An overview of the latest issue of Angewandte Chemie
Angewandte Chemie 24/2011: Rapid Acquisition Yet High Quality
Making Plastic From Coffee
Renewable starting materials based on quinic acid from coffee beans can be used to synthesize polycarbonates
Chemistry of a Hangover — Alcohol and its Consequences Part 2
How can a tiny molecule like ethanol be at the root of so much human misery? Klaus Roth looks at how ethanol is metabolized
Women in Chemistry — Interview with Zeinab Shaaban Abd El-Ati Abou El-Naga
Zeinab Shaaban Abd El-Ati Abou El-Naga, Mansoura University, Egypt, combines zoology and chemistry to develop safer insecticides
Wonderlab Comic — Alcohol Lamp
It's Gin-Jo's birthday in the Wonderlab and Sophie has arranged a little surprise
Paul Rey (1940 – 2011)
Paul Rey, organic chemist and member of the European Network MAGMANet, has passed away
Hydrogen Peroxide Electrochemical Sensor
First fast and efficient electroanalytical method to be applied to a continuous, in situ detection of H2O2 in organic oxidation reactions
Angewandte Author Profiles June
José L. Alonso, Jin-Quan Yu, Guy Bertrand, and Kenichiro Itami, are interviewed this month
Antireflection Coatings
Hierarchically mesostructured silica nanoparticles act as superhydrophilic and Vis/NIR antireflection coatings
Chameleon Aromaticity
Conformational switching between aromatic states has been probed in expanded porphyrins