New Pd-catalyzed C-benzylation reaction

Putting on a Benzyl

Iron Catalysts Up Close
Organoferrate in iron-catalyzed cross-coupling reactions

Royal Medal for Sir John Meurig Thomas
Honoring important contributions "to the advancement of natural knowledge"

Dimerization of Terminal Alkynes
Iron catalyst with cyclic (alkyl)amino carbene ligand for head-to-head dimerization

Hidden Chirality
Nitrogen-15 isotope can trigger asymmetric autocatalytic reactions toward chiral organic compounds

Dehydrogenative Synthesis of Carboxylic Acids
Primary alcohols converted to acid and dihydrogen by a ruthenium-NHC complex

Calcium against the Aromatic Cycle
Catalyst ZSM-5 turned into a super-catalyst to fight coking – the evil of the methanol-to-olefins (MTO) process

Catalyst From the Microwave
Microwave-assisted thermolysis: New route to highly crystalline carbon nitrides for efficient photocatalytic hydrogen generation

80th Birthday: Gerhard Ertl
Nobel Laureate and surface chemistry pioneer celebrates 80th birthday

Angewandte Chemie 42/2016: Splitting Water(s)
Overview of the latest issue of Angewandte Chemie