W.-Y. Huang’s 90th birthday is celebrated in a special issue of the Chinese Journal of Chemistry on organofluorine chemistry

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

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

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

An overview of the latest issue of Angewandte Chemie

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

The naming of the new elements causes a stir in the Wonderlab

New CXCR4 antagonists found to be as potent as commercial drug in mobilizing stem cells

Looking back and summarizing the International Year of Chemistry 2011

New multilayer films that use electrostatic interactions to incorporate blood clotting agent could be used where tourniquets can’t