The most-accessed chemistry articles from ChemPubSoc Europe and GDCh journals for August 2011

An overview of the latest issue of Angewandte Chemie

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

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

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

The enantioselective, palladium-catalyzed Overman rearrangement of allylic imidates has been accomplished with a new catalyst

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

First facile and efficient one pot catalytic process of converting glycerol to value added products with a robust CoAl alloy

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

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