Gold nanoparticles promote the aerobic oxidative coupling of amines to alcohols or aldehydes to make useful amides

Gold Promotes Green Coupling

A Hint of Frog in the Air
Macrolides are volatile pheromones from Madagascar frogs that could be used for communication

Avoid the Fallout
New ligands for nuclear waste treatment selectively extract radiotoxic actinides and lessen the environmental impact of nuclear waste

Ritter Reactions in Flow
Ritter reactions are performed in a simple microreactor setup using tert-butylacetate as versatile carbocation source

Angewandte Chemie 4/2012: It's in the Genes
An overview of the latest issue of Angewandte Chemie

Anti-Malaria Drug Synthesised
Simple, inexpensive, continuous-flow synthesis of the to date most effective anti-malaria drug artemisinin

3D Covalent Organic Frameworks
Three dimensonal networks of covalent organic frameworks were functionalized to allow applications in e.g. catalysis

Pesto — Mediterranean Biochemistry Part 2
In this last part we take a look at the synthesis of the perfect pesto

Angewandte Chemie 3/2012: The Art of Arrows
An overview of the latest issue of Angewandte Chemie

Modifying MOFs in the Vapor Phase
Introducing chelating groups into metal-organic frameworks by vapor-phase post-synthetic modification boosts their catalytic potential