Asararenes, a new family of large aromatic macrocycles, have been created by using a component of ginger

New Macrocyclic Family with Added Ginger

How Magnetic Nanoparticles Form
New model makes predictions about how nanoparticles form depending on their physical properties; may lead to controllable crystal growth

New Computational Method for Safer Leads
Elegant way to limit the number of biochemical experiments to predict the toxicity of a drug candidate won Molecular Informatics Best Paper Award

Forming Six Bonds at Once
One reaction, six bonds, and a clutch of new heteropentalenes

Antibody Selectivity on Graphene: Many Feet Make Light Work
Antibodies attached to tripodal molecules on a graphene surface maintain their ability to recognize cells

75th Birthday: Werner Weisweiler
Werner Weisweiler, Technische Hochschule (TH) Karlsruhe, Germany, celebrates his 75th birthday

New Route to Tetrasubstituted Allenes
A new method to synthesize fully substituted allenes by using asymmetric phase-transfer catalysis has been developed

Pharmaceuticals in Water Make Fish Careless
Behavioral changes of perch because their brains have the same kind of target receptor as human brains for drug Oxazepam

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

Direct Multicomponent β-Fluoro(phenylsulfonyl)ethylamine Synthesis
Direct Mannich-type reaction for the facile synthesis of β-fluoro(phenylsulfonyl)ethylamines involving three components