Ruthenium-catalyzed redox-neutral and single-step amide synthesis from alcohol and nitrile with complete atom economy

Atom-economical Amide Synthesis

Career: As A Chemist at the European Chemicals Agency (ECHA)
Derek Knight, Senior Scientific Advisor, talks about the fascination and challenges of his job and what makes regulatory sciences so exciting

$67 Million for New Refining Technology
Rive Technology raises $20 million to support continued commercial deployment of their zeolite technology into the global refining industry

OMCOS Award for Zhang-Jie Shi
Zhang-Jie Shi, Peking University, China, has been awarded the OMCOS Award for organometallic chemistry

Picture Competition 2013
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EROS Best Reagent Award 2013
Huw Davis, Emory University, USA, has received the the Best Reagent Award for his widely used carbenoid precursor

Discerning Imine Hydrogenation
A new method to selectively hydrogenate imine bonds by using an iridium complex has been developed

Hybrid Nanoscale Ligand
A new salen–C60 dyad forms complexes with transition metals, thereby tuning the optical, redox, and catalytic properties

Fun with Chemistry: Vote & Submit Chemistry Jokes 2013
Vote how much you like a joke and submit your own; it will be added to the form and the best one will win a prize

Redox-Switchable Catalyst for Ring-Closing Metathesis
Homogeneous, redox-switchable, N-heterocyclic carbene/ferrocenyl-based catalysts for ring-closing metathesis reactions