Terpenoids isolated from common ragweed show ability to induce airways irritation

Electrophilic Sneeze

Heinz A. Staab (1926 ‒ 2012)
Heinz A. Staab, former President of the Max Planck Society and GDCh, died on July 29

The 6th Spanish-Portuguese-Japanese Organic Chemistry Symposium
This meeting united science and Portuguese culture and had a special EurJOC and ChemPubSoc Europe session

Roots of our Practice of Science
Banska Stiavnica, Banská Štavnica, Schemnitz, or Selmecbánya, a town with a lively political history and groundbreaking for science

Access to Cannabinoids
Simple and compact synthesis of a tricyclic resorcinol could provide route to novel analogs of conformationally restricted cannabinoids

New Term of Office for H. Schwarz
Professor Helmut Schwarz, TU Berlin, Germany, elected to another five-year term as President of the Humboldt Foundation

Richard Neidlein (1930 – 2012)
Richard Neidlein, Heidelberg University, Germany, passed away on July 20

Angewandte Chemie 31/2012: A Bright Image
Overview of the latest issue of Angewandte Chemie

Barking up the Right Tree
Three new natural products from the bark of a Vietnamese evergreen tree show cytotoxic activity against cancer cells

65th Birthday: Bernd Ondruschka
Professor Bernd Ondruschka, the Friedrich-Schiller University, Jena, Germany, celebrates his 65th birthday