Interview with ChemistryViews Author Klaus Roth, Freie Universität Berlin, Germany

Maps showing the location of the main producers of elements and the amounts produced

The first metamaterial to display optical properties accross the visible region

Derivative current-density maps reveal how so-called breathing modes in the benzene ring cause aromaticity and antiaromaticity to ebb and flow

Michel R. Gagné, Andreas Kirschning, Fernando P. Cossio, and Jurriaan Huskens are interviewed this month

Simply stirring a gelled solution of dye can result in circularly polarized luminescence

Hindered photochromic benzo- and naphtho[1,3]oxazines can switch rapidly between colorless and colored forms under ultraviolet irradiation

Peter Atkins' new book, On Being, exploring the great questions of existence is reviewed by Uwe Meierhenrich

The Polanyi rules which describe the partitioning of energy in reaction barriers have been shown to neglect long-range steric forces

Organic alloys with guest-acceptor capabilities could allow crystal properties to be tuned by doping or mixing