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REP. PAUL BROUN (R-GA.), INCOMING CHAIRMAN OF THE HOUSE SCIENCE & TECHNOLOGY COMMITTEE'S SUBCOMMITTEE ON INVESTIGATIONS & OVERSIGHT – p. 28
January 10, 2011
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Highlights
Cover Story
World Chemical Outlook
In 2011, the chemical industry will continue its climb out of the recessionary trough. (p. 9)
Business
Printing The Right Connections (Member Content)
More than a decade after coming to market, printed electronics have yet to make a big impact. (pp. 20-21)
Science & Technology
Regulating Rodents (Member Content)
Pacifichem News: Scientists aim to control pests while minimizing harm to other species. (pp. 33-34)
Table of Contents
Cover Story
World Chemical Outlook p.9
In 2011, the chemical industry will continue its climb out of the recessionary trough.
Markets
Cleantech: Venture Capitalists Seek To Lower Risk p. 15
Electronic Materials: Growth Will Decelerate After Bumper Year p. 13
Finance: Chemical Firms Have Cash To Spend But Are Wary Of Large Investments p. 10
Fine Chemicals: Executives See An 'Okay' Year Ahead p. 17
Inorganics: After A Rough Spell, Steadier Times Lie Ahead p. 14
Instrumentation: Year Ahead Will Test Robustness Of The Recovery p. 11
Paints And Coatings: Recovery Will Come Slowly In Developed Economies p. 16
Petrochemicals: North American Firms Are Pleasantly Surprised By A Robust Market p. 14
Pharmaceuticals: Small, Targeted Deals Will Continue In 2011 p. 12
Specialties: World Demand Will Grow, Fueled By Asia And South America p. 13
Regions
Asia: Growth Is Strong, But Clouds Loom p. 12
Canada: Chemical Firms Look South And Seek Government Incentives For Growth p. 15
Europe: Slower Growth To Follow Strong But Varied Rebound In 2011 p. 11
Latin America: Buoyant Chemical Companies Keep A Cautious Eye On The Rest Of The World p. 17
Middle East: The Region Wants To Beat Its Cracker Addiction p. 16
U.S. Weak Domestic Demand Will Be Offset By Strong Exports, Low Natural Gas Prices p. 10
News Of The Week
Nanorings Synthesized Simply p. 4
Templating: Small templates and building blocks combine to make extra-large structures.
Drug Approvals Declined In 2010 p. 5
Regulation: Industry faced tough FDA scrutiny of new products.
Probing The Anomeric Effect p. 5
Carbohydrate Chemistry: Peptide sensor provides clues to phenomenon that stabilizes sugars.
Two's A Charm For Nickel Complex p. 4
Organometallics: Low-coordinate nickel species presents intriguing electronic structure and reactivity.
Oversight Galore In New Congress p. 4
Politics: Republicans taking control of House vow close scrutiny of federal actions.
EPA Tasks States To Cut Emissions p. 7
Climate Change: Agency empowers local authorities to regulate CO2 and other greenhouse gases
Biobased Chemicals Myriant To Build Succinic Acid Plant In Louisiana p. 7
Extending Alkyne Versatility p. 8
Organic Intermediates: Selective cascade isomerization reaction converts alkynes into α,ω-diesters.
Multimetal Organic Complexes p. 8
Synthesis: Method couples various metals in predetermined sequences.
Business
Printing The Right Connections pp. 20-21 (Member Content)
More than a decade after coming to market, printed electronics have yet to make a big impact.
The Drug Refinery pp. 22-23 (Member Content)
Trevena uses 'biased ligands' to fine-tune the effect of drugs on g-protein-coupled receptors.
Business Concentrates pp. 18-19 (Member Content)
- ChemChina Revises Deal To Buy Makhteshim Agan
- China National Chemical (ChemChina) has tentatively agreed to buy Israel’s Makhteshim Agan Industries...
