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April 28, 2014 Cover
Volume 92, Issue 17
COVER: Close-up view of Agilent Technologies’ GV1000 X-ray Diffractometer with the Atlas S2 CCD detector.
Volume 92, Issue 17
The big companies in C&EN’s ranking continued to get bigger in 2013 as they sought dominant positions in the analytical and lab instruments market
COVER: Close-up view of Agilent Technologies’ GV1000 X-ray Diffractometer with the Atlas S2 CCD detector.
Credit: Agilent Technologies
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April 28, 2014 Issue
Volume 92, Issue 17
April 28, 2014 Issue, Vol. 92 | Iss. 17
The big companies in C&EN’s ranking continued to get bigger in 2013 as they sought dominant positions in the analytical and lab instruments market
(pp. 10-14)
Features
Government & Policy
Advocates say enhanced oil recovery using CO2 can drive carbon capture and sequestration technologies (pp. 23-25)
Science & Technology
Core-shell nanoparticles within microcapsules create novel pigments that get their color from a physical phenomenon (pp. 28-29)
News of the Week
Pharma Firms Swap Assets
Pharmaceuticals: Novartis, GSK, and Lilly trade businesses to create more focused companies
(p.5)Rules Lacking For Reactive Chemicals
Chemical Safety: Inquiry faults company, regulators for deadly Texas explosion
(p.6)Pair Of Catalysts Builds Chiral Rings Using Visible Light
Photochemistry: Compact fluorescent bulbs power production of desirable building blocks featuring delicate bonds
(p.6)Reactive Chemical Rules Lacking
Chemical Safety: Inquiry faults company, regulators for deadly Texas explosion
(p.6)Earnings Weather Late-Winter Chill
First Quarter: Shrugging off weather impact, chemical executives see a strong 2014
(p.7)NIH Adapts Grant Resubmission Rule
Research Funding: Community concern that too much good science was being rejected fuels change
(p.8)Valeant Makes Hostile Bid For Allergan
Activist investor Ackman pushes $47 billion takeover deal
(p.8)Learning Next Door To Industry
Site Map: Thousands of schools are located within a mile of chemical plants
(p.9)Method Maps Chemicals As They Migrate Into Skin
Drug Delivery: Mass spectrometry technique could help studies of transdermal compounds
(p.9)Departments
Business
Dependent on imports for oil and gas, China is developing coal as a raw material for a range of materials
(pp. 18-19)
Optimism reigned at Europe’s largest lab instrumentation expo, where positive market expectations outweighed competition concerns
(pp. 20-21)
The big companies in C&EN’s ranking continued to get bigger in 2013 as they sought dominant positions in the analytical and lab instruments market
(pp. 10-14)
C&EN lauds the myriad contributions of the chemist, art collector, and philanthropist
(pp. 34-35)Concentrates
(pp. 16-17)
(pp. 16-17)- Cellulosic Ethanol Slammed
- Ethane Export Center Set For Gulf Coast
- Start-Up Firm Claims Catalyst Breakthrough
- Plastics Recycling For The Dutch
- Chemical Maker CABB Changes Hands Again
- Shin-Etsu To Make Magnets In Vietnam
- Ashland’s O’Brien To Retire This Year
- Novozymes Slates Microbe R&D Center
- SEC Charges Three With Insider Trading
- Celgene Pays Big For Antisense Drug
- AMRI Will Close Syracuse Facility
- Merck Experiment Reaches Space Station
- AbbVie Drug Filing Is Enanta Windfall
- Business Roundup
ACS News
ACS honors Western Regional Research Center again, this time for contributions to flavor chemistry
(p.32)
Government & Policy
Advocates say enhanced oil recovery using CO2 can drive carbon capture and sequestration technologies
(pp. 23-25)
Science & Technology
A look at recent patenting activity in electrode materials for lithium-ion batteries, brought to you by C&EN and CAS
(p.31)
Core-shell nanoparticles within microcapsules create novel pigments that get their color from a physical phenomenon
(pp. 28-29)Concentrates(pp. 26-27)
(pp. 26-27)- Earthworm’s Glow Unearthed
- How Aspirin Reduces Colon Cancer Risk
- Diazoalkane Expands Fluorine Focus On Ethyl Groups
- Solid Contrast Agent Enables Long-Term MRI
- Squeezing More Out Of Corn Leftovers
- Infrared Spectroscopy Gets A Resonance Raman Analog
- New Organic Designs For Ferroelectrics
- Zipping Up Wounds With Nanoparticles
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