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

Steric characteristics are at least as important as the energetics of solvation for nucleophilic substitution reactions

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

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

Clean and efficient production of biodiesel and glycerol from soybean and microbial lipids

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

Thienyl-substituted borole with pronounced electron-donating character as new example of borolebased π-conjugated compounds designed

New type 2 diabetes medication without typical side effects like hypoglycaemia discovered

Professor Hermen S. Overkleeft, Leiden University, the Netherlands, is elected recipient of Friedrich Wilhelm Bessel Research Award