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Cover Story
Custom Chemicals
Slowly recovering in 2010, contract manufacturers envision a path toward growth by responding to marketplace shifts. (pp. 13-19, 21-26)
241st ACS National Meeting
Preliminary Program
List of technical symposia and general meeting information for Anaheim, Calif., March 27–31. (pp. 75, 79-91, 94-113)
Technical Program (PDF)
General Program (PDF)
Table of Contents
Cover Story
Custom Chemicals pp. 13-19
Slowly recovering in 2010, contract manufacturers envision a path toward growth by responding to marketplace shifts.
Fulfilling Capacity pp. 21-26
Despite industry-wide consolidation, pharmaceutical companies continue to offer contract manufacturing.
News Of The Week
Betting On Innovation, Education p. 7
State Of The Union: Obama lays out how U.S. should adapt to a changed world.
Pharma Firms Clinch Deals In Oncology p. 8
Acquisitions: Purchases add to Amgen's product pipeline and expand diagnostics at Novartis.
International Year Of Chemistry Launches p. 8
Opening Ceremony: Paris hosts chemistry delegates from around the world .
Year Ends On High Note p. 9
Fourth Quarter: Chemical industry reports strong 2010 sales and earnings powered by economic recovery.
Probing EPA Rules p. 9
House lawmakers question the effect on jobs of two key decisions on air pollution.
EPA Ordered To Issue Boiler Rules p. 10
Air Pollution: Federal court rejects agency's plea for more time, sets February deadline.
Catalyst Makes A Novel Switch p. 10
Catalysis: Small-molecule iron complex has mixed activity that was exclusive to nature
Parallel Printing At The Nanoscale p. 11
Lithography: Simplified patterning method reproducibly yields thousands of copies.
Greenhouse Gases p. 11
EU ban looms on emissions credits from carbon reduction schemes.
Business
RNAi Growing Pains pp. 30-33 (Member Content)
Roche's exit cast a pall, but others claim progress in developing RNAi-based drugs.
Cleaning Up pp. 34-36 (Member Content)
Chemical companies face challenges in repairing legacy chemical sites.
Business Concentrates pp. 28-29 (Member Content)
- Banking On Green Chemistry
- Biobased Materials: Thailand's PTT Chemical puts down $60 million on Myriant's bio-based succinic acid venture...
- Nalco Sells Personal Care Business
- Nalco has sold its performance products group to Lubrizol for $166 million...
- Kuraray Eyes Texas For Polyvinyl Alcohol
- Kuraray has purchased land in La Porte, Texas, to expand its business in polyvinyl alcohol...
- Three Biofuels Firms Get USDA Backing
- Waste-to-biofuels firms Coskata, Enerkem, and Ineos have received loan guarantees from USDA....
- AkzoNobel Invests In Brazil Pulp Market
- AkzoNobel will build a $123 million pulp and paper chemicals plant in Três Lagoas, Mato Grosso do Sul, Brazil...
- Manager Tipped Off Relative, Says SEC
- The U.S. Securities & Exchange Commission has obtained a court order freezing bank and brokerage accounts allegedly containing more than $800,000 in illegal profits...
- Dow Partners With Nature Conservancy
- Dow Chemical will collaborate with the Nature Conservancy to examine how Dow’s operations rely on and affect nature...
- DSM Invests In SkySails
- DSM’s venture capital arm has made an investment in the Hamburg, Germany-based start-up SkySails...
- Asahi Expands Korean Acrylonitrile
- Asahi Kasei will build another large acrylonitrile manufacturing facility in Ulsan, South Korea...
- InnoCentive Debuts Molecule Challenge
- To streamline interactions through its site, InnoCentive, an online forum for scientific collaboration...
- Pfizer Adds NYC To Academic Network
- Pfizer has expanded its Centers for Therapeutic Innovation program...
- Abbott Slashes More Jobs
- Abbott Laboratories is shedding 2% of its workforce...
- Hospira Drops Sodium Thiopental
- Hospira, the only U.S.-based manufacturer of sodium thiopental, a sedative legally required in all lethal injections of U.S. death-row inmates...
- Business Roundup
- Toray Industries, Celanese, DSM, Chemtura, Agilent Technologies, Frutarom, Teva Pharmaceutical, Pfizer...
