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January 24, 2011 Cover
Volume 89, Issue 4
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Volume 89, Issue 4
SOAPS AND DETERGENTS
Struggling automatic dishwasher detergent manufacturers turn to chemical industry for help with phosphate-free formulas
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January 24, 2011 Issue
Volume 89, Issue 4
January 24, 2011 Issue, Vol. 89 | Iss. 4
Struggling automatic dishwasher detergent manufacturers turn to chemical industry for help with phosphate-free formulas
(pp. 12-17)
Features
Government & Policy
BP spill commission calls for sweeping changes in industry practices, federal regulation (pp. 24-26)
Science & Technology
Pacifichem News: Polypharmacology gives rise to drugs with multiple targets (pp. 32-33)
Cover Story: Goodbye, Phosphates
News of the Week
Bayer Accused Of Skirting Safety
Investigation: Rush to production caused plant explosion in West Virginia, safety board concludes
(p.7)Big Pharma Goes Back To School
Partnerships: Sanofi, Johnson & Johnson are latest firms to ink research pacts
(p.8)Tagging Cholesterol
Chemical Biology: Click chemistry helps label cholesterylated proteins
(p.8)Enzymatic Revelation
Structural Biology: Structure provides insight into sugar-transferring enzyme
(p.9)Giving DNA A Good Yank
Biophysics: Find adds fodder to question about nature of overextended DNA
(p.10)Praise For Obama's Rules Review
Federal Policy: Industry endorses president’s directive on federal regulations
(p.10)Surprising Superoxide
Catalysis: Novel mode of end‑on oxygen binding discovered in palladium complexes
(p.11)Departments
Business
New zeolite technologies help refiners crack crude and trucks clean up emissions
(pp. 20-21)
Small pharma firms cite government’s glaring underestimation of the response to a $1 billion program
(p.22)
Struggling automatic dishwasher detergent manufacturers turn to chemical industry for help with phosphate-free formulas
(pp. 12-17)Concentrates
(pp. 18-19)
(pp. 18-19)- Cargill Divests Mosaic Stake
- Plastic Logic Gets Russian Investment
- Kuraray Will Boost Resin In Germany
- Toray Invests In Asian Carbon Fiber
- Singapore Will Get Another Rubber Plant
- Vertellus Enters Indian Sulfone Market
- Novacap Is Moving From Bain To AXA
- Nanotech Ventures Get New Owners
- Evergreen To Close U.S. Solar Plant
- Molecular Profiles Invests In U.K. Site
- Merck Serono, Domain Join For Parkinson's
- Genzyme Will Build A New Enzyme Plant
- Boehringer Ingelheim Acquires And Divests
- Business Roundup
ACS News
Divisions issue calls for papers for the Aug. 28–Sept. 1 meeting in Denver
(pp. 41-45)Awards(p.36)
(p.36)- ACS Award In Polymer Chemistry
- ACS Award In Colloid & Surface Chemistry
- ACS Award In Pure Chemistry And National Fresenius Award
- Claude S. Hudson Award In Carbohydrate Chemistry
- George A. Olah Award In Hydrocarbon Or Petroleum Chemistry
- Ronald Breslow Award For Achievement In Biomimetic Chemistry
- Charles Lathrop Parsons Award
- ACS Award For Achievement In Research For The Teaching & Learning Of Chemistry
- 2011 ACS National Award Winners
Government & Policy
BP spill commission calls for sweeping changes in industry practices, federal regulation
(pp. 24-26)
Trade is as an area of potential collaboration between Obama and empowered Republicans
(pp. 27-28)
Deeper integration of disciplines would benefit science, in particular biomedical research, MIT paper posits
(p.29)Education
UC Berkeley continuing education program helps professionals add green chemistry to their résumés
(pp. 34-35)
Science & Technology
Chemical Biology: A cysteine-rich defensin peptide turns antimicrobial when reduced
(p.31)
Pacifichem News: Polypharmacology gives rise to drugs with multiple targets
(pp. 32-33)Career & Employment
Despite challenges, scientist-educators flourish where arts and sciences mingle
(pp. 48-50)Newscripts
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