Cefic president meets Russian chemicals industry leaders in Moscow; Russian body is to become newest member of EU chemicals trade group

Russian Chemists Union & European Chemical Industry

Selective Cellulose Conversion
A series of Ni-promoted W2C catalysts was prepared and evaluated for the catalytic conversion of cellulose into ethylene glycol

WACKER Expands Technical Center in Singapore
Technical Center in Singapore extended to include dispersion applications for the paints and coatings industry

Bio Spin on Gas Separation
A supported bio-metal organic framework membrane could provide an effective system for separating methane from carbon dioxide

CO2 Sequestration with Amidophosphoranes
Amidophosphoranes containing four-membered rings react rapidly to capture of one and two equivalents of carbon dioxide, respectively

Enantioselective Brønsted Base Catalysis
Cyclopropenimines are shown to be a highly effective new class of enantioselective Brønsted base catalysts

Genetically Encoded pH Sensor
Genetically encoded pH sensor for tracking surface proteins through endocytosis, a process by which cells absorb molecules by engulfing them

Queen Elizabeth Prize for Engineering
New £1m prize will celebrate, on an international scale, the very best engineering in the world

HgII-Selective Fluorescent Indicator
A simple fluorescent indicator that undergoes a new type of reaction only in the presence of Hg(II) developed

Understanding Ice
The unusual properties of ice under compression are due to Coulomb repulsion between bonding and non-bonding electron pairs