An overview of the latest issue of Angewandte Chemie

Angewandte Chemie 33/2011: Caught on Gold

Angewandte Author Profiles August
Stefan Bräse, Younan Xia, Sjoerd Harder, and Stefan Hecht, are interviewed this month

Distinguished Women Chemistry/Chemical Engineering Award 2011
23 women scientists were awarded to acknowledge and promote the work of women chemists and chemical engineers worldwide

IYC 2011 in Hungary
Hungary celebrated the IYC 2011 with a fire with water – water with fire event

No More Metal Cats
Metal-free catalysts that effect transfer hydrogenation in imines, enamines, and N-heterocycles, offer simpler routes to novel molecules

First Tricolor Liquid Crystals
Thermal and mechanical stimuli switch the luminescence of a liquid-crystal mixture between three different colors

Easy Route to Suzuki Precursor
Practical and general method for the synthesis of boronic intermediates that readily undergo the Suzuki reaction

OMCOS 16 Conference: Chemistry with a Song
Organometallic Chemistry Directed Towards Organic Synthesis Symposium provided some interesting chemistry and entertainment

Everybody – Many – 60 – 15 – 4
German selection process for the International Chemistry Olympiad (IChO) from the North Rhine-Westphalian point of view and its success

Wonderlab Comic — Gloves
Gin-Jo and Sophie discover the importance of wearing — and removing — gloves