Inventor of oral contraceptive pill celebrates 90th birthday on October 29, 2013

Unusual structural and electronic properties make skin pigments superior radical scavengers

120th Birthday of Sir Chistopher Ingold, one of the chief pioneers of physical-organic chemistry

Katharina Al-Shamery discusses ethics with regards to scientific publishing

A new hetero-Diels-Alder reaction opens up a new route to the 1,4-benzodioxin framework

Amines are produced by amide hydrogenation over a bimetallic platinum-rhenium catalyst in a high-throughput vertical flow reactor

Asymmetric conjugate addition reactions of alkenylaluminums to enones

A simple "mix and shake" proton NMR method for determining the chirality of amines and amino alcohols

Efficient one-pot procedure for the synthesis of homosubstituted imidazolium compounds on the basis of renewable precursors

Solid-state synthesis for selenocystein cognate transfer RNA (tRNASec) mimics could help understand the biosynthesis of selenocysteine