All articles by Chemistry World – Page 44
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Opinion
Letters: August 2007
From John Holman Your editorial ’Dear Gordon’ (Chemistry World, June 2007) points to the skills that chemistry graduates can contribute to the economy. Chemistry is a quantitative subject that teaches the scientific use of evidence, and that is one reason why chemistry graduates are so employable. However, Peter Cotgreave’s ...
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Business
Business roundup: September 2007
ICI sale finally agreed ICI have accepted a takeover offer of £8 billion from chemical conglomerate Akzo Nobel. This 670p per share agreement is Akzo’s third approach for ICI in as many months, following an initial offer of 600p per share in June, and then 650p per share in ...
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News
Chinese legislation to increase drug safety
New drug registration laws expected to boost the country's pharmaceutical industry
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Podcast
July 2007
Chemistry World Podcast - July 2007(Promo)Brought to you by the Royal Society of Chemistry: The Chemistry World Podcast.(End Promo)Interviewer - Chris Smith Hello, this is Chemistry World Podcast No. 10 with me Chris Smith and with the Chemistry World team Mark Peplow, Bea Perks, Richard Van Noorden, ...
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Opinion
Letters: July 2007
From Ronald Bentley In his ’Bench Monkey’ column (Chemistry World, April 2007, p40) Dylan Stiles notes that the odour of benzylmercaptan, used by a colleague, stays with him long after he leaves the lab. In 1989, I worked with the many reports describing the war-time research on the chemistry of ...
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Business
Business roundup: July 2007
A depressing ruling for obesity drug A decision by a US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) advisory panel on 13 June was a double blow for French drug firm, Sanofi-Aventis. Their long-awaited obesity drug, rimonabant, marketed in Europe as Acomplia, was not recommended for approval by the FDA. ...
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News
First internationally licensed Chinese herbal patent
China has licensed its first herbal compound patent to an overseas pharmaceutical company
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News
Seeing the environmental wood for the nanotech trees
German environmentalists have issued a 24-page report on potential health and environmental risks of nanotechnology. But others question its value.
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News
National survey finds fewer toxic chemicals in soil
Restrictions on industrial emissions have cut down persistent organic pollutants in soil and vegetation
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NewsThe Atkins hormone
US researchers have uncovered a vital metabolic role for a hormone that is stimulated by 'low carb' diets
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Podcast
June 2007
Chemistry World Podcast - June 2007(Promo)Brought to you by the Royal Society of Chemistry: The Chemistry World Podcast.(End Promo)Interviewer - Azi KhatiriHello and welcome to the 9th episode of the Chemistry World podcast with me Azi Khatiri, this month what the outgoing prime minister did and didn't do ...
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Opinion
Letters: June 2007
From Peter Plesch When in 1989 I was writing the paper entitled The relation between reduction potential and solvation energy for some aryl-methylium ions, (J. Chem. Soc. Perkin Trans. 2, 1989, 1139), I needed the ionisation potentials of the tri-4-X-phenylmethyl radicals, where X = Cl, H, and MeO, as these ...
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Business
Business roundup: June 2007
FDA powers boosted by Senate Bill The US Senate has passed legislation to reinforce the authority of the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) to regulate drugs and medical devices. Under the legislation, there will be an increase in user fees that drugs companies and makers of medical devices ...
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News
Large-scale biopolymer production
BASF's decisive step toward starting commercial production of biopolymers for making plastics