Overview of the latest issue of Angewandte Chemie

Three new natural products from the bark of a Vietnamese evergreen tree show cytotoxic activity against cancer cells

New device based on a porous zeolite can preconcentrate tiny quantities of explosives in a forensic sample for sensitive detection

Professor Bernd Ondruschka, the Friedrich-Schiller University, Jena, Germany, celebrates his 65th birthday

Celebrating the life of A. Martin, pioneer of partition chromatography and answer to Guess the Chemist (7), on the anniversary of his death

Researchers from Bochum, Germany, predicted medals for 172 countries at the 2012 Olympic Games even before the games start

German National Academy of Sciences issues a critical statement on the use of bioenergy

A highly modular "Lego method" produces an underrepresented class of pyrroles prevalent in natural products

Clariant’s sunliquid process turns plant waste products into second-generation cellulose ethanol

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