The Magazine of Chemistry Europe

Lena Daumann and Sophie Gutenthaler-Tietze share their research and experiences filming for a popular German children's program and other outreach activities

Chemistry Advent Calendar: Guess the Houses and Molecules—Discover where famous chemists lived 🏠 and who synthesized iconic molecules 🧪

Check out the answer to today's entry in the Chemistry Advent Calendar: Guess the Houses and Molecules—discover where famous chemists lived 🏠

Discover where famous chemists lived 🏠 and who synthesized iconic molecules 🧪. Every second day, a new question unlocks—can you identify the chemist behind the house or the molecule?

Chemistry Advent Calendar: Guess the Houses and Molecules—Discover where famous chemists lived 🏠 and who synthesized iconic molecules 🧪

Varun Chandrasekhar, Jian Ren Lu, Ingo Dierking, University of Manchester, explore how ferrofluids, when dispersed in liquid crystals, form unique droplet chains with magnetic functionality

David A. Leigh, UK, about his research, the link between magic and science, chemistry communication in an age of misinformation, his personal journey, inspiring teachers, and his desire to learn more languages

Simon Wheeler, UK, discusses his new fluorescent sensor for Ca²⁺

Study provides the first evidence of a pentacoordinate carbon in a stable complex, offering insights relevant to chemical bonding and biological methyl transfer processes

Although the prolate single molecule magnets known from the textbook have large ground state splittings, this does not lead to strong magnetism