Overview of the latest issue of Angewandte Chemie

Angewandte Chemie 43/2012: From Red to Green

Enzyme Mimic Oxidizes Methane
Compound modeled on active site of oxidizing enzymes could underpin new catalysts for the conversion of methane

Achim Müller Receives €1.2 Million Grant
Achim Müller, University of Bielefeld, Germany, has received the highest scientific award of the European Union

Europe`s Biggest PET Plant
Uhde Inventa-Fischer, Switzerland, is to build a polyethylene terephthalate (PET) plant for JBF Industries Ltd., India, in Belgium

Novel Assays for Research and Clinical Routine
Collaboration of Thermo Fisher Scientific and Immundiagnostik to combine antibody technology and mass spectroscopy

Graphene Oxide-based Photoswitches
A photoswitchable α-cyclodextrin-based [2]rotaxane array on grapheme oxide (GO) was prepared

KCS-Wiley Young Chemist Award 2012
The KCS-Wiley Young Chemist Award 2012 has been awarded to In Su Lee and Dal-Hee Min, both Seoul National University, South Korea

Heinrich Wieland Prize 2012 for C. Bertozzi
Carolyn R. Bertozzi, USA, awarded for her bioorthogonal method for changing cellular sugar codes and detecting diseased cells

Kill the Pain with Black Mamba Venom
Black mamba venom contains isopeptides from the three-finger toxin family that are endowed with powerful analgesic effects

Scratching the Surface of Gold Nanocatalysts
In situ aberration-corrected electron microscopy aids the investigation of deactivation of catalytic gold nanoparticles