Free-flowing crystalline powder based on a NHC framework reacts rapidly and stoichiometrically with CO2 as a solid carbon-capture reagent

Capture of Carbon Dioxide with N-Heterocyclic Carbenes

Nontoxic Chalcogenophane Synthesis
Copper(II) salts are used to catalyze the synthesis of four classes of chalcogenophene derivatives

Rapid Synthesis of Half-Sandwich Complexes
Half-sandwich complexes can be prepared easily by microwave heating

Pushing Back Nanoscale Frontiers
How to make functionalized multi-walled carbon nanotubes soluble under mild conditions

Hexameric Porphyrin Wheel for Light Harvesting
A new 1,3-phenylene-bridged hexameric porphyrin wheel shows promise as an artificial light-harvesting photosynthetic antenna

Sedimented Solute NMR
Solid-state NMR (SSNMR) spectroscopy is used to study sediments of soluble beta-amyloid assemblies obtained by ultracentrifugation

Cyclodextrin-Modified Zeolites as Drug-Delivery Nanocontainers
Zeolites modified with aminoalkoxysilanes and cyclodextrin show different uptake and release properties depending on which silane is used

Innocent Ligand Behavior in Indium(I) Complexes
Substituted 1,4-diazabutadienes show unprecedented "innocent" behavior to give indium-based equivalent of N-heterocyclic carbenes

Most Accessed Articles: August 2013
The most-accessed chemistry articles from ChemPubSoc Europe, ACES, and GDCh journals for August 2013

Pinpointing Catalysis with Elemental Mapping
Elemental mapping is fine-tuned to locate trace elements and elucidate the advanced structure and behavior of nanocatalysts