It is said that August Kekulé rationalized the structure after he was inspired by a daydream about a snake biting its tail

150th Anniversary of the Kekulé Benzene Structure

Angewandte Chemie 41/2014: Fueling Chemistry
Overview of the latest issue of Angewandte Chemie

Low-Cost Protein Purification
Activated carbon can be used to effectively separate proteins based on size and effective charge differences

Ben Feringa Gives Theodor Förster Memorial Lecture
Feringa's outstanding work is honored with one of the most important photochemistry awards worldwide

Smallest Reference Material
Reference Material (RM) 8027 issued by the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) as the smallest known RM

75th Birthday: Jean-Marie Lehn
Jean-Marie Lehn received the Nobel chemistry prize in 1987; answer to Guess the Chemist (33)

Reorganization at BASF
BASF is reorganizing the set-up of its paper chemicals business

Hidden Colors
Caged rhodamine dyes used as “hidden” markers in subdiffractional and conventional light microscopy

Hydrogen From Iron?
The iron-catalyzed dehydrogenation of formic acid as a step on the road to a hydrogen economy

Detecting Biomolecules
Biosensing platform uses optical microcavity-based sensors and detects single unlabelled biomolecules