Simple instructions on how to successfully pack columns, work under inert atmosphere, or grow crystals

Tips for the Lab

4th EuCheMS Chemistry Congress in Prague
The congress was a successful and lively event with chemistry for a sustainable world as the unifying theme

Tips and Tricks for the Lab: Growing Crystals Part 1
Patience, luck, and no small amount of skill are required to grow the perfect crystal for X-ray diffraction. Maximize your chances of getting that elusive crystal

Hierarchical Zeolites Make It to Refinery
First successful commercial scale manufacture of mesostructured zeolite Y promising as fluid catalytic cracking (FCC) catalyst

Closing the Gap in Spin Calculations for Open Shell Systems
Despite its importance, the theoretical foundations of Spin-DFT are not discussed clearly in the literature and text books

Wonderlab Comic – Secret Second Life
Every object in the lab has a specific function. But in Wonderlab, when no one is looking, these objects can live a secret second life

Guess the Chemist (9)
Can you guess the famous scientist from the description?

Lanthanoid Single-Ion Magnets
Polyoxometalate-based mononuclear lanthanoid complexes provide new examples of single-ion magnets

Angewandte Chemie 36/2012: About Gold and Swans
Overview of the latest issue of Angewandte Chemie

Angewandte Author Profiles August 2012
Shu-Li You, Oliver Reiser, Ying-Chun Chen, Julius Rebek, Jr., and Holger Braunschweig were interviewed this month