In this final part, Klaus Roth asks: Do Stradivarius violins really sound better than all the rest?
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Short peptides can function as effective asymmetric catalysts and templates for the controlled formation of metal nanoparticles
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So Much Fun with Chemistry: Vote & Submit Chemistry Jokes
Vote how much you like a joke and submit your own; it will be added to the form and the best one will win a prize
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Angewandte Chemie 32/2012: Networking
Overview of the latest issue of Angewandte Chemie
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Electrophilic Sneeze
Terpenoids isolated from common ragweed show ability to induce airways irritation
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Heinz A. Staab (1926 ‒ 2012)
Heinz A. Staab, former President of the Max Planck Society and GDCh, died on July 29
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The 6th Spanish-Portuguese-Japanese Organic Chemistry Symposium
This meeting united science and Portuguese culture and had a special EurJOC and ChemPubSoc Europe session
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Roots of our Practice of Science
Banska Stiavnica, Banská Štavnica, Schemnitz, or Selmecbánya, a town with a lively political history and groundbreaking for science
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Access to Cannabinoids
Simple and compact synthesis of a tricyclic resorcinol could provide route to novel analogs of conformationally restricted cannabinoids
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New Term of Office for H. Schwarz
Professor Helmut Schwarz, TU Berlin, Germany, elected to another five-year term as President of the Humboldt Foundation