Readily available cobalt salts can catalyze the direct arylation of even unactivated arenes such as benzene

Rotational transitions induced in molecules on a chip could have important applications in quantum computing

Highly conductive nitrogen-doped mesoporous carbon with graphitic walls can be made by heating at the correct temperature

Stability and activity of formate dehydrogenase improved through binding to ionic liquid-inspired cations

Simple analogues of platensimycin, inhibitors of bacterial enzymes, are made in just two-flask reactions from commercial aldehydes

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

European Women in Chemistry edited by Jan Apotheker and Livia Simon Sarkadi, reviewed by Francesco De Angelis, University of l’Aquila, Italy

Improved understanding of conduction in ionic liquids could have important implications for batteries and dye-sensitized solar cells

First synthesizing the dendron, then attaching it to suitable cores provides a versatile toolbox for dendrimer assembly

A scorpion-like fluorescent triazole allows sensitive detection of copper and mercury in sea samples from Sydney Harbour