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Dear NSW RACI readers

Below are this week’s announcements from the RACI NSW Branch, a summary is given and then scroll down for the full text.

Att : Especially Northern Rivers Region Royal Australian Chemical Institute Inc. (Qld Branch) has invited members of our branch to attend the Qld. Branch Dinner Seminar – 17th June 2008

The RACI NSW Branch Committee strategy meeting Saturday June 14th at the University of Sydney.

Position Available for a part time science teacher: Junior Science The McDonald College

Events coming up this week:

14th May NIR industry update

16th-17th May National Assembly

**Due to Coordinator’s attendance at the NIR Update and National Assembly next week – RACI office

will only be opened Monday and Tuesday this week. **

Position Available at Pall Corporation Strategic Account Manager


Wanted: Tutors for Year 11 and 12 Chemistry Students

Website of the Week: This week we look at the Naked Scientists Website See:

http://www.thenakedscientists.com/

Western Sydney Section –RACI Seminar : Sustainability- some chemical solutions for a tricky problem, Speaker Professor Thomas Maschmeyer When: Tuesday 27th May 2008 Venue: University of Western Sydney Campbelltown Campus (CR 5, Building 22)

RACI Conference: 3D at the Cove- Drug Discovery & Development, 13-17 July at Couran Cove Island Resort, Queensland Advances in Heterocyclic Chemistry and Medicinal Chemistry: One-Day Halpern Symposium in Honour of

Prof. John Bremner University of Wollongong Thursday 10th July 2008

Its here!!! The New 2008/2009 Entertainment Book has arrived: This book has been an important fundraiser for our branch the last few years. Purchase your brand new 2008/2009 Entertainment™ Book now to receive over $15,000 in valuable offers, valid through 1 June, 2009. The Entertainment™ Book is your guide to the best restaurants, hotel accommodation, attractions, sports and leisure activities... all with 25% to 50% off or 2-for-1 offers. In NSW there are four books available Newcastle, Central Coast and The Hunter (including Lake Macquarie, Port Stephens and the Hunter Valley) Parramatta, The Hills, Blue Mountains and Macarthur Sydney (includes Sydney CBD, Eastern Suburbs, Inner West, Southern Suburbs and more...) Sydney North (includes North Sydney, the Northern Beaches, Upper and Lower North Shore and more...) We can also obtain interstate editions if you have friends in other states. Important Dates in Chemistry’s History May 14-23

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Royal Australian Chemical Institute Inc. (Qld Branch) Branch Dinner Seminar – 17th June 2008

The Qld Branch invites us all – and especially members in Northern NSW All RACI members, colleagues and interested persons are invited to attend the Queensland Branch Dinner Seminar. Date Tuesday, 17th June 2008 (6.30 pm for 7:00 pm start) RSVP Thursday 12th June 2008 (for catering purposes) Venue The Ship Inn

Cnr Stanley & Sidon Streets, Southbank Parklands 1st Floor Function Room – enter via the “Griffith Graduate Centre” at rear of The Ship Inn.

Cost

$40.00 for all RACI members $45.00 for all non-members (Cost includes – Entrée, Main Course and 1 drink per person with the meal - Domestic Beer, House Wine or Soft Drink) (Note: Full bar facilities are available at own cost)

Speaker Professor Robert (Bob) Gilbert

Awarded the RACI 2007 Leighton Memorial Medal In recognition of eminent services to chemistry in Australia

• Professor Robert G (Bob) Gilbert is Research Professor in the Centre for Nutrition and Food

Science, University of Queensland. He is a Fellow of the Australian Academy of Science and of the RACI, is author of 340 papers, 4 patents, and 2 books (on unimolecular reactions and on emulsion polymerisation). His research interests cover a wide range of polymer science, with recent emphasis on starch as a polymer.

Abstract

• For a polymer scientist, starch presents a challenge: while a simple homopolymer of glucose, it is highly branched, and one can identifying has six levels of structural complexity, from nm to mm. Starch comprises half our food energy, and structure-property relations are needed to improve our nutrition with regard to diabetes and obesity, now reaching epidemic levels. This talk will be on research to stop this evening's dinner killing you.

