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MARCH 2005 Vol. 86 • No. 3 ISSN0019-6924

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Dr. Yorke Rhodes, Chair, OSA Committee,presents New York Section 2004Outstanding Service Award to

Dr. Robert Beer

THE INDICATORManager / EditorMALCOLM STURCHIO1 Cable Court, Montville, NJ 07045973-331-5142; Fax 973-331-5143e-mail: [email protected] ManagerVINCENT GALEMBO Services, Inc.PO Box 1150, Marshfield, MA 02050-1150781-837-0424; Fax 781-837-8792e-mail: [email protected] COMMITTEENew York Section Rep.EVELYN SARNOFF97-37 63rd Road, Rego Park, NY 11374-1624718-459-3097North Jersey Section Rep.DIANE KRONENorthern Highlands Regional High School298 Hillside Avenue, Allendale, NJ 07401e-mail: [email protected] MasterED HARRIS — e-mail: [email protected] YORK SECTIONhttp://newyorkacs.orgChairJAMES W. CANARYDepartment of Chemistry, New York UniversityNew York, NY 10003212-998-8422e-mail: [email protected] REHMANNDepartment of Chemistry, St. Joseph’s College245 Clinton Avenue, Brooklyn, NY 11205718-636-6823e-mail: [email protected] ROJASDept. of Che istry, Barnard College3009 Broadway, New York, NY 10027212-854-5480e-mail: [email protected] OfficeSt. John’s University, Chemistry Dept.8000 Utopia Parkway, Jamaica, NY 11439516-883-7510; Fax 516-883-4003e-mail: [email protected] JERSEY SECTIONhttp://www.njacs.orgChairJACQUELINE ERICKSONGSK, 1500 Littleton Road, Parsippany, NJ 07054973-889-2368e-mail: [email protected] WALLERFairleigh Dickinson University, 285 Madison Ave.,M-581-01, Madison, NJ 07940973-443-8783e-mail: [email protected] HOWSON49 Hillside Avenue, Madison, NJ 07940-2612973-822-2575e-mail: [email protected] Office4 Cameron Road, Piscataway, NJ 08854732-463-7271

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OUTSANDING PERFORMANCE AWARD —NEW YORK SECTION OF ACS

Professor Robert Beer, Fordham University Chemistry Department

To recognize the efforts of members of the New York Section who have provided theirtime, leadership skills and dedicated service in promoting quality programs that con-tribute to the excellence of the Section, the New York Section introduced theOutstanding Service Award in 1976. All members of the New York Section are eligiblefor nomination. The Committee of four previous award winners usually selects candi-dates who have contributed over several years or more in leadership of different activ-ities. The list of previous winners reads like a history of the New York Section of the last30 years. Eleven previous winners were in attendance at the meeting this year.

The award, which may be given annually, consists of an engraved ACS plaque that ispresented at the New York Section’s General Meeting and Section-Wide Conferenceeach January at which all Subsections and Topical Groups are present, awards areannounced, a lecture of general interest is held, and all committee groups meet to planand discuss their coming year’s activities. Usually the January meeting is held at theinstitution where the prize winner is resident to honor him or her at their home institu-tion.

The 2004 Outstanding Service Award was presented on January 22, 2005 at FordhamUniversity to Professor Robert Beer of the Fordham University Chemistry Departmentfor his contributions to the activities of the New York Section.

Robert Beer was recognized especially for his contributions in organizing and promot-ing Inorganic Chemistry as a topical group of the New York Section and as aCommittee of the New York Academy of Sciences. As the representative member ofthe group of inorganic chemists in the Universities and Colleges and industries in theNew York Metropolitan area, he has organized seminar meetings and an ambitiousschedule of activities for the inorganic chemists in the area. This group is now a strongcontributor to activity in the chemical sciences in the metropolitan area in both the ACSand the New York Academy of Sciences.

Secondly, Robert took on the organization of the New York Section’s activities as thehome Section of the September 2003 National American Chemical Society Meeting.This is a complicated responsibility which required coordinating interaction with a myr-iad of contributing groups from the National ACS office’s many groups and activitiesincluding staff and the President’s Office of the ACS as well as many committees ofthe ACS and of the New York Section. He coordinated, in addition, the Celebration asan ACS Presidential Event by the New York Section of the 100th Anniversary of theWilliam H. Nichols Award, the first award given by ACS, national or local. He had helpfrom many from ACS and from our Section, but he coordinated it all masterfully. Hewas also responsible for organizing tours in Manhattan for visiting chemists worldwideand numerous other activities. The September 2003 Indicator is a summary of theactivities he coordinated.

