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Volume 95, Issue 26
COVER: Tiananmen Squarein 2013.
Volume 95, Issue 26
Country’s efforts to improve air quality open business opportunities for many firms
COVER: Tiananmen Squarein 2013.
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June 26, 2017 Issue
Volume 95, Issue 26
June 26, 2017 Issue, Vol. 95 | Iss. 26
Country’s efforts to improve air quality open business opportunities for many firms
(pp. 30-34)
Features
Science & Technology
The 2017 Green Chemistry Challenge Awards recognize chemical innovations that prevent pollution and promote sustainability (pp. 16-20)
Science & Technology
Baseball has a home run conundrum, but experts aren't blaming the balls (pp. 28-29)
News of the Week
Engineered microbes make ‘natural’ colorants
Four engineered bacteria cooperate to synthesize possible replacements for artificial colorings
(p.3)Golden ticket to trifluoromethylations
Borane catalyst and gold reagent forge C–CF3 bonds, opening another route to radiotracers
(p.4)Pase VIP para las trifluorometilaciones
Un catalizador de borano y un compuesto de oro forman enlaces C–CF3 y abren una nueva ruta para radiotrazadores
(p.4)What triggers organ transplant rejection?
Differences in cell receptor between donor and host tissue set rejection in motion, study finds
(p.4)Polymer captures drinking water contaminant
Cross-linked cyclodextrin removes 93% of PFOA from water in lab tests
(p.5)Angewandte Chemie announces new editor-in-chief
Neville Compton will step into role filled by Peter Gölitz for 35 years
(p.6)New catalytic route to polysulfates and polysulfonates
Bifluoride salts could yield tough polymers efficiently at industrial scales
(p.6)BMS will sell Ireland plant to SK Biotek
Sale continues big pharma’s exit from small-molecule drug manufacturing
(p.10)Dicamba drift sows trouble in Arkansas
Reports of crop damage, despite new herbicide formulation, may result in ban
(p.10)PerkinElmer pushes further into diagnostics
Euroimmun Medical Laboratory Diagnostics will join the portfolio by the end of the year.
(p.10)Celanese, Blackstone to combine acetate units
The new partnership will be the global leader in cigarette filter materials.
(p.11)Helium shortage looms
Qatar blockade cuts 30% of global supply and threatens price increases for scientific instrument users
(p.11)India’s government labs face fiscal crisis
Facilities directed to commercialize technologies to fund work
(p.14)U.S. Supreme Court gives pharma a product liability win
Out-of-state residents cannot sue Bristol-Myers Squibb in California over Plavix
(p.14)EPA on track to finalize TSCA rules
But concerns grow about potential conflicts of interest
(p.15)European Union further restricts four phthalates
Commonly used plasticizers would be prohibited at levels greater than 0.1% by weight in most products
(p.15)Departments
Business
AkzoNobel’s Imagine Chemistry competition offers partnerships with start-ups to solve targeted chemistry challenges
(pp. 21-23)
Country’s efforts to improve air quality open business opportunities for many firms
(pp. 30-34)Concentrates
(pp. 12-13)
(pp. 12-13)- Chemours to end GenX discharges
- DowDuPont wins U.S. approval
- Lanxess to trim chrome chemicals
- SLIPS Technologies raises new funds
- Topsoe sells emissions catalysts to Umicore
- CP Chem readies polyethylene plants
- Corporate researchers make fat algae
- Conditions placed on Evonik-Huber deal
- JSR buys another life sciences firm
- Start-up Repare uses synthetic lethality
- Biotech firm Rubius raises $120 million
- Merck KGaA spins off immuno-oncology firm
- Business Roundup
ACS News
Instrument provided new data on the chemistry of Mars and pioneered spectroscopic studies of the solar system
(p.36)
Washington, D.C., August 20–24
(pp. 39-82)
Government & Policy
EPA scrambles to implement changes required under the updated Toxic Substances Control Act
(pp. 25-26)
Science & Technology
Baseball has a home run conundrum, but experts aren't blaming the balls
(pp. 28-29)
The 2017 Green Chemistry Challenge Awards recognize chemical innovations that prevent pollution and promote sustainability
(pp. 16-20)