Overview of the latest issue of Angewandte Chemie

Angewandte Chemie 4/2014: High Stability

Not Kicking Up a Stink
A three-component reaction is an alternative to thiols for making vinyl sulfides

Water-Soluble Boron Dyes
Application of red-emitting and water-soluble boron dyes for biosensing

Explaining the Fluctuating Reactivity of Odd and Even Carbon Numbers
Unexpected oscillating pattern of reactivity for dicarboxylic acid degradation on TiO2 is explained through acid-binding mode

20 Years of Chemistry
The first journal of ChemPubSoc Europe celebrates its stellar development

International Experience in Scientific Education: Distracting or Indispensible?
Science is an increasingly global endeavour but doctoral education continues to take place largely within a single institution

Gautam Desiraju: Follow Your Convictions
G. Desiraju, India, talks about inspiring scientists, future hopes, the situation in India, and the International Year of Crystallography

Finding a New Solution to Chemical Problems
Switchable-hydrophilicity solvents (SHSs) are potenial alternatives to the commonly used volatile organic solvents (VOCs)

Vitamin C Deficiency
It took hundred of years and a long sequence of small advantages and missed opportunities to discover the importance of vitamin C

E. Peter Kündig: Chemistry in Switzerland
The President of the Swiss Chemical Society talks about their program of reform and the fascination of discovery