The Magazine of Chemistry Europe

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

Derivative current-density maps reveal how so-called breathing modes in the benzene ring cause aromaticity and antiaromaticity to ebb and flow

A monolayer of platinum can be deposited on nanoscopic gold particles prisms to activate and enhance the catalytic properties of the platinum

Hindered photochromic benzo- and naphtho[1,3]oxazines can switch rapidly between colorless and colored forms under ultraviolet irradiation

Polyprenylated polycyclic acylphloroglucines which have a range of activities can now be synthesized in just seven steps

Italian chemists have devised a quick and cheap route to novel polymeric contrast agents for magnetic resonance imaging (MRI)

US researchers have used the paper folding art of origami to construct 3D microfluidic devices using a single-step photolithographic process

First experiments to hint at the mechanism of hydration of hydrophobic polymers could lead to understanding of protein folding

Metals dissolved in ionic liquids display the full range of solution behavior from classical non-polar solutions to thermodynamically ideal

New discovery not only hints at existence of "flexible" crystals, but also shows how such materials could be probed in greater detail