Wolfram Koch, Executive Director, GDCh, talks about the up-coming Wissenschaftsforum Chemie 2011 in Bremen, Germany

Wolfram Koch on the GDCh’s Top Event

Positively Coating Nanoparticles
Positively charged nanoparticles generated for the first time by versatile and general method that wraps them in amphiphilic polymers

Interview with Weifeng Ding
Weifeng Ding, Scientific Editor Chinese Journal of Chemistry, discusses the differences between the Shanghai and Weinheim editorial offices

Remarkable Carbon Capture by Borocarbonitrides
The large uptake of both CO2 and CH4 by BC2N betters the performance of graphenes and activated charcoal

Organic Solar Cells with Record Efficiency
Record power conversion efficiency for polymer-based solar cells achieved by the incorporation of vertically oriented nanorods

Why Help a Growing Scientific Giant?
Richard Zare discusses how helping China develop scientifically can benefit the West

New Dual Catalyst Approach
A new dual catalyst approach to cycloaddition makes a formerly diastereoselective reaction scheme enantioselective

Aromatic Halogenation Under Mild Conditions
The selective halogenation of ligands of a trinuclear copper complex has been obtained under extremely mild conditions

New Family of N-Heterocyclic Carbenes for Organocatalysis
New family of NHCs suitable for benzoin-type coupling reactions and might enable new or improved organocatalytic processes

New Catalyst for Hydrogenation
Catalyst with MgF2 support is four times more active than catalysts supported on commercial Al2O3