Report from the 10th Winter Conference on Medicinal and Bioorganic Chemistry, January 2011, Steamboat Springs, Colorado, USA

The simultaneous reaction and separation of the active form of ibuprofen has been achieved using a microfluidic device

Atomic volume proves to be a useful descriptor for predicting the stability of highly oxidized organic molecules

Simple analogues of platensimycin, inhibitors of bacterial enzymes, are made in just two-flask reactions from commercial aldehydes

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

European Women in Chemistry edited by Jan Apotheker and Livia Simon Sarkadi, reviewed by Francesco De Angelis, University of l’Aquila, Italy

Two-step strategy presents a new route for the design of structurally novel anti-influenza drugs

CO dissociation from ruthenium complexes plays a key role in the racemization of alcohols

An overview of the latest issue of Angewandte Chemie

Drug discovery - where does the future lie? Small molecule drugs will play a major role according to H. Wild and D. Heimbach