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Volume 94, Issue 46
Volume 94, Issue 46
Technology to produce fuels from sunlight, water, and carbon dioxide faces scientific and economic challenges
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November 21, 2016 Issue
Volume 94, Issue 46
November 21, 2016 Issue, Vol. 94 | Iss. 46
Technology to produce fuels from sunlight, water, and carbon dioxide faces scientific and economic challenges
(pp. 32-38)
Features
Government & Policy
The President supported science while Congress limited progress of his initiatives (pp. 18-22)
Science & Technology
Despite decades of research into chemical communication, scientists are no closer to determining whether a human pheromone exists (pp. 23-25)
News of the Week
Synthesis of poison dart frog toxin brings surprises
Asymmetric route to batrachotoxin opens avenues for studying sodium channels
(p.5)Chemical traces yield ‘lifestyle sketches’
Compounds left behind on personal objects such as cell phones reveal much about the daily activities of the user
(p.6)Hyperlens lights a new path to nanofabrication
Metamaterial lens beats diffraction limit and could bolster photolithography
(p.6)Synthetic biology pulls carbon dioxide out of the atmosphere
A suite of enzymes borrowed from humans, plants, and other life-forms can turn the greenhouse gas into industrial building block chemicals
(p.7)X-ray technique captures fast ligand-binding dynamics
Rapid mixing device combined with tiny crystals enables researchers to watch riboswitch in action
(p.7)A healable polymer for stretchable electronics
Intrinsically stretchy semiconductor has promise for wearable sensors and displays
(p.8)Elegant way to build β-lactams
Palladium-catalyzed process weds aliphatic amines and carbon monoxide
(p.8)Ashland may exit butanediol
Company says the business doesn’t match its new specialty chemical lifestyle
(p.12)Third Rock- and Atlas-backed Magenta launches
Biotech will try to overhaul stem cell transplants
(p.12)Cleantech industry ponders Trump presidency
With climate policies in the crosshairs, companies pin hopes on job creation efforts
(p.13)Roche launches network for cancer immunotherapy
Drug firm will spend $100 million at 21 institutions across nine countries
(p.13)Beware of a bogus ChemRxiv
Phony version of ACS preprint server is online
(p.16)EPA reaffirms plan to ban chlorpyrifos on food
Agency cites concerns about neurotoxicity of organophosphate insecticide
(p.16)Departments
Business
CEO Kurt Bock strives to find positives in a year of falling sales, fatalities, and protectionist government policies
(p.31)
The start-up sold its CO2 polyols business to Saudi Aramco and now wants to cultivate a CO route to acrylic acid
(p.29)
Engineer transformed catalyst firm Johnson Matthey and helped pave the way for fracking in U.K.
(pp. 26-27)Concentrates
(pp. 14-15)
(pp. 14-15)- Europe plans $1.7 billion venture capital fund
- BASF is making big U.S. investments
- R&D spending up 4% in Germany
- ExxonMobil to build polyethylene plant
- Start-up firm plans California ammonia
- Corbion, Total in bioplastics venture
- New Syngenta fungicide hits market
- Novozymes will add enzymes in India
- Glycomine raises $12 million
- BMS, Enterome form microbiome pact
- Almac expands in U.S. and Europe
- Eagle to acquire Arsia Therapeutics
- Business Roundup
ACS News
Technique discovered in the 1940s helps determine the ages of artifacts up to 50,000 years old
(p.40)Obituaries(p.42)
(p.42)
Government & Policy
The President supported science while Congress limited progress of his initiatives
(pp. 18-22)
Science & Technology
Technology to produce fuels from sunlight, water, and carbon dioxide faces scientific and economic challenges
(pp. 32-38)
Despite decades of research into chemical communication, scientists are no closer to determining whether a human pheromone exists
(pp. 23-25)
La síntesis asimétrica de la batracotoxina abre nuevos caminos para el estudio de los canales de sodio
(p.5)Concentrates(pp. 10-11)
(pp. 10-11)- Safer emergency flares, thanks to a less toxic and more stable chemical for making smoke
- Mechanism behind London’s ‘killer fog’ of ’52 identified
- Masked fungal toxins in our food
- Solid CO2 spotted on a comet
- Reaction regioselectivity doesn’t require a transition state
- Cannabinoid receptor revealed
- Porous fluoropolymer separates water-soluble organics