Total synthesis of the highly oxygenated octacyclic natural product schindilactone A is achieved in 29 steps

Eight Rings, Five Flavors

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

2011 Impact Factors of ChemPubSoc Europe Journals
2011 ISI Impact Factors: 100 % of journals in multidisciplinary category amongst top 20 journals

2011 ISI Journal Impact Factors
Excellent results for Wiley's and Wiley-VCH's 2011 ISI Impact Factors, e.g. new record IF for Angewandte Chemie of 13.455

8th Asian Chemical Editorial Society (ACES) Meeting in Germany
Owners of very first pan-Asian society journal held their 8th editorial meeting at Wiley-VCH, Weinheim, Germany

60th Birthday: François Diederich
François Diederich, Chairman of Angewandte Chemie’s Editorial Board, celebrates his 60th birthday