A history of symmetry, stereochemistry and how the Woodward-Hoffman rules for pericyclic reactions came about.

The future of the chemistry textbook, and how disruptive technologies and social media might impact upon it. The talk is available at http://www.ch.ic...

Changing ways of sharing research in Chemistry In 1994 onwards, the Internet was seen as having an increasingly influential potential for how chemistr...

The first part of the talk will cover the essential features of modern chiroptical spectroscopies, and the second will illustrate these with several c...

Of the 61M known compounds, it is estimated only around 1M have been reported as scalemic, a term used to describe any non-racemic chiral compound. Of...

I venture to suggest that ... the general development of the human race to be well and effectually completed when all men, in all places, without any ...

The concept of a modern scientific journal becomes 346 years old in 2011 (DOI: 10.1098/rstl.1665.0001), although only since 1994 has the journal artic...

The iPad is the first of an apparently new generation of personal information appliance. The app has become the new shrink-wrapped access point for th...

A reflection on aspects of scientific publishing, journals and other forms of discourse, based on two scientific stories.

There is now increasing focus on the imortance of structured data as an integral part of the primary scientific, technical and medical publication pro...