Cheap, abundant alternative to expensive platinum catalysts coupled with light-absorbing electrodes splits water for H2 fuel
Low-Cost H2 Producing Catalyst
Roald Hoffmann Awarded
Nobel laureate Professor Roald Hoffmann, Cornell University, NY, USA, receives the Otto Warburg Medal
Hydroboration with Copper Catalyst
Hydroboration of challenging beta-substituted vinylarene substrates can be efficiently performed with copper catalyst with high selectivies
Chemistry of a Hangover — Alcohol and its Consequences
How can a tiny molecule like ethanol be at the root of so much human misery?
Atomic Radii of the Elements
Atomic radii of the main group elements vary in a predictable and explicable manner across the periodic table
Wonderlab Comic — Goggles
Everything is back-to-front when an accident in Wonderlab turns Sophie into the safety monitor
Most Accessed Articles: March 2011
The most-accessed chemistry articles from ChemPubSoc Europe and GDCh journals for March 2011
Shaping Platinum with Peptides
It is possible to create nanoscopic particles of platinum with precise shapes using facet-specific peptide sequences, according to US chemists
Activated Methane: Greenhouse Gas Turns to Feedstock
The successful generation of bare [CuO]+ has revealed the final piece of the puzzle about the activation of methane
Catalytic Revelation
Good agreement in calculations and experiment reveal how an important pre-catalyst used in olefin metathesis is activated