Rutger van Santen looks at how catalysis combines science and technology to yield advances that would be otherwise impossible

Dinucleotide–RNA duplexes with high thermal stability show promise in biotechnology and may help treat genetic diseases

An overview of the latest issue of Angewandte Chemie

Manfred Reetz, Director of the Max-Planck-Institute for Coal Research, receives the Otto Hahn Prize from the GDCh

Light-triggered microscale robotic arm makes bending and stretching motions

The wisdom of crowds can help improve molecular diversity in a library of potential pharmaceutical candidates

An overview of the latest issue of Angewandte Chemie

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

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

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