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

Pretreating cobalt-based catalysts with reaction gas improves their performance in the partial oxidation of methane

Antibody-based immunoassay helps in the search for new chemical reactions by screening thousands of reactions at once

Metal-organic framework based on a [2]rotaxane stops random dispersion and incoherent motion seen with rotaxanes in solution

An overview of the latest issue of Angewandte Chemie

Ionic liquids can function as solvents even if water is present after all. The discovery opens up a new range of applications

Bowman-James, Bianchi, and Garcìa-España' book, Anion Coordination Chemistry, is reviewed by Philip Gale, UK

Potassium borosulfate created which crystallizes in a polar space group

Prize from the European Materials Research Society awarded to Molly Stevens, UK, and Francesco Stellacci, Switzerland