Directed evolution techniques used to build biological nanopores with specific dimensions, thus allowing specific analytes to be targeted

Evolving Nanopores

Karl Ziegler Prize Awarded to Alois Fürstner
Alois Fürstner, Max Planck Institute for Coal Research, Germany, has been awarded prestigious prize by the GDCh

Sound Help for Trisubstituted Alkenes
Access to challenging trisubstituted alkenyl nucleoside phosphonates made easy by ultrasound

Guess the Chemist (21)
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Müllen Awarded the Adolf von Baeyer Medal
The Adolf von Baeyer Medal of the Gesellschaft Deutscher Chemiker (GDCh; German Chemical Society) has been presented to Professor Klaus Müllen

A Story of Multicomponent Systems
Mechanistic and computational analysis of a multicomponent reaction of cyclohexadiene, 2-phenyl-indol-3-one, and acetonitrile conducted

Stability on the Branch Line
A new explanation as to why branched alkane hydrocarbons are more stable than their unbranched isomers has been developed

Stabilized, Functionalized α-C-Glycosides
A strategy for the synthesis and functionalization of fluorinated α-C-glycosides was developed

Scholarly Synthesis
A unique C–H arylation has been used to synthesize the akuammiline alkaloid (+)-scholarisine A in a mere 14 steps

Two Routes—Two Graphene Oxides
Graphene oxide materials prepared by using different oxidants show distinct electrochemical properties