The German chemical industry now is impacted by the debt and banking crisis in the EU, but sales only fell slightly

1st Half 2012 German Chemistry Performance

Split the Difference
Doped nanochannels in tantalum nitride endow this material with the power to split water efficiently using sunlight

Eight Rings, Five Flavors
Total synthesis of the highly oxygenated octacyclic natural product schindilactone A is achieved in 29 steps

25 Years of Organic Materials for Electronics
The seminal publication of Ching Tang’s work in 1987 on organic light emitting diodes (OLEDs) is celebrated in a special issue

Fishing for Vitamins with Magnets
Zinc(II)–cyclen complexes immobilized on magnetic nanobeads allow quantitative reversible extraction of riboflavin

Desaturating Enzyme Mimic
US chemists have developed a laboratory analog of desaturase enzymes used to activate alkanes by converting them to free alkenes

Angewandte Author Profiles July 2012
Akio Baba, Vladimir Gevorgyan, Frank Würthner, and Bert Weckhuysen are interviewed this month

2011 ISI Journal Impact Factors
Excellent results for Wiley's and Wiley-VCH's 2011 ISI Impact Factors, e.g. new record IF for Angewandte Chemie of 13.455

Oil Offshore Project in Angola
ExxonMobil starts production of approximately 100,000 barrels of oil per day in Angola

60th Birthday: François Diederich
François Diederich, Chairman of Angewandte Chemie’s Editorial Board, celebrates his 60th birthday