Registration Forms are available from the Qld Branch Office. Please return completed forms, with payment, to Ruth Meaney (RACI Qld Branch Coordinator) by email, fax, or mail by THURSDAY 12TH JUNE 2008 for catering purposes. Ruth Meaney, RACI Qld Branch Coordinator PO Box 667 Mt Gravatt Qld 4122 Email: [email protected] Phone / fax: (07) 3420 4223


Strategy meeting - Saturday June 14th The RACI NSW Branch Committee will be holding a strategy meeting on Saturday June 14th at the University of Sydney. The aim of this exercise is to examine the relevance of NSW Branch activities to its members and how these can be improved. If you have criticisms of the current Branch operations and/or ideas for improvements in the delivery of services to RACI members, please contact Adam Cawley (Secretary) by email: [email protected], phone: 0407 127 388 or via the office ([email protected]). This is your chance to have a say on the future direction of the RACI in NSW so don’t be content as a couch critic, we will value all comments.

Position for a part-time science teacher 0.8 position, all junior science available. The McDonald College 17 George St North Strathfield Contact Dianne Wilson Head of Science 9752 0563 for details

Events coming up this week 14th May NIR industry update

16th-17th May National Assembly


Strategic Account Manager

Pall Corporation is the global leader in the rapidly growing field of filtration, separations and purification. Pall's business is organised around two broad markets: Life Sciences and Industrial. The Company provides leading-edge products to meet the demanding needs of customers in biotechnology, pharmaceuticals, transfusion medicine, semiconductors, municipal drinking water, industrial, food, beverage and aerospace. Position Summary Managing and driving sales within a designated territory for the Life Sciences Division , this role’s responsibilities include:

• Establishing sales strategies to grow the product group and increase market share. Achieving quarterly and annual sales projections.

• Prospecting and developing new business opportunities. • Formulating and maintaining sales action plans and reports. • Implementing strategies for key account management and providing effective

commercial and technical support to all customers. • Promptly completing customer visit reports and monthly sales reports,

maintaining accurate and current customer records. • Conducting plant surveys, seminars and training .Supporting local & global

marketing & product managers in Training customers as required. • Investigating and recommending new products and services for increased

market penetration and optimisation. Developing innovative and creative concepts for new applications and business development.

• Customising and optimising the filtration processes. Essential Criteria:

Previous sales experience and knowledge of the processes, & regulatory requirements, within the Biopharmaceutical & Life Sciences industry.

• A degree or equivalent in Engineering or Science • Conversant with PC based programs • A firm understanding of the importance of Ethics, Safety, Environment,

Customer Focus and Quality Management • Demonstrate commercial experience in Life Sciences Industry ( Laboratory & Biopharmaceutical markets)

The successful applicant will be results driven, and have excellent communication, planning and organisational skills. If you are team orientated and meet the above requirements, please send your resumes to [email protected]. Applications close Tuesday 14th May 2008.


Wanted: Tutors for Year 11 and 12 Chemistry Students

The role of the tutor is to teach/tutor year 11 and/or year 12 Chemistry to HSC students. The school operates on the basis of purely one to one private tuition. The tuition is conducted at the premises at Seaforth and the tutor has an option of conducting the tuition for 1,2,3,4 or 5 consecutive hours at the centre The days are flexible as are the times but the actual lessons will commence at 3 or 4 in the afternoon. There is also an option of Saturday’s classes for more information please contact John Kouts on 99482546 or 0417 246 446.

Website of the Week This is a new section of the newsletter where we will review a useful or interesting website that one of our members will have recommended. (Opinions expressed in this article are not those of the RACI as a whole, rather the author of the article)

This week we look at

This is quite a fun, and innovative website – yet at the same time quite informative. The Naked Scientists are a media-savvy group of physicians and researchers from Cambridge University who use radio, live lectures, and the Internet to strip science down to its bare essentials, and promote it to the general public. The first attracted a wide UK audience over the Radio Waves - but it has been their interactive website and great use of pod casting that has seen then gain an international audience. Pods casts include chemistry related projects such as pods run on lemons or growing crystals on string. There are over more general science related articles – I enjoyed the ballistics investigation – how much fat would a belly require to stop a bullet hitting your vital organs- (at least 72cm apparently!). Very interesting indeed Edwina Hine (NSW Branch Coordinator)

