—Iron Spurs C–H Bond Reactivity “Organometallics: Catalyst creates drug scaffolds quickly” Finding inspiration in the iron-based enzymes that metabolize drugs and other chemicals, chemists have come up with a catalyst that turns unreactive C–H bonds into useful C–N bonds (Science, DOI: 10.1126/science.1233701).
by Bethany Halford | May 06, 2013
Davies, vice president of business development and publisher of C&EN, which is published by ACS. “These prestigious awards recognize the talent and spirit of collaboration between C&EN’s editorial, marketing, and video production groups to showcase the creativity and intuition of our reporters and engage with both our readers and advertising community.” C&EN products received awards in four different categories. C&EN’s video “Scientific Cocktail Toppers Move from the 3D Printer to the Bar,” which has received more than 16,000 views on YouTube to date, won an Eddie Digital award in the Association/Non-Profit (B-to-B [business-to-business])—Video category. C&EN Marketing Elements won an Eddie Digital award in the Association/Non-Profit (B-to-B)—Website category. C&EN Media Group’s media kit won an Ozzie Award in the Association/Non-Profit (B-to-B)—Media Kit category. And the C&EN Chemistry in Pictures Tumblr blog, which has more than 27,000 followers, won an Eddie Digital award in the Association/Non-Profit—Online Community category. This wasn’t the first time C&EN has been recognized in this awards competition. Last year, the magazine was a finalist for its Tumblr blog The Watch Glass, which highlights 90 years of C&EN. /articles/93/i1/CEN-Wins-Publishing-Awards.html 20150105 93 1 /magazine/93/09301.html C&EN Wins Publishing Awards ACS, awards acs-news Linda Wang people C&EN Wins Publishing Awards Chemical & Engineering News C&EN Wins Publishing Awards C&EN Wins Publishing Awards
by Linda Wang | January 05, 2015
—C&EN In Chicago “” C &EN'S CONTINGENT to the 233rd ACS national meeting began arriving in Chicago on Wednesday, March 21, to attend various ACS governance functions dealing with the magazine and the ACS Web Presence Initiative (WPI). One such function was the meeting of C&EN's editorial board, which met, as it does at every national meeting, early on Friday morning.
by Rudy M. Baum, Editor-in-chief | April 02, 2007
—Tagging Peptides Enables C-Terminomics “A strategy is unveiled for easily finding proteins activated by cleavage at the C-terminus, rather than the N-terminus” Many proteins are activated by a quick snip at their ends by protease enzymes. However, the bulk of what is known about protease activity involves proteins that are cleaved and then sequenced from the N-terminus. Until now, there hasn’t been a robust, inexpensive procedure that enables unbiased fishing for proteins that get activated by C-terminal cleavage in complex protein mixtures, such as in cells. A solution to this problem comes from Christopher M. Overall of the University of British Columbia, Vancouver, and coworkers who are reporting a method for quantitative, proteome-wide analysis of proteins that get cleaved at the C-terminus as part of their role in a cell (Nat.
by Sarah Everts | June 07, 2010
—Obituary: Doris C. Warren “” Doris C. Warren, 81, died May 22 in Houston, Texas. “I remember being inspired by Doris’s delight when, wearing her signature tie-dyed lab coat, she led rapt elementary students and teachers in their discovery of ‘Chemistry in a Ziploc Bag;’ being awed by her designation as an ACS local section award winner and a Texas Piper Professor; admiring greatly her professionalism, heart for service, and passion for excellence as she guided senior students in discussion in our Principles of Research course, enriched our program through grants, and steadfastly steered our College of Science and Mathematics as dean; and feeling richly blessed by her unfailing wise advice and generous mentorship.”
by Nina Notman, special to C&EN | August 19, 2022
—Obituary: Norman C. Craig “ ” Norman C. Craig, 89, died March 7 in Oberlin, Ohio. “Over a 63-year career, Norm Craig championed undergraduate research and teaching, as recognized by multiple ACS awards. With students, he characterized the gas phase structures of small organic molecules, using ultrahigh resolution infrared and microwave spectroscopy and quantum chemical calculations, and found new synthetic routes to isotopomers and fluorinated variants.
by Alexandra A. Taylor | September 18, 2021
—'CENtral Science' “” C &EN Launched “C&ENtral Science,” the magazine’s permanent blog, in March 2008, in time for the spring ACS national meeting in New Orleans. A number of C&EN staff members attending the meeting posted blog entries on everything from symposia they had attended to tchotchkes being given out by exhibitors at the meeting exposition.
by Rudy Baum | March 15, 2010
—Ir catalyst attacks strong C–H bonds without directing group “New chemistry could modify more complex molecules than previous C–H activation reactions” A reagent that can selectively transform carbon-hydrogen bonds is something organic chemists have been seeking for more than 25 years. Organic chemist John Hartwig and colleagues at the University of California, Berkeley, have now discovered a catalyst that can functionalize the strongest C–H bond on an alkane (Science 2020, DOI: 10.1126/science.aba6146).
by Leigh Krietsch Boerner | May 14, 2020
In April, the Publications Division turned on a new feature on the home page of the Journal of the American Chemical Society , “JACS Research in C&EN,” a box that links to stories in C&EN on papers appearing in the society’s flagship journal. There are two or three such stories every week. Creation of the links on the JACS home page resulted in a 497% jump in May in visits from that page to C&EN.
by Rudy Baum | August 10, 2009