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Picture Competition – A Year in the Lab: The Chemist’s View

Gold Nanostandard from Vitamin P
Biofriendly approach for the synthesis of differently shaped gold nanostructures

DNA Logic Gates for Metal-ion Sensing
Electronic logic gates made from DNA in conjunction with metal-ion sensing could be used for point-of-care sensing devices

Assisting C−H Activation
Detailed study into the mechanism for carboxylate-assisted C−H bond activation at Pd(IV) centers has been undertaken

Magnetic Catalytic Recycling
A magnetic can be used to recycle catalytic nanoparticles that could be used for an important and widely used set of reactions

Machine-Assisted Flow Synthesis
Flow-based syntheses to accelerate multistep routes to highly complex, medically relevant compounds have been evaluated

Most Accessed Articles: March 2013
The most-accessed chemistry articles from ChemPubSoc Europe and GDCh journals for March 2013

Solar-Driven Water-Splitting
Ta3N5 has been found to act as a photocatalyst for water oxidation under visible light

Phosphonous Acid Ligands
Steric and electronic properties of chlorophosphite ligands have been studied by using multinuclear NMR spectroscopy and X-ray crystallography

Stöber Method for Polymer Coating Core-Shell Nanoparticles
Modified emulsion polymerization gives excellent control of the shape and thickness of shells of core-shell nanoparticles