An overview of the latest issue of Angewandte Chemie

Angewandte Chemie 32/2011: Pearls On A String

Disinfection Byproducts: Swimmer and Worker Exposure
Exposure of swimmers and workers to haloacetic acids (HAAs) in indoor and outdoor pools was evaluated for the first time

Batra to Lead Merck's Health Care
Merck announced that Udit Batra will succeed Peter Shotter as Head of the Consumer Health Care Division

Women in Chemistry and EurJOC
EurJOC's special issue on women chemists demonstrates that the possibility for women to excel in chemistry is only limited by perception

Solvay Invests in Printed Electronics
Solvay commits €10 million to support Plextronics

Fast Assignment
A rapid method for determining absolute configuration using kinetic resolution catalysts has been developed by US chemists

Alternative to Ethylene Production
High ethylene productivity through oxidative dehydrogenation of ethane has been achieved in a catalytic membrane reactor

Sadara Chemical Company
Dow and Saudi Aramco to jointly build world-scale, fully integrated chemicals complex in Saudi Arabia

Sugars Can Aggregate Too
Defined, reversible aggregates of sugar chains have been observed for the first time and could enable on-site detection of diseases

Adapt and Analyze
Home glucose monitor adapted to target other analytes including cocaine, adenosine, interferon-gamma of tuberculosis and uranium