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Quote of the Week
"Around the world, countries are acting more and more like companies: competing aggressively against one another for business."
ANDREW N. LIVERIS, CEO, DOW CHEMICAL – p. 23
February 14, 2011
In This Issue:
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Highlights
Cover Story
Vying For Position
Biofuel technologies jockey to come out on top of the heap of sustainable transportation fuels. (pp. 11-17)
Government & Policy
Reshuffling NIH (Member Content)
Plan to create drug development center spurs fierce debate. (pp. 25-27)
Career & Employment
Working In The Chinese Drug Industry
China's pharmaceutical industry welcomes chemists educated abroad. (pp. 47-49)
Table of Contents
Cover Story
Race To The Pump pp. 11-17
Biofuel technologies vie to provide a sustainable supply of transportation fuels.
C&EN Talks With Bruce Dale Web Exclusive
Michigan State chemical engineer takes a critical look at the pluses and minuses of biofuels.
News Of The Week
EPA Actions Under Fire p. 5
Congress: Draft bill would take away agency's authority to regulate greenhouse gases.
Danaher Will Buy Beckman Coulter p. 6
Diagnostics: $6.8 billion acquisition expands Danaher's move into life sciences.
Organic Crystals Light Up p. 6
Materials: Compounds use halogen bonds for metal-free phosphorescence.
Light Turns On Caged Enzyme p. 7
Biology: Illuminating a kinase bearing unnatural lysine reveals cell-signaling cascade.
Corporate Espionage p. 7
Former Dow employee is found guilty of stealing trade secrets.
Sunny Outlook At Informex p. 8
Fine Chemicals: Companies at custom chemicals trade show express optimism, reveal investments.
NAE Elects New Members p. 8
Honors: Engineering academy welcomes 77 scientists, 18 of whom work in chemical areas.
New Spin On Stereocontrol p. 9
Catalysis: Molecular motor takes turns at making each enantiomer, racemate in addition reaction.
Business
Building Innovation pp. 20-22 (Member Content)
After downsizing, Clariant looks to a new R&D center to help spur product development.
Fighting For Manufacturing p. 23 (Member Content)
Insights: A recent book from Dow's CEO warns about the decline of American manufacturing and offers remedies.
Business Concentrates pp. 18-19 (Member Content)
- Waste Gets Backing As Biofuel Feedstock
- Waste-to-biofuels firm Kior will have access to a loan guarantee from the Department of Energy for a $1 billion...
- Partners Take Over Germany’s Trevira
- Thailand’s Indorama Ventures and Italy’s Sinterama are taking over Trevira...
- Clariant Site Draws South African Firm
- South Africa’s Comar Chemicals will build a plant to make organometallic catalysts and cobalt-based nanoparticles...
- Lanxess Consolidates Indian Facilities
- Lanxess will move facilities that produce leather chemicals, plastics additives, and material protection products....
- Dow Will Close Vinyl Chloride Units
- Dow Chemical will close a vinyl chloride plant in Oyster Creek, Texas...
- BASF To Shut Paper Dyes In Ludwigshafen
- As part of a realignment of its paper chemicals division, BASF plans to end Basazol paper dye production in Ludwigshafen, Germany...
- USDA Okays Monsanto’s Modified Sugar Beets
- Farmers will be able to buy Monsanto’s genetically modified sugar beet seeds this spring...
- Nitto Denko Acquires Avecia Biotechnology
- Japan’s Nitto Denko has acquired Avecia Biotechnology...
- Lilly Links Bonuses To R&D Output
- Eli Lilly & Co. has altered its compensation scheme for 2011 and 2012 to tie employee bonuses to the success...
- Astellas Buys Into Optimer Antibiotic
- Japanese drugmaker Astellas has agreed to pay $68 million for European rights to fidaxomicin...
- ScinoPharm, DSM Win Manufacturing Deals
- Taiwan’s ScinoPharm has won a contract to produce vilazodone...
- New Mercedes Debuts Light-Control Film
- The Mercedes-Benz SLK that rolled out last month features light-control technology...
