An overview of the latest issue of Angewandte Chemie

Angewandte Chemie 20/2011: Fireworks

Roald Hoffmann Awarded
Nobel laureate Professor Roald Hoffmann, Cornell University, NY, USA, receives the Otto Warburg Medal

Low-Cost H2 Producing Catalyst
Cheap, abundant alternative to expensive platinum catalysts coupled with light-absorbing electrodes splits water for H2 fuel

Hydroboration with Copper Catalyst
Hydroboration of challenging beta-substituted vinylarene substrates can be efficiently performed with copper catalyst with high selectivies

Chemistry of a Hangover — Alcohol and its Consequences
How can a tiny molecule like ethanol be at the root of so much human misery?

Atomic Radii of the Elements
Atomic radii of the main group elements vary in a predictable and explicable manner across the periodic table

Wonderlab Comic — Goggles
Everything is back-to-front when an accident in Wonderlab turns Sophie into the safety monitor

Most Accessed Articles: March 2011
The most-accessed chemistry articles from ChemPubSoc Europe and GDCh journals for March 2011

Catalytic Revelation
Good agreement in calculations and experiment reveal how an important pre-catalyst used in olefin metathesis is activated

A Passive Gold Surface
Understanding how the passivating layer on a gold surface forms could see more accurate biosensors developed