Use of compact laser system rather than synchrotron radiation for identifying chiral compounds could find use in analysis

Chiral Recognition by Femtosecond Laser

Daniel Seidel Awarded
Daniel Seidel, Rutgers University, awarded the Carl Duisberg Memorial Award for his work on organocatalysis and C–H bond activation

Angewandte Chemie 10/2012: Click! Goes the Sulfur
An overview of the latest issue of Angewandte Chemie

Finding Cancer Cells in Blood
Chip-based method for the rapid, sensitive isolation of rare cells in blood

Angewandte Chemie 9/2012: Sunny Outlook
An overview of the latest issue of Angewandte Chemie

Most Accessed Articles: January 2012
The most-accessed chemistry articles from ChemPubSoc Europe and GDCh journals for January 2012

Efficient Artificial Light-harvesting System
Self-assembling strategies and covalent capture employed to construct a robust, inexpensive, efficient artificial light-harvesting system

A. Müller Receives Staudinger Prize
Axel Müller, University of Bayreuth, receives the Hermann-Staudinger Prize of the GDCh

About the Nonsense of Biofuels
How efficient is the production of biofuels from biomass and how should biomass be best utilized?

What, Another Nobel Prize in Chemistry to a Nonchemist?
Roald Hoffmann discusses the purpose of the Nobel Prizes and why areas like biochemistry should be recognized