 2015 targets

Easy Demetalation of Porphyrins
A simple, mild, methodology for the transformation of nickel porphyrins to the corresponding free-base porphyrins

Most Accessed Articles: May 2013
The most-accessed chemistry articles from ChemPubSoc Europe and GDCh journals for May 2013

How to Determine a Reaction's Usefulness
A way to analyze novel organic reactions and determine whether they will have wide or limited utility in organic syntheses has been developed

Science on the Market: What Does Competition Do to Research?
Michael Hampe, ETH Zurich, Switzerland, argues that scientists should not oversell their work in the pursuit of competitive funding

Portable TB Detector
A device for the genetic detection of pathogenic bacteria has emerged from microfluidics research coupled with NMR spectroscopy