January 2010
Vol 47, No 1. Selected articles and reviews available online to all. Full issue available online to subscribers.
Column
Science Diploma advances
Ken Gadd, science adviser on the Science Diploma Development Partnership (SDDP), gives us an insight into how the advanced Science Diploma is shaping up
National HE STEM programme takes shape
Seven universities work together to interest young people in science and mathematics
A flavour of Chemistry Week '09
In November the general public was treated to the wonders of chemistry in a series of events with a food theme for the Royal Society of Chemistry's (RSC) Chemistry Week
Nobel chemistry completes trilogy
Venkatraman Ramakrishnan, Thomas Steitz, and Ada Yonath have won the 2009 Nobel Prize for chemistry for mapping the ribosome at the atomic level
GCSE sciences, criteria agreed
Criteria for GCSE science 2011 specifications put more emphasis on assessment of practical work and mathematics
Science teacher cpd day at Bristol ChemLabS
Bristol ChemLabS at the University of Bristol invites science teachers to attend its first Festival of Contemporary Science in January
Salters' festivals of chemistry
The Salters' Institute, in partnership with the Royal Society of Chemistry (RSC), will be holding 51 Salters' Festivals of Chemistry between March and June 2010
Bangor celebrates 125 years of chemistry
The school of chemistry at Bangor University has been awarded a Royal Society of Chemistry (RSC) National Chemical Landmark
In brief
Items: Various short items
Chemlingo
Peter Childs, University of Limerick, investigates words in chemistry. In this issue: shades of green
Soundbite molecules
Simon Cotton takes a look at those compounds that find themselves in the news or relate to our everyday lives. In this issue: white wine and fish
Web watch
Tony Tooth looks at some websites that may be of interest to chemistry teachers. In this issue: updates on some old favourites
Letters
Exhibition Chemistry
Flame colours in burning hydrogen
Demonstrations to capture the student's imagination by Adrian Guy of Blundell's School. In this issue: Flame colours in burning hydrogen
The Elements
The Elements
John Emsley, University of Cambridge, Takes you on a tour of the Periodic Table. In this issue: the inert element with extreme behaviour
Features
New challenges for photocatalysts
Titania catalysts are being used to keep hospital surfaces clean and to produce hydrogen in solar cells
The battle for magenta
Three years after the discovery of mauveine in 1856 by William Henry Perkin, the second commercially synthetic dye, magenta, was in production
Aromatase: a target for cancer treatment
The enzyme aromatase plays an important role in the growth of human tumours. Its recently solved structure should lead to new anticancer drugs.
Undergraduate chemistry - points of view
What do chemistry undergraduates and their lecturers think about the teaching and learning experience in higher education?
Distillates
Molecular simulation
Can a computer simulation package enhance undergraduates' understanding of chemical topics? Swedish chemists investigate
Understanding word equations
Cambridge chemists find out how secondary school chemistry students compile word equations.
Views about science
Judith Bennett and Sylvia Hogarth of York University have developed a new research technique to gain greater insight into students' attitudes towards science
Reviews
Chemistry3: introducing inorganic, organic and physical chemistry
Andrew Burrows, John Holman, Andrew Parsons, Gwen Pilling and Gareth Price
Nuts and bolts of chemical education research
Diane M. Bunce and Renée S. Cole (eds)
Supramolecular chemistry (2nd edn)
Jonathan W. Steed and Jerry L. Atwood
Origin of chirality in the molecules of life
Albert Guijarro and Miguel Yus
Triumph of the heart: the story of statins
Jie Jack Li
Endpoint
Does chemistry have a maths problem?
Colin Osborne has the last word
Infochem
