Chemistry World October 2008

October 2008

Vol 5, No 10

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October 2008

News and analysis

15 September 2008

Prototype power plant also world's first to capture and store its carbon dioxide

16 September 2008

Attracting industry cash a key challenge for new chair

Turmoil in the banking and insurance sector has dealt a blow to the US chemical industry's hopes of a swift end to the credit crunch

19 August 2008

Clinical trials with pure synthetic anticoagulant in five years, says chemist

21 August 2008

Odour profile could lead to hand-held cancer 'sniff test'

A treatment for Alzheimer's disease or schizophrenia is little use if it can't reach its target in the brain

Experts question government education reforms

02 September 2008

US panel allegedly investigated only one of 35 lethal accidents last year

09 September 2008

Moves to ban perfluorocarbons and tighten up safety review

16 September 2008

Epidemiological study released as FDA re-examines chemical's safety

Industry news

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New products, October 2008

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Chemical science

18 August 2008

Self-assembling polymers hold key to computer components of the future

04 September 2008

Combining transition metals with organocatalyst to make elusive molecules

29 August 2008

Lab on a chip could improve the success of in vitro fertilisation

29 August 2008

Catalyst pulls apart unreactive carbon-fluorine bonds at room temperature

01 September 2008

First detailed structure of a key enzyme involved in cancer should help scientists develop new tumour-targeting drugs

01 September 2008

Affinity testing on the tiniest scale identifies a potential drug for hepatitis C

21 August 2008

Diatomic silicon unit trapped in carbene surround

18 September 2008

Sequential catalysis of sugars yield hydrocarbons suitable for vehicle fuel

20 August 2008

Gold nanocluster catalysts split oxygen molecules - but cluster size is crucial

21 August 2008

Nitrates that poison newborns come from manure dumped on soil

19 September 2008

Chemists trade white coats for wetsuits to test lab-on-a-surfboard

28 August 2008

A new Tamiflu screening method could help foil counterfeiters, say US scientists

22 August 2008

Calculations validate alternative to a much-published enzyme mechanism

18 August 2008

Scientists are adding lesions into DNA to probe the mechanisms that allow dormant bacteria to come 'back to life'

28 August 2008

Paul Corkum talks to Hilary Crichton about attosecond pulses and how developing new ideas is like skiing downhill

18 August 2008

German scientists have used an ionic liquid coating on a hydrogenation catalyst to make sweet smelling chemicals

04 September 2008

A potent hybrid of two anticancer natural products has been designed and synthesised by UK chemists.

05 September 2008

G�rard Liger-Belair, University of Reims Champagne-Ardenne, France, celebrates what gives champagne its sparkle

Chinese news supplement

16 September 2008

Government ploughs money into pharmaceutical research

10 September 2008

Just two plants escape the Chinese ban on converting coal into liquid fuels

Open access appeal for domestic journals

11 September 2008

Success claimed for country's first post-combustion capture trial

29 September 2008

Scientists have made a range of structures that mimic water-repellant surfaces found in nature

09 September 2008

New tricks for an old organic semiconductor

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Features

Microwaves are moving beyond organic synthesis, but there is still some confusion about what they do to molecules. Richard Van Noorden reports

As the US prepares for its presidential election, Rebecca Trager looks at where each candidate stands on science

As we look forward to the 2008 Nobel prizes, Mike Sutton recalls the work of two scientists who redefined chemistry's disciplinary boundaries

One of the world's largest food companies has reinvented its approach to R&D. Victoria Gill reports

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