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  • In Your Element |

    From Earth to the stars and back again, John Emsley surveys the uses, occurrences and mysteries of an element that is playing an increasing role in human affairs.

    • John Emsley

  • Thesis |

    Bruce Gibb wonders whether our faith in chemistry — and what it can teach us about the Universe beyond our Earthly bounds — will have a role to play in the search for alien life.

    • Bruce C. Gibb

  • Thesis |

    Michelle Francl wonders if the harem effect in crystallography is overrated.

    • Michelle Francl

  • In Your Element |

    From rubies to Rolls-Royce, Anders Lennartson explores the colourful history of chromium and its coordination compounds.

    • Anders Lennartson

  • Interview |

    Benjamin King and Dieter Schlüter, the corresponding authors of two Articles in this issue that describe single-crystal characterization of two-dimensional polymers, talk to Nature Chemistry about the background, challenges and prospects of their work.

    • Claire Hansell

  • In Your Element |

    Thomas Albrecht-Schmitt explains the origin of element 98's striking green glow, and why the future for californium chemistry is just as bright.

    • Thomas Albrecht-Schmitt

  • Thesis |

    They might not be fundamental constants of nature, but atomic weights are one of the foundations on which modern chemistry is built, explains Juris Meija.

    • Juris Meija

  • News & Views |

    Halogen bonding connects a wide range of subjects — from materials science to structural biology, from computation to crystal engineering, and from synthesis to spectroscopy. The 1st International Symposium on Halogen Bonding explored the state of the art in this fast-growing field of research.

    • Mate Erdelyi

  • Thesis |

    Bruce Gibb looks back at some examples of irreproducible reactions in his own laboratory and suggests ways in which the reproducibility of chemical reactions can be maximized.

    • Bruce C. Gibb

  • In Your Element |

    Anders Lennartson muses on molybdenum and its essential role in catalysing reactions from the bacterial to the industrial scale.

    • Anders Lennartson

  • Thesis |

    Michelle Francl suggests that students should be trained to write in a fashion similar to how they are taught the principles and practice of NMR spectroscopy — by providing them with a limited set of patterns and parameters.

    • Michelle Francl

  • In Your Element |

    Alfred Nobel's eponymous element, nobelium, was 'first' discovered either in the 1950s or 1960s, in the USSR, Sweden or the USA. Brett F. Thornton and Shawn C. Burdette delve into the ensuing decades of internecine strife over the discovery of element 102.

    • Brett F. Thornton
    •  & Shawn C. Burdette

  • In Your Element |

    John Arnold, Thomas L. Gianetti and Yannai Kashtan look back on thorium's chemistry, and look forward to harnessing its nuclear potential.

    • John Arnold
    • , Thomas L. Gianetti
    •  & Yannai Kashtan

  • In Your Element |

    Eric Ansoborlo considers the disproportionate potency of polonium compared with its relative scarcity on Earth.

    • Eric Ansoborlo

  • Thesis |

    Bruce Gibb finds wonder in the landscape of chemistry research.

    • Bruce C. Gibb

  • Thesis |

    Michelle Francl suggests that self-plagiarism is a misleading term and that repeating yourself in publications isn't always a bad thing.

    • Michelle Francl

  • Editorial |

    As Nature Chemistry celebrates its fifth birthday, we take a look at some of the facts and figures that underpin the story of the journal so far.

  • In Your Element |

    Claude Piguet reflects on the history of erbium, which is very much intertwined with its rare earth cousins yttrium, ytterbium and terbium.

    • Claude Piguet

  • Article |

    Copolymers of ethylene and polar monomers are produced industrially using free radical polymerization that leads to broad molecular weight distributions of products with ill-defined structures. Now, an organo–cobalt complex is shown to control the radical copolymerization of ethylene with polar monomers under mild experimental conditions, and allows access to block-like copolymers with targeted compositions and monomer distributions.

    • Anthony Kermagoret
    • , Antoine Debuigne
    •  & Christophe Detrembleur

  • Thesis |

    Michelle Francl takes a serious look at whether we should indulge in scientific humour.

    • Michelle Francl

  • Thesis |

    A century ago this month, Frederick Soddy described and named isotopes in the pages of Nature. Brett F. Thornton and Shawn C. Burdette discuss how chemists have viewed and used isotopes since then — either as chemically identical or chemically distinct species as the need required and technology allowed.

    • Brett F. Thornton
    •  & Shawn C. Burdette

  • In Your Element |

    Brett F. Thornton and Shawn C. Burdette look back at the discovery — and the many different names — of element 86.

    • Brett F. Thornton
    •  & Shawn C. Burdette

  • Thesis |

    Back-of-the-envelope calculations are an important part of chemistry argues Michelle Francl.

    • Michelle Francl

  • Thesis |

    Chemical compounds are often taken for granted, argues Bruce Gibb, and the most underappreciated is one that we're all very familiar with.

    • Bruce C. Gibb

  • Thesis |

    Michelle Francl ponders ways in which we can talk about chemistry without triggering chemophobia.

    • Michelle Francl

  • News & Views |

    No longer held in Bürgenstock or the preserve of stereochemists, the Bürgenstock conference on stereochemistry is much more than its name suggests. The diverse range of subjects discussed at the meeting highlights the fundamental importance of chemistry in other scientific disciplines ranging from molecular biology to materials science.

    • Stuart J. Conway

  • Thesis |

    Bringing knowledge management to bear on the process of scientific research may have benefits for everyone, explains Bruce Gibb.

    • Bruce C. Gibb

  • Thesis |

    Michelle Francl wonders if home labs make (better) chemists.

    • Michelle Francl

  • Interview |

    Thomas Hager, author of popular science books that revisit some of the most significant developments in chemistry over the past century, talks to Nature Chemistry about the challenges of writing for a general audience, and how his dislike of chemistry was turned around by a fellow Oregonian of considerable repute.

    • Stuart Cantrill

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