Large-scale collaborative project for sustainable biomass processing from crops production to final commercial products

Bifunctional catalyst can generate lactones with new carbon-bromine bonds with high enantioselectivity for natural product synthesis

Crystal of iron-aluminium compound could replace a palladium catalyst, reducing the cost of plastic production

The most-accessed chemistry articles from ChemPubSoc Europe and GDCh journals for May 2012

Early View articles of 170 peer-reviewed chemistry journals — keep yourself easily up-to-date about the latest findings in your field

Clean and efficient production of biodiesel and glycerol from soybean and microbial lipids

A mild photooxidation of sulfides to sulfoxides is achieved with a riboflavin derivative and LED visible light irradiation

Water-soluble electrochemical catalyst based on a copper–bipyridine complex that can oxidize water to oxygen

Direct redox-triggered carbon-carbon coupling sets stage for development of catalysts that exhibit enhanced stereoselectivities

Insights into the process which converts carbon dioxide into methanol could make it possible to recycle greenhouse gas