Alfred Werner's work on the spatial arrangements of atoms in inorganic complexes is celebrated as part of ZAAC's 120th anniversary

120 Years of Top Inorganic Chemistry — Alfred Werner

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

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

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

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

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

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

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