An overview of the latest issue of Angewandte Chemie

Angewandte Chemie 18/2012: No End in Sight

Simulated Digestion for Better Drug Delivery
Nanomaterial made from lipids and silicon dioxide improves absorption of pharmaceuticals by imitating the food effect

Assessing Academic Researchers
Richard N. Zare states that in judging researchers early in their career, the h-index seems to be a poor measure

Effective siRNA Delivery
siRNA polymerized for the first time in hydrogel particles for controlled intracellular delivery

New Biprivileged Molecular Scaffolds
Compounds with several heteroaromatic functionalities present multiple rigid privileged structures for drug discovery

Most Accessed Articles: March 2012
The most-accessed chemistry articles from ChemPubSoc Europe and GDCh journals for March 2012

Game-theory Optimizes Biofuel Supply Chain
Holistic model provides guidelines for where to place biorefineries and what capacities to assign them to maximize profit

2,1,3-Benzothiadiazole-Modified DNA
Valuable building blocks for construction of highly ordered, DNA-based materials with special optical and electronic properties

Novel Upstream Bioprocessing Tools
Application of rocking T-flasks as scale-down model of bench-scale wave bioreactors proposed

Enhanced Contrast Media for Magnetic Resonance Imaging (MRI)
Micelles with enhanced chemical exchange saturation transfer (CEST) sensitivity synthesized