Professor Ernesto Fattorusso, University of Naples, Italy, passed away on July 7, 2012

Ernesto Fattorusso (1937 – 2012)

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

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

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

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

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

New Look at Efficient Alkynylation
A simple and widely-applicable method for alkynylation of complex molecules is discovered by exploring a scientific curiosity

Vitamin K2 for Your Mitochondria
Vitamin K2 is a electron carrier able to rescue mitochondrial dysfunction and possibly help treat neurological disorders