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Copyright © 2008 American Chemical Society
October 27, 2008 Cover
Volume 86, Issue 43
COVER: A dynamically polarized radical tag (red sphere) attached to a lipid molecule in a vesicle illuminates, by way of this simulation, water passing through the vesicle membrane.
Volume 86, Issue 43
NMR GETS MORE SENSITIVE
Dynamic nuclear polarization opens up new ways to illuminate biochemical processes
COVER: A dynamically polarized radical tag (red sphere) attached to a lipid molecule in a vesicle illuminates, by way of this simulation, water passing through the vesicle membrane.
Credit: Langmuir/Peter Allen, University ofCalifornia, Santa Barbara
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October 27, 2008 Issue
Volume 86, Issue 43
October 27, 2008 Issue, Vol. 86 | Iss. 43
Dynamic nuclear polarization opens up new ways to illuminate biochemical processes
(pp. 12-15)
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Business
Corning avoided financial disaster thanks in part to its 100-year-old R&D organization (pp. 18-19)
Government & Policy
EPA gives green light to soil fumigant, but California is still assessing risks (pp. 28-30)
News of the Week
Choosing Metals
The cellular location in which an enzyme folds helps it select the right metal catalyst
(p.7)Bisphenol A Restrictions
Canada will ban baby bottles containing BPA, regulate the substance in can liners and wastewater
(p.8)More Solar Silicon
Despite energy slump and credit crisis, Wacker expands
(p.8)Pfizer, UCB Joint Venture
Cyclofluidic, a microfluidics firm, will start up with help from the U.K. government
(p.9)Polymer Pulls Ion Pairs from Water
Bifunctional material could have medical and environmental applications
(p.9)CO2 Emissions And Imperiled Species
Agencies nix use of Endangered Species Act to regulate coal-fired power plants
(p.10)Platinum Oxo Complex Isolated
Compound is stable without electron-withdrawing ligands
(p.10)Departments
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Corning avoided financial disaster thanks in part to its 100-year-old R&D organization
(pp. 18-19)
Métaux Spéciaux and DuPont compete head-to-head in sodium metal
(pp. 20-21)
Aesica is the first pharmaceutical chemical company created solely from plants divested by big pharma
(pp. 22-23)Concentrates
(pp. 16-17)
(pp. 16-17)- DuPont, Celanese Lower Outlook
- DSM Funds Biofuels R&D, Cuts Jobs
- Fleming To Take Helm At Cytec
- Chemist Beats Ineos In Patent Case
- Formosa Founder Wang Dies At 92
- Novomer Relocates And Names CEO
- Dow AgroSciences Expands Workforce
- European Companies Join For Plastic Pipe
- Solvay Will Buy Egyptian Company
- Lilly And Pfizer Settle Drug Charges
- Cancer Drug Companies Make Staff Cuts
- Novartis Will Acquire A Nektar Business
- deCode Explores Its Business Options
- Business Roundup
ACS News
Government & Policy
Industry fights to curb large punitive awards
(pp. 25-27)
EPA gives green light to soil fumigant, but California is still assessing risks
(pp. 28-30)
Program educates homeland security employees through tours of chemical facilities
(p.31)
Science & Technology
Dynamic nuclear polarization opens up new ways to illuminate biochemical processes
(pp. 12-15)
Chemical Heritage Foundation takes a new approach to science museums
(pp. 34-36)
Trailblazing program devised by William von Eggers Doering opened the West to Chinese chemists
(pp. 37-39)
Inert gases and electricity combine to generate colored streamers of light
(p.40)
Habilitation, Germany’s post-Ph.D. milestone, stays the course
Technology and Business news for the laboratory world
(p.43)Concentrates(pp. 32-33)
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- Probes For PET Imaging Of Myelin
- Synthetic Anchored Prion Protein Created
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