Maria Gavrilescu is professor at the Gheorghe Asachi Technical Universiry, Iasi, Romania, and author of highly cited review articles

The most-accessed chemistry articles from ChemPubSoc Europe and GDCh journals for March 2011

Attempts to uncover active components of folk medicine have led to discovery of three new anti-inflammatory compounds in a toxic shrub

Synthesis of the core ring structure of marine natural product with anti-malarial properties achieved in five steps

Good agreement in calculations and experiment reveal how an important pre-catalyst used in olefin metathesis is activated

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An acid chloride reportedly isolated from a fungus may not be a natural product after all

Ceria, present in catalytic converters, stores more oxygen in its 2D platelet form than its 3D nanocrystalline form

First chemosensor that turns fluorescence on in the presence of fluoride ions developed by researchers in Korea