An overview of the latest issue of Angewandte Chemie

Angewandte Chemie 45/2011: A Variety of Shapes

Interview with ChemistryViews Author Klaus Roth
Interview with ChemistryViews Author Klaus Roth, Freie Universität Berlin, Germany

Chemistry of the Christmas Candle — Part 1
When we light a candle, the chemistry we are pursuing is not only especially beautiful, but also especially complex

Wonderlab Comic — Power Outage
Wonderlab is undergoing some scheduled maintenance and Sophie is sure she turned everything off

First Functional MOFs
Bifunctional metal–organic framework (MOF) regioisomers have been produced and reveal previously unrecognized importance

Breathing Benzene
Derivative current-density maps reveal how so-called breathing modes in the benzene ring cause aromaticity and antiaromaticity to ebb and flow

Angewandte Author Profiles November
Michel R. Gagné, Andreas Kirschning, Fernando P. Cossio, and Jurriaan Huskens are interviewed this month

New Route to Chiral Amides
One-pot method generates chiral amides from secondary alcohols with retention of stereochemistry and provides evidence for non-planar carbocations

P4 Activation with Silylenes
Activation of white phosphorus with silylenes gives two unusual Si–P compounds that could be precursors for semiconducting materials

New Method for Adding Alkyl Groups
New method for adding methyl groups to aldehydes gives the highest enantioselectivities and yields reported and can be used for longer alkyl chains