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Chemistry World
October 16, 2014
Rebecca Trager |
Bio-based chemicals on the rise in US The bio-based products and renewable chemical industry in the US is growing and offers significant economic benefits, including job creation in numerous sectors, according to the US Department of Agriculture   |
Chemistry World
May 25, 2011
James Urquhart |
Engineered bacterium to take on petrochemicals producers US sustainable chemicals company Genomatica has demonstrated a commercially viable approach for turning sugar into 1,4-butanediol -- a globally important petrochemical intermediate - using a metabolically engineered strain of E. coli. |
Chemistry World
August 2006
Andrew Scott |
Down on the Plastics Farm Soaring oil prices could see biomass become competitive as a source for chemicals traditionally derived from petroleum. |
Chemistry World
October 17, 2012
Andrew Turley |
Carbon dioxide to chemical partnership State-owned Malaysian oil company Petronas will partner will New Zealand firm LanzaTech, which specializes in making fuels and chemicals from industrial waste gases, such as carbon monoxide, by fermentation. |
Chemistry World
May 14, 2007
Ned Stafford |
Large-Scale Biopolymer Production German chemical giant BASF has taken a decisive step toward starting commercial production of biopolymers for making plastics, announcing that it is financing research to determine the feasibility of large-scale production. |
Chemistry World
September 23, 2011
Hayley Birch |
Bio-Based Chemicals Under Environmental Scrutiny Bio-based chemicals made from renewable materials are helping to reduce the chemical industry's dependence on fossil fuels. But without vast improvements, some bio-based processes won't be any kinder to the environment than their petrochemical equivalents. |
Chemistry World
May 22, 2014
Phillip Broadwith |
Mitsui continues reinvention efforts with two deals Struggling Japanese firm Mitsui Chemicals is persevering in its efforts to realign its product portfolio and return to profitability. |
Chemistry World
August 2, 2013
Phillip Broadwith |
Palm kernel oil to polyamide German speciality chemicals firm Evonik has announced that it is producing bio-based I -amino lauric acid at a pilot-scale plant in Slovakia. |
Chemistry World
June 14, 2007
Simon Hadlington |
Sweet Substitute for Petroleum Products Chemists have developed a new way to turn the sugars glucose and fructose into a potentially useful chemical feedstock. The work reflects a global effort to identify ways of converting plant-derived molecules into replacements for petrochemical feedstocks. |
Chemistry World
February 21, 2013 |
A biomass bonanza Companies have put biofuels on the back burner to aim for higher margin chemicals |
Chemistry World
December 19, 2014
Geri Kitley |
Biodiesel byproduct rejuvenated into plastic feedstock A sustainable method to synthesize platform chemical lactic acid from waste glycerol, a byproduct of biodiesel production, has emerged from research in Switzerland. |
Chemistry World
December 24, 2013
Patrick Walter |
Kemira now water-based after formic acid sale Finnish chemical company Kemira has sold its formic acid business to US agrichemical concern Taminco for euro 140 million ( 117 million pounds) |
Chemistry World
August 22, 2006 |
Polyurethane Precursor Production Stepped up China's $1 billion isocyanate plant in Shanghai has started producing two key raw materials for the production of polyurethane. The Chinese polyurethane market is expected to grow by about 10% a year until 2015. |
Chemistry World
May 7, 2014
Emma Stoye |
China's nitrous oxide emissions to triple by 2020 Emissions of nitrous oxide -- a potent greenhouse gas -- from China's chemical industries are increasing rapidly, and are set to triple by 2020 unless measures are put in place to stop them, new projections show. |
Chemistry World
March 13, 2015
Phillip Broadwith |
BASF introduces bio-based polyTHF Chemical giant BASF has begun commercial production of polytetrahydrofuran (polyTHF) derived entirely from biomass feedstocks. |
Chemistry World
November 8, 2012
Ned Stafford |
Questions remain after huge hydrofluoric acid leak More than six weeks after eight tons of hydrofluoric acid was accidentally released at a chemical plant in South Korea, many of the thousands of local residents who fled the area have reportedly not yet returned to their homes despite assurances from authorities. |
Chemistry World
December 21, 2010
James Urquhart |
Cellulose catalyst rewrites rules of attraction Chinese researchers have developed a magnetic solid acid catalyst that raises the prospect of efficiently converting biomass cellulose into useful chemicals, such as sugars for biofuel production. |
Chemistry World
September 24, 2012
Samantha Cheung |
Tumors reprogram nylon synthesis Cancer mutations have inspired a redesign of an enzyme to catalyze a key step in the bio-based production of adipic acid, a precursor to nylon. |
Chemistry World
December 1, 2008
Rebecca Trager |
US chemical industry wary of facilities danger list The US chemical industry is concerned about the potential impact of a report, released by a liberal think tank on 19 November, which lists the nation's 101 most dangerous chemical manufacturing and water treatment plants |
Chemistry World
November 26, 2009
Lewis Brindley |
One pot synthesis for nylon precursor A highly efficient route to cyclohexanone - a key chemical in the production of nylon - has been developed by researchers in China. |
Chemistry World
March 5, 2014
Emma Stoye |
Evonik acquires US silicic acid ester supplier German specialty chemicals firm Evonik has acquired Silbond, a top supplier of silicic acid esters based in Michigan, US. The deal, which Evonik says is in the mid-double digit million euro range, was completed on 28 February. |
Chemistry World
November 12, 2009
Simon Hadlington |
Carbonic acid captured Scientists from Germany and Israel have caught a fleeting glimpse of carbonic acid, the simple yet elusive molecule that plays a key role in nature. |
Chemistry World
May 20, 2015
Andy Extance |
Malaria drug could cash in on green chemistry Green chemistry principles could make synthesizing the frontline antimalarial drug artemisinin both cleaner and cheaper, an industry -- academia collaboration suggests. |
Chemistry World
January 8, 2008
James Mitchell Crow |
Amber Contains Hint of Paris's Tropical Past Scientists in France studying a local deposit of 55 million-year-old amber have unexpectedly isolated a natural product never seen before. |
Prepared Foods
February 2009
Sharon Book |
R&D: Allowing Health Claims with Leavening Innophos Inc. has developed a leavening acid that has no sodium and contains calcium (18%), a desirable mineral. |
HHMI Bulletin
Fall 2012
Nora Taranto |
The Yin and Yang of Plant Defense A team of researchers led by HHMI-GBMF investigator Xinnian Dong has proposed a model to explain how salicylic acid controls both cell death at the site of infection and cell survival and immune activation in noninfected tissue. |
Chemistry World
December 22, 2014
Andy Extance |
Chemistry from the skies promises low-emission nylon raw material Mimicking the breakdown of atmospheric organic compounds has led to a cleaner way to make a key nylon raw material. |
Chemistry World
December 3, 2010
Elinor Richards |
Graphene catalyst comes out on top Sulfonated graphene solid acid catalysts could be cheap, environmentally friendly alternatives to concentrated sulfuric acid for use in industry because they can be recycled, say scientists from China. |
Science News
September 27, 2003 |
TimeLine: September 23, 1933 Leafy succulents solve problem set by desert... Omnipresent "pantothenic" acid is stimulus to growth... Chemical rarities made cheap; find many profitable uses... etc. |
Chemistry World
January 31, 2010
Simon Hadlington |
Ketene comes in from the cold The ketene group, -C=C=O, is capable of rich and diverse chemistry, says Craig Hawker of the University of California, Santa Barbara |
Chemistry World
September 2007
Dylan Stiles |
Column: Bench Monkey The chemistry of superacids. |
