The carbon compounds "carbones", recently discovered, have now been shown to stabilize cations other than BH2+

Double Donation at Work in “Carbones”

Sonication-Induced Gelation
Self-assembly of functional dyes into extended gel nanostructures can be judiciously manipulated by the use of ultrasound

OMCOS Award for Zhang-Jie Shi
Zhang-Jie Shi, Peking University, China, has been awarded the OMCOS Award for organometallic chemistry

Picture Competition 2013
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Organic Chemistry Becomes Multidisciplinary
18th European Symposium on Organic Chemistry (ESOC 2013) sees future trends in close connection to biology, physics, and materials sciences

EROS Best Reagent Award 2013
Huw Davis, Emory University, USA, has received the the Best Reagent Award for his widely used carbenoid precursor

Discerning Imine Hydrogenation
A new method to selectively hydrogenate imine bonds by using an iridium complex has been developed

A. Holmes to Give Nozoe Lecture
Andrew Holmes, University of Melbourne, Australia, will be the Nozoe Lecturer in Taipei next year

sp3-Carbon-Based Liquid Crystals
The liquid-crystalline phase of poly(ethylidene acetate) is described and explained by the formation of triple-helix aggregates

Hybrid Nanoscale Ligand
A new salen–C60 dyad forms complexes with transition metals, thereby tuning the optical, redox, and catalytic properties