Conformational switching between aromatic states has been probed in expanded porphyrins

The most-accessed chemistry articles from ChemPubSoc Europe and GDCh journals for April 2011

"Parasitic" side reactions responsible for catalyst poisoning revealed by electrospray ionization mass spectrometry (ESI-MS) techniques

A facile and rapid preparation method for a wide variety of medium surface area perovskite-type catalysts on the laboratory scale

General and chemoselective catalytic reduction of esters to alcohols using inexpensive zinc acetate and silanes

Important therapeutic strategy for treatment of central nervous system (CNS)-related disorders

New route to produce biobased succinonitrile discovered, a precurser for industrial production of polyamides

Series of labeled mevalonolactone (MVA) derivatives has been prepared that will help to unravel the biosynthesis of terpenoids

Water purification from an environmental perspective by using an Au poly(dimethylsiloxane)PDMS nanocomposite in the form of a foam

New iridium(III) photosensitisers give best activity seen with iron-based water-reduction catalysts for light-driven water splitting