Researchers from Texas sampled water wells in one of the largest drilling areas and analyzed them with analytical chemistry techniques

Water Contamination Through Shale Gas

Angewandte Chemie 33/2013: Like Breathing Oxygen
Overview of the latest issue of Angewandte Chemie

Deep Fried Fish and Furan
The toxic accumulation of furan in breaded fish products can be reduced by adjusting the cooking conditions

Potentially Long-lasting Storage Facility for As5+
Incorporation of As5+ into the crystal structure of hematite – one of the most common iron oxides – investigated

Gas-Phase Chemistry of Bismuth–Oxido Clusters
The growth of bismuth–oxido clusters in solution, their ligand-exchange reactions, and their fragmentation in the gas phase were investigated

Three Techniques—One Structure
A simple way to characterize chlorine-containing homo- and heterogeneous catalysts by spectroscopy and DFT calculations

Sniffing Out Sulfur Insights
A compound found in peanuts and coffee, and used as a common food additive, was studied spectroscopically to reveal conformational details

Wonderlab – Hazardous Chemicals
The occupants of Wonderlab prepare for the annual safety check

Top Ten Chemical Companies in 2012
Worldwide, chemical companies saw slight decline in revenues in 2012

Career: As A Chemist at the European Chemicals Agency (ECHA)
Derek Knight, Senior Scientific Advisor, talks about the fascination and challenges of his job and what makes regulatory sciences so exciting