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

Three Main Phases of Quasicrystals

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

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

Opening Up The World Of Chemistry
The co-chairmen of ChemistryOpen's Editorial Advisory Board discuss their expectations of this new ChemPubSoc Europe journal

Modifying MOFs in the Vapor Phase
Introducing chelating groups into metal-organic frameworks by vapor-phase post-synthetic modification boosts their catalytic potential

Most Accessed Articles: December 2011
The most-accessed chemistry articles from ChemPubSoc Europe and GDCh journals for December 2011

Recycling Platinum
Electrochemical dissolution of platinum in an ionic liquid could allow its environmentally friendly recycling