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The article reports on a method developed by researcher Aaron C. Sather for making protective paraffin capsules to hold premeasured doses of air- and moisture-sensitive chemicals and mentions that the capsules can be stored for a year without losing without losing their potency.

An introduction is presented in which the editor discusses various reports within the issue on topics including a global agreement to regulate greenhouse gas emissions in Paris, France; impact of emissions regulation agreement on chemists; and a methodology for making protective paraffin capsules.

The article discusses research led by Mohamed Eddaoudi published in the 2015 issue of the journal "Angewandte Chemie International Edition" on metal-organic framework (MOF) compounds used to design solid sorbents that separate branched paraffins from their linear analogs.

The article discusses a study conducted by researcher Stephen L. Buchwald, published in the periodical "Nature" in 2015, related to synthesis of paraffin capsules for holding premeasured doses of chemicals and be dropped into reaction vessels outside the glove box.