With new impact factors being announced, ChemViews takes a look at their calculation, controversy and usage.

"Gone is gone. There are no alternatives." - Interview with Koop Lammertsma, VU University, the Netherlands.

"It puzzles me why some chemists do not see chemistry as the big science." - Interview with Ben Daivis, University of Oxford, UK

An asymmetric total synthesis of the natural product erythro-8-O-4'-neolignan, machilin C, and its analog has been developed.

Unique blue fluorescent chlorophyll decomposition products in banana leaves not mere detoxification products

Cells behave differently when in 2 D environments, such as Petri dishes, to more natural, 3 D structures such as those in the human body.

Leading environmental and health campaign groups fear that MEPs may lack courage to ban all highly hazardous products.

The glycoalkaloid tomatine has been shown to inhibit human cancer cells in vitro but its concentration in tomatoes depends on the ripeness.

Wiley-VCH author and Angew. Chem. Advisory Board member, Carolyn Bertozzi will receive this year's $500,000 Lemelson-MIT Prize.

The EU will add EUR 40 million to its contribution to the international Cooperation in Science and Technology (COST) program.