Bottom-up, stepwise synthesis allows construction of peripherally functionalized hexaphyrins with unsubstituted meso carbon atoms

Turning Around the Synthesis of Hexaphyrins

Cryptophane Proves Good Host
A strategy for the easy synthesis of a water-soluble cryptophane-111 derivative has been developed

Scent of a Strawberry
German scientists reveal the exact biochemical processes used by strawberries to produce their key aroma compound

First Natural Product from Marine Myxobacteria
Salimabromide is the first natural product to be isolated from the Plesiocystis/Enhygromyxa clade of marine myxobacterium

Bravo for Brevisamide
Chemists in India have devised a formal stereoselective synthesis of the unprecedented, marine monocyclic ether alkaloid (–)-brevisamide

Fooling Toxins with Mimetic Nanosponges
Poly(lactic-co-glycolic acid) nanoparticles wrapped with red blood cell membranes neutralize pore-forming toxins

2nd REACH Deadline
The 2nd deadline falls May 31 and applies to chemicals produced in, or imported into, the EU in annual volumes of 100-1,000 t

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

Milestones Reached for REACH
The European chemicals regulation REACH enters its second deadline and companies now must start working for the third phase

French Chemical Society National and Bi-national Awards
The winners of the annual national and bi-national prizes of the SCF include Klaus Müllen, Santiago Alvarez Reverter, and Samir Zard