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Chemistry World Reviews, June 2008

Organic synthesis for the masses

Natural products and their conquerors celebrated together


A world full of colour

David Lee has travelled the world on botanical expeditions like a latter-day Victorian plant hunter


Much ado about nothing

Although most chemists would agree that, in its essence, chemistry is all about chemical reactions


Fruit of the sun

Pierre Laszlo taught chemistry at Princeton and Cornell in the US, the University of Liege, Belgium, and the Ecole Polytechnique, near Paris


A material life

This is the most unique scientific book I have ever read


Supercharged

In a long and illustrious career, Nobel Laureate George Olah, director of the Loker Hydrocarbon Research Institute, US, has made many seminal contributions to chemistry


In brief

Short items