CO usually poisons catalytic reactions - Dutch team demonstrates that it can promote the oxidation of alcohols on a gold catalyst

Carbon Monoxide Promotion

EROS Best Reagent Award 2011
Paul Knochel has won the EROS Best Reagent Award 2011 for the development of Turbo-Grignard™

Cages Strung Together
Persilastaffanes: silicon frameworks with delocalized sigma electrons are intriguing candidates for electronic applications

Angewandte Chemie 52/2011: Quo Vadis?
An overview of the latest issue of Angewandte Chemie

Reduced Organocatalyst Loadings
Solid-supported organocatalyst for continuous-flow enantioselective aldol reactions reduces catalyst loading

Wonderlab Comic — Fashion Chemistry
The naming of the new elements causes a stir in the Wonderlab

Rallying the Stem Cell Troops
New CXCR4 antagonists found to be as potent as commercial drug in mobilizing stem cells

The IYC 2011 – Overview
Looking back and summarizing the International Year of Chemistry 2011

Boyle’s Law: 350th Anniversary
This year marks the 350th anniversary of the publication of Boyle’s law which describes how the pressure and volume of a gas are related

Stopping Bleeding with H-Bonding
New multilayer films that use electrostatic interactions to incorporate blood clotting agent could be used where tourniquets can’t