Eun Lee’s 65th birthday and retirement from the field of organic synthesis is celebrated in this month’s issue of Chem. Asian J.

Special Issue: Eun Lee’s 65th Birthday

Video Competition
ChemistryViews Video Competition: film where chemistry appears in your everyday life

Interview with Editors of ChemistryOpen
Interview with the editors of the new ChemPubSoc Europe journal ChemistryOpen – youngest member, but a first in many aspects

New MOFs Family are Efficient H2 Generators
New family of polyoxometalate-based metal organic frameworks (POMOFs) show promise in the catalytic evolution of hydrogen

Calixarenes with Sulfur Bridges
The synthesis and solid-state structures of the less studied homothiacalix[n]arenes are investigated

Angewandte Chemie 33/2011: Caught on Gold
An overview of the latest issue of Angewandte Chemie

Angewandte Author Profiles August
Stefan Bräse, Younan Xia, Sjoerd Harder, and Stefan Hecht, are interviewed this month

Distinguished Women Chemistry/Chemical Engineering Award 2011
23 women scientists were awarded to acknowledge and promote the work of women chemists and chemical engineers worldwide

IYC 2011 in Hungary
Hungary celebrated the IYC 2011 with a fire with water – water with fire event

No More Metal Cats
Metal-free catalysts that effect transfer hydrogenation in imines, enamines, and N-heterocycles, offer simpler routes to novel molecules