Tools of synthetic biology used to engineer detector plants and discussed how to make such designed systems orthogonal

Synthetic Signaling Meets Endogenous Components

Sports Supplement Origin: Synthetic vs. Natural
Stimulant marketed as “natural” in sports supplements is actually of synthetic origin according to isotope study

Society Journals Leading the Pack
Comparing the 2011 ISI Impact Factors of ChemPubSoc Europe, RSC, and ACS journals

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

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

2011 Impact Factors of ChemPubSoc Europe Journals
2011 ISI Impact Factors: 100 % of journals in multidisciplinary category amongst top 20 journals

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

Secret of “Fetid Fluorite” Aired
Elemental fluorine F2 detected for the first time in a natural mineral

Ivano Bertini (1940 – 2012)
Ivano Bertini, University of Florence, known for his work on NMR methodologies for studying metalloproteins, passed away last week

8th Asian Chemical Editorial Society (ACES) Meeting in Germany
Owners of very first pan-Asian society journal held their 8th editorial meeting at Wiley-VCH, Weinheim, Germany