The winning entries in the 2015 Essay Competition have been announced

Chemistry and Light Contest: The Winners

Mallory-type Photocyclization with Fluorine Elimination
Photocyclization of stilbenes with HF elimination gives fluorinated phenanthrene derivatives

(Aut)oxidation of Toluene
Bimolecular mechanism in the initiation step for the aerobic oxidation of toluene revealed

50th Anniversary: Woodward-Hoffmann Rules
In 1965, Robert Burns Woodward and Roald Hoffmann explained the stereospecificity of pericyclic reactions

Sulfide Synthesis without the Smell
Mild and odorless pathway to aryl and alkenyl sulfides

The Scientific Bridge: Fifty Years of Germany–Israel Diplomatic Relations
Special Issue of Angewandte Chemie with contributions from German and Israeli scientists

Angewandte Chemie 41/2015: Essential Reading
Overview of the latest issue of Angewandte Chemie

Who's Next? Nobel Prize in Chemistry 2015 – Final Voting Results
Final results of the predictions for the next Nobel Prize in Chemistry

Heterocycles on a Gram Scale
An efficient and concise synthesis of 6- and 7-membered N-heterocyclic rings

Who's Next? Nobel Prize in Chemistry 2015 – Voting Results Tuesday 06 October
Latest results of the predictions for the next Nobel Prize in Chemistry