Bottom-up, stepwise synthesis allows construction of peripherally functionalized hexaphyrins with unsubstituted meso carbon atoms

A strategy for the easy synthesis of a water-soluble cryptophane-111 derivative has been developed

Salimabromide is the first natural product to be isolated from the Plesiocystis/Enhygromyxa clade of marine myxobacterium

Chemists in India have devised a formal stereoselective synthesis of the unprecedented, marine monocyclic ether alkaloid (–)-brevisamide

Biological activity of small-molecule RNA polymerase (RNAP) inhibitors revealed to come from polymeric impurity

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

The winners of the annual national and bi-national prizes of the SCF include Klaus Müllen, Santiago Alvarez Reverter, and Samir Zard

Serotonin receptors present structural differences which can be used to design agonistic drugs devoid of side effects

Photoresponsive supramolecular gels that incorporate an azobenzene unit into peptide side chains are reported

A straightforward synthesis of an antiviral drug, entecavir, to treat hepatitis B has industrial scale-up potential