An overview of the latest issue of Angewandte Chemie

Angewandte Chemie 31/2013: A Great Therapy

Redox-Switchable Catalyst for Ring-Closing Metathesis
Homogeneous, redox-switchable, N-heterocyclic carbene/ferrocenyl-based catalysts for ring-closing metathesis reactions

Self-Assembled Wheels
Two different terpyridine ligands self-assemble when mixed with zinc(II) ions to form 2D or 3D spoked wheels

Concise Total Synthesis of a Newly Discovered Alkaloid
A concise synthesis of a novel alkaloid natural product with the pyrroloindoloquinazoline skeleton has been devised

65th Birthday: Martin Quack
Martin Quack, ETH Zurich, Switzerland, celebrates his 65th birthday

Titania: Black is the New White
A mass production technique for reducing brilliant white titanium dioxide to black for applications in solar energy conversion has been devised

Multiple Tank Explosions at Refinery Plant: A Case Study
By analyzing the causes of the incident, necessary actions are proposed to avoid the recurrence of similar events

Improve REACH Dokumentation
Roadmap to improve the quality of the exposure scenarios included in the REACH chemical safety reports and in the extended safety data sheets

Titanium Dioxide for Sensitive Immunosensors
Titanium dioxide nanolayers as electrodes and titanium dioxide nanoparticles for enhanced immunosensing using electrochemiluminescence

Iron Complex with Photophysical Reversibility
True light-induced bistabiltiy in a spin-crossover molecular solid as a prototype for cooperative molecular switching