DuPont's Ellen Kullman

Quote of the Week
"If the biobased aspect is all there is to your value proposition, it is a pretty weak value proposition."
DAVID HESTER, GLOBAL BUSINESS DEVELOPMENT DIRECTOR FOR PERFORMANCE PRODUCTS, HUNTSMAN CORP. – p. 16
April 12, 2010
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Highlights

Cover Story
Leading DuPont
After a difficult first year as CEO, Ellen Kullman sets the stage for growth. (pp. 10-13)

Government & Policy
Nanotechnology Investment (Member Content)
U.S. Focuses on commercialization and strengthening environmental, health, and safety research. (pp. 22-24)

Science
Drug Candidates' Big Reveal (Member Content)
ACS Meeting News: Medicinal chemists unveil potential drugs for brain, autoimmune, liver ailments. (pp. 30-33)
Table of Contents
News Of The Week
Graphene's Thermal Conductivity p. 5
Materials: Ultrathin carbon dissipates heat well when supported by a solid.
Accelrys, Symyx Sign Merger Deal p. 6
Informatics: Scientific software firms combine to create synergies and growth.
Data Storage Goes Organic p. 6
Materials Science: Device relies on changes in azo conductivity.
Five Die In Refinery Fire p. 7
Plant Safety: Tesoro refinery blast is the latest in string of accidents under investigation.
New U.S. Nuclear Weapons Policy p. 8
Arms Reduction: Administration pledges limits on numbers, use, construction of new weapons.
Shintech Invests In Louisiana p. 8
Basic Chemicals: Company will integrate its PVC business in the state.
Obesity Clue In View p. 9
Structural Biology: Close-up of methyl-clipping enzyme might help probe its obesity connection.
Element 117 Created p. 9
Nuclear Chemistry: Elusive superheavy element fills out picture of periodic table's extremes.
Business

Paints From Plants pp. 16-19 (Member Content)
With biobased-coatings raw materials, companies get more than just independence from petroleum.
Taste Of Wacker p. 20 (Member Content)
Firm's niche food ingredients business forms kernel of new growth strategy.
Business Concentrates pp. 14-15 (Member Content)
- Carbon Fibers Set For Automotive Use
- German firms SGL and BMW plan to spend $100 million on a carbon fiber facility in Moses Lake, Wash...
- Indian Oil Plans Two Ventures
- Indian Oil is exploring rubber and biofuels projects...
- Solar-Powered Boat And Plane Advance
- DuPont is supplying materials for PlanetSolar, a catamaran dubbed the world’s largest solar boat...
- Total Chemicals Exits Consumer Products
- Total Chemicals has sold Mapa Spontex, a maker of baby bottles and rubber gloves, to consumer products maker Jarden for $446 million...
- Dow Venture Sells Polyester Facility
- Equipolymers has signed an agreement to sell its PET and terephthalic acid facilities in Ottana, Italy, to a joint venture...
- Bruker Forms New Analysis Division
- Bruker has created a new chemical analysis division within its Daltonics subsidiary to house three product lines it expects to acquire soon...
- Fine Chemicals Firms Offer New Reagents
- Sigma-Aldrich will offer 16 stable-isotope-labeled synthetic reagents through an agreement with Highlands Stable Isotope...
- Pulcra Will Acquire Former Dystar Plant
- Pulcra Chemicals has agreed to purchase the former DyStar facility in Geretsried, Germany...
- BASF Adds Urethanes In China, Colombia
- BASF plans to build polyurethane formulation facilities, or system houses, in China and Colombia...
- Grace And Borealis Join For Catalysts
- W.R. Grace has signed an agreement to supply polypropylene catalysts to Austrian polyolefins maker Borealis...
- MDRNA Buys Cequent, Signs Pfizer Pact
- MDRNA has agreed to buy Cequent Pharmaceuticals, a Cambridge, Mass.-based RNAi delivery firm, in an all-stock deal valued at roughly $46 million...
- Pfizer Links Up For Tb R&D In China
- Pfizer will work with MicuRx Pharmaceuticals and Cumencor Pharmaceuticals to discover treatments for multi-drug-resistant tuberculosis...
- Takeda Licenses AMAG’s Anemia Drug
- Takeda Pharmaceutical will pay up to $280 million for the rights to sell a new kidney drug in Europe, Canada, the former Soviet Union...
- Business Roundup
- BASF, Air Products & Chemicals, Dynea, Lenzing, Amyris Biotechnologies, HCL CleanTech, KV Pharmaceutical, GlaxoSmithKline and Crucell, Sanofi-Aventis...
Employment

