Last retort
Jumping on clean data
Can you trust your results like a skydiver trusts their altimeter?
Hurdle training
PhD life can throw up a seemingly never-ending series of challenges
PhD researcher mental health matters – now more than ever
And improving it is vital for the future of chemistry
Organic matter
(–)-Taxol
Following nature’s lead
Online conferences have benefits worth retaining
Nothing’s quite the same as a scientific meeting
Taking benzyl fluorides beyond game changing reports
Decarboxylative cross-coupling to produce benzyl fluorides
Translating snail venom research from beach to bench and beyond
Meet Mandë Holford, an interdisciplinary scientist following tangents that arise when exploring the molecular-level workings of venom peptides
How the products of fire control the formation of snow
Nadine Borduas-Dedekind brings an organic chemist’s arrow-pushing insight to reactions in the atmosphere
Beautiful molecules ring up with a purpose
How Stephen Goldup used his experience in organic synthesis to find a supramolecular niche
From the editors
Rewriting the narratives surrounding radical transformations
Don’t let tired clichés get in the way of selective and sustainable chemistry
Looking beyond the next wave
We need to apply lessons from Covid-19 to tackle antimicrobial resistance and climate change
Marvellous mimicry
Learning from nature never goes out of fashion for synthetic chemists
Hobbies don’t apply for recruitment
What does the hobbies section of a CV really tell an employer about a job candidate?
What we talk about when we talk about merit
Are meritocracies meaningful, myth or madness?
Making the right call on dexamethasone
The way we do things in research has to change in life or death situations
