An overview of the latest trend report published annually in Nachrichten aus der Chemie, the GDCh magazine

2012 Trends in Inorganic Chemistry

Frankland Award for Philip Mountford
Philip Mountford, Oxford University, UK, has been awarded for his work on metal–ligand multiple bonding and polymerization catalysts

Microcatalysis in Photonic Crystal Fibers
Photonic crystal fiber emerges as a new class of optical fiber for photocatalysis and photospectroscopic reaction analysis

Don't Miss the Free Angewandte Symposium
The live online broadcast of the Angewandte Anniversary Symposium virtual event is about to begin

Carl Duisberg Plaque for E. Wille
The Carl Duisberg Plaque of the GDCh has been awarded to Eva Wille for her outstanding services to scientific publishing

Supermolecules Under Pressure
Changing the solvent pressure on caged molecules can fine-tune the physical properties of supramolecular host-guest complexes

Next Generation Awarded
Franziska Schoenebeck, Manuel Alcarazo, and Guido Clever receive prizes for their habilitation work

Quiz for Angewandte Symposium
Test your knowlege on the Angewandte Chemie and get the chance to win a Wiley book voucher worth EUR 250

Angewandte Author Profiles February 2013
Licheng Sun, Peter J. Sadler, Manuel Alcarazo, Tomislav Rovis, Jieping Zhu, Hisashi Yamamoto, and Jun-An Ma were interviewed in February

Catalyst Production Inspired by Audio Cassettes
Economical nanostructured iron–cobalt catalysts for the Fischer–Tropsch synthesis using a modified production process for cassettes