Sommerschule „Frontiers of Polymer Chemistry”︁

38 indische Studenten sowie 12 Dozenten, davon 5 von deutschen Universitäten oder außeruniversitären Forschungsinstituten, haben Ende Juni/Anfang Juli an der zweiwöchigen, vom DAAD finanzierten Sommerschule „Frontiers of Polymer Chemistry”︁ am Indian Institute of Science (IISc) in Bangalore teilgenommen. Der Anstoß zu dieser Veranstaltung kam von Ullrich Scherf, Makromolekulare Chemie, Universität Wuppertal und S. Ramakrishnan, Inorganic and Physical Chemistry, Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore/Indien.     

Alfred Werners Koordinationstheorie: „Eine geniale Frechheit”︁

At the end of the 19^th century, the Swiss chemist Alfred Werner formulated the conceptional framework of coordination chemistry. This happened in contradiction to the then established and accepted scientific views concerning the constitution of molecules and provides an example of a scientific change of paradigms. The far‐reaching hypotheses were substantiated subsequently by Werner and his coworkers by relatively primitive, but ingenious, experimental techniques and provide the basis of much of today's coordination chemistry.