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"I don't think there is any chemical company today that doubts that cloud computing is applicable to its business."
KOENRAAD SCHELFAUT, HEAD OF CHEMICAL INDUSTRY TECHNOLOGY BUSINESS SERVICES, ACCENTUREp. 14

September 12, 2011

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Highlights

Cover Story

Chemistry Education

Teachers and volunteers use their talents and passions to inspire the chemists of tomorrow. (pp. 19-26)

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Business

Peripheral Advances(Member Content)

Chemical companies are experimenting with cutting-edge add-ons to their information technology hubs. (pp. 14-15)

ACS News

Election Statements

Candidates for ACS president-elect and directors share their views and goals. (pp. 30-42)

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Cover Story

High School Science p. 47

C&EN examines the impact of dedicated teachers and volunteers, as well as revisions to AP chemistry.

Inspiring Students To Achieve pp. 48-50

High school chemistry teachers show that the best way to teach is often by example.

Science Coaches pp. 51-53

Under the ACS pilot program, members partner with teachers to fortify their curriculum, inspire students.

Renewing Advanced Placement pp. 54-55

The College Board is overhauling the AP chemistry curriculum and exam to focus on conceptual understanding.

New Framework: Revised AP Curriculum Centers On Six 'Big Ideas' About Chemistry And Seven 'Science Practices' p. 55

News Of The Week

Obama Retreats On Environment p. 7

Air Pollution: Citing fragile economy, White House shelves tougher ozone restrictions.

Sanofi Outlines New Objectives p. 8

Pharmaceuticals: Company plans further cost cutting as it nears a 2012 patent cliff.

ACS, Leadscope Square Off p. 8

Intellectual Property: Arguments before Ohio Supreme Court may finally put to rest ACS’s fight with Leadscope.

Cyclization Shortcut p. 9

Organic Synthesis: Combined route to complex cyclic products saves steps, improves yields.

Chemical Executives Bullish p. 9

With cash on their hands, many executives anticipate M&A increase, survey finds.

Bacterial Acid Trips p. 10

Chemical Biology: New technique reveals how pathogens endure our acidic stomachs.

High-Throughput Reaction Discovery p. 10

Organic Chemistry: Method lets chemists study thousands of transformations simultaneously.

Light Pulses Get Shorter p. 11

Dynamics: ‘Light transients’ will enable control of electrons on attosecond scale.

Asian Chemical Congress p. 11

Federation of Asian Chemical Societies meets in Bangkok.

Business

Peripheral Advances pp. 14-15 (Member Content)

Chemical companies are experimenting with cutting-edge add-ons to their information technology hubs.

Hello, Chongqing p. 16 (Member Content)

BASF holds initial meeting with representatives of communities near its southwest China polyurethane project.

Business Concentrates pp. 12-13 (Member Content)

This Week Online

No Progress On Nitrosamine Levels In U.S. Cigarettes

ACS Meeting News: Amounts of two cancer-causing chemicals remain high in U.S. cigarettes, despite a longstanding ability to reduce them.

Consumer Electronics Outrank Refrigerators As Contributors To Climate Change

Carbon Emissions: Laptops, televisions, and other devices emit more than household appliances do.

Handwriting Analysis Meets Chemistry

What do your hand-drawn chemical structures say about you? The Newscripts blog is collecting and comparing readers' renditions of three organic molecules. Come contribute your own chemical John Hancock.

Carnival Of Chemistry

CENtral Science has launched a blog carnival, a series of posts dedicated to a single theme: favorite chemical reactions. Add to the festivities by submitting your own blog posts.

Government & Policy

Acrylonitrile Acrimony pp. 18-19 (Member Content)

Industry blasts EPA's draft assessment of the chemical's toxicity.

Government & Policy Concentrates p. 17 (Member Content)

  • Patent Reform Bill Advances In Senate
  • The Senate late last week voted to limit debate and move toward final passage of legislation (H.R. 1249)that would overhaul the U.S. system for granting patents...
  • Senate Panel Extends Security Program
  • The Department of Homeland Security would be authorized to continue implementing and enforcing the Chemical Facility Antiterrorism Standards (CFATS) program...
  • DOE Continues Solar Push
  • Two projects to spur development and deployment of solar technologies were recently announced by the Department of Energy...
  • Health Impacts Urged In Policy Decisions
  • A National Research Council committee is urging that greater consideration be given to the health impacts of major policy decisions and programs....
  • FDA, Industry Agree On Drug User Fees
  • FDA and the pharmaceutical industry have struck a deal, agreeing to raise industry user fees by 6% above fiscal 2012 levels in exchange for enhanced communication...

ACS News

Election Statements pp. 30-42

Candidates for ACS president-elect and directors share their views and goals.

For President-Elect: Dennis Chamot

For President-Elect: Marinda Li Wu

For District III Director: Pat N. Confalone

For District III Director: David J. Lohse

For District VI Director: Bonnie A. Charpentier

For District VI Director: Carlos G. Gutierrez

For Director-At-Large: Ken B. Anderson

For Director-At-Large: William F. Carroll Jr.

For Director-At-Large: Charles E. Kolb

For Director-At-Large: Barbara A. Sawrey

Facebook

Social Networking And C&EN

Social Networking And C&EN

You can now follow C&EN on Facebook. Become a fan and track the latest news and discussions at facebook.com/CENews.

Science & Technology

100 Years of Gibbs Medals pp. 22-23 (Member Content)

ACS Meeting News: Special symposium celebrates a century of seminal chemists.

Intoxicating Chemistry p. 24 (Member Content)

ACS Meeting News: In spirited research, chemists use brand-name liquors as solvents for organic syntheses.

Hydrocarbons At Gulf Spill Surface p. 26

Soluble hydrocarbons dissolved in ocean, but researchers continue to debate worker safety and the fate of less soluble compounds.

Reel Science: 'Contagion' p. 28

Biomedical thriller gets the science right, but at the expense of making a good movie.

Science & Technology Concentrates pp. 20-21

Meetings

2011 Southeast Regional Meeting p. 44 (Member Content)

YCC Presents Career Symposium 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.

The Departments

Letters pp. 4-5, 44

Newscripts p. 72

The Scoop On Airborne Bacteria, Reinventing The Toilet With Video

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.

Head here to discover the past via the C&EN Archives, go to http://pubs.acs.org/cen-archives

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

» News, notes, and musings from C&EN

Check out some of the recent posts from C&EN's blog, "C&ENtral Science"


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