Vincenzo Barone, the new president of the Società Chimica Italiana (SCI), talks about the SCI, IYC 2011, politics, young chemists

Coupling reactions in which palladium is replaced with cheaper nickel complexes can now be done at room temperature

With diseases such as malaria being classed as rare and neglected, ChemMedChem takes a look at the latest research in this field

Thirdhand smoke re-emitted from surfaces could pose long-term health risk while firsthand smoke does damage in minutes

Synthesis of rare nitrogen-linked seven-, eight- and nine-membered biaryl ring systems uses simple and cheap Cu

How do noncovalent bonding interactions affect formation and stability of secondary structures in synthetic polymeric materials?

Single submicrometer metal-organic framework crystals can be "printed" at a desired location on a low-wettable surface

Chemists have substituted silicon into a partial fullerene molecule, a buckybowl, to synthesize trisilasumanene and its derivatives

Carmen Nájera – Professor of Organic Chemistry, University of Alicante, Spain, and EurJOC Editorial Board Member – awarded

The [2 + 2 + 2] cyclotrimerization of trifluoromethyl group substituted alkynes has been achieved with a ruthenium catalyst