Luis A. Oro, Past-President of EuCheMS, talks about EuCheMS' role in European science policy, his Presidency and his research

A study showing parabens are present in breast tumor tissue was quickly picked up by the tabloid media, but was their reporting accurate?

An overview of the latest issue of Angewandte Chemie

Novel cellulose–silica gel composite aerogels could be a starting point for the synthesis of many new porous materials

Stereoselectively deuterated group can probe the behavior of solvent molecules during self-assembly processes

Stephane Caron, Pfizer, talks about the challenges facing synthetic chemists and how to choose a synthetic strategy

Gold nanoparticles promote the aerobic oxidative coupling of amines to alcohols or aldehydes to make useful amides

Macrolides are volatile pheromones from Madagascar frogs that could be used for communication

New ligands for nuclear waste treatment selectively extract radiotoxic actinides and lessen the environmental impact of nuclear waste

Ritter reactions are performed in a simple microreactor setup using tert-butylacetate as versatile carbocation source