We look at some of the factors that affect separation in a chromatography column to help you make the right choices when setting up a column

Tips and Tricks for the Lab: Column Choices

An Even-Handed Approach to Odd Hydrogen Bonds
A novel type of hydrogen bond, with implications for platinum-catalyzed asymmetric hydrogenation, has been spectroscopically identified

Pentagon Fusion
Chlorine substitution stabilizes an unusual C64 fullerene with three adjacent pentagon units

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