Biodegradable elastomers with properties that resemble human tissues now have improved strength and elasticity

New Family of Elastomers for Tissue Engineering

Doing Away with the Chaperone
New compound which destabilizes the molecular chaperone, heat-shock protein 90, has anticancer potential

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
Enantioselective construction of quarternary carbons with a range of functionalities achieved with tertiary boronic esters

Angewandte Chemie 12/2011: Worth Its Price
An overview of the latest issue of Angewandte Chemie

Controlling Individual Unfavorable Reactions
Individual and unfavorable reactions can be performed if molecules are immobilized and correctly aligned

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
A rapid approach to diverse alkaloid-like compounds which may lead to novel biological active small molecules

Valinomycin’s Preferred Conformation
Antibiotic’s backbone monitored by Raman optical activity to show preferred conformations in dioxane and methanol

Stronger than Weak Bonds
Homonuclear dihydrogen bonds link alkanes in the crystal state. But are these purportedly weak bonds stronger than we think?