Merck compensation

To give Merck credit, if it does skimp with its middle managers and blue-collar labor force, it seems to be no more generous with its top brass. Gilmartin tends to come out in the low to middle end of the industry in the executive compensation rankings done hy Forbes, BusinessWeek, and The Wall Street Journal, typically well below Pfizer. 

It is interesting to observe that the loss in affinity caused by the replacement of the mercapto function by a carboxyl rest was compensated, thanks to an additional hydrophobic interaction. Thus, scientists from Merck developed enal-aprilat 6a, a compound of comparable effectiveness and for which the additional hydrophobic interaction is provided by a phenethyl rest. But enalaprilat is poorly absorbed orally therefore the commercial compound is enalapril 6b, the corresponding ethyl ester. 

For simplicity but without losing generality, let us assume that in eaeh pixel the LC direetors form a four-domain orientation profile, as Figure 8.21(a) shows. Figure 8.21(b) depicts the calculated voltage-dependent transmittance curve of a typical MVA-LCD using Merck MLC-6608 LC material whose parameters are listed in Table 8.3. Here, the absorption loss of polarizers has been taken into consideration. In the film-compensated MVA eells, the refractive indices of the uniaxial films and polarizers are still the same as those listed in Table 8.2. 

The use of the Merck bicyclohexyl eutectic mixture, (ZLI 1167) instead of the compensated nematic mixture of cholesteryl chloride... 

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