Silafluorenyl dichlorides can be used to couple amino acids with little or no epimerization

Mild and Simple Peptide Coupling Reaction

Iron Catalysts Up Close
Organoferrate in iron-catalyzed cross-coupling reactions

Angewandte Chemie 44/2016: New Paradigms
Overview of the latest issue of Angewandte Chemie

Dimerization of Terminal Alkynes
Iron catalyst with cyclic (alkyl)amino carbene ligand for head-to-head dimerization

Chimie en Belgique
Meeting of the Royal Society of Chemistry of Belgium in Liege to discuss latest research

Hidden Chirality
Nitrogen-15 isotope can trigger asymmetric autocatalytic reactions toward chiral organic compounds

Literature Prize for Helmut Maier
Book on the history of German chemical societies during the National Socialist dictatorship honored

Preprints, Unethical Behavior, but also Lots of Good News
Peter Gölitz, Editor-in-Chief of Angewandte Chemie, asks in his Editorial: Do we really need preprints as well?

Angewandte Chemie 43/2016: Nobels Old and New
Overview of the latest issue of Angewandte Chemie

KNCV Van Marumpenning 2016 for Jan van Maarseveen
Royal Netherlands Chemical Society honors achievements in improving chemistry’s image in society