Pittcon 2011
Quote of the Week
"Care and precaution in conservation are never excessive."
GILBERTO ARTIOLI, GEOARCHAELOGIST, UNIVERSITY OF PADUA – p. 32
April 4, 2011
In This Issue:
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Highlights
Cover Story
Pittcon 2011
Year of recovery brings increases in conference attendance, mergers and acquisitions, and instrumentation sales. (pp. 37-40, 41-42, 43-46)
Government & Policy
Nuclear Studies (Member Content)
Japanese nuclear power plant crisis sparks examination of U.S. reactors. (pp. 27-28)
Science & Technology
Blue Whodunit
Artifact-staining dye structures revealed, but case far from closed. (pp. 32-33)
Table of Contents
Cover Story
New Year, New Instruments pp. 37-40
At Pittcon 2011 attendance improves, as does the instrument industry business climate.
Analyze This: Mass Spec And Spot Analysis Highlighted At C&EN Pittcon Luncheon p. 40
Carbon-Based Microdevices pp. 41-42
Materials from the semiconductor industry allow scientists to 'machine' carbon.
New And Notable At Pittcon pp. 43-46
Scientific Instrumentation And More.
New And Notable At Pittcon: Pittcon Editors' Award Winners pp. 43-44
New And Notable At Pittcon: Analytical Instrumentation p. 44
New And Notable At Pittcon: Lab Optimization pp. 44-45
New And Notable At Pittcon: Chromatography & Separations p. 46
New And Notable At Pittcon: Pittcon Potpourri pp. 45-46
Thermo Fisher Displays Multiple New Instruments And Bruker Showcases Product Line.
News Of The Week
Chemists Gather In The Golden State p. 9
ACS Meeting News: Natural resources chemistry was Anaheim meeting theme.
Probing Cancer Drug Resistance p. 10
ACS Meeting News: Atomic force microscopy could yield new insights from observed changes in treated cancer cells.
Polymer Synthesis On Command p. 10
ACS Meeting News: Applied voltage modulates polymerization with precise control.
A New Twist On Aqua Regia p. 11
ACS Meeting News: Powerful organic-based systems dissolve noble metals under mild conditions.
New Center Will Promote Lab Safety p. 11
Academe: University of California, Los Angeles, effort will study effectiveness of lab safety programs.
Petrochemicals' U.S. Growth Spurt p. 12
Investment: Two large projects are considered to take advantage of cheap natural gas.
Obama's Energy Plan p. 12
Administration: President vows to cut oil imports, fight for sustained energy R&D spending.
Prudent Practices Updated p. 13
ACS Meeting News: Manual for safe handling, storage, and disposal of chemicals receives a makeover.
Single-Molecule Potentiometers p. 13
ACS Meeting News: As electrode moves along molecular wire, conductance of single-molecule device changes.
Japan's Industry Stands Strong p. 14
Natural Disaster: Many firms resume operations as buyers make supply chain adjustments.
Japanese Reactor Saga Continues p. 14
Nuclear Power: Japanese engineers fight to regain control; Congress reviews U.S. nuclear plant practices.
Business
Keeping Business Eyes On The Prize pp. 18-20 (Member Content)
Small firms making boron reagents compete to supply materials for popular coupling reaction.
Orange Crush p. 21 (Member Content)
Tight (+)-limonene supplies put the squeeze on makers of citrus-based cleaners.
Business Concentrates pp. 16-17 (Member Content)
- Valeant Bids For Cephalon
- Canada’s Valeant Pharmaceuticals has made a hostile takeover offer, worth about $5.7 billion...
- FDA Chemist Charged With Insider Trading
- The Securities & Exchange Commission has charged an FDA chemist with illegally profiting from knowledge of upcoming drug approval announcements...
- BASF Sets Expansion In Malaysia, China …
- BASF and Petronas will expand acrylic acid and n-butanol facilities at their joint venture in southern Malaysia...
- … And Will Cut Jobs In Cognis Integration
- BASF will spend about $410 million to integrate Cognis...
- ExxonMobil Chemical Opens China Center
- ExxonMobil Chemical has opened a $90 million technology center in Shanghai’s Zizhu Science-Based Industrial Park...
- Three Investments For Germany’s Evonik
- Evonik Industries will spend roughly $100 million to build a plant for organic specialty surfactants at its site in Shanghai...
- Dow Eyes China For Perchloroethylene
- Dow Chemical and China’s Befar Group will explore the construction of a 40,000-metric-ton-per-year perchloroethylene (perc) plant...
- Nova Tapping Into Oil Sands and Shale
- Nova Chemicals has inked an agreement with Williams Cos. for 17,000 barrels per day of an ethane/ethylene gas mixture...
- Solix Raises Funds, Launches Algae System
- Algae firm Solix Biofuels has raised $16 million in a second round of venture funding...
- Sumitomo, Samsung Form LED Venture
- Sumitomo Chemical and Samsung LED have agreed to form a joint venture in South Korea to produce sapphire substrates...
