An overview of the latest issue of Angewandte Chemie

Angewandte Chemie 45/2011: A Variety of Shapes

Rebuilding the Periodic Debate — Eric Scerri
The Periodic Debate has attracted many comments; we speak to Eric Scerri, one of the leading commenters

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

Rebuilding the Periodic Debate — Philip Stewart
The Periodic Debate has attracted many comments; we speak to Philip Stewart, one of the leading commenters

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

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

Places of Production of the Elements
Maps showing the location of the main producers of elements and the amounts produced

First Optical Metamaterial
The first metamaterial to display optical properties accross the visible region

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