An organic square can be converted to tiny bicyclic compound through an intramolecular rearrangement

Bicycling the Square

Dieter Behrens Medal for S. Feyo de Azevedo
Sebastião Feyo de Azevedo, Portugal, at the 9th European Congress of Chemical Engineering (ECCE-9)

Catalyst Atoms in Nanowires
Silicon nanowires can be doped with surprisingly high amounts of aluminium during their growth

Organocatalytic Route to Active Pyrazoles
Regioselective synthesis of pyrazoles using a secondary amine organocatalyst

From Brimstone to Feedstock
The elemental sulfur byproduct of petroleum desulfurization could be a new feedstock material for copolymers in lithium-sulfur batteries

The Sorcerer’s Apprentices of Electrochemically Activated Valves
Nanoporous graphitic carbon electrodes display a unique electrowetting behavior that depends on specific ion effects

Werner Prize for C. Nevado and C. Mazet
Cristina Nevado, Zurich, and Clément Mazet, Genève, have been awarded the Werner Prize of the Swiss Chemical Society

More Power for US Industry
Discussion on new bill bringing changes to the Science Advisory Board (SAB) of the US Environmental Protection Agency (EPA)

Surface-assisted Synthesis of Large Macrocycles
Hexagonal macrocycles with a diameter of 21.3 Å can be synthesized on a Cu(111) surface to produce hexagonal arrays of "nanotroughs"

Allergic to Animal Tests?
BASF and Promega develop an alternative method to identify allergenic substances