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The Field of Chemistry

Wonderlab Comic — Student vs. Teacher
We discover the real reason that chemistry T-shirts are popular as Sophie and friends take on the teacher in this latest installment

Angewandte Chemie 18/2012: No End in Sight
An overview of the latest issue of Angewandte Chemie

ACS Meeting San Diego: L. Scott and M. Petrukhina on Fullerene Fragments
Lawrence Scott and Marina Petrukhina discuss their new book on fullerene fragments and other open geodesic polyaromatic molecules

David Milstein Awarded
Professor David Milstein, Weizmann Institute of Science, has been awarded the 2012 Israel Prize in Chemistry and Physics

Assessing Academic Researchers
Richard N. Zare states that in judging researchers early in their career, the h-index seems to be a poor measure

New Biprivileged Molecular Scaffolds
Compounds with several heteroaromatic functionalities present multiple rigid privileged structures for drug discovery

Two-Legged Molecule That Walks
Small molecule that can move independently along a track uses ring opening and closing reactions to take each step

Most Accessed Articles: March 2012
The most-accessed chemistry articles from ChemPubSoc Europe and GDCh journals for March 2012

Boron Conjugation Holds the Key
Boron-containing π-conjugated heterocycles shed light on optoelectronics