New organic dye gives the best performance for a dye-sensitized solar cell in the near-IR range thanks to flexible alkyl chains

Improved Near-IR Absorption in Solar Cells

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

Most Accessed Articles: October 2011
The most-accessed chemistry articles from ChemPubSoc Europe and GDCh journals for October 2011

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

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

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

Central Chirality by E/Z Photoismomerization
First example of the induction of point chirality in which two of the substituents around an sp3 carbon atom are geometric isomers

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

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

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