Overview of the current issue of Angewandte Chemie

Angewandte Chemie 31/2011: More Nobility

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

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

Ryoji Noyori Introduces RIKEN
Ryoji Noyori Introduces RIKEN, Japan’s flagship institution for comprehensive scientific research

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

Will Chemistry Make the World a Better Place?
Frank Weinreich, Wiley-VCH, Germany, takes a look at a book that asks how attainable the goals of the chemical community are

Wave Motion
New compounds for molecule interferometry experiments

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