Inside Cover: The Solid Solution Sr1−xBaxGa2: Substitutional Disorder and Chemical Bonding Visited by NMR Spectroscopy and Quantum Mechanical Calculations (Chem. Eur. J. 40/2015)

By combining solid-state synthesis with elaborate experimental and theoretical techniques, F. Haarmann and co-workers, in their Full Paper on page13971ff., have examined intermetallic phases. The combined application of X-ray diffraction, solid-state NMR spectroscopy, and density functional theory (DFT) offers insights into the local atomic environments. Synthesis of Sr1-xBaxGa2 solid solution samples provides beautiful, crystalline material. Alignment of the crystallites in the magnetic field combined with NMR spectroscopy experiments and computational modelling provide different Ga bonding situations depending on substitutional disorder of the cations.