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April 28, 2014 Issue

Volume 92, Issue 17
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April 28, 2014 Issue, Vol. 92 | Iss. 17

Top Instrument Firms

The big companies in C&EN’s ranking continued to get bigger in 2013 as they sought dominant positions in the analytical and lab instruments market
By Ann M. Thayer
(pp. 10-14)
Features
Government & Policy

A Carbon Commodity

Advocates say enhanced oil recovery using CO2 can drive carbon capture and sequestration technologies (pp. 23-25)
Science & Technology

Colloids Yield Full Color Palette

Core-shell nanoparticles within microcapsules create novel pigments that get their color from a physical phenomenon (pp. 28-29)
Back Issues
 

News of the Week

Pharma Firms Swap Assets

Pharmaceuticals: Novartis, GSK, and Lilly trade businesses to create more focused companies
(p.5)

Rules Lacking For Reactive Chemicals

Chemical Safety: Inquiry faults company, regulators for deadly Texas explosion
(p.6)

Pair Of Catalysts Builds Chiral Rings Using Visible Light

Photochemistry: Compact fluorescent bulbs power production of desirable building blocks featuring delicate bonds
(p.6)

Reactive Chemical Rules Lacking

Chemical Safety: Inquiry faults company, regulators for deadly Texas explosion
(p.6)

Earnings Weather Late-Winter Chill

First Quarter: Shrugging off weather impact, chemical executives see a strong 2014
(p.7)

Structural Biology: Researchers Get First Glimpse Of How An Animal Genome Is Packaged

(p.7)

NIH Adapts Grant Resubmission Rule

Research Funding: Community concern that too much good science was being rejected fuels change
(p.8)

Valeant Makes Hostile Bid For Allergan

Activist investor Ackman pushes $47 billion takeover deal
(p.8)

Learning Next Door To Industry

Site Map: Thousands of schools are located within a mile of chemical plants
(p.9)

Method Maps Chemicals As They Migrate Into Skin

Drug Delivery: Mass spectrometry technique could help studies of transdermal compounds
(p.9)
 

Departments

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Business

Forget Shale Gas, Coal Is China’s Chemical Feedstock Choice

Dependent on imports for oil and gas, China is developing coal as a raw material for a range of materials
(pp. 18-19)

An Instrumentally Better Market On Display At Analytica

Optimism reigned at Europe’s largest lab instrumentation expo, where positive market expectations outweighed competition concerns
(pp. 20-21)

Top Instrument Firms

The big companies in C&EN’s ranking continued to get bigger in 2013 as they sought dominant positions in the analytical and lab instruments market
(pp. 10-14)

Celebrating Alfred Bader At 90

C&EN lauds the myriad contributions of the chemist, art collector, and philanthropist
(pp. 34-35)
Concentrates(pp. 16-17)
  1. Cellulosic Ethanol Slammed
  2. Ethane Export Center Set For Gulf Coast
  3. Start-Up Firm Claims Catalyst Breakthrough
  4. Plastics Recycling For The Dutch
  5. Chemical Maker CABB Changes Hands Again
  6. Shin-Etsu To Make Magnets In Vietnam
  7. Ashland’s O’Brien To Retire This Year
  8. Novozymes Slates Microbe R&D Center
  9. SEC Charges Three With Insider Trading
  10. Celgene Pays Big For Antisense Drug
  11. AMRI Will Close Syracuse Facility
  12. Merck Experiment Reaches Space Station
  13. AbbVie Drug Filing Is Enanta Windfall
  14. Business Roundup

ACS News

USDA Lab Named Landmark

ACS honors Western Regional Research Center again, this time for contributions to flavor chemistry
(p.32)
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Government & Policy

A Carbon Commodity

Advocates say enhanced oil recovery using CO2 can drive carbon capture and sequestration technologies
(pp. 23-25)
Concentrates(p.22)
  1. Arctic Oil Spill Preparation Inadequate, Report Finds
  2. Forensic Scientists To Create Standards
  3. Mercury Found In Fish Living In Pristine Lakes
  4. Doctoral Scientist Unemployment Rises
  5. Government Roundup
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Science & Technology

Patent Picks: Lithium-Ion Batteries

A look at recent patenting activity in electrode materials for lithium-ion batteries, brought to you by C&EN and CAS
(p.31)

Colloids Yield Full Color Palette

Core-shell nanoparticles within microcapsules create novel pigments that get their color from a physical phenomenon
(pp. 28-29)
Concentrates(pp. 26-27)
  1. Earthworm’s Glow Unearthed
  2. How Aspirin Reduces Colon Cancer Risk
  3. Diazoalkane Expands Fluorine Focus On Ethyl Groups
  4. Solid Contrast Agent Enables Long-Term MRI
  5. Squeezing More Out Of Corn Leftovers
  6. Infrared Spectroscopy Gets A Resonance Raman Analog
  7. New Organic Designs For Ferroelectrics
  8. Zipping Up Wounds With Nanoparticles

Newscripts

Fossil-Infused Beer, 75 Million-Year-Old Turtle Bones

(p.40)

Letters

Letters(pp. 2-3)
  1. What’s In A Name? 
  2. Breaking Good, Not Bad
  3. Transparency Is A Good Thing
  4. Reconsidering Ethanol
  5. A ‘Kneaded’ Consideration