The New York Section of the ACS is proud to award Robert Beer the OutstandingService Award of the New York Section for 2004 for his leadership and organizing skillsof many activities which enhance the Section’s activities for all its members.

Yorke E. Rhodes, Chair2004 Outstanding Service Award CommitteeNew York Section of the ACS

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NEW YORK SECTIONWednesday, March 2, 2005Westchester Chemical SocietySee page 13.

Thursday, March 3, 2005Long Island SubsectionSee page 14.

Tuesday, March 15, 2005Chemical Marketing & EconomicsSee page 14.

Wednesday, March 16, 2005Staten Island SubsectionSee page 14.

Friday, March 18, 2005High School Teachers Topical GroupSee page 15.

Tuesday, March 29, 2005Biochemical Topical GroupSee page 15.

NORTH JERSEY SECTIONThursday, March 3, 2005Careers in TransitionSee page 10.

Monday, March 14, 2005Teacher Affiliates Executive CommitteeSee page 11.

Tyesday, March 15, 2005ChemTAGSee page 11.

Thursday, March 17, 2005No. Jersey Group of Small ChemicalBusinessesSee page 11.

Wednesday, March 23, 2005Chem CentralSee page 11.

Thursday, March 24, 2005Organic Chemistry Topical GroupSee page 12.

Monday, March 28, 2005Executive Committee and Section MeetingSee page 10.

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EDWIN A. CHANDROSS RECEIVES THEACS AWARD IN INDUSTRIAL CHEMISTRYSponsored b the ACS Division of Business Development & Management

Edwin A. Chandross is “one of the world’s premier industrialchemists,” according to former colleague Valerie J. Kuck. Duringhis tenure at Bell Laboratories — formerly part of AT&T and nowpart of its successor, Lucent Technologies — “Ed carried out anexceptional and diverse research and development programaimed at the design and implementation of organic materials andchemical structures for advanced telecommunication technolo-gies,” Kuck adds. Before she retired from Lucent in 2001, she wasa member of technical staff.

Chandross, 70, earned a B.S. in chemistry in 1955 atMassachusetts Institute of Technology, and an M.A. in 1957 anda Ph.D. in 1960, both in chemistry, at Harvard University.

Chandross says he joined Bell Labs in 1959 as a member of tech-nical staff after the company “made me an offer I couldn’t refuse.”

The lab, which was doing little fundamental chemical research at the time, invited him tocome and set up his own research program. “Jobs like that hardly existed then, and they cer-tainly don’t exist today,” Chandross says. He and five other newly minted organic chemistryPh.D.s joined Ed Wasserman, who was already on staff (and who was to become ACS pres-ident in 1999). The group “was one of several that put Bell Labs on the map as a real chem-istry powerhouse.”

“It was a very collegial group,” Chandross recalls. “We would comment on and review eachothers’ work in a very friendly style.” The collaborative style extended well beyond the circleof chemists. “Multidisciplinary work was a hallmark of Bell Labs, and I enjoyed collaboratingwith top-notch scientists in many fields,” Chandross says.

Chandross flourished, conducting both fundamental and applied research and often bring-ing his own experience to bear on problems that stumped people in other departments. “Itwas fun to take something as prosaic as how to remove polymers thoroughly from glass-ware” — a technique he picked up as a graduate student — “and turn it into an industrialprocess used in splicing optical fibers,” he says.

Holder of approximately 60 patents, Chandross has had a hand in the development of manyproducts and technologies, including some familiar to the public. For example, the light stickproducts made by American Cyanamid were based on his discovery that hydrogen perox-ide reacts with an oxalate to produce an intermediate that can cause many different com-pounds to fluoresce.

His other advances include the discovery of electron-transfer chemiluminescence; the studyof excimer properties; the development of holographic storage materials; a simple photo-chemical technique to reduce precursor impurities, which yielded lower loss optical fibers;early development of deep ultraviolet photoresists; and new techniques for making thin-filmoptical waveguides, gratings, and solid-state dye lasers.

After almost 42 years with Bell Labs and Lucent, Chandross retired as director of Lucent’smaterials chemistry department, though he still does part-time work for the firm. In 2002, hestarted MaterialsChemisty LLC, a consulting firm in Murray Hill, NJ.

