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Business
Business roundup: April 2009
Merger goes ahead as Dow, Rohm and Haas settle dispute Dow Chemical has finally agreed to complete the acquisition of speciality materials firm Rohm and Haas in a $15.3 billion (?11 billion) deal after the two firms settled their dispute over the planned merger. The takeover, which will create the ...
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News
First auto carbohydrate synthesiser
Scientists have unveiled the first fully automated carbohydrate synthesiser, hoped to speed vaccine development
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Podcast
March 2009
Chemistry World Podcast - March 200900:12 -- Introduction02:03 -- Exercise capacity of heart failure patients improved 05:00 -- Molecular thermometer takes cell temperature 07:41 -- ...
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Opinion
Letters: March 2009
I recently delivered an address at a presentation evening at a local school where I was introduced to the audience as an organic chemist. At the reception which followed, I was approached by a parent who congratulated me heartily on my lifestyle choice of being ’organic’ and I was asked ...
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Business
Business roundup: March 2009
Pfizer’s Wyeth injection Source: © AP PHOTOS Jeffrey Kindler, Pfizer’s CEO, explains the merger Pfizer has agreed to pay $68 billion (?48.3 billion) for rival US biopharmaceutical firm Wyeth, gaining access to its rich product portfolio and promising pipeline of experimental drugs. Pfizer hopes Wyeth’s products ...
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Podcast
February 2009
Chemistry World Podcast - February 2009 00:12 -- Introduction 02:13 -- Life on Mars? Carbonates and methane 05:15 -- Chemists edge closer to recreating early life 08:12-- Jeff Long reveals the magic of MOFs ...
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Opinion
Letters: February 2009
From Carl Djerassi In your December editorial (Chemistry World, December 2008, p2), you claim that it is rare for chemistry and its ideas to star in fiction, and rarer still to find a story with a character who is a real-life scientist. Perhaps you are too busy editing a journal ...
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Business
Business roundup: February 2009
Dow’s Rohm and Haas deal on the rocks Despite having cleared European regulatory hurdles, Dow’s takeover of Rohm and Haas is hanging in the balance after state-owned Kuwait Petroleum Company (KPC) scuttled their $17.4 billion (£11.9 billion) K-Dow joint venture deal just days before it was set to close. ...
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Opinion
Letters: January 2009
By the time I read your feature on whisky (Chemistry World, December 2008, p40) the magazine’s packaging had been binned. So I could not sample the whisky miniature that must have accompanied this excellent article. CW is, after all, the official organ of a professional body still associated with ...