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An overview of the latest issue of Angewandte Chemie

An overview of the latest issue of Angewandte Chemie

A heterogeneous porous Sr–MgO nanocomposite catalyst allows for the mild transesterification of palm oil to methanol

The most-accessed chemistry articles from ChemPubSoc Europe and GDCh journals for January 2012

Hugh Aldersey-Williams' book, Periodic Tales – A Cultural History of the Elements, from Arsenic to Zinc, is reviewed by Matthias Driess

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

Synchroton-based characterization techniques to illuminate properties of compound semiconductor thin-film solar cell absorbers reviewed

New and simple procedure for cleaning nanoparticles removes organic contaminants without affecting size, shape, or structure

Iron nanoparticles with an iron oxide shell resist oxidation and maintain magnetic properties needed for biomedical applications