The Magazine of Chemistry Europe

Book looking at inorganic chemistry strategies for a warming world by R. H. Crabtree, is reviewed by Sebastiano Campagna

The most-accessed chemistry articles from ChemPubSoc Europe and GDCh journals for August 2011

Polymers that release CO upon irradiation could see use as treatment for cancer or inflammation

Borate complexes of plutonium and americium display different bonding, unlike their halide or triflate counterparts

Cells made from polyoxometalate clusters include redox activity and can be nested within one another for stepwise reactions

Ralph Weissleder, Paul Floreancig, Jürgen O. Metzger, and Masayuki Inoue, are interviewed this month

A convenient synthesis of cyclopentadienylgallium opens the door for GaCp to become a versatile reagent in organometallic chemistry

The first report of a CO2-in-ionic liquid microemulsion is easily tunable and has many potential applications

Cheap and simple iron catalyst activates aryl C–H bonds and gives rapid formation of new aryl–aryl bonds

Stefan Berger, University of Leipzig, Germany, author of Classics in Spectroscopy, celebrates his 65th birthday