Overview of the latest issue of Angewandte Chemie

Angewandte Chemie 17/2016: Design and Synthesis

Improved Kinetics for Water Splitting
Two-step-two-electron pathway with carbon nanodot cocatalyst

Ni-Catalyzed Hydrosilylation Without Silanes
Alkoxy hydrosilanes can replace flammable silanes in reactions with alkenes

Challenges for Heterogeneous Catalysis
Understanding for design, and designing for applications

Nitrogen Fixation with Simple Iron Complexes
Iron(0) diphosphine complexes shown to generate ammonia

Guess the Chemist (52)
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Stable Ultra-Dispersed Nanocatalysts
Nickel sulfide nanoparticles as catalysts for residue hydrocracking

Behind the Science: Changing the Selectivity of Biocatalysts
Structure-guided switch in the regioselectivity of a tryptophan halogenase enzyme

Bifunctional Polymeric Heterometallic Catalysts
Polymers bearing alternating N-heterocyclic carbene complexes connected through "click" linkages

Hiyama Coupling with Palladium
Cross-coupling reaction of (hetero)aryl chlorides