A modified, d0-type tantalum-oxynitride photocatalyst has been used to promote water splitting using only visible light

New Type of Water Splitting Catalyst

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

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