Hydroboration of challenging beta-substituted vinylarene substrates can be efficiently performed with copper catalyst with high selectivies

Hydroboration with Copper Catalyst

Chemistry of a Hangover — Alcohol and its Consequences
How can a tiny molecule like ethanol be at the root of so much human misery?

DSM Elastomers Goes To LANXESS
DSM completes sale of DSM Elastomers to LANXESS

Atomic Radii of the Elements
Atomic radii of the main group elements vary in a predictable and explicable manner across the periodic table

Heinz Maier-Leibnitz Prizes 2011
Recognition and incentive for early career researchers goes to six researchers; remarkably young prize winners

Wonderlab Comic — Goggles
Everything is back-to-front when an accident in Wonderlab turns Sophie into the safety monitor

Women in Chemistry — Interview with Maria Gavrilescu
Maria Gavrilescu is professor at the Gheorghe Asachi Technical Universiry, Iasi, Romania, and author of highly cited review articles

Women in Chemistry — Interview with Yamuna Krishnan
Yamuna Krishnan, NCBS, India, already perfomed a remarkable career, is enthusiastic not only about sciences, inspired by Mahatma Gandhi

DFG Establishes 13 New Priority Programmes
Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschft (DFG) establishes priority programmes leveraging scientific expertise in Germany and further afield

Spinning Disc Reactor
New unique reactor particularly beneficial for the pharmaceutical and fine chemical industries