The most-accessed chemistry articles from ChemPubSoc Europe and GDCh journals for May 2012

William Knowles, winner of the Nobel Prize in chemistry for his work on asymmetric hydrogenation reactions, dies aged 95

Overview of the latest issue of Angewandte Chemie

Combined proposal to restrict four classified phthalates under REACH not justified

Selective and effective: silicon nanowires as photoelectrodes for carbon dioxide fixation

Size of the Nobel Prize is being reduced by 20 % to safeguard long-term capital

Early View articles of 170 peer-reviewed chemistry journals — keep yourself easily up-to-date about the latest findings in your field

François Diederich, ETH Zurich, Switzerland, receives Doctor Honoris Causa by the Technion-Israel Institute of Technology, Israel

NMR spectroscopy helps unravel how malonic anhydrides decompose, a long-standing point of controversy in physical chemistry

Clean and efficient production of biodiesel and glycerol from soybean and microbial lipids