The Naked Scientists- Science Radio and Naked Science Pod casts

See: http://www.thenakedscientists.com/


When: Tuesday 27th May 2008 Venue: University of Western Sydney

Campbelltown Campus (CR 5, Building 22) Programme: 6.00 Wine & Cheese 6.30 Special Guest Speaker: Professor Thomas Maschmeyer

(University of Sydney) The world is standing at the technological threshold of a revolution that is driven by the need for truly sustainable (industrial) processes, both in the production of chemicals as well as in the generation of fuels and power. At current rates of resource usage, if a world population were to operate with Australian standards of living, it would require between 4 – 6 planets. In addition, concomitant greenhouse gas emissions would have a dramatic impact on the world’s climate. This talk will outline how one might be able to address some of the basic problems associated with these issues from a chemical perspective. The talk will not only be directed at a general audience and canvas aspects of ‘the bigger picture’, but it will also cover very recent research results from our group in the area of photocatalytic splitting of water with sunlight to create hydrogen, 200 litres/(hour.m2). Everyone is welcome to join the speaker and committee for dinner at a local restaurant after the presentation at their own expense. For additional information please contact:

Dr Robert Kaziro (4620 3207); Email: [email protected]


The RACI 3D at the Cove- Drug Discovery & Development, 13-17 July at Couran Cove Island Resort, Queensland

Please register online at http://www.3datthecove.org/?page=8 It is with great pleasure that I invite you to join us at ‘3D at the Cove’, the 2008 follow-on meeting from the very successful ‘Drug Design Amongst the Vines 2006’. This drug discovery and development conference is organised by the Biomolecular Chemistry Division of the Royal Australian Chemical Institute and held at Couran Cove Resort from 13 July to 17 July 2008. At this meeting you will be able to hear the latest developments on all medicinal chemistry topics, such as drug discovery targets and modes of action (GPCRs, Kinases, Ion Channels and proteases), indications (antibacterials, pain, Oncology, Inflammation, CNS disorders), as well as a dedicated session on the Australian Biotech Industry. It is especially exciting to have this meeting on one of Queensland’s secluded Island resorts, allowing ample opportunity to interact and really get to know all delegates (this year limited to 160) and plenary speakers. It is the quality of the talks and the warm interaction that make these meetings a very memorable experience. Couran Cove offers the best Australian beaches and rainforest in our Sunshine state and will provide a wonderful setting for our scientific meeting.

Wim Meutermans Conference Chair, Biomolecular Chemistry Division


Advances in Heterocyc l ic Chemistry and Medicinal Chemistr y

One-Day Halpern Symposium in Honour of Prof. John Bremner University o f

Wollongong Thursda y 1 0th J ul y 20 08

Mc Kinnon B uilding, 67.104 8.30 a.m. registration – 9.00 a.m. start

Prof. John Bremner has recently retired from his academic position at the University of Wollongong. To celebrate his outstanding career as a researcher and teacher the School of Chemistry is organizing a one-day symposium on Thursday, 10th July 2008. The theme of the symposium will be on heterocyclic and medicinal chemistry, the two topics of John's major research interests. The following eminent researchers have accepted invitations to speak.

Dr Jonathan Baell (The Walter and Eliza Hall Institute of Medical Research) Prof. Martin Banwell (Australian National University) Prof. David Black (University of NSW) Prof. Bill Denny (University of Auckland) Prof. Tim Gallagher (University of Bristol) Dr Kevin Winzenberg (CSIRO Molecular and Health Technologies) Prof. Brian Yates (University of Tasmania)

After the conclusion of the one-day symposium activities John Bremner will be presenting the Halpern Lecture at 6.00 pm followed by dinner at a local restaurant. The members of the organizing committee would like to invite you and your colleagues and research students to participate in this exciting day of science, to celebrate with John his long and distinguished research career and his contributions to Chemistry, nationally and internationally. Please e-mail or fax your registration details (see below) to Louisa Willdin at [email protected] [fax (02) 4221 4287] before 10th May 2008. If you need to book your accommodation, you may find this website useful. www.tourismwollongong.com.au Name: Affiliation: e-mail: I will attend: 1. � One -Day Symposium in Honour of Prof. John Bremner

