Frustration can lead to ring-opening reaction yielding phosphonium borate products with potential as metal-free catalysts
Chemical Frustration Opens Synthetic Routes
Solvent-Free Nopinone Synthesis
Solvent-free ball milling conditions prove superior to ozonolysis in the synthesis of nopinone from β-pinene
Quality Of Society Journals
Quality of publishing of ChemPubSoc Europe, RSC, and ACS journals
Up Close and Organic
Microscopy could beat NMR and crystallography for powerful 3D structure determinations of complex organic molecules
Angewandte Chemie 45/2010: Resonant Interactions
An overview of the current issue of Angewandte Chemie International Edition
K. C. Nicolaou Awarded
K. C. Nicolaou, Scripps Research Institute, CA, USA, has been awarded top Cypriot science prize
Switchable Cavitands
Conditions for switching between vase and kite conformations have been determined in dye-labeled cavitands
New Periodic Table
An extended periodic table with 54 predicted elements has been mapped out by Pekka Pyykkö, University of Helsinki, Finland
In-line Improvement
Going with the flow: in-line analysis of a continuous flow reaction sequence is achieved
Green Carbon Center
Rice University, Houston, TX, USA, think tank will strategize on environmentally sound policies on oil, gas, coal