Chlorine substitution stabilizes an unusual C64 fullerene with three adjacent pentagon units
Pentagon Fusion
Remarkable Adsorption Selectivity in MOFs
The material Co-MOF-74 reported to exhibit record selectivity for absorption of propene over propane for any MOF described to date
Halogen Control for Bromolactonizations
Bifunctional catalyst can generate lactones with new carbon-bromine bonds with high enantioselectivity for natural product synthesis
Angewandte Chemie 27/2012: Always an Inspiration
An overview of the latest issue of Angewandte Chemie
Robust Oxidative Heck Arylation
Exploiting the scope of aryltrifluoroborates for the palladium(II)-catalyzed coupling with olefins
One-Pot Enzymatic Oxidation of Alcohols
A one-pot conversion of primary alcohols to aldoximes can be carried out in aqueous solution with the appropriate bacterial enzymes
Direct Catalytic Asymmetric Synthesis of Pyrazolidine Derivatives
A highly enantioselective, metal-free cascade reaction as an entry to 3-hydroxypyrazolidine derivatives
Explosives Detection Gels
Universal, portable and convenient detection system for the explosive triacetone triperoxide has been developed by US researchers
Ibuprofen Decoy
Ibuprofen tricks cytochrome P450 into using hydrogen peroxide as an oxidant for asymmetric styrene epoxidation
Polymer International Award for Ali Khademhosseini
Ali Khademhosseini, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, receives the third Polymer International-IUPAC Prize