An overview of the latest issue of Angewandte Chemie

Angewandte Chemie 38/2011: Systematic Crystallization

Redox-Active Inorganic Chemical Cells
Cells made from polyoxometalate clusters include redox activity and can be nested within one another for stepwise reactions

Promising H2 Storage Gels
Promising new class of hydrogen storage materials meets the US Department of Energy’s 2015 targets

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

Awakening of a Sleeping Beauty in Organometallic Chemistry
A convenient synthesis of cyclopentadienylgallium opens the door for GaCp to become a versatile reagent in organometallic chemistry

Rapid Charging of Lithium Ion Batteries
Batteries could get a boost from discovery that increases power and energy density while dramatically reducing charge time

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

C–H Activation with Iron
Cheap and simple iron catalyst activates aryl C–H bonds and gives rapid formation of new aryl–aryl bonds

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

An Excellent Catalyst for Hydrogenolysis of Glycerol
First facile and efficient one pot catalytic process of converting glycerol to value added products with a robust CoAl alloy