Overview of the latest issue of Angewandte Chemie

Angewandte Chemie 52/2014: Happy Holidays

Ubiquitary Plastic Pollution
More plastic particles than thought spread throughout the world’s oceans easier than thought

Ni-Catalyzed Reductive Carboxylation
Novel, mild, and user-friendly Ni-catalyzed regiodivergent reductive carboxylation of allyl acetates with carbon dioxide

High-Throughput Screening Technology for Automotive Applications
Rapid automated screening of parameters for exhaust gas catalyst development

Liquid Crystals for Corrosion Prevention
A hydrocarbon-based discotic liquid crystal can be used as anti-corrosion coating for iron surface against various conditions

Surgical Waste Becomes Useful
Extracellular matrix isolated from lipoaspiration surgical waste is used for cell cultivation in vitro

Novel Nanocomposites for Hydroamination
Titania nanocomposites for the intermolecular hydroamination of activated olefins

Continuous-Flow Synthesis of Ibuprofen
Ibuprofen can be synthesized on a large scale in three minutes in a continuous-flow synthesis

Epigenetics is Origami
The first high-resolution, 3-D maps of entire folded genomes revel the principles of chromatin looping

Clean Fuels Project
Saudi Aramco and ExxonMobil joint venture Clean Fuels Project reduces sulfur levels in gasoline and diesel