The enantioselective, palladium-catalyzed Overman rearrangement of allylic imidates has been accomplished with a new catalyst

Cheap and simple iron catalyst activates aryl C–H bonds and gives rapid formation of new aryl–aryl bonds

Michael Dröscher, GDCh President, introduces the theme of the Wissenschaftsforum and the GDCh study “Perspectives in Chemistry”

First facile and efficient one pot catalytic process of converting glycerol to value added products with a robust CoAl alloy

Stefan Berger, University of Leipzig, Germany, author of Classics in Spectroscopy, celebrates his 65th birthday

Ferdi Schüth, Max Planck Institute for Coal Research, Germany, talks about his work on catalysts for alternative fuels

Asymmetric aminocatalysis opens the Diels—Alder reaction to a new class of dienes

Cambridge University, UK, has topped a league table of the world's best universities, with Harvard and MIT, USA, ranked second and third

Do all chemists like sushi? Do they have a typical hobby? And if so, what is it? ChemViews finds out ...

Simple and apparently benign molecule cleaves strong bonds and opens the way for organocatalytic substrate activation