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June 16, 2008 Cover
Volume 86, Issue 24
Volume 86, Issue 24
FINE CHEMICALS & INTERMEDIATES
Synthesizing highly potent compounds is a lucrative and growing niche for custom chemical manufacturers
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June 16, 2008 Issue
Volume 86, Issue 24
June 16, 2008 Issue, Vol. 86 | Iss. 24
Synthesizing highly potent compounds is a lucrative and growing niche for custom chemical manufacturers
(pp. 17-27)
Features
Science & Technology
New tools emerge for detecting and weeding out plagiarism and data falsification in journal articles (pp. 50-55)
Cover Story: Contained Chemistry
Filling A Highly Potent Niche
Drug companies want to create conjugates of potent drugs and biological molecules, and custom manufacturers are complying
(pp. 28-32)News of the Week
Exploring Chemical Space
Chemists generate surprisingly few molecular shapes, study finds
(p.11)Benzene Stand-Ins
Crystal structures indicate that rings containing a boron-nitrogen bond are aromatic
(p.12)Intact Membrane Proteins Analyzed
Micelles protect complexes from solution to vacuum
(p.13)Daiichi Sankyo To Buy Ranbaxy
Japanese provider of patented drugs muscles into generics
(p.14)Pesticide Mixtures Hurt Salmon
Contaminants impair fish's sense of smell
(p.14)Bad Moon Rising For U.S. Workforce
Employment is down for five months in a row, but chemists, other graduates are doing a little better
(p.15)Hydroxymethylene Captured
Chemists trap HCOH in a matrix of solid argon at a temperature of 11 K
(p.15)Departments
Business
Panorama study tracks importance of sector throughout European industrial and consumer world
(pp. 36-38)
CEO Gerard will leave the American Chemistry Council stronger but less popular with the public
(pp. 40-41)
Drug companies want to create conjugates of potent drugs and biological molecules, and custom manufacturers are complying
(pp. 28-32)
Synthesizing highly potent compounds is a lucrative and growing niche for custom chemical manufacturers
(pp. 17-27)Concentrates
(pp. 33-34)
(pp. 33-34)- U.S. Sues Honeywell Over Bulletproof Vests
- Air Products Selling Adhesives to Ashland
- Braskem Advances With Green Plastic
- EU Sets Fines For Sodium Chlorate
- British, Qataris Study CO2 storage
- Evonik Mulls Adding Methyl Mercaptan ...
- ... As It Closes an Orthoesters Plant
- AkzoNobel Chooses New Paints Head
- Invitrogen to Acquire Applied Biosystems
- Glaxo Cuts R&D Jobs, Eyes Restructuring
- Astex Forms Alliance With J&J's Janssen
- Pfizer and UCSF Will Collaborate
- Business Roundup
- All Concentrates
Government & Policy
Report focuses on grants for early-career faculty and transformative research
(pp. 44-45)
Tight federal dollars make it difficult to find any real winners
(p.46)Books
An accessible, affordable presentation of organic synthesis and its impact on the world is suitable for the coffee table
(pp. 73-75)Education
Professional science master's programs take root
(pp. 65-71)
Science & Technology
New tools emerge for detecting and weeding out plagiarism and data falsification in journal articles
(pp. 50-55)
Single-molecule methods, crystallography reveal surprises about strand-swapping process
(pp. 56-57)
Discovery of aminoacetonitrile highlights the rigors of space molecule detection
(pp. 58-59)
Polymeric materials patch up acute and chronic wounds
(p.61)
New And Notable In The Chemical Industry
(pp. 62-63)Concentrates(pp. 48-49)
(pp. 48-49)- Visualizing A Protein's Shape-Shifting
- White LED Formed From A Bulk Material
- Coffee: Good To The Last Stress-Free Sniff
- Substrate-Targeting Inhibitors Hint At New Drug Discovery Tactic
- New Route To α-Alkylated Ketones
- Replenished Ozone Could Affect Southern Hemisphere Winds
- SPR Imaging With White Light
- X-Rays Discern Crystal Enantiomers
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