- Merck Gives Back Galapagos Programs
- Merck & Co. has ended its obesity, diabetes, and atherosclerosis drug discovery collaboration with Galapagos...
- Business Roundup
- BASF, LS9, Ube Industries, Kemira, Materia, Particle Sciences, Marina Biotech, Innophos Holdings, Patheon...
2011 ACS National Award Winners pp. 41 - 44 (Member Content)
Recipients are honored for contributions of major significance to chemistry.
- Awards: February 14
- Earl B. Barnes Award For Leadership In Chemical Research Management
- ACS Award For Computers In Chemical & Pharmaceutical Research
- Ahmed Zewail Award In Ultrafast Science & Technology
- Joel Henry Hildebrand Award In The Theoretical & Experimental Chemistry Of Liquids
- Gabor Somorjai Lauded For Research Accomplishments
Career & Employment
Working In The Chinese Drug Industry pp. 47-49
China's pharmaceutical industry welcomes chemists educated abroad.
This Week Online
Government & Policy
Reshuffling NIH pp. 25-27 (Member Content)
Plan to create drug development center spurs fierce debate.
Converging On Reform pp. 30-31 (Member Content)
Senate panel hears arguments for rewriting federal chemical control law.
Drilling In An Arctic Frontier pp. 32-33 (Member Content)
Drifting ice, low water temperatures present unique problems for oil rigs in Alaska's outer continental shelf.
Government & Policy Concentrates p. 24 (Member Content)
- Republicans Propose Budget Cuts
- A plan proposed by the House of Representatives Appropriations Committee last week would cut nearly $75 billion...
- White House Creates IP Advisory Panels
- President Barack Obama issued an executive order last week establishing two advisory committees designed to improve...
- EPA Prepares To Study Drilling Risks
- EPA has submitted its plan for a congressionally mandated study of hydraulic fracturing...
- NIH Charts Path To Genomic Medicine
- NIH’s National Human Genome Research Institute outlined its vision for the future of genomics...
- CPSC Extends Stay On Lead Testing
- The Consumer Product Safety Commission has extended its stay on regulations requiring third-party testing for lead...
» more government & policy news...
ACS Comment
A Fresh Look At ACS Dues And Member Benefits p. 40 (Member Content)
People
Obituaries p. 46 (Member Content)
Social Networking And C&EN
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Science & Technology
Soft Robots Get A Grip pp. 36-37 (Member Content)
Materials innovations advance robotics.
C&EN Talks With Bruce Ames p. 38 (Member Content)
Developer of test for carcinogens now champions micronutrients for preventing disease.
Science & Technology Concentrates pp. 34-35 (Member Content)
- Toxic Algae Produce Estrogens
- A hazardous cyanobacterium common in lakes turns on estrogen-related genes in fish.
- Lipid Cues Meningitis Bacteria’s Lethality
- Chemical modification switches bacteria from harmless to potentially pathogenic
- Platinum Nanocrystals Show Their Best Face
- A novel strontium titanate support material guides crystals to grow with nonstandard geometry
- Chemoselective Hunting Turns Up Natural Products
- Silyl-functionalized solid-support resins selectively home in on and pluck alcohols from extracts
- Neurotoxic Oligomer’s Structure Uncovered
- Small-angle X-ray scattering enabled researchers to analyze aggregated α-synuclein associated with Parkinson’s disease
- Gold Sulfide’s Diverse Geometry
- A computational study has determined that S–Au–S building blocks are key to unique cluster structures
- Acid Catalyst Spurs Chiral Addition
- A Brønsted acid’s attachment to an alkene controls selectivity, but by a different pathway than metal catalysts
- Reaction Patterns Revealed In 3-D
- Researchers observe three-dimensional Turing diffusion patterns in a model chemical system for the first time
» more science & technology news...
Meetings
Northwest Regional Meeting Call For Papers p. 44 (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
Impressions Of South Africa p. 3
The Departments
Letters p. 2
Newscripts p. 48
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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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