Novel capillary-based microfluidic device allows investigating the vinyl polymerization reaction under difficult conditions

Online Monitoring of Vinyl Chloride Polymerization

Optimization of Solar Power Plants
New software for optimal planning of solar power plants

Ranbaxy Launches Anti-Malaria Drug
India’s first new drug; first recently developed antimalarial not based on artemisinin

From Radicals to γ-Lactones
A one-pot sequence of radical cyclization and Oppenauer-type oxidation gives gamma-lactones in high yields

The Future of Medicinal Chemistry
T. Hoffmann and R. Metternich, F. Hoffmann−La Roche Ltd., look at potential areas for drug R&D outside traditional medicinal chemistry

New Organization: Global Solar Council
CEO-level industry coalition aiming to expand the global deployment of solar energy in a sustainable and cost-competitive way

Analytik Jena Opens Competence Center in Dubai
Analytik Jena Opens Competence Center in Dubai

Growing Gold Semishells
Pre-formed Janus silica particles in the synthesis of Au semishells, allows modulating the geometry and morphology

Alcohol-Butadiene Hydrohydroxyalkylation
Direct redox-triggered carbon-carbon coupling sets stage for development of catalysts that exhibit enhanced stereoselectivities

Angewandte Author Profiles May 2012
Barry M. Trost, Armido Studer, Kazuaki Ishihara, and Qi-Lin Zhou are interviewed this month