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

Professor Hermen S. Overkleeft, Leiden University, the Netherlands, is elected recipient of Friedrich Wilhelm Bessel Research Award

Max Malacria, Kiyotomi Kaneda, Zuowei Xie, and Helmut Schwarz are interviewed this month

The French Chemical Society has presented several awards at a ceremony at the University Claude Bernard, Lyon

Series of biphenyl α-D-mannosides could prevent and treat urinary tract infections (UTIs) by blocking bacterial adhesion to host cells

What made Stradivari's violins so special? Klaus Roth looks at the important role of chemistry in Stradivari's workshop and instruments

Biologically active nitrogen-containing heterocycles have been synthesized through controlled ring expansion of isatin derivatives

L. Starkey, California State Polytechnic University, lets students discover how interesting and even fun organic synthesis can be