Log In
The Watch Glass
Take a random walk through our archives: http://cen.watchglass.org
Copyright © 2012 American Chemical Society
January 16, 2012 Cover
Volume 90, Issue 3
» Full Article
Volume 90, Issue 3
Drug manufacturers pinpoint techniques to analyze growing and diverse class of therapeutics
January 16, 2012 Issue
Volume 90, Issue 3
January 16, 2012 Issue, Vol. 90 | Iss. 3
Drug manufacturers pinpoint techniques to analyze growing and diverse class of therapeutics
(pp. 13-16)
Features
Government & Policy
Politically motivated public record requests for faculty messages prompt concerns over free scientific discourse (pp. 24-25)
Science & Technology
Recent advances in instrument design and methodology provide a wealth of traditionally inaccessible data (pp. 32-34)
News of the Week
Clarifying Review Criteria
NSF Grants: Report tries to address confusion over funding proposal evaluations
(p.7)Improving Drug Multiplicity
Medicinal Chemistry: Complexes with densely arrayed bioactive groups show improved anticancer activity
(p.8)LanzaTech Buys Range Fuels Facility
Cleantech: New owner will bring its approach to making biofuels
(p.8)Anastas Steps Down At EPA
Agency head of research will move back to Yale University after two years of political heat.
(p.9)Deals Energize Drug Conference
Pharmaceuticals: Biotech executives are bullish at this year’s J. P. Morgan health care event
(p.9)China Backtracks On Plant Closure
Environment: Government may have second thoughts about shutting a p-xylene facility
(p.10)Fast Atmospheric Reactions
Climate Change: Plants may fuel aerosol formation more quickly than realized
(p.10)Clearer Picture Of A Proteasome
Structural Biology: Arrangement of proteasome’s components provides clues to function
(p.11)Departments
Business
American entrepreneur reflects on more than 30 years of sourcing pharmaceutical ingredients from China
(p.22)
Fine chemicals maker Frontier Scientific confronts intellectual property theft
(pp. 20-21)Concentrates
(pp. 18-19)
(pp. 18-19)- Bristol-Myers Will Acquire Hepatitis C Firm Inhibitex
- Samsung Total Expands Aromatics
- DuPont Reaches Zero Landfill Status
- BASF Backs Sion Power
- Vantage Specialty Chemicals Is Sold
- Albany Molecular May Close Hungary Site
- Toray Buys Out Carbon Fiber Partner
- L’Oréal To Build R&D Center In Brazil
- Pfizer, Amgen Seek Companion Diagnostics
- Genome Sequencers Are Unveiled
- Biotech Firms Make Job Cuts
- Sigma-Aldrich To Acquire BioReliance
- Business Roundup
ACS News
Awards(pp. 40-44)
(pp. 40-44)- 2012 ACS National Award Winners
- Elias J. Corey Award for Outstanding Original Contribution in Organic Synthesis by a Young Investigator
- Glenn T. Seaborg Award for Nuclear Chemistry
- ACS Award for Team Innovation
- ACS Award in Separations Science & Technology
- ACS Award for Research at an Undergraduate Institution
- ACS Award for Distinguished Service in the Advancement of Inorganic Chemistry
- Arthur W. Adamson Award for Distinguished Service in the Advancement of Surface Chemistry
Government & Policy
Patent eligibility of personalized medicine is at stake in closely watched case
(pp. 26-27)
Politically motivated public record requests for faculty messages prompt concerns over free scientific discourse
(pp. 24-25)
Safety board urges OSHA to regulate combustible dust as five workers die in cascade of explosions
(p.28)
Science & Technology
Recent advances in instrument design and methodology provide a wealth of traditionally inaccessible data
(pp. 32-34)
Drug manufacturers pinpoint techniques to analyze growing and diverse class of therapeutics
(pp. 13-16)Concentrates(pp. 2-31)
(pp. 2-31)- Easier Difluoromethylation
- Newly Discovered Hormone Burns Energy
- All-Inorganic Nanocrystals Boost Infrared Emission
- Reducing Methane And Soot Could Help Curb Global Warming
- Microrockets Take Off In Acid
- Nanoparticles Control Microcrystal Growth
- Vegetable Oils Yield Polymer Precursors
- Irradiation Bubbles Improve Virus Imaging