Aleksandar Kondinski, KU Leuven, Belgium, uses commercially available toys to create complex chemical structures

Constructing Models for Teaching and Learning

Guess the Chemist (88)
Can you guess the famous scientist from the description?

Preventing Lead Halide Perovskite Degradation
Instability of perovskite nanocrystals in the presence of moisture or oxygen linked to superoxide

Dual Aromaticity in Both the Ground and the Excited State
Osmapyridinium complex shows rare adaptive aromaticity

Angewandte Chemie 15/2019: Versatile Building Blocks
Overview of the latest issue of Angewandte Chemie

Five New Bismuth Fluoride Selenites Synthesized
Very strong birefringence found in new compounds

"N-Confused" Porphyrin Provides Flexible Coordination
Porphyrin analogues with an inverted pyrrole ring can bind both divalent and trivalent metal ions

Fullerene Cage with Two Heptagons
Soot from a low-pressure combustion contains unprecedented species

Tetraatomic Boron(0) Compound Synthesized
Neutral tetraboron species coordinated by cyclic (alkyl)(amino)carbene ligands

First Carbene–Bismuthinidene Synthesized
Unprecedented carbene‐stabilized subvalent bismuth complex and extension of the carbene‐pnictinidene concept