Nachrichten aus der Chemie is read by nearly 80.000 highly demanding chemists in both academia and industry. Nachrichten keeps them abreast of relevantdevelopments in chemistry and related disciplines, about social aspects and about the actitivities and offers of the Gesellschaft Deutscher Chemiker with its divisions and local comitees.

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