- Perstorp Builds Singapore Plants
- Swedish specialty chemical producer Perstorp will build a plant in Singapore for hexamethylene diisocyanate...
- Gilead, Sanofi Ink Academic R&D Pacts
- Gilead Sciences and Yale School of Medicine have formed a multiyear collaboration to discover novel cancer therapies...
- TB Alliance Signs China Research Deal
- The nonprofit Global Alliance for TB Drug Development has signed an agreement with the International Scientific Exchange Foundation of China...
- Business Roundup
- Bayer MaterialScience, Dow Chemical, Solutia, GreenCentre Canada, Merck KGaA, Lonza, Dainippon Sumitomo Pharma, ChemDiv, Emerald BioStructures ...
Education
Investing In Education p. 47
Dow Chemical teams with MIT and Texas A&M to set up science education programs.
This Week Online
Live From Anaheim, It's CENtral Science
At the Newscripts blog, C&EN reporters expose the lighter side of the ACS national meeting. Highlights include a profile of a waiter inspired to seek higher education by the memoirs of Nobelist Ahmed Zewail, a look at how writers for television get their chemistry right, and not one but two videos of the Chemistry Dance.
Musseling Out Algae
Water Quality: Invasive mussels may turn the Great Lakes into a biological desert..
Harm From Mercury Passes Down Through Generations
Ecotoxicology: Maternal and dietary exposures in American toads have lethal effects when combined.
New Worries Associated With Rising CO2 Levels
Climate Change: Plants grown in high CO2 draw more contaminants out of the ground.
Government & Policy
Trade Secret Anxiety pp. 24-26 (Member Content)
Globalchem examines EPA move to make public more data that companies claim as confidential.
Free Lunch: Activists At GlobalChem Press For Policy Reform Discussion p. 25 (Member Content)
Nuclear Studies pp. 27-28 (Member Content)
Japanese nuclear power plant crisis sparks examination of U.S. reactors.
Challenge Grants Seek Green Targets p. 29 (Member Content)
Department of Commerce program tries to facilitate getting innovations to the marketplace.
Government & Policy Concentrates p. 22 (Member Content)
- EPA Advisers Seek Stricter Ozone Limit
- An EPA advisory panel is urging the agency to lower the nationwide limit on ground-level ozone...
- Explosives Standard Developed By NIST
- A new standard reference material for trace explosive compounds is available from NIST for calibration of trace-explosives detectors...
- Court Extends Pesticide Permit Deadline
- A federal appeals court has given EPA an extra six months to develop a water discharge permit for pesticides that are sprayed...
- U.S. Destroys 85% Of Chemical Weapons
- The U.S. has destroyed 85% of its stockpile of chemical agents and munitions since ratifying ...
- NSB Honors Charles Vest
- For his public service leadership in science and technology, Charles M. Vest, president of the National Academy of Engineering, will receive...
» more government & policy news...
People
Obituaries pp. 48-50 (Member Content)
Social Networking And C&EN
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Science & Technology
Blue Whodunit pp. 32-33
Artifact-staining dye structures revealed, but case far from closed.
Testing And Treating For Chromium pp. 34-35 (Member Content)
As regulators consider tightening limits on Cr (VI) in drinking water, analysis and treatment technology may limit how low they can go.
Science & Technology Concentrates pp. 36-37
This week's selections are from the ACS national meeting, which took place on March 27–31 in Anaheim, Calif.
- Blocking Bitterness
- ACS Meeting News: Two compounds eliminate bitter aftertaste
- Plastics Created From Yeast-Made Monomers
- ACS Meeting News: With genetic engineering, chemists coax yeast into making ω-hydroxy fatty acids for producing degradable polymers
- Polymer Vision
- ACS Meeting News: Chemists aim to create waterproof coatings that protect retinal implants without causing scarring
- Spreading Antibiotic Resistance During Water Treatment
- ACS Meeting News: Heavy metals promote the spread of antibiotic resistance in treatment plant microbes
- Gold Carbonyls Proliferate
- ACS Meeting News: Rare complexes could provide new leads for gold-mediated chemical processes
- Molecular Megaphone Made to Order
- ACS Meeting News: Two-component strategy translates trace analytes into a colored readout
- SERS Substrates Made With Pocket Change
- ACS Meeting News: Metal substrates needed for Raman spectroscopy technique can be made with everyday objects––even coins
- Collaborative Study Yields TB Drug Leads
- ACS Meeting News: Scientists combine sets of information to identify small molecules that defeat the tuberculosis bacterium in lab studies
» more science & technology news...
Meetings
2011 C&EN Calendar Web Exclusive
C&EN's latest list of meetings and events of interest to those in the chemical community.
Editor's Page
This And That From Anaheim p. 3
The Departments
Letters pp. 4, 6
Newscripts p. 56
Chocolate For Turquoise, Wiping Away Bacteria
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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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