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Volume 89, Issue 26
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Volume 89, Issue 26
Chemistry’s contributions to the well-being of humanity are being celebrated in 2011
June 27, 2011 Issue
Volume 89, Issue 26
June 27, 2011 Issue, Vol. 89 | Iss. 26
Chemistry’s contributions to the well-being of humanity are being celebrated in 2011
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Features
Business
Chairman Kurt Bock seeks to balance old and new at the world’s largest chemical maker (pp. 18-21)
ACS News
Food, environmental, green, and industrial chemistry sectors promote development and education in Africa, worldwide (pp. 41-45)
Cover Story: International Year of Chemistry
Chemistry Boosts Global Sustainable Development
Food, environmental, green, and industrial chemistry sectors promote development and education in Africa, worldwide
(pp. 41-45)Maximizing the Benefits of Food
With the help of chemistry, we are eating safer, healthier, and more sustainable food than ever before
(pp. 46-51)Plant Medicines Key to Global Health
Paradigm shifts could improve quality, availability, and sustainability of traditional and nontraditional medicines
(pp. 52-56)Medicine Quality Faces Challenges
Access, innovation, and globalization: opportunities and hurdles in providing high-quality drugs to the world’s population
(pp. 58-61)Twenty Years OF Green Chemistry
Chemists have worked hard to build awareness of and reduce hazardous chemical use over the past two decades
(pp. 62-65)News of the Week
2011 Green Chemistry Awards
Honors: Recipients win praise for innovations that promote sustainability
(p.11)Drug Industry Meets In Shanghai
Pharmaceutical Ingredients: Exhibitors at CPhI China note the country’s increasing sophistication
(p.12)Nanoparticles Working Together
Cancer Therapy: Tiny materials ‘talk’ to one another to locate, treat tumors in mice
(p.12)EPA, Not Federal Courts, Can Limit CO2 Emissions
Climate: Supreme Court ruling is a victory for utilities, environmentalists
(p.13)A Family Affair
Organic Synthesis: Selective reactions create resveratrol oligomers
(p.14)Regulators Deem U.S. Reactors Safe
Nuclear Power: Emergency preparedness, however, should be improved
(p.14)Dinosaur Thermometry
Isotope Analysis: Sauropods’ body temperature was same as that of large modern mammals
(p.15)Departments
Business
Chairman Kurt Bock seeks to balance old and new at the world’s largest chemical maker
(pp. 18-21)Concentrates
(pp. 16-17)
(pp. 16-17)- Chemical Industry Poised For More Growth In 2011
- Eastman To Acquire Sterling Chemicals
- Mexichem Fluor Buys HFC Plant In Japan
- BASF Boosts Vehicle Catalysts In Asia
- 1366 Technologies Gets Loan Guarantee
- Rhodia, Umicore To Recycle Rare Earths
- AkzoNobel To Upgrade German Chlorine Plant
- PetroLogistics Files For Public Offering
- Solvay Will Build China Polymers Plant
- Sanofi, Audion plan Hearing-Loss Drugs
- CABB Will Acquire Finland’s Kemfine
- Biotech Firm Seeks Corn Lily Supplies
- Tesaro Raises Capital For Oncology Portfolio
- Business Roundup
ACS News
Enamored by science as a child, Saida Aliyeva uses her talents today to address her country’s environmental challenges
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DENVER, Aug. 28–Sept. 1
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Food, environmental, green, and industrial chemistry sectors promote development and education in Africa, worldwide
(pp. 41-45)
Paradigm shifts could improve quality, availability, and sustainability of traditional and nontraditional medicines
(pp. 52-56)
Access, innovation, and globalization: opportunities and hurdles in providing high-quality drugs to the world’s population
(pp. 58-61)
Government & Policy
NSF program strives to put a value on federally funded research
(pp. 24-26)
EPA, FDA release proposals for obtaining information about nanotechnology products
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Science & Technology
Ratios of stable isotopes help locate the origin of corpses, follow migration routes, and authenticate items as different as bottled water and expensive cheese
(pp. 32-35)
Chemistry’s contributions to the well-being of humanity are being celebrated in 2011
(p.39)
With the help of chemistry, we are eating safer, healthier, and more sustainable food than ever before
(pp. 46-51)
Chemists have worked hard to build awareness of and reduce hazardous chemical use over the past two decades
(pp. 62-65)
First female chemistry Nobelist owes much of her success to fierce professional and personal determination
(pp. 66-70)
Computationally designed inhibitors suggest general strategy to prevent the formation of disease-causing amyloid
(p.36)Concentrates(pp. 30-31)
(pp. 30-31)Editor's Page
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