Ilan Marek, Technion Israel Institute of Technology, receives the Janssen Pharmaceutica Prize for Creativity in Organic Synthesis

Ilan Marek Honored

Angewandte Chemie 29/2012: Collected Intelligence
Overview of the latest issue of Angewandte Chemie

Society Journals Leading the Pack
Comparing the 2011 ISI Impact Factors of ChemPubSoc Europe, RSC, and ACS journals

15th International Congress on Catalysis (ICC 2012)
Large international conference focussed on most recent progress in catalysis research and development

Eight Rings, Five Flavors
Total synthesis of the highly oxygenated octacyclic natural product schindilactone A is achieved in 29 steps

Fundamentals of Organometallic Catalysis
Textbook aimed at undergraduate, graduate, and Ph.D. students is reviewed by Piet van Leeuwen, Spain

25 Years of Organic Materials for Electronics
The seminal publication of Ching Tang’s work in 1987 on organic light emitting diodes (OLEDs) is celebrated in a special issue

Desaturating Enzyme Mimic
US chemists have developed a laboratory analog of desaturase enzymes used to activate alkanes by converting them to free alkenes

Ernesto Fattorusso (1937 – 2012)
Professor Ernesto Fattorusso, University of Naples, Italy, passed away on July 7, 2012

Angewandte Author Profiles July 2012
Akio Baba, Vladimir Gevorgyan, Frank Würthner, and Bert Weckhuysen are interviewed this month