An overview of the latest issue of Angewandte Chemie

Angewandte Chemie 24/2011: Rapid Acquisition Yet High Quality

Chemistry of a Hangover — Alcohol and its Consequences Part 2
How can a tiny molecule like ethanol be at the root of so much human misery? Klaus Roth looks at how ethanol is metabolized

Women in Chemistry — Interview with Zeinab Shaaban Abd El-Ati Abou El-Naga
Zeinab Shaaban Abd El-Ati Abou El-Naga, Mansoura University, Egypt, combines zoology and chemistry to develop safer insecticides

Wonderlab Comic — Alcohol Lamp
It's Gin-Jo's birthday in the Wonderlab and Sophie has arranged a little surprise

Small Change Makes Big Difference
Subtle difference between two branches of an important family of neurotransmitter-gated ion channels has been examined

Copper Effective Against New E. Coli Strains
Copper surfaces could help prevent outbreaks of new <i>E. coli</i> strains such as the current outbreak in Germany

Angewandte Author Profiles June
José L. Alonso, Jin-Quan Yu, Guy Bertrand, and Kenichiro Itami, are interviewed this month

Genotyping by Color
Convenient, color-based method for identification of single-nucleotide polymorphisms could allow point-of-care genotyping

Turning Skin into Brains
Human neurons have been created from skin cells by using transdifferentiation

Kazuyuki Tatsumi and Gerhard Erker Awarded
German-Japanese research team receives Eugen and Ilse Seibold Prize 2011