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Cover Picture: Chemical Adaptability: The Integration of Different Kinds of Matter into Giant Molecular Metal Oxides (Chem. Eur. J. 51/2012)
Author(s) -
Müller Achim,
Merca Alice,
AlKarawi Ahmed Jasim M.,
Garai Somenath,
Bögge Hartmut,
Hou Guangfeng,
Wu Lixin,
Haupt Erhard T. K.,
Rehder Dieter,
Haso Fadi,
Liu Tianbo
Publication year - 2012
Publication title -
chemistry – a european journal
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Reports
SCImago Journal Rank - 1.687
H-Index - 242
eISSN - 1521-3765
pISSN - 0947-6539
DOI - 10.1002/chem.201290217
Subject(s) - chemistry , molybdenum oxide , uranyl , template , catalysis , adaptability , organic chemistry , nanotechnology , materials science , ion , ecology , biology
The term adaptability is often used in biology on organism and molecular level, but rather seldom in chemistry. In their Full Paper on page 16310 ff. , A. Müller, E. T. K. Haupt et al. refer to a new phenomenon that they call “chemical adaptability”. Wheel‐shaped molecular metal oxides can integrate different kinds of matter without changing their shapes and even cations and anions at the same positions. This can be explained by the unique properties of molybdenum oxide building blocks that “behave” similarly flexible to those in dynamic libraries; the latter scenario can lead to the huge variety of related well‐known giant clusters.