Overview of the current issue of Angewandte Chemie

Angewandte Chemie 31/2011: More Nobility

New Route to 2,5-Disubstituted Furans
Ru- and Pd-catalyzed synthesis of 2-arylfurans by one-flask heck arylation/oxidation

Tobias Ritter Gets Catalysis Award
Tobias Ritter, Harvard University, USA, receives the BASF Catalysis Award

Violation of the Wiedemann-Franz Law
Violation of the Wiedemann-Franz law, one of the oldest empirical laws of physics, has been observed

Heroin Vaccine
A highly successful vaccine against a heroin high developed and its therapeutical potential proven in animal models

Cadmium Selenide Quantum Dots Pollute Soil
Cadmium selenide quantum dots degrade in soil and release their toxic guts

Better Model for Deep Sea Oil Spill
New molecular model better explains diffusion of oil spill under water and significantly impacts assessment of environmental impact

Improved Silicon-Air Battery
Adding water to a silicon-air battery has a massive impact on its discharge performance

Grant for Malaria Diagnostic Laboratory
ExxonMobil Foundation announced a donation to establish a malaria diagnostic laboratory at a medical center in Ghana

Shortest Fullerene-Peapod
Size-selective encapsulation of C60 by [10]CPP reported , which represents the shortest fullerene-peapod