Marseille–Provence is the European Capital of Culture in 2013. In this issue two articles from the Marseille‐based team Chirosciences analyze the role of imidazole alcohol hydrogen bonding in the nucleophlicity of dyad models (see the Full Paper by J. Leclaire, D. Bourissou, F. Fotiadu et al. on page 11301 ff.) and describe a facile synthesis and assemblies of tetraalkylporphyrins in two and three dimensions (see the Full Paper by Y. Kikkawa, T. S. Balaban et al. on page 11293 ff.). [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]