- Dow And Exxon Sell Polymers Venture
- Dow Chemical and ExxonMobil Chemical are selling their Dexco Polymers joint venture to Taiwan’s TSRC...
- Bruker Buys Two Instrument Firms
- Bruker has acquired two security-related instrumentation businesses...
- Germany’s Merck Opens R&D Center In India
- Merck KGaA has inaugurated an R&D center in Mumbai....
- Perstorp Will Acquire An Ashland Business
- The Swedish specialty chemical maker Perstorp has agreed to acquire Ashland’s pentaerythritol business for an undisclosed sum...
- Silbond Is purchased By Investment Firm
- O2 Investment Partners has acquired all shares of Silbond, a Weston, Mich.-based firm that calls itself the world’s leading producer of tetraethyl orthosilicate (TEOS)...
- BASF Takes A Partner In Medical Polymers
- BASF’s Future Business subsidiary has signed an agreement with Interface Biologics to develop plastics for medical devices...
- Amyris Signs Deal For Squalane Production
- Renewable chemicals firm Amyris has signed agreements with two partners to convert bioderived farnesene into finished specialty chemicals...
- Sigma-Aldrich Acquires Cerilliant
- Sigma-Aldrich has acquired Cerilliant, a supplier of reference standards and materials based in Round Rock, Texas...
- UCB Plans Swiss Biologics Facility
- The Belgian drug company UCB will spend about $330 million to build a microbial manufacturing plant for Cimzia, a monoclonal antibody used to treat Crohn’s disease and rheumatoid arthritis...
- Sanofi-Aventis Taps Avila Technology
- Sanofi-Aventis and Avila Therapeutics will work jointly to discover cancer treatments through Avila’s covalent drug technology...
- Pfizer Extends R&D Pact With Santaris
- Pfizer has expanded a collaboration with Denmark’s Santaris Pharma directed at developing RNA-targeted medicines using Santaris technology...
- AMRI Inks Deal With Genentech
- Albany Molecular Research Inc. has signed a licensing agreement with Genentech under which the Roche-owned biotech company will receive an exclusive license to develop drug candidates...
- Business Roundup
- Quaker Chemical, DuPont, PolyOne, SAP, HCL CleanTech, Senomyx, Gulf Resources, Veridex, Xoma...
Awards
Elias J. Corey Award For Outstanding Original Contribution In Organic Synthesis By A Young Investigator p. 37 (Member Content)
ACS Award For Creative Invention pp. 37-38 (Member Content)
Peter Debye Award In Physical Chemistry pp. 38-39 (Member Content)
ACS Award In Chromatography p. 39 (Member Content)
ACS Award In Analytical Chemistry pp. 39-40 (Member Content)
James T. Grady-James H. Stack Award For Interpreting Chemistry For The Public pp. 39-40 (Member Content)
Alfred Bader Award In Bioinorganic Or Bioorganic Chemistry pp. 40-41 (Member Content)
Gabor A. Somorjai Award For Creative Research In Catalysis p. 41 (Member Content)
Government & Policy
Monitoring A Troubling Trend pp. 26-27 (Member Content)
Federal agencies ready themselves to tackle ocean acidification.
Federal Blueprint For Scientific Integrity pp. 28-29 (Member Content)
Agencies will have to develop procedures to implement administration's new policy.
Government & Policy Concentrates p. 24 (Member Content)
- EPA Requires Toxicity Testing Of 19 Chemicals
- Manufacturers, importers, and processors of 19 widely used chemicals must conduct basic toxicity tests on these substances, according to a rule that EPA announced last week...
- Activists Oppose Boiler Rule Delay
- The Sierra Club is asking a federal district court to deny an EPA request for more time to issue rules curtailing emissions of hazardous air pollutants from industrial boilers and incinerators...
- Methyl Iodide Approval Challenged
- California’s decision last month to approve the controversial pesticide methyl iodide for use on strawberries and other crops was “irresponsible and illegal,”...
