A magazine providing a snapshot of the latest developments across the chemical sciences.
Issue 8
Instant Insight
Instant insight: An adsorbing tale
11 July 2007
Hong-Cai (Joe) Zhou at Miami University, Ohio, US, describes how metal-organic frameworks could play their part in the hydrogen economy.
Interview
Interview: Molecular aesthetics
23 July 2007
John Arnold talks to May Copsey about the joys of molecular inorganic chemistry
Research Highlights
Molecular gate with a silver key
24 July 2007
French scientists reveal the design of a new molecular gate locked by a silver ion.
Is folding laundry bad for your health?
10 July 2007
Levels of laundry detergent particles found in house dust are 'close to the margins of safety', say scientists in Sweden.
Photofunctional hamburgers
29 June 2007
A hamburger-shaped compound could open the way to a new class of molecular architectures.
The third age of ionic liquids?
04 July 2007
Scientists in the US and Poland have shown that ionic liquids could have significant biological applications in drug delivery.
Golden future for addition reaction
03 July 2007
Spanish chemists have found a mercury-free method of catalysing the addition of alcohols to alkenes.
Crystals as genes?
16 July 2007
The hypothesis that crystals could have been primitive genetic materials has been put to the test by US scientists.
Relax, it's fluorine-19
19 July 2007
Fluorinated lanthanide probes allow much faster collection of fluorine-19 magnetic resonance spectra.
A clearer view of heart disease
25 July 2007
Versatile pyrazole ligands offer a promising future for heart imaging radiotracers.
Cheaper biodiesel
05 July 2007
Producing biodiesel from cheap feedstocks could become easier and more environmentally friendly thanks to scientists in the US.
Calcium is key for platinum drug delivery
13 July 2007
A porous silica material, doped with calcium, gives targeted delivery of a new platinum anticancer drug.
Nanoparticles send peptides round the twist
18 July 2007
Nanoparticles with flexible side chains cause peptides to adopt a helical form, making them promising anticancer agents.
Essential Elements
RSC journals - even more impact!
RSC Publishing is celebrating the continued success of its journals following the release of the 2006 impact factors.
Methods in Organic Synthesis is holding a cover competition, for all those involved or interested in organic chemistry.
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