Zinc bis(alkanesulphinate) salts are a chemical toolkit enabling the synthesis of novel heterocycles for drug discovery
New Tool for Heterocycle Functionalization
Sensitive and Selective Mercury Detection
Zinc(II) porphyrin–octadeoxythymidine is a highly sensitive and selective fluorescence and absorption sensor for mercury ions in water
Production Site for Antioxidant Blends in Bahrain
BASF is opening a state-of-the-art production site for customer specific antioxidant blends (CSB) in the Kingdom of Bahrain
Dipeptide Ligands for Hydrogen-Production Catalysts
A peptide-based outer-coordination sphere of hydrogenases increases efficiency for hydrogen production
Pulsating Microcapsules
Polymer gel microcapsules can oscillate in and out depending on pH, offering potential for regular, self-medicating devices
Chlorination Reveals Fullerene Structure
A new isomer of a higher fullerene, Cs-C82 (4), captured by chlorination and characterized
Facile Functionalization of Polyhedral Boranes
First example of addition of any C-nucleophiles to nitrilium derivatives of boron clusters
Biophysics Prize Awarded to W. Helfrich and C. Bustamante
The Raymond and Beverly Sackler International Prize in Biophysics has been awarded to Wolfgang Helfrich and Carlos Bustamante
Natural Health Products: Really Safe?
The daily exposure levels to metals and metalloids contaminating some natural health products exceed allowable limits
Light Relief for Proteins
Proteins have existed for billions of years, yet their photolytically weak sulfide bridges can be cleaved by light, so how do they persist?