Efficient preparation of 8 of the 16 isomers of inhibitor candidate deoxynojirimycin could help find new diabetes treatments

Phenanthrenes synthesized in a straightforward manner from arenes and styrenes by using cross dehydrogenative coupling

The most-accessed chemistry articles from ChemPubSoc Europe and GDCh journals for April 2012

Antibody-based immunoassay helps in the search for new chemical reactions by screening thousands of reactions at once

Herbert C. Brown won the Nobel Prize for his work on organoboranes and hydroboration; also the answer to Guess the Chemist (5)

An overview of the latest issue of Angewandte Chemie

Metal-organic framework based on a [2]rotaxane stops random dispersion and incoherent motion seen with rotaxanes in solution

Ionic liquids can function as solvents even if water is present after all. The discovery opens up a new range of applications

A mild photooxidation of sulfides to sulfoxides is achieved with a riboflavin derivative and LED visible light irradiation

The hydantoin scaffold found in a range of drugs can be formed simply from ureas and thioureas tethered to amides