12 videos – one for each month of IYC 2011 – will be released showing which role chemistry plays in our daily lives and in our future
![Educational Action-packed Chemistry Videos](https://www.chemistryviews.org/wp-content/uploads/legacy/common/images/thumbnails/source/12ebd92af8d.jpg)
Educational Action-packed Chemistry Videos
![New Family of Elastomers for Tissue Engineering](https://www.chemistryviews.org/wp-content/uploads/legacy/common/images/thumbnails/source/12ea537fa3c.jpg)
New Family of Elastomers for Tissue Engineering
Biodegradable elastomers with properties that resemble human tissues now have improved strength and elasticity
![Doing Away with the Chaperone](https://www.chemistryviews.org/wp-content/uploads/legacy/common/images/thumbnails/source/12eb4467ab1.gif)
Doing Away with the Chaperone
New compound which destabilizes the molecular chaperone, heat-shock protein 90, has anticancer potential
![Maurizio Peruzzini New ICCOM Director](https://www.chemistryviews.org/wp-content/uploads/legacy/common/images/thumbnails/source/12e9fffa755.jpg)
Maurizio Peruzzini New ICCOM Director
Maurizio Peruzzini is the new Director of the Institute of Chemistry of Organometallic Compounds (ICCOM), Florence, Italy
![Making Quarternary Carbon Centers](https://www.chemistryviews.org/wp-content/uploads/legacy/common/images/thumbnails/source/12e9b3923cd.jpg)
Making Quarternary Carbon Centers
Enantioselective construction of quarternary carbons with a range of functionalities achieved with tertiary boronic esters
![Angewandte Chemie 12/2011: Worth Its Price](https://www.chemistryviews.org/wp-content/uploads/legacy/common/images/thumbnails/source/12ea04e1241.jpg)
Angewandte Chemie 12/2011: Worth Its Price
An overview of the latest issue of Angewandte Chemie
![Controlling Individual Unfavorable Reactions](https://www.chemistryviews.org/wp-content/uploads/legacy/common/images/thumbnails/source/12ea5157336.jpg)
Controlling Individual Unfavorable Reactions
Individual and unfavorable reactions can be performed if molecules are immobilized and correctly aligned
![Cyanide-Free Cyanation](https://www.chemistryviews.org/wp-content/uploads/legacy/common/images/thumbnails/source/12ea5804d24.gif)
Cyanide-Free Cyanation
Simple, non-toxic, efficient and cyanide-free protocol for the cyanation of aryl halides uses formamide as a cyanide source
![Rapid Approach to Diverse Alkaloid-Like Compounds](https://www.chemistryviews.org/wp-content/uploads/legacy/common/images/thumbnails/source/12ea5374339.gif)
Rapid Approach to Diverse Alkaloid-Like Compounds
A rapid approach to diverse alkaloid-like compounds which may lead to novel biological active small molecules
![Valinomycin’s Preferred Conformation](https://www.chemistryviews.org/wp-content/uploads/legacy/common/images/thumbnails/source/12e9b0df307.jpg)
Valinomycin’s Preferred Conformation
Antibiotic’s backbone monitored by Raman optical activity to show preferred conformations in dioxane and methanol