Ralph Weissleder, Paul Floreancig, Jürgen O. Metzger, and Masayuki Inoue, are interviewed this month

Walter Thiel looks at the direction theoretical chemistry is heading in his editorial in Angewandte Chemie

The first report of a CO2-in-ionic liquid microemulsion is easily tunable and has many potential applications

The enantioselective, palladium-catalyzed Overman rearrangement of allylic imidates has been accomplished with a new catalyst

Michael Dröscher, GDCh President, introduces the theme of the Wissenschaftsforum and the GDCh study “Perspectives in Chemistry”

Barbara Albert, Techincal University Darmstadt, Germany, takes over the presidency of the GDCh from January 2012

Ferdi Schüth, Max Planck Institute for Coal Research, Germany, talks about his work on catalysts for alternative fuels

Peter Atkins, author of many chemistry textbooks, talks about the importance of illustrations in chemistry

Emily Carter, Princeton University, USA, discusses her work on using quantum mechanics to solve the World's energy problems

Peter Bruce, University of St Andrews, Scotland, has received the Arfvedson Schlenk Prize for his work on lithium chemistry