The Magazine of Chemistry Europe

Hugh Aldersey-Williams' book, Periodic Tales – A Cultural History of the Elements, from Arsenic to Zinc, is reviewed by Matthias Driess

Library of potential low molecular weight hydrogelators synthesized; will guide production of novel inexpensive, easy to use water purification platforms

Axel Müller, University of Bayreuth, receives the Hermann-Staudinger Prize of the GDCh

Straightforward access to hydridoborate-based ionic liquids (BILs) provided

Bert Meijer, Eindhoven University of Technology, will give The Chemical Record Lecture at the Annual Meeting of the Chemical Society of Japan

New method to map nanostructures within materials may lead to biological imaging of the internal organization of cells

Michael Müller, Bas de Bruin, Michael Willis, and Keiji Maruoka are interviewed this month

Gene deletion gives new insights into how the cyanobacterium Anabaena variabilis biosynthesise shinorine

Kylie Vincent, Oxford University, UK, is the first recipient of the Clara Immerwahr Award

Helmut Schwarz, Technical University of Berlin, presented with the highest tribute the Federal Republic of Germany can pay to an individual