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

Ultra-fast IR measurements allow to follow chemical reactions in solution in more detail than ever before

Single-molecule spectroscopy used to directly study the effects of solvent vapor induced annealing of single conjugated polymers

At the National IYC Opening Ceremony in Berlin, Germany, Angela Merkel awarded three teams from the school competition, Formula One