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Celebrating IYC 2011
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"The federal government doesn't know a whole lot about the impact of the distribution of award dollars across different universities and departments."
JOSHUA L. ROSENBLOOM, ECONOMICS PROFESSOR, UNIVERSITY OF KANSASp. 24

June 27, 2011

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Highlights

Cover Story

Essays On IYC 2011

Several prominent figures share their views on how chemistry can improve lives in this International Year of Chemistry and beyond. (pp. 39-70)

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Business

Keeping The Faith At Germany's BASF (Member Content)

Chairman Kurt Bock seeks to balance old and new at the world's largest chemical maker. (pp. 18-21)

242st ACS National Meeting

Preliminary Program

List of technical symposia, general meeting information, events, and more for Denver, Aug. 28–Sept. 1. (pp. 77, 97, 99-115)

Technical Program (PDF)
General Program (PDF)
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Table of Contents

Cover Story

International Year of Chemistry p. 39

Chemistry's contributions to the well-being of humanity are being celebrated in 2011.

Chemistry Boosts Global Sustainable Development pp. 41-45

Food, environmental, green, and industrial chemistry sectors promote development and education in Africa, worldwide.

Maximizing The Benefits Of Food pp. 46-51

With the help of chemistry, we are eating safer, healthier, and more sustainable food than ever before.

Plant Medicines Key to Global Health pp. 52-56

Paradigm shifts could improve quality, availability, and sustainability of traditional and nontraditional medicines.

Medicine Quality Faces Challenges pp. 58-61

Access, innovation, and globalization: opportunities and hurdles in providing high-quality drugs to the world's population.

Twenty Years OF Green Chemistry pp. 62-65

Chemists have worked hard to build awareness of and reduce hazardous chemical use over the past two decades.

Marie Curie pp. 66-70

First female chemistry Nobelist owes much of her success to fierce professional and personal determination.

News Of The Week

2011 Green Chemistry Awards p. 11

Honors: Recipients win praise for innovations that promote sustainability.

2011 Presidential Green Chemistry Challenge Awards Web Exclusive

Honors: Annual awards recognize chemical innovations that promote sustainability.

Academic Award: Bruce H. Lipshutz, University of California, Santa Barbara Web Exclusive

Small-Business Award: BioAmber, Minneapolis Web Exclusive

Designing Greener Chemicals Award: Sherwin-Williams Co. Web Exclusive

Greener Synthetic Pathways Award: Genomatica, San Diego Web Exclusive

Greener Reaction Conditions Award: Kraton Performance Polymers, Houston Web Exclusive

Drug Industry Meets In Shanghai p. 12

Pharmaceutical Ingredients: Exhibitors at CPhI China note the country's increasing sophistication.

Nanoparticles Working Together p. 12

Cancer Therapy: Tiny materials 'talk' to one another to locate, treat tumors in mice.

EPA, Not Federal Courts, Can Limit CO2 Emissions p. 13

Clean Air: Supreme Court ruling is a victory for utilities, environmentalists.

Climate Change p. 13

Businesses see opportunity in adaptation, report finds.

A Family Affair p. 14

Organic Synthesis: Selective reactions create resveratrol oligomers.

U.S. Reactors Deemed Safe p. 14

Nuclear Power: Commission says emergency preparedness still needs improvement.

Dinosaur Thermometry p. 15

Isotope Analysis: Sauropods' body temperature was same as that of large modern mammals.

DAK Americas Buys Wellman for $185 Million p. 15

Plastics: Purchase will make DAK the largest North American maker of polyester resins.

Business

Keeping The Faith At Germany's BASF pp. 18-21 (Member Content)

Chairman Kurt Bock seeks to balance old and new at the world's largest chemical maker.

Business Concentrates pp. 16-17 (Member Content)

Meetings

Preliminary Program: 242st ACS National Meeting

List of technical symposia, general meeting information, events, and more for Denver, Aug. 28–Sept. 1. (pp. 77, 97, 99-115)

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» General Program (PDF)

2011 C&EN Calendar Web Exclusive

C&EN's latest list of meetings and events of interest to those in the chemical community.

This Week Online

Review Of 'The Last Mountain'

In Appalachia, mining companies unearth coal using mountaintop removal, a practice with devastating human and environmental costs. C&EN's Reel Science reviews the documentary "The Last Mountain," which tells the story of a small West Virginia town trying to save its last mountain.

Sewer Sampling Reveals Patterns Of Drug Use

Drug Monitoring: Passive samplers enable anonymous, long-term drug use estimates for cities.

Wiping 'Chemical Free' Off The Marketing Map

The virtual eye-rolling continues on Twitter and in the blogosphere over products such as sunscreen and hand soap marketed as "chemical free."

Government & Policy

Measuring Chemistry's Impact pp. 24-26 (Member Content)

NSF program strives to put a value on federally funded research.

Toward Nanotech Regulation p. 29 (Member Content)

EPA, FDA release proposals for obtaining information about nanotechnology products.

Government & Policy Concentrates p. 22 (Member Content)

ACS Comment

IYC 2011: Global Collaboration p. 73

ACS News

IYC Profile: Azerbaijan p. 75

Enamored by science as a child, Saida Aliyeva uses her talents today to address her country's environmental challenges.

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Social Networking And C&EN

Social Networking And C&EN

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Science & Technology

Isotopes Mark The Spot pp. 32-35 (Member Content)

Ratios of stable isotopes help locate the origin of corpses, follow migration routes, and authenticate items as different as bottled water and expensive cheese.

Peptides Block Fibril Formation p. 36 (Member Content)

Computationally designed inhibitors suggest general strategy to prevent the formation of disease-causing amyloid.

Science & Technology Concentrates pp. 30-31

Editor's Page

Celebrating IYC 2011 p. 5

The Departments

Letters pp. 6-9

Newscripts p. 120

Café Au Chemistry, Virtual Sherlock Holmes (With Photo Gallery)

C&EN Archives

C&EN Archives

Now the history of the chemical enterprise is instantly accessible online. C&EN Archives holds the complete collection of C&EN issues dated back from 1923, covering world chemical events, breakthroughs in research, technological advances, business and marketing ventures, government policy, career and education trends, and ACS milestones. With more than 500,000 pages of content, C&EN Archives is instantly accessible and fully searchable, allowing you to discover how the chemical enterprise developed into what it is today.

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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.

CENtral Science

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