Bayer CropScience to acquire watermelon and melon business of US-based Abbott & Cobb Inc.

Bayer Strengthens Fruits And Vegetables Business

Nobel Prize Reduced to Safeguard Long-Term Capital
Size of the Nobel Prize is being reduced by 20 % to safeguard long-term capital

Fast Track to Latest Research
Early View articles of 170 peer-reviewed chemistry journals — keep yourself easily up-to-date about the latest findings in your field

L. Woppowa New CEO of VDI-GVC
Dr. Ljuba A. Woppowa is the new CEO of the VDI-GVC, the Association of German Engineers and Society for Chemical Engineering

Solvent Effects: Steric vs. Thermodynamic
Steric characteristics are at least as important as the energetics of solvation for nucleophilic substitution reactions

François Diederich Honored
François Diederich, ETH Zurich, Switzerland, receives Doctor Honoris Causa by the Technion-Israel Institute of Technology, Israel

Concerted Approach to Decomposition
NMR spectroscopy helps unravel how malonic anhydrides decompose, a long-standing point of controversy in physical chemistry

New Catalytic System for Biodiesel Production
Clean and efficient production of biodiesel and glycerol from soybean and microbial lipids

New Cracker Plans at US Gulf Coast
ExxonMobil Chemical plans a multi-billion-dollar ethylene and polyethylene expansion project for the US Gulf Coast

Electron-Donating Tetrathienyl-Substituted Borole
Thienyl-substituted borole with pronounced electron-donating character as new example of borolebased π-conjugated compounds designed