Genetic engineering and molecular evolution used to develop the enzymatic synthesis of a semiconductor

Proteins Produce Semiconductors

Angewandte Chemie 25/2012: Never Boring, Always Magic
Overview of the latest issue of Angewandte Chemie

OLEDs from Alcohol
Alcohol-processable organic electrolytes form effective electron-injection layers for organic light-emitting diodes

Nobel Prize Reduced to Safeguard Long-Term Capital
Size of the Nobel Prize is being reduced by 20 % to safeguard long-term capital

Fast Track to Latest Research
Early View articles of 170 peer-reviewed chemistry journals — keep yourself easily up-to-date about the latest findings in your field

Solvent Effects: Steric vs. Thermodynamic
Steric characteristics are at least as important as the energetics of solvation for nucleophilic substitution reactions

Concerted Approach to Decomposition
NMR spectroscopy helps unravel how malonic anhydrides decompose, a long-standing point of controversy in physical chemistry

New Catalytic System for Biodiesel Production
Clean and efficient production of biodiesel and glycerol from soybean and microbial lipids

Reactivity at Air-Water Interface
Chemical properties at the air-water interface of the atmospherically important free radicals were investigated by computer simulations

Angewandte Author Profiles June 2012
Max Malacria, Kiyotomi Kaneda, Zuowei Xie, and Helmut Schwarz are interviewed this month