The most-accessed chemistry articles from ChemPubSoc Europe and GDCh journals for October 2011

Room temperature arylation is possible with new catalytic concept that combines light-activated catalysis with Pd-based functionalization

Very simple, chiral, non-racemic diselenides prepared and their corresponding selenium electrophiles used for stereoselective functionalization of alkenes

A framework for the total synthesis of nanoparticles using processes analogous to the reactions in a synthetic scheme

Prodrugs selectively activated by high levels of reactive oxygen species in cancer cells could lead to more active and less toxic treatments

First example of the induction of point chirality in which two of the substituents around an sp3 carbon atom are geometric isomers

The timing of the key steps in antibiotic and potential anti-cancer compound, salinomycin's biosynthesis has been uncovered

A [2]catenane and a pretzelane that incorporate porphyrin by axial ligation have been made by researchers in China

Francis Waller talks about common intellectual property issues for chemists from his 30 years experience of filing patents

TimesHE ranks the American universities top in league table headed by Caltech with Harvard and Stanford second and third