Ulrike Flad is the granddaughter of the founder of the Dr. Flad Institute in Stuttgart, Germany, and will take over its management from her father

Andreas Pfaltz, University of Basel, Switzerland, is the first Swiss scientist to give the Heilbronner Hückel Lecture

Nickel catalyst can produce methyl acrylate in up to 56 % yield from carbon dioxide and ethene

The Adolf von Baeyer Medal of the GDCh is awarded to François Diederich, ETH Zurich, Switzerland

Richard Zare, Stanford University, USA, discusses his editorial on why the West should help China develop its science

Metal–organic framework that selectively binds oxygen could separate oxygen from air in a less energy-intensive way

Polymerization reaction drives micromotor that weaves a web and can be directed towards specific targets

Timothy Long, VirginiaTech, USA, talks about new charged polymers for biomedical applications

Peter Atkins discusses the future of chemical education and the role of the multimedia electronic textbook

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