� Staff, $55 � Student, free

2. � The Halpern Lecture (free lecture) 3. � Dinner at a local restaurant (cost not included in registration fees) Payment: � Cheque � Bankcard � MasterCard � Visa Cardholder name: Card Number: Expiry Date: Signature of cardholder: Cheques should be made payable to The School of Chemistry, University of Wollongong. Please e-mail or fax your registration details to Louisa Willdin at [email protected] [fax (02) 4221 4287] before 10th May 2008.


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Important Dates in Chemistry’s History May 14-23 14 The patent application for commercial condensed milk was made by Gail Borden, 1853. The name “vaseline” for petroleum jelly was given a trademark, 1878.

15 b. 1859 Pierre Curie codiscovered polonium (Po, 84) & radium (Ra, 88), with Marie Curie; discovered phenomenon of piezoelectricity; Nobel Prize (1903) in Physics with Marie Curie. In recognition of the extraordinary services they have rendered by their joint researches on the radiation phenomena discovered by Professor Henri Becquerel. Edward Jenner inoculated boy with cowpox virus, 1796.

16 b. 1763 Nicolas-Louis Vauquelin discovered chromium (Cr, 24), 1797, & beryllium (Be, 4),1798.

17 b. 1836 Joseph N. Lockyer discovered helium (He, 2) in the Sun, 1868. Pierre J. C. Janssen simultaneously observed this.

5 b. 1897 Odd Hassel researched molecular structure of cyclohexane and derivatives, charge transfer compounds, and rules for geometry of charge-transfer compounds; Nobel Prize in Chemistry (1969) with Derek H. R. Barton for their contributions to the development of the concept of conformation and its application in chemistry.

18 b. 1778 Andrew Ure, first to chemical solutions in terms of chemical equivalents, i.e., normality. b. 1889 Thomas Midgley, Jr., introduced tetraethyllead as anti-knock agent in gasoline; researcher on organic chlorofluorides as refrigerants. b. 1901 Vincent du Vigneaud studied sulfur containing proteins, including insulin, etc.; researched transmethylation and metabolism of single carbon compounds; Nobel Prize (1955) for his work on biochemically important sulphur compounds, especially for the first synthesis of a polypeptide hormone. Dow Chemical Co., incorporated, 1897.

19 b. 1916 Ralph Landau cofounded Scientific Design in 1946 and led in the development of terephthalic acid process in polyester manufacture and the propylene oxide process. b. 1914 Max F. Perutz studied structure of hemoproteins using x-ray diffraction: Nobel Prize (1962) with John C. Kendrew for studies of the structure of globular proteins.

20 b. 1857 John J. Abel, "Father of American Pharmacology", isolated epinephrine (adrenalin). b. 1860 Eduard Buchner discovered alcoholic fermentation without yeast cells, 1896, & zymase, 1897; Nobel Prize (1907) for his biochemical researches and his discovery of cell-free fermentation. b. 1879 Hans Meerwein, researcher on carbonium ions including anionic polymerizations and Wagner-Meerwein rearrangements. b. 1890 Francis O. Rice, researcher in free radicals.

21 b. 1936 G_nter Blobel received Nobel Prize in Medicine and Physiology (1999) for discovery that proteins have intrinsic signals that govern their transport and location in the cell. •Occidential Petroleum incorporated. 1920.

22 b. 1912 Herbert C. Brown, researcher in organoboron and carbocation chemistry; Nobel Prize in Chemistry (1979) with Georg Wittig for their development of the use of boron and phosphorus-containing compounds, respectively, into important reagents in organic synthesis. b. 1927 George A. Olah, researcher in carbocations and their role in chemical reactions of hydrocarbons; Nobel Prize (1994) for his contribution to carbocation chemistry.

23 b. 1854 Edgar Fahs Smith, researcher in electrochemistry and history of chemistry; Three times President of ACS.

Ref: Monthly Historical Events In Chemistry by Leopold May, The Catholic University of America http://faculty.cua.edu/may/Chemistrycalendar.htm

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