Only a limited number of studies examined the environmental impacts of small-scale wastewater treatment alternatives

Wastewater Treatment for Small Communities

Cardiotonic Steroid Glycoside Synthesis
Overview of the chemical synthesis of cardiotonic steroid glycosides – recently neglected, but promising field

Hormone Runoff from Agricultural Fields
Rainfall can mobilize hormones from biosolids-amended agricultural fields directly to surface waters or redistribute them to terrestrial sites

Synthesis of Supertetrahedral Chalcogenide Clusters
Largest molecular supertetrahedral Tn cluster known to date synthesized by using organic superbases

Ribosome-catalysed Peptide Bond Formation
Two-step chemical mechanism proposed for ribosome-catalysed peptide bond formation

Efficient Artificial Light-harvesting System
Self-assembling strategies and covalent capture employed to construct a robust, inexpensive, efficient artificial light-harvesting system

Semiconductor Tin-film Solar Cell Absorber
Synchroton-based characterization techniques to illuminate properties of compound semiconductor thin-film solar cell absorbers reviewed

pH Tunable Hydrogelators for Water Purification
Library of potential low molecular weight hydrogelators synthesized; will guide production of novel inexpensive, easy to use water purification platforms

A. Müller Receives Staudinger Prize
Axel Müller, University of Bayreuth, receives the Hermann-Staudinger Prize of the GDCh

Enzymes for Manipulation of Algal Biomass
Biotechnologically relevant class of enzymes synthesized