The creator of The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy was not just a comic writer but a lover of science – from quantum physics to evolution.

Science at the End of the Universe

Right on Target
Platinium complexes for luminescent probes for G-quadruplex DNA and down-regulation of c-myc oncogene

HDAC Inhibitors
Synthesis and biological characterization of amidopropenyl hydroxamates as histone deacetylase inhibitors for cancer treatment

Digging Deep
Journal of Physical Organic Chemistry presents a "Symposium in Print on Tunneling in Chemical and Biological Reactions"

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

Future Visions of Chemistry: Koop Lammertsma
"Gone is gone. There are no alternatives." - Interview with Koop Lammertsma, VU University, the Netherlands.

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

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

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

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