Overview of the latest issue of Angewandte Chemie
Angewandte Chemie 29/2012: Collected Intelligence
From Poppies to Noscapine
The biosynthetic pathway of the anticancer alkaloid noscapine has been identified
Magnetizing Diagnostics
Magnetic Gram staining allows for the class-specific, automated, magnetic detection and separation of bacteria
Diaminophospholipids Make Stress Useful
Vesicles made from artificial 1,3-diaminophospholipids represent a new shear-stress-based drug delivery system
Society Journals Leading the Pack
Comparing the 2011 ISI Impact Factors of ChemPubSoc Europe, RSC, and ACS journals
15th International Congress on Catalysis (ICC 2012)
Large international conference focussed on most recent progress in catalysis research and development
Fishing for Vitamins with Magnets
Zinc(II)–cyclen complexes immobilized on magnetic nanobeads allow quantitative reversible extraction of riboflavin
Desaturating Enzyme Mimic
US chemists have developed a laboratory analog of desaturase enzymes used to activate alkanes by converting them to free alkenes
Angewandte Author Profiles July 2012
Akio Baba, Vladimir Gevorgyan, Frank Würthner, and Bert Weckhuysen are interviewed this month
Ernesto Fattorusso (1937 – 2012)
Professor Ernesto Fattorusso, University of Naples, Italy, passed away on July 7, 2012