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"No one wants to be the guinea pig for a manufacturer to learn upon."
MARK LECHEVALLIER, DIRECTOR OF INNOVATION & ENVIRONMENTAL STEWARDSHIP, AMERICA WATER – p. 20
October 19, 2009
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Highlights
Cover Story
Where Art Meets Science
Museum collections provide potential research opportunities for chemists. (pp. 12-16)
A Museum Career: Chemist works at intersection of chemistry and art (Web Exclusive)
Business
Hard Water (Member Content)
Water treatment start-ups are awash in innovation but face a risk-averse industry. (pp. 20-21)
Government & Policy
Chemical Rules Face Change (Member Content)
EPA administrator announces new priorities for agency's chemical policies. (pp. 28-29)
Table of Contents
News Of The Week
Putting A Price On Cutting CO2 p. 7
Climate Change: Economists predict modest overall impacts but deep cuts for some.
Cold Deep-Sea N2 Fixers p. 8
Environment: Microbe consortium could help balance oceanic nitrogen budget.
Patent Rules Rescinded p. 8
Intellectual Property: Bush-era regulations on patent size pulled.
Fine Chemicals Tough It Out p. 9
CPhI: After a difficult year, there could be signs of life for pharmaceutical chemical producers.
More Acetonitrile p. 9
Ineos rolls out new technology that will help keep the polar solvent in supply.
New Helper For Bulky Amino Acids p. 10
Asymmetric Synthesis: Stripped-down small-molecule catalyst improves synthesis of key chiral intermediates.
Journal Of Chemical Education Joins ACS Publications p. 10
ACS News: Premiere journal for chemical education to become available on the ACS Publications website.
Newcomer Enters Patent Measuring p. 11
R&D: Dow, BASF back new method for assessing impact.
Homoallenylation Sans Separation p. 11
Organic Synthesis: Chiral reaction could be used to make natural products, drugs.
Business
Hard Water pp. 20-21 (Member Content)
Water treatment start-ups are awash in innovation but face a risk-averse industry.
In With The New pp. 22-23 (Member Content)
A unique methyl methacrylate plant in Singapore owes its success to a handful of British chemists.
A New Attraction pp. 24-25 (Member Content)
A few chemical companies are combining chemistry and magnetics.
Business Concentrates pp. 18-19 (Member Content)
- Bayer Ending Shorter Hours, BASF results Improve
- Developments at Germany's two largest chemical makers indicate that the worst the economy has to offer...
- Evonik Will Acquire Lilly API Facility
- Evonik Industries has agreed to acquire Eli Lilly & Co.'s Tippecanoe Laboratories ...
- Clariant To Cut 800 More Jobs
- As part of its ongoing restructuring efforts, Swiss specialty chemical company Clariant says it will reduce...
- Qafco Plans will Boost Urea, Ammonia
- Qatar Fertilizer Co. (Qafco) plans to expand its fertilizer complex in Qatar...
- Tosoh Is Expanding Specialty Elastomer
- Tosoh is boosting capacity for chlorosulfonated polyethylene at its complex in Yamaguchi, Japan...
- Novartis Strikes Multiple Deals
- Novartis is acquiring U.S. and Canadian rights to Vanda Pharmaceuticals' Fanapt, a small-molecule drug...
- Merck, Lonza Buy Indian Companies
- Germany's Merck will buy the lab products maker Bangalore Genei from India's Sanmar Group...
- Bayer Sequences Canola Genome
- Bayer CropScience says it has sequenced the entire genome of the canola...
- Biotech Hub Planned For U.K.
- Public, private, and nonprofit entities have committed $60 million to develop a biotechnology science park...
- Progenics Takes Back Rights From Wyeth
- Progenics Pharmaceuticals has regained worldwide rights to Relistor (methylnaltrexone bromide), the only approved treatment...
- Onyx To Buy Proteolix
- Onyx Pharmaceuticals has signed a definitive agreement to acquire South San Francisco-based biopharmaceutical firm Proteolix...
- Nova And Solutia Get New Credit
- In a sign that credit markets are thawing, Nova Chemicals and Solutia...
- Business Roundup
- The European Commission, Chinese government, Air Products & Chemicals, CF Industries, Evonik Industries, BASF, GlaxoSmithKline, Genentech...
ACS News
A Milestone For MEDI p. 42 (Member Content)
ACS's Division of Medicinal Chemistry celebrates its 100th anniversary.
Employment
Rising To The Challenge pp. 46-48
In biotech, a culture of creativity and team building helps top companies to work for weather a tough economy.
Government & Policy
Chemical Rules Face Change pp. 28-29 (Member Content)
EPA administrator announces new priorities for agency's chemical policies.
In For The Long Haul On Climate Change pp. 30-32 (Member Content)
Battles heat up as EPA, Congress debate how to reduce greenhouse gas emissions.
Balancing Lab Security pp. 33-35 (Member Content)
Scientists fear tighter restrictions could hamper biological research.
Government & Policy Concentrates p. 27 (Member Content)
- Lawmakers Extend Chemical Security Plan
- House and Senate negotiators have agreed to extend the Department of Homeland Security’s...
- Power Plants Cut Mercury Releases
- More than a dozen U.S. coal-fired power plants are cutting their emissions of mercury...
- NASA Probe Hits The Moon
- During a “flawless” performance on Oct. 9, NASA’s Lunar...
- Huge CO2 Storage Potential In China
- U.S. and Chinese researchers have found that China has enough underground geologic...
- Medical Isotope Bill Clears Subpanel
- On Oct. 14, a subcommittee of the House Energy & Commerce Committee passed by...
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Awards
Georgia Section Celebrates 75th Herty Medal p. 43 (Member Content)
Awardee Craig Hill discusses catalyst for hydrogen fuel at awards banquet.
Nuckolls Selected for Baekeland Award p. 44 (Member Content)
ExxonMobil Solid-State Fellowship Available p. 44 (Member Content)
Science & Technology
Tools For Protein Folding pp. 39-40 (Member Content)
Techniques provide ways to manipulate and understand protein folding.
Inside Instrumentation p. 41
Technology and Business news for the laboratory world.
Science & Technology Concentrates pp. 36-37 (Member Content)
- Molecule Controls Worms With The Flip Of A Switch
- Photoswitchable materials could inspire the design of easy-to-deliver drugs.
- A Coating That Fights Ice
- A new superhydrophobic coating prevents ice buildup on its surface.
- Sour Cells Sense Carbonation
- Carbonic anhydrase on our taste buds' sour-sensing cells produce the fizzy taste of carbonated drinks.
- Trimming Sugars Yields Better Flu Antibodies
- Truncating sugar chains on coat protein may lead to a new vaccine for the virus.
- Dynamic Changes In Iridium Catalysts
- Ratio of reactants determines whether clusters adopt tetra- or mononuclear forms.
- Herbicides, Drugs Block Taste Receptor
- Such weed killers and lipid-lowering drugs interfere energy metabolism, glucose regulation.
- Ibuprofen Goes With The Flow
- Continuous-flow synthesis shows the way to safer, cheaper, and more efficient production of common painkiller.
- DNA Structures Imaged In Live Cells
- Ruthenium complex lights up quadruplexes, a DNA structure with diverse biological function.
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The Departments
Letters pp. 3-5
Newscripts p. 72
A Whiff Of Knowledge, Muscle Makeovers
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