How much do we know about the people behind the names of named organic reactrions?

Women Named Organic Reactions

Chemoselective Reduction of Esters to Alcohols
General and chemoselective catalytic reduction of esters to alcohols using inexpensive zinc acetate and silanes

Brush in a Circle
Gigantic cyclic brush polymers have been synthesized by employing ruthenium-based catalysts and characterized with AFM techniques

The Gift of the GABAA
Important therapeutic strategy for treatment of central nervous system (CNS)-related disorders

A Hint of Blackcurrant
Olfactory properties and gas-phase structures of Cassyrane stereoisomers

Synthesis of Biobased Succinonitrile
New route to produce biobased succinonitrile discovered, a precurser for industrial production of polyamides

Interview with W. H. Chan, Hong Kong Baptist University
Wing-Hong Chan, not only a renown scientist, but also a passionate lecturer, talks about his career and exciting chemistry

What's the Label?
Series of labeled mevalonolactone (MVA) derivatives has been prepared that will help to unravel the biosynthesis of terpenoids

Angewandte Chemie 22/2011 – Many Faces of Radicals
An overview of the latest issue of Angewandte Chemie

Molecule of the Week – German Radio Show
M3 – Mraseks Molecule Mosaik – a weekly radio show on extraordinary molecules