Overview of the latest issue of Angewandte Chemie

Angewandte Chemie 25/2012: Never Boring, Always Magic

Painkiller by Photosynthesis
Selective and effective: silicon nanowires as photoelectrodes for carbon dioxide fixation

Electron-Donating Tetrathienyl-Substituted Borole
Thienyl-substituted borole with pronounced electron-donating character as new example of borolebased π-conjugated compounds designed

Reactivity at Air-Water Interface
Chemical properties at the air-water interface of the atmospherically important free radicals were investigated by computer simulations

Angewandte Author Profiles June 2012
Max Malacria, Kiyotomi Kaneda, Zuowei Xie, and Helmut Schwarz are interviewed this month

Giant Conjugated Macrocycles
Small templates working together have directed the formation of 24-porphyrin nanoring, with a diameter of 10 nm larger than many enzymes

Angewandte Chemie 23/2012: The Art of Abstraction
An overview of the latest issue of Angewandte Chemie

Optimization of Leather Unhairing
Safe enzymatic preparation can replace the toxic chemicals commonly used in unhairing of hides

Eggs on Stalks Inspire Synthetic Silk
Researchers imitate the silk egg stalks of lacewings and create synthetic biomaterial that has similar tensile strength and elasticity

Process Simplification through Process Integration
New approach for process intensification based on reducing the number of processing steps for grassroots and retrofit designs