The ''Zeitschrift für anorganische und allgemeine Chemie'' (''Journal of Inorganic and General Chemistry'') is a semimonthly

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covering

inorganic chemistry Inorganic chemistry deals with chemical synthesis, synthesis and behavior of inorganic compound, inorganic and organometallic chemistry, organometallic compounds. This field covers chemical compounds that are not carbon-based, which are the subj ...

, published by

Wiley-VCH Wiley-VCH is a German publisher owned by John Wiley & Sons. It was founded in 1921 as Verlag Chemie (meaning "Chemistry Press": VCH stands for ''Verlag Chemie'') by two German learned societies A learned society ( ; also scholarly, intellect ...

. The

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are Thomas F. Fässler, Christian Limberg, Guodong Qian, and David Scheschkewitz. Originally the journal was published in German, but nowadays it is completely in English.

Abstracting and indexing

The journal is abstracted and indexed in: According to the ''

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'', the journal has a 2022

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of 1.4.

History

In 1892, Gerhard Krüss (

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), established the journal under the name ''Zeitschrift für Anorganische Chemie''. Krüss died three years later, and was succeeded by Richard Lorenz and

Walther Nernst Walther Hermann Nernst (; 25 June 1864 – 18 November 1941) was a German physical chemist known for his work in thermodynamics, physical chemistry, electrochemistry, and solid-state physics. His formulation of the Nernst heat theorem helped ...

. In 1907, the journal obtained its current name.

References

External links

*{{Official website, https://www.wiley-vch.de/en/shop/journals/298 Chemistry journals Wiley-VCH academic journals English-language journals Biweekly journals Publications established in 1892