With new impact factors being announced, ChemViews takes a look at their calculation, controversy and usage.

"Gone is gone. There are no alternatives." - Interview with Koop Lammertsma, VU University, the Netherlands.

"It puzzles me why some chemists do not see chemistry as the big science." - Interview with Ben Daivis, University of Oxford, UK

An asymmetric total synthesis of the natural product erythro-8-O-4'-neolignan, machilin C, and its analog has been developed.

Unique blue fluorescent chlorophyll decomposition products in banana leaves not mere detoxification products

Building multifunctional chiral building blocks from materials like D-glutamic acid opens up synthetic routes to natural products.

The enantioselective synthesis of alkaloids, using a tricyclic (R)-phenylglycinol-derived lactam scaffold is reported.

The EU will add EUR 40 million to its contribution to the international Cooperation in Science and Technology (COST) program.

Overview on the current issue of the Angewandte Chemie International Edition.

Proposed a biosynthesis of (+)-symbioimine re-examined, resulting in successful intramolecular Diels−Alder (IMDA) cyclization