Professor Uwe Bornscheuer talks about his exciting field of research, biocatalysis and protein engineering, and his broad experience in publishing
Uwe Bornscheuer on Biocatalysis and Publishing
Angewandte Chemie 23/2013: Let There Be Light
Overview of the latest issue of Angewandte Chemie
Turning Around the Synthesis of Hexaphyrins
Bottom-up, stepwise synthesis allows construction of peripherally functionalized hexaphyrins with unsubstituted meso carbon atoms
Cryptophane Proves Good Host
A strategy for the easy synthesis of a water-soluble cryptophane-111 derivative has been developed
First Natural Product from Marine Myxobacteria
Salimabromide is the first natural product to be isolated from the Plesiocystis/Enhygromyxa clade of marine myxobacterium
Bravo for Brevisamide
Chemists in India have devised a formal stereoselective synthesis of the unprecedented, marine monocyclic ether alkaloid (–)-brevisamide
A Drug Discovery Detective Story
Biological activity of small-molecule RNA polymerase (RNAP) inhibitors revealed to come from polymeric impurity
Most Accessed Articles: April 2013
The most-accessed chemistry articles from ChemPubSoc Europe and GDCh journals for April 2013
French Chemical Society National and Bi-national Awards
The winners of the annual national and bi-national prizes of the SCF include Klaus Müllen, Santiago Alvarez Reverter, and Samir Zard
Exploiting Structural Differences in Serotonin Receptors
Serotonin receptors present structural differences which can be used to design agonistic drugs devoid of side effects