Proof of principle of trapping xenon in self-assembled cages offers opportunities for the emerging field of xenon NMR applications

Locking Up Xenon's Potential

Uranium Recovery from Water
Easy and fast separation and encapsulation of low-level uranium from water

New CEO at the American Chemical Society
Thomas M. Connelly, Jr., DuPont, named new CEO by the ACS Board of Directors

Making Robust Photochemical Switches
Synthesizing highly fatigue-resistant diarylethene photoswitches by minimizing byproduct formation

Ring Opening Metathesis Polymerization without Metals
New approach to ring-opening metathesis polymerization (ROMP) uses an organic initiator instead of a transition metal

Oil/Water Separation Using a Switchable Mesh
Copper mesh with pH-switchable wettability can be used for on-demand oil/water separation

Photochemical Nitrogen Conversion
Chalcogels containing FeMoS clusters are capable of photochemically reducing nitrogen to ammonia when irradiated by white light

Trapping Radicals to Make Acylpyrroles
A convenient microwave-promoted synthesis under mild and non-toxic conditions

Dow and ACS Improve Chemistry Teaching
Dow partners with the American Chemical Society (ACS) to improve chemistry teaching throughout North America

The Origin of Nanodiamond Fluorescence
Surface functional groups are responsible for fluorescence in nanodiamonds