The most-accessed chemistry articles from ChemPubSoc Europe and GDCh journals for March 2013

Most Accessed Articles: March 2013

Novel Anti-influenza Drugs
Difluorosialic derivatives are a novel class of anti-influenza medicaments acting against drug-resistant viral strains

Stöber Method for Polymer Coating Core-Shell Nanoparticles
Modified emulsion polymerization gives excellent control of the shape and thickness of shells of core-shell nanoparticles

Bicycling the Square
An organic square can be converted to tiny bicyclic compound through an intramolecular rearrangement

Organocatalytic Route to Active Pyrazoles
Regioselective synthesis of pyrazoles using a secondary amine organocatalyst

Much Water Joke
Some syntheses call for uncommon reagents, but where does one find the much water?

From Brimstone to Feedstock
The elemental sulfur byproduct of petroleum desulfurization could be a new feedstock material for copolymers in lithium-sulfur batteries

Werner Prize for C. Nevado and C. Mazet
Cristina Nevado, Zurich, and Clément Mazet, Genève, have been awarded the Werner Prize of the Swiss Chemical Society

Siamese-Twin Porphyrin
The first pyrazole-based expanded porphyrin has been obtained and found to be highly twisted, implying helical chirality

New Route to Antimalarial Artemisinin
A molybdenum-catalyzed synthesis of 1,2,4-trioxanes provides access to artemisinin and active analogues