Special Chimia Edition for the new ETH chemistry building on the Hoenggerberg

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After more than 100 years of teaching and research downtown Zürich at ETH Zentrum, the Chemistry Department moved into a new building on the Hönggerberg campus during Summer. The building meets the highest professional standards in terms of safety and quality of the workplace. This issue of CHIMIA provides a view on the broad range of ongoing projects pursued by the various research groups in the Department of Chemistry.

• Electron Paramagnetic Resonance Spectroscopy
  Carlos Calle, Rüdiger-A. Eichel, Cinzia Finazzo, Jörg Forrer, Josef Granwehr, Igor Gromov, Willi Groth, Jeffrey Harmer, Moritz Kälin, Walter Lämmler, Lorenz Liesum, Zoltan Mádi, Stefan Stoll, Sabine Van Doorslaer, and Arthur Schweiger*
• Metal Phosphides and Zeolite-like Mesoporous Materials as Catalysts
  Roel Prins*, Gerhard Pirngruber, and Thomas Weber
• Heterogeneous Catalysis - An Interdisciplinary Approach
  Alfons Baiker
• Flexible Synthetic Approaches to Monoterpene Indole Alkaloids
  Christine Frauenfelder, Gavin A. Schmid, Thomas Vogelsang, and Hans-Jürg Borschberg
• Snapshots
  Peter Chen
• Transition Metal Catalysis on Olefins: Some Considerations Relative to Migratory Insertion
  Giambattista Consiglio
• Design and Synthesis of Functional Molecular Architecture
  François Diederich
• Discovery and Study of New Reaction Chemistry; Applications in Complex Molecule Assembly
  Erick M. Carreira
• Bend the Coin Your Way: Ligand Design and Main Group Element Chemistry
  Carsten Böhler, Torsten Büttner, Stephan Deblon, Gionata Frasca, Gilles Frison, Jens Geier, Cécile Laporte, Florian Läng, Sandra Loss, Pascal Maire, Nicola Pè, Hartmut Schönberg, Markus Scherer, Christoph Widauer, and Hansjörg Grützmacher
• Molecular Dynamics Simulation of Biomolecular Systems
  Wilfred van Gunsteren, Dirk Bakowies, Roland Bürgi, Indira Chandrasekhar, Markus Christen, Xavier Daura, Peter Gee, Alice Glättli, Tomas Hansson, Chris Oostenbrink, Christine Peter, Jed Pitera, Lukas Schuler, Thereza Soares, and Haibo Yu
• Access to Isotopic and Elemental Composition and Their Distribution in Solid Materials by Laser Ablation-Inductively Coupled Plasma-Mass Spectrometry
  Detlef Günther, Davide Bleiner, Marcel Guillong, Bodo Hattendorf, Ingo Horn
• Enzyme Engineering
  Donald Hilvert
• Electrostatic Interactions in Biomolecular Systems
  Philippe H.Hünenberger, Ulf Börjesson, Roberto D.Lins
• Structural Organometallic Chemistry and its Relation to Homogeneous Catalysis
  Paul S. Pregosin
• Environmentally Oriented Design and Assessment of Chemical Products and Processes
  Maximilian Stroebe, Volker H. Hoffmann, Andreas Zogg, Martin Scheringer, and Konrad Hungerbühler
• NMR Study of the p-DNA Duplex [(4'-->2')-3'-Desoxyribopyranosyl-(^m5CGDDTT^m5CG)₂] and Comparison with its p-RNA Analogue
  Marc-Olivier Ebert, Damian Ackermann, Stefan Pitsch, and Bernhard Jaun
• Living in an Oxygen Atmosphere - NO' Problem?
  Susanna Herold and Willem H. Koppenol
• Laborvision ETH Zürich Der neue Laborstandard der ETH Zürich
  Marcel Schmucki und Bruno Martinoni
• Towards Biomolecular Structure Determination by High-Resolution Solid-State NMR: Assignment of Solid Peptides
  Andreas Detken, Matthias Ernst, and Beat H.Meier
• High-Resolution Vacuum Ultraviolet Photoelectron Spectroscopy
  Urs Hollenstein, Robert Seiler, Andreas Osterwalder, Marcel Sommavilla, Andrea Wüest, Patrick Rupper, Stefan Willitsch, Gregory M.Greetham, Bethany Brupbacher-Gatehouse, and Frédéric Merkt
• A New Reaction-Separation Unit: The Simulated Moving Bed Reactor
  Florian Lode, Marco Mazzotti, and Massimo Morbidelli
• Designing Solids
  Reinhard Nesper
• The New Wave of Potentiometric Ion Sensors
  Ernö Pretsch
• Molecules in Motion
  Martin Quack
• Laser-assisted Analytical Chemistry and Mass Spectrometry
  Renato Zenobi
• Direct Electrochemical Reduction of Indigo
  Albert Roessler, Otmar Dossenbach, Ulrich Meyer, Walter Marte, and Paul Rys
• From Synthetic Methods to y-Peptides - From Chemistry to Biology
  Dieter Seebach, Albert K. Beck, Meinrad Brenner, Christoph Gaul, and Alexander Heckel
• Developing Catalytic Enantioselective Fluorination
  Antonio Togni, Antonio Mezzetti, Peter Barthazy, Claus Becker, Ingrid Devillers, Richard Frantz, Lukas Hintermann, Mauro Perseghini, and Maria Sanna
• Facing Glycoscience
  Andrea Vasella
• Laser Processing of Novel Functional Materials
  Thomas Lippert and Alexander Wokaun