Meeting of the Royal Society of Chemistry of Belgium in Liege to discuss latest research

Chimie en Belgique

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

Literature Prize for Helmut Maier
Book on the history of German chemical societies during the National Socialist dictatorship honored

Preprints, Unethical Behavior, but also Lots of Good News
Peter Gölitz, Editor-in-Chief of Angewandte Chemie, asks in his Editorial: Do we really need preprints as well?

Angewandte Chemie 43/2016: Nobels Old and New
Overview of the latest issue of Angewandte Chemie

KNCV Van Marumpenning 2016 for Jan van Maarseveen
Royal Netherlands Chemical Society honors achievements in improving chemistry’s image in society

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

A New Tool for Photoinduced Molecular Coupling
Nitrile imine-mediated tetrazole–ene cycloaddition reactions in the presence of upconversion nanoparticles

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