Chemical science news from across RSC Publishing.
Issue 8
Instant Insight

Instant insight: The organic chemist's toolbox
17 July 2009
Karl Anker Jørgensen and Søren Bertelsen from Aarhus University, Denmark, talk about impressive achievements in organocatalysis
Interview

Interview: Understanding the fundamentals
15 July 2009
Morris Robins talks to Kathleen Too about turning crystalline sugars black, discovering Epivir and Cladribine and his new career in farming
Research Highlights

Tag and modify proteins
02 July 2009
A Nobel Prize-winning reaction for making carbon-carbon double bonds can be applied to proteins

Tiny pushes from a distance
06 July 2009
A microelectrode can remotely control the movement of a nanomotor

Tropic wonder
25 June 2009
The solution to keeping the atmosphere clean could lie deep in the heart of the rainforest

Greener nylon with nanosponges
20 July 2009
An immobilised enzyme could change the face of nylon production

The achiral key to life
10 July 2009
High deuterium levels found in meteorites could have been responsible for life on Earth



