Cover Picture: Finding a New Crystalline Sponge from a Crystallographic Database (Chem. Asian J. 2/2017).

A new crystalline sponge, which can absorb and orient guest compounds to enable single ‐ crystal X ‐ ray analysis of them, was found from a crystallographic database by adopting empirical searching conditions. In the initial search using the Cambridge Structural Database, more than 2,800 crystal structures with void spaces were found as promising candidates. After the optimization of solvent and guest ‐ soaking conditions, a coordination network crystal with 1 ‐ dimensional channels (cross section: 10 × 10 Å2) was used for the crystallographic analysis of a liquid compound. More information can be found in the Communication by Yasuhide Inokuma, Makoto Fujita et al. on page   208 in Issue 2, 2017 (DOI: 10.1002/asia.201601551). [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]