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May 8, 2017 Cover
Volume 95, Issue 19
Volume 95, Issue 19
Personal care makers rush to harness the relationship between the microbiome and healthy skin. But will it work?
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May 8, 2017 Issue
Volume 95, Issue 19
May 8, 2017 Issue, Vol. 95 | Iss. 19
Personal care makers rush to harness the relationship between the microbiome and healthy skin. But will it work?
(pp. 30-34)
Features
Science & Technology
C&EN follows the action on and off the track (pp. 16-19)
Science & Technology
One software developer wants to transform Amazon’s personal assistant Alexa into a tool for scientists (pp. 26-27)
News of the Week
Nickel catalyst "chain walks" to produce fatty acids
Catalytic reaction adds carbon dioxide to selected C–H bonds in alkane and alkene derivatives
(p.5)Un catalizador de níquel funciona como “engranaje” para producir ácidos grasos.
La reacción catalítica añade dióxido de carbono a determinados enlaces C–H en alcanos y alquenos.
(p.5)Boosting NMR sensitivity
Technique that decouples electron spins from nuclear spins improves spectra
(p.6)Making chiral zeolites in bulk
Enantio-enriched molecular sieves separate chiral molecules and mediate chiral reactions
(p.6)Improved routes to thapsigargin
Two new syntheses could lead to scale-up of anticancer agent
(p.7)Calysta raises money for fish food
Funds, new facility will help firm make feed from natural gas
(p.10)Greenpeace warns about Chinese projects
Environmental group forecasts that coal-to-chemicals plants will account for a significant portion of CO2 emissions by 2020
(p.10)Dow and Bayer sued for polluting university campus
West Virginia State University charges the two chemical firms poisoned groundwater with likely carcinogens
(p.11)New paradigm for ammonia pursued
Japanese partnership to commercialize low-pressure approach to making basic chemical
(p.11)ExxonMobil lacked adequate process safety at refinery
U.S. Chemical Safety Board says gaps in risk management led to blast
(p.14)Science buoyed in 2017 U.S. spending proposal
Facing possible cuts, research agencies instead see growth
(p.14)Indian chemists’ paper publishing, citation frequency said to lag
Output is far behind China’s, analysis finds
(p.15)NIH will limit scientists' grants
New policy seeks to help early- and mid-career researchers
(p.15)Departments
Business
Amid a wave of acquisitions, smaller providers say they are happy to stand alone
(pp. 24-25)
Personal care makers rush to harness the relationship between the microbiome and healthy skin. But will it work?
(pp. 30-34)
With growth hard to come by, chemical producers look to acquisitions
(pp. 20-23)Concentrates
(pp. 12-13)
(pp. 12-13)- Robust deal-making ahead
- DowDuPont clears Chinese regulators
- Styrenic polymers get investment
- SABIC readies ethane carrier
- Sosei buys stake in RNA therapy firm
- Japanese firms target cellulose nanofibers
- Merck, partner advance 3-D effects
- Daiichi invests in antibody-drug combos
- BASF to beautify former bomb shelter
- Stem cell specialist takes steps forward
- Shire, Parion join for ophthalmic drug
- AstraZeneca in pact for inhaled drugs
- Business Roundup
Science & Technology
One software developer wants to transform Amazon’s personal assistant Alexa into a tool for scientists
(pp. 26-27)
C&EN follows the action on and off the track
(pp. 16-19)
Catalytic reaction adds CO2 to selected C–H bonds in alkane and alkene derivatives
(p.5)
A comic collaboration between C&EN and ChemScrapes cartoonist Brendan Burkett
(p.7)Concentrates(pp. 8-9)
(pp. 8-9)- What to do when you’re a plant and your primary insect pollinator also eats your leaves
- Biomimetic polymeric film wrinkles reversibly like skin
- Calcium transport enzyme rocks
- A chemical can mimic endurance-training exercise in mice
- Phospholipids self-assemble into cuboid vesicles
- Enzymatic sulfation helps solve lignin’s solubility problem
Career & Employment
A passion for chemistry drove this one-time homemaker to become a tenured professor
(p.28)