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

Desaturating Enzyme Mimic

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

Covalent Strategy Toward Well-Ordered Arrays
The longest well-defined phthalocyanine assembly described to date has been prepared by “click chemistry”

Dual Purpose Dysprosium Complex
Dysprosium complex behaves not only as a single-molecule magnet but emits bright blue light under the right conditions

Complexation of Calixarenes with Anaesthetics Guests
Intermolecular complexation of three water-soluble p-sulfonatocalixarenes with five local anaesthetics guests

Resistance is Not Futile
The total synthesis of the antibiotic marinomycin A could nudge us towards antibiotics that defeat resistant microbes, such as MRSA

Angewandte Chemie 28/2012: Everywhere, All the Time
An overview of the latest issue of Angewandte Chemie