Atomic radii of the main group elements vary in a predictable and explicable manner across the periodic table

Everything is back-to-front when an accident in Wonderlab turns Sophie into the safety monitor

The most-accessed chemistry articles from ChemPubSoc Europe and GDCh journals for March 2011

The successful generation of bare [CuO]⁺ has revealed the final piece of the puzzle about the activation of methane

Good agreement in calculations and experiment reveal how an important pre-catalyst used in olefin metathesis is activated

Understanding how the passivating layer on a gold surface forms could see more accurate biosensors developed

It is possible to create nanoscopic particles of platinum with precise shapes using facet-specific peptide sequences, according to US chemists

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Tracking bismuth uptake at the single-cell level using mass spectrometry could see new anti-ulcer drugs developed

An overview of the current issue of Angewandte Chemie