Ralph Weissleder, Paul Floreancig, Jürgen O. Metzger, and Masayuki Inoue, are interviewed this month

Angewandte Author Profiles September

First CO2 in Ionic Liquid Microemulsion
The first report of a CO2-in-ionic liquid microemulsion is easily tunable and has many potential applications

The Antimalarial Set
A cyclopropyl carboxamide is found to be a highly potent in vitro inhibitor of the malaria parasite Plasmodium falciparum

Highly Active Catalyst for Rearrangement
The enantioselective, palladium-catalyzed Overman rearrangement of allylic imidates has been accomplished with a new catalyst

C–H Activation with Iron
Cheap and simple iron catalyst activates aryl C–H bonds and gives rapid formation of new aryl–aryl bonds

An Excellent Catalyst for Hydrogenolysis of Glycerol
First facile and efficient one pot catalytic process of converting glycerol to value added products with a robust CoAl alloy

65th Birthday: Stefan Berger
Stefan Berger, University of Leipzig, Germany, author of Classics in Spectroscopy, celebrates his 65th birthday

Wissenschaftsforum: GDCh President M. Dröscher
Michael Dröscher, GDCh President, introduces the theme of the Wissenschaftsforum and the GDCh study “Perspectives in Chemistry”

Wissenschaftsforum: F. Schüth on Catalysts for Alternative Fuels
Ferdi Schüth, Max Planck Institute for Coal Research, Germany, talks about his work on catalysts for alternative fuels

New Dienes for Diels—Alder
Asymmetric aminocatalysis opens the Diels—Alder reaction to a new class of dienes