- Legislation Changes Agency Programs
- President Barack Obama signed the bill reauthorizing the America Competes Act on Jan. 4. ...
- Bill Seeks To Enhance Patent Case Expertise
- Legislation to establish a pilot program in at least six district courts that seeks to enhance the expertise of judges who hear patent cases was signed by President Barack Obama last week...
» more government & policy news...
ACS Comment
ACS On Campus p. 36 (Member Content)
People
Obituaries pp. 42-43 (Member Content)
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Science & Technology
Peekaboo, H2O2 pp. 32-33 (Member Content)
Pacifichem News: New probes unravel more of the reactive molecule's biological roles.
Regulating Rodents pp. 33-34 (Member Content)
Pacifichem News: Scientists aim to control pests while minimizing harm to other species.
Science & Technology Concentrates pp. 30-31 (Member Content)
- Gold Catalysis Revisited
- A new study helps clear up the controversy over possible palladium-tainted gold catalysis
- Software Enables Speedier Metabolomics
- Program improves metabolite profiling by permitting an unlimited number of sample comparisons simultaneously
- Patterned Polymer Nanowire Arrays
- Polymer nanowires can be fabricated on a large scale via a combination of laser patterning and plasma etching
- New Method For Monitoring Heparin
- Tracking heparin-protamine nanoparticle formation could improve control of anticoagulation drugs during surgery
- Spinning Powder Into Yarn
- Rolling up titanium dioxide powder in carbon nanotube sheets yields fabrics that maintain the powder’s properties
- Trinitramide Debuts
- In a first for the chemistry of nitrogen, researchers have detected the high-energy compound N(NO2)3
- Sad Tears Carry Chemical Signals
- Scientists unearth a function for emotional tears—they can chemically influence the behavior of other individuals
- Oil-Leak Methane Consumed By Bacteria
- Methanotrophic bacteria made quick work of methane stemming from the Gulf of Mexico oil spill
» more science & technology news...
The Departments
Letters pp. 2-3
Newscripts p. 48
Fondue, Fruit Flies, Frustration And Felicity
ACS Meetings
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Environmental SCENE News
Fertilizer May Help Bacteria Slip Into Groundwater
Water Safety: High phosphate levels allow deadly microbes to pass through soil.
Bisphenol A Is Ubiquitous In Receipts
Endocrine Disrupters: Researchers detect BPA in every receipt that they collected from seven U.S. cities.
Sunlight Is An Effective Disinfectant
Public Health: Field work shows that a cheap water treatment method improves children's health.
House Takes Aim At Clean Air Act
Pollution: Industry backs cost-benefit analyses of EPA rules, but critics fear assault on public health.
Analytical SCENE News
New Method Isolates Membrane Proteins
Protein Purification: Technique separates proteins on a lipid bilayer.
Bisphenol A Is Ubiquitous In Receipts
Endocrine Disrupters: Researchers detect BPA in every receipt that they collected from seven U.S. cities.
Mapping Drugs In Human Tissue
Clinical Chemistry: Mass spectrometry imaging provides view of an inhaled drug in human lung tissue.
Skeletons Come To Light
Fluorescence Imaging: Monitoring cells as they dissolve bone may lead to disease treatments.
Analyzing Nuclear Processes
ACS Meeting News: Analytical chemists devise ways to watch radioactive streams.
JACS Research In C&EN
Indole Changeup Yields Elusive Alkaloid
ACS Meeting News: Cyclization and nitrene insertion star in synthesis.
Prefab Synthesis Moves Ahead
Organic Chemistry: First stable alpha-boryl aldehydes ease preparation of complex small molecules.
Multiple Bradykinin States Revealed
The peptide adopts at least 10 conformers in solution, explaining why its structure had only been partially characterized.
Scaling Up The Axinellamines
A quicker, more efficient, and stereocontrolled route to a key intermediate streamlines natural product syntheses.
A Revamped Vancomycin
Medicinal Chemistry: Modified compound shows promise against hard-to-treat bacteria.
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