Production of chiral carboxylic esters proves a useful method in the total synthesis of centrolobine
Asymmetric Esterification for Total Synthesis
Synthetic Rubber
Understanding of the effects of the ancillary ligand and the co-catalyst on isoprene polymerization
Learning a New Language: Moving Countries and Changing Subjects
Wilhelm T. S. Huck discusses what change means for scientists and how his research has evolved to the study of small water droplets
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