Overview on the current issue of the Angewandte Chemie International Edition
Angewandte Chemie 52/2012: Happy Holidays!
Beer's Bitter
The absolute configurations of the bitter acids of hops determined

The Science of Santa
173 million deliveries in 31 hours? We look at the science behind Santa's Technosleigh and what makes Rudolph's nose glow
World’s Largest Telescope
Germany enters as the tenth country involved in the pre-construction phase of the world’s largest telescope
Microbial World
Test your knowledge of microbes, the most fascinating and underrated organisms on the planet
A Modern Synthesis of Strychnine
Robert Woodward was the first to make it in 1954 – and you?
Surface Immobilization
Surface immobilization of functional groups achieved by radical grafting to carbon-based interfaces
Mussels-inspired Gel for Damaged Vessels
Mimicking adhesiveness of mussels, a catechol-based hydrogel glues to blood vessels and stabilizes atherosclerotic plaques
Modeling of Solid Oxide Fuel Cells
Eventually, the local thermal equilibrium assumption can be safely adopted for thermal modeling of SOFCs running on hydrogen or alternative fuels
Metal-Mediated Base Pairs
Generation of so-called metal-mediated base pairs that elegantly allows the site-specific introduction of metal-based functionality described