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The Challis group and collaborators at the John Innes Centre report in the journal Chemical Science on the genomics-driven discovery of a novel polyketide alkaloid with an unprecedented structure. Incorporation experiments with stable isotope-labelled precursors combined with bioinformatics analyses were used to deduce the likely biosynthetic pathway for the natural product. See http://pubs.rsc.org/en/content/articlelanding/2012/sc/c2sc20410j for further details.

Macpherson and Unwin and co-workers Challenge the Current Consensus on the Electrochemical Properties of Nanotubes as featured in "Chemistry World" http://www.rsc.org/chemistryworld/2012/06/challenging-consensus-nanotube-electrochemistry and Chemical Communications http://pubs.rsc.org/en/content/articlelanding/2012/cc/c2cc32890a.

Congratulations to Nicholas Ballard who won the best poster prize at the Unilever SM&PS student poster session held at Unilever Port Sunlight.

Pat Unwin and Rachel O’Reilly win 2012 Royal Society of Chemistry Awards in recognition of significant contributions to their research fields

Warwick and IBM scientists make and image a 1.2 nanometer wide molecule that looks like a well known sporting logo.

A study published in the latest issue of Nature Chemistry led by researchers from the O'Reilly group details a new biomimetic approach to polymer synthesis.

Lara-Jane Pegg and Ross Hatton report in ACS Nano on the significance of geometric electric field enhancement effects at the electrode interfaces in organic photovoltaics.

This paper by the Sadler Group illustrates that half-sandwich ruthenium complexes upon excitation with UVA or visible light can provide a potential strategy for the design of photoactivatable ruthenium pro-drugs.

Alexis Munn, a third year PhD student in the group of Richard Walton, was awarded the Chemical Crystallography group (CCG) poster prize at the British Crystallographic Association spring meeting.

Nick Barker has been awarded a prestigious Warwick Award for Teaching Excellence, in recognition of his outstanding contributions to teaching and learning.

Joan Soldevila (Sadler Group) won the Royal Society of Chemistry Metallomics Poster Prize at the Dalton 2012 Conference.

The Gibson Group and collaborators study synthetic glycan-lectin interactions to understand the function of anti-adhesion therapies.