Instant insight: Lovely bubbly

05 September 2008

Gérard Liger-Belair, University of Reims Champagne-Ardenne, France, celebrates what gives champagne its sparkle

Instant insight: Tasting the chemistry

12 August 2008

Susan Ebeler, University of California, Davis, US, reveals the science behind the flavour in everyone's favourite tipple

Propylene oxide gets a green makeover

18 August 2008

An industrially important compound is made in a more environmentally conscious way

Getting to grips with complex chirality

14 August 2008

A proposal for defining the chirality of octahedral complexes with chelate ligands has been put forward

Energy from model enzymes

12 August 2008

Mimicking enzymes with inorganic complexes could offer a new route to catalysing hydrogen fuel cells, claim Japanese scientists.

Sweet smell of success

18 August 2008

German scientists have used an ionic liquid coating on a hydrogenation catalyst to make sweet smelling chemicals

Designing natural product hybrids with anticancer activity

04 September 2008

A potent hybrid of two anticancer natural products has been designed and synthesised by UK chemists.

When convection goes without a bang

05 August 2008

UK researchers have been investigating how to predict whether a reacting mixture will explode

A Titan discovery

29 August 2008

European researchers step closer to explaining hydrocarbon formation on Saturn's largest moon.

Engineering success

CrystEngComm celebrated its tenth year of publication on 28 August with a lunch reception held at the International Union of Crystallography in Osaka, Japan