Nobel laureate Professor Roald Hoffmann, Cornell University, NY, USA, receives the Otto Warburg Medal

Cheap, abundant alternative to expensive platinum catalysts coupled with light-absorbing electrodes splits water for H2 fuel

Hydroboration of challenging beta-substituted vinylarene substrates can be efficiently performed with copper catalyst with high selectivies

How can a tiny molecule like ethanol be at the root of so much human misery?

Atomic radii of the main group elements vary in a predictable and explicable manner across the periodic table

Everything is back-to-front when an accident in Wonderlab turns Sophie into the safety monitor

The most-accessed chemistry articles from ChemPubSoc Europe and GDCh journals for March 2011

Understanding how the passivating layer on a gold surface forms could see more accurate biosensors developed

It is possible to create nanoscopic particles of platinum with precise shapes using facet-specific peptide sequences, according to US chemists

The successful generation of bare [CuO]⁺ has revealed the final piece of the puzzle about the activation of methane