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Volume 94, Issue 10
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Volume 94, Issue 10
Efforts to boost soil carbon aim to improve crop yields and combat climate change
March 7, 2016 Issue
Volume 94, Issue 10
March 7, 2016 Issue, Vol. 94 | Iss. 10
Efforts to boost soil carbon aim to improve crop yields and combat climate change
(pp. 40-44)
Features
Career & Employment
It’s no longer just pharma companies hiring, and knowledge of Chinese language is optional (pp. 25-27)
Science & Technology
In quest for the smallest possible aromatic ring, chemists have found winners in various categories (pp. 28-29)
News of the Week
Octopus inspires electroluminescent skin
Light-up material can be stretched nearly six times its original length
(p.7)Inhibiting metalloenzyme prevents damage caused by brain bleeding
New strategy may protect brain function after strokes that involve hemorrhage
(p.8)Zapping Diels-Alder reactions
Electric field spurs reagents to join up in a non-redox transformation
(p.8)Is UC Berkeley’s College of Chemistry in danger?
Undergraduate petitions chancellor not to dissolve chemistry college to fix budget woes
(p.9)Improved route from syngas to light olefins
Catalytic process has advantages over methanol- and Fischer Tropsch-based technologies
(p.10)Phosphine ligand provides a new low for palladium catalysis
Sterically encumbered oxophosphole enables cross-coupling of complex aryl partners in water with a minimal amount of catalyst
(p.10)Chemical industry and academia predict heavy impact from Brexit
Biotech investment would falter and academic research budgets would be cut, they say
(p.14)Trouble brews for chip makers as neon shortage looms
Delays in development of neon-free lasers means chip makers will continue to rely on older neon-enabled photolithography
(p.14)Chemical industry innovation is unevenly distributed
Dow-DuPont merger may result in bidding for stranded R&D capability
(p.15)Dow and DuPont detail deal discussions
Companies started taking the merger idea seriously last spring
(p.15)Dow settles price-fixing suit for $800 million
The death of Antonin Scalia left the company’s petition without a champion on the bench
(p.15)EPA proposes new regulations for chemical plants
Agency would require consideration, not implementation, of inherently safer technologies
(p.18)EPA to ban flubendiamide insecticide
Breakdown product is harmful to aquatic species, agency says
(p.18)Departments
Business
Lead industry claims the metal can beat lithium in a new kind of electric hybrid vehicle
(p.30)
Companies tried to manage their way around a strong dollar, low prices, and wobbly demand in 2015
(pp. 20-21)
Financial results were lackluster for the major drug companies in 2015
(pp. 22-23)Concentrates
(pp. 16-17)
(pp. 16-17)- Cheap oil hits BASF
- Dow settles big price-fixing suit
- DuPont plans lab at German school
- BASF wins round in patent case
- Axiall to sell two vinyl units
- Evonik plans for continued growth
- Legal win for Chinese firm
- Microbes help make ambergris scent
- Firms partner on proteins from grass
- Building block market debuts
- Baxalta pursues cellular therapy
- Filtration membrane uses Arkema polymer
- Roundup
ACS News
Government & Policy
Efforts to boost soil carbon aim to improve crop yields and combat climate change
(pp. 40-44)
Science & Technology
Inhibitors of the enzyme may kill cancer cells through mechanisms besides blocking it
(p.32)
Perspectives: Structural biologist suggests that chemists can help redefine good research behavior by telling the whole story
(pp. 34-35)
In quest for the smallest possible aromatic ring, chemists have found winners in various categories
(pp. 28-29)
C&EN reviews who’s who at chemistry’s beach party
(p.36)
El material luminiscente puede estirarse hasta seis veces su longitud original
(p.7)
科学家们受到章鱼的启发，研发出的新型材料不但能够拉伸至原长度的六倍，且能发光。
(p.7)Concentrates(pp. 11-12)
(pp. 11-12)- U.S. carbon tetrachloride emissions are up to two orders of magnitude higher than expected
- Tumor antigens help explain how the immune system fights cancer
- Aldolase enzyme gets a makeover
- First hair-graying gene identified
- Orange peels clean copper from water
- Dual C–F/C–H functionalization unveiled
- Novel hydrogen bond observed between a carborane B–H and a phenyl ring
Career & Employment
It’s no longer just pharma companies hiring, and knowledge of Chinese language is optional
(pp. 25-27)Newscripts
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