Editors recommend entertaining chemistry and science related books for your summer break

Summer Reading 2016

What Society Thinks About Chemistry
Chemistry through the eyes of society: people talk about their opinions and their first associations with chemistry

Highly Conductive Coordination Polymer
Halogen-bridged binuclear mixed-valent metal chain is a semiconductor under high pressure

Angewandte Chemie 32/2016: Beyond Nuclear
Overview of the latest issue of Angewandte Chemie

Easy Access to Cyclometalated Gold Complexes
Oxidative addition of aryldiazonium salts to gold(I) complexes with visible light

μ-Oxo-Diiron Corroles: Not So Innocent
Surprising stability of bridged oxo-diiron corroles can be attributed to ligand non-innocence

80th Birthday: Karl O. Christe
Inorganic chemist celebrates 80th birthday

100th Anniversary: Death of Sir William Ramsay
Discoverer of noble gases and Chemistry Nobel Laureate

Semiconductors Go Wavy in the Cold
Two new intermetallic n-type semiconductors adopt modulated structures at low temperatures

Alkyne-Isonitrile Couplings at Metallocenes
Reactions of titano-, zircono- and hafnocene alkyne complexes with 2-xylyl isonitrile