Wilhelm T. S. Huck discusses what change means for scientists and how his research has evolved to the study of small water droplets

Learning a New Language: Moving Countries and Changing Subjects

Teaching Old Drugs New Tricks
A library of novel 5-nitroimidazole antibiotics displayed broad-spectrum activity

Fine-Tuning Carboborations
Appropriate organometallic reagents are the key to successful nickel-catalyzed carboboration of carbon-carbon triple bonds

90th Birthday: Carl Djerassi
Inventor of oral contraceptive pill celebrates 90th birthday on October 29, 2013

Destabilization as an Advantage
Unusual structural and electronic properties make skin pigments superior radical scavengers

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

Scientists (of the World) Behave!
Katharina Al-Shamery discusses ethics with regards to scientific publishing

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

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

A Simple Route to Chiral Synthesis
Asymmetric conjugate addition reactions of alkenylaluminums to enones