Books
Synthesizing Molecules pp. 56-57
The art and logic of chemical synthesis as presented by a master practitioner.
2011 ACS National Award Winners pp. 64 - 68 (Member Content)
Recipients are honored for contributions of major significance to chemistry.
- ACS Award for Encouraging Disadvantaged Students Into Careers In The Chemical Sciences
- ACS Award For Creative Work In Fluorine Chemistry
- E. Bright Wilson Award In Spectroscopy
- Ernest Guenther Award in the Chemistry of Natural Products
- ACS Award In Organometallic Chemistry
- ACS Award For Affordable Green Chemistry
- ACS Award For Creative Research & Applications Of Iodine Chemistry
This Week Online
Government & Policy
FDA Revisits Dental Amalgams pp. 40-41 (Member Content)
Agency weighs safety concerns related to mercury exposure.
Toxicity Comparisons pp. 42-43 (Member Content)
EPA adopts new numbers to estimate risks from Dioxins, Furans, and PCBs.
Government & Policy Concentrates p. 38 (Member Content)
- NIGMS Calls For More Training
- NIH’s National Institute of General Medical Sciences (NIGMS) has released its draft strategic plan for research training...
- Ethanol Cap raised for Gasoline
- Gasoline with up to 15% ethanol can be sold for use in vehicles and trucks that were manufactured in 2001 and later...
- Study Warns On New Chemical Weapons
- Gaps in defenses against chemical and biological (CB) weapon agents “pose a potentially serious risk to U.S. military operations...
- EPA Nixes Petitions On New SO2 Limit
- EPA has rejected a request by industry groups and several states to reconsider the more stringent air-quality standard...
- Research Facilities Grants At NIST
- NIST has launched a new competition for grants to support construction of new scientific research facilities...
» more government & policy news...
ACS News
IYC Profile: Cuba p. 61
In this U.S.-embargoed country, ACS members such as Alberto Núñez-Sellés seek a greater connection to the world.
Themes Shape ACS National Meetings p. 63
Theme-related programming by technical divisions lends focus to ACS meetings.
Obituaries pp. 72-73 (Member Content)
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Science & Technology
Doctoral Dilemma pp. 46-52
Is chemistry facing a glut of Ph.D.s?.
Vegetative Warfare pp. 53-55
Plants have evolved sophisticated weaponry to battle bacterial and fungal invaders.
Science & Technology Concentrates pp. 44-45 (Member Content)
- Cows Aid Quest For Biofuels
- By sequencing the DNA of cow gut microbes, researchers uncover a treasure trove of cellulose-degrading enzymes
- Chemical Lures For Cockroaches
- Researchers ID the compounds in stale beer and peanut butter that make roaches come running
- Extreme Hydrogen ‘Isotopes’ Illuminate Reaction Kinetics
- Using muons to create light and heavy hydrogen mimics, chemists upgrade the kinetic isotope effect
- Probing Chemical Timekeeping
- Scientists find a new role for posttranslational modification in circadian rhythms
- A Little Tug Speeds Up Collagen Cleavage
- Mechanical stress increases the rate at which structural collagen is degraded by an enzyme
- Nickel Complex’s Magnetic Switch
- Light-driven isomerization changes molecule’s coordination and thus its magnetic properties
- Biohybrid Catalyst Rapidly Produces H2
- Photosystem I’s photosynthetic properties are exploited by coupling it to platinum nanoparticles
- Target Of Traditional Chinese Medicine Triptolide Found
- Uncovering natural product’s cellular target will facilitate the design of new anticancer and other drug leads
» more science & technology news...
Meetings
Preliminary Program: 241st ACS National Meeting
List of technical symposia and general meeting information for Anaheim, Calif., March 27–31. (pp. 75, 79-91, 94-113)
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» General Program (PDF)
Green Chemistry and Engineering in Brazil p. 68 (Member Content)
Call for Papers for I&EC Graduate Student Symposium p. 68 (Member Content)
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
Too Many Ph.D.s? p. 5
The Departments
Letters p. 6
Newscripts p. 112
Too Much Tequila, How Chickens 'Cross The Road'
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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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