New ligands for nuclear waste treatment selectively extract radiotoxic actinides and lessen the environmental impact of nuclear waste

Avoid the Fallout

Angewandte Chemie 4/2012: It's in the Genes
An overview of the latest issue of Angewandte Chemie

Hot Attraction in Bimetals
Highest Curie temperature for a cyano-bridged vanadium–niobium bimetal assembly reported

Three Main Phases of Quasicrystals
The discovery of quasicrystals brought about a paradigm shift in chemistry and materials science and is celebrated in a special issue

First Crystal Structure of BrN3
Single-crystal X-ray structure of bromine azide

Baby Crystal (PbS)32
(PbS)32 is the smallest stable cubic cluster for which its inner (PbS)4 core enjoys bulk-like coordination

New Tool for Catalytic Reaction Engineering
Electrophoretic deposition used to apply an acidic catalytic coating to aluminum foams, tested in the dehydration of fructose

Unusual Four-Membered Metallacycles
Four-membered rings with unusual butterfly-like structure made with metallacycles containing group 4 metal, nitrogen, and sulfur

Copper Spots Histidine
Simple coordination complex of copper acts as efficient, selective fluorescent sensor for histidine in aqueous solution at neutral pH

Angewandte Chemie 3/2012: The Art of Arrows
An overview of the latest issue of Angewandte Chemie