Working For A Biotech Start-Up pp. 47-50
Fledgling firms offer rewards that sometimes outweigh the risks of conducting high-stakes research on a fast track.
Meetings
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Government & Policy

Nanotechnology Investment pp. 22-24 (Member Content)
U.S. focuses on commercialization and strengthening environmental, health, and safety research.
Tax Fight Looms pp. 25-26 (Member Content)
Administration wants to curtail tax breaks for U.S. multinationals.
Cutting Carbon And Making Money p. 27 (Member Content)
Study claims paradigm shift in energy will drive companies to focus on efficiency to succeed.
Government & Policy Concentrates p. 21 (Member Content)
- Health Reform Package Includes Biotech Credit
- Analysts and industry officials say a research tax credit included...
- Agencies Recommend Removing Drywall
- The Department of Housing & Urban Development and the Consumer Product Safety Commission are...
- Children's Health Program Lacking
- EPA's Office of Children's Health Protection & Environmental Education (OCHPEE) lacks...
- Chemicals Added To Toxics Inventory
- EPA is adding 16 substances, including the widely used industrial chemicals...
- Employment Trends Up For Scientists
- An estimated 5.8 million individuals, or 4.3% of those holding jobs, were employed in science and engineering...
» more government & policy news...
ACS News
ACS Honors Its 50-Year Members pp. 40-46 (Member Content)
Nylon's 75th Anniversary Fete p. 46 (Member Content)
Chemistry visionaries and public figures gather in Delaware to celebrate the ubiquitous material.
Science & Technology

Drug Candidates' Big Reveal pp. 30-33 (Member Content)
ACS Meeting News: Medicinal chemists unveil potential drugs for brain, autoimmune, liver ailments.
Bringing Outdoor Chemistry Indoors pp. 34-36 (Member Content)
ACS Meeting News: Symposium brings together atmospheric and indoor chemistry communities.
Smoke Signals pp. 37-38
Seeds sprout in the ashes of forest fires, thanks to small molecules in smoke.
The 'Sus' Word p. 39 (Member Content)
Insights: Sustainability, the main attraction at last month's ACS meeting, has leapt to the forefront of chemical thinking
Science & Technology Concentrates pp. 28-29 (Member Content)
- Fruit Fly's Water
- Ion channel protein in fruit flies' taste neurons hints at how animals regulate water intake.
- Arsenic Binding Defeats Leukemia
- Arsenic trioxide’s efficacy comes from binding to a cysteine-rich region of a cancer protein, leading to protein degradation.
- A New Hydroxyl Protecting Group
- (2-Nitrophenyl)acetyl works well at masking hydroxyl moieties in the synthesis of sugars.
- Slipping In An Acetyl For Enzyme Control
- Controlled acetylation inhibits isomerase activity of cyclophilin A, which could lead to new antiviral treatments.
- Salty Coronene Sorts Carbon Nanotubes
- Scientists take advantage of organic salt's π interactions to separate metallic and semiconducting nanotubes.
- From Solid Block Copolymer To Highly Porous Membrane
- Polyethylene/polylactide copolymer, stripped of its polylactide segments, becomes a useful porous material.
- Nitroxyl Lights Up Copper Complex
- Copper-based fluorescent probe is a selective indicator for HNO in biological systems.
- Novel Redox Couples Could Aid Solar Cells
- Metallacarborane and sulfur compounds should improve on iodide systems in dye-sensitized solar cells.
» more science & technology news...
Editor's Page

Marine Life p. 3
Photos from a trip to Little Cayman in the British West Indies.
The Departments
Letters pp. 2, 4
Newscripts p. 56
Doubts About China's Population Figures
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