Overview of the latest issue of Angewandte Chemie

Angewandte Chemie 6/2014: Full of Energy

Guess the Chemist (26)
Can you guess the famous scientist from the description?

Vitamin C Deficiency – Part 2
When scurvy was identified as a form of malnutrition, an exciting race for the isolation, structure determination, and synthesis of vitamin C started

Cross-Coupling of Heteroarenes by C–H Functionalization
Transition metal-catalyzed direct inter- and intramolecular (hetero)arylation reactions of heteroarenes containing one heteroatom

Behind the Scenes of the Wonderlab Cartoon
Interview with Sophie Lin, a chemist in Taiwan, who started drawing the Wonderlab Cartoon Series for ChemistryViews.org in 2010

Chemical Poems: Fluorine
Poems based on the natural properties of each of the elements of the periodic table

Scoping Out the Competition
Cyclohexane-1,2-dione hydrolase accepts a wider range of substrates than other thiamine diphosphate dependent enzymes

Hollow Nanospheres with Mesoporous Shells
Hollow rare-earth silicate spheres with mesoporous shells prepared through a one-step hydrothermal route

Water Oxidation by Amorphous Cobalt-Based Oxides
Amorphous cobalt-based oxides show catalytic activity in the bulk of the film, not just at the interface with the electrolyte

Not Kicking Up a Stink
A three-component reaction is an alternative to thiols for making vinyl sulfides