Phenols synthesized within a few minutes in water with a recyclable deep eutectic solvent

Sustainable Synthesis of Phenols

Novartis Early Career Award in Organic Chemistry 2013
Nicolai Cramer, EPF Lausanne, Switzerland, and Daniel Rauh, Technische Universität, Dortmund, Germany, awarded

What Matters?
Alois Fürstner discusses how public perception of chemistry and lack of financial resources threaten basic research

100th Anniversary: Bergius Process
The Process for the production of liquid hydrocarbons was developed by F. Bergius in 1913; answer to Guess the Chemist (24)

Enantioselective Reduction of Difluoromethyl Ketimines
α-Difluorinated amines obtained enantioselectively by using a benzothiazoline/phosphoric acid catalyst

PEPPSI for Thirsty Materials Chemists
Bulky triarylamines can be efficiently made by Buchwald–Hartwig amination with Pd–PEPPSI catalysts

Love in the Laboratory
Germany's first science soap, which is full of intrigue, romance, and insights into the science scene, can be watched on the internet

Angewandte Chemie 50/2013: Electrifying
Overview of the latest issue of Angewandte Chemie

Janus Nanotubes
Cyclic peptides-polymer nanotubes that can be used as a new system delivery tool have been fabricated

Homobimetallic Zinc Hydrophosphonylation Catalysts
Bifunctional and C2-symmetrical zinc catalysts for the hydrophosphonylation of aldehydes