Chandross has served on advisory boards for MIT; the University of California, Los Angeles;and Northwestern University, as well as several editorial boards including Chemical Reviewsand the Journal of the American Chemical Society. Chandross is a principal editor of theJournal of Materials Research and a fellow of the American Association for theAdvancement of Science.

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CONGRATULATIONS TO A VERY DESERVING JEANNETTE BROWNBy Lois Ember

ACS Award for Encouraging Disadvantaged Studentsinto Careers in the Chemical Sciences

Sponsored by the Camille & Henry Dreyfus Foundation Inc.

When she was six years old, Jeannette E. Brown remembers beingso impressed with her African American physician that she decidedon the spot to become a doctor. She asked him how one did so, andhe replied, "Study science." When she was a junior in high school,she says a teacher "turned me on to chemistry."

Brown graduated from high school in 1952 and entered New York City'sHunter College, where she majored in chemistry. She was one of twoAfrican Americans in Hunter's first class in a new chemistry major program.The college was thenfunded by New York City, and her tuition and books were free. In return for this free education,"we were taught to give back--mentoring others was part of our natural training," Brown says.

She has served as a mentor and role model ever since. And now at age 70, her efforts arebeing recognized by ACS.

After college graduation, Brown went to the University of Minnesota, where in 1958 shereceived an M.S. in organic chemistry. She believes that she was the first African Americanwoman to receive a degree in chemistry.

Her research focus at Minnesota was in organic chemistry, and after graduation she soughta position in the pharmaceutical industry. The year was 1958, and, she says, the drug com-panies "were beginning to open their doors to African Americans." She became a researchchemist at Ciba Pharmaceutical (now Novartis) and worked there for 11 years. In 1969, shemoved to Merck & Co. For the next 26 years, until she took early retirement in 1995, shesynthesized compounds for testing as potential new drugs.

Brown served on Merck's Black University Liaison Commission and was an adviser to fac-ulty and students at Grambling State University, a historically black university in Louisiana.One of the students she mentored became the dean of science at Grambling. Anotherearned a Ph.D. in biochemistry and an M.D. degree and is a cardiologist in Jackson, Miss.Brown received Merck's Management Award for this work.

Her outreach efforts extended beyond the university level. As part of the National ScienceFoundation Visiting Women in Science Program, Brown visited high schools in Philadelphia,acting as a role model for students and faculty. She also served for six years on NSF'sCommittee on Equal Opportunities in Science & Engineering and was able to influence pol-icy on programs for minorities nationwide.

After retirement, she joined New Jersey Institute of Technology, Newark, and became direc-tor of the Regional Center for the New Jersey Statewide Systemic Initiative. The centerfocuses entirely on precollege minority students and their science and math teachers. Sherecently retired from NJIT and is now the 2004 Société de Chimie Industrielle (AmericanSection) Fellow of the Chemical Heritage Foundation, studying the history of AfricanAmerican women chemists.

Brown has been active in ACS as a councilor, focusing on diversity in elected governance.She also chaired Project SEED at the national level and remains active in this social actionprogram in the North Jersey Section.

In 1990, the Metropolitan N.Y. Chapter of the Association of Women in Science namedBrown an "Outstanding Woman in Science." A year later, she was elected to the HunterCollege Hall of Fame. In 2002, she received the ACS Women Chemists Committee RegionalAward for Contributions to Diversity.

Brown will receive her award at the ACS national meeting in San Diego. The award addresswill be presented before the Division of the History of Chemistry at the fall ACS nationalmeeting in Washington, D.C.


WILLIAM H. NICHOLS MEDAL — DISTINGUISHED SYMPOSIUMAND AWARD BANQUETSymposium: SHINING LIGHT ON CHEMICAL PROCESSES

Award Recipient: Professor Richard N. ZareMarguerite Blake Wilbur Professor in Natural ScienceStanford University, Stanford, California

Date: Friday, April 1, 2005Time: 1:00 PM Registration, 1:30 PM – 5:30 PM Symposium

5:45 PM Reception, 6:45 PM Award DinnerPlace: Crowne Plaza Hotel, White Plains, NY

PROGRAM

1:30 PM Welcome Professor James W. Canary2005 Chair, ACS, New York SectionNew York University

1:35 PM Opening of the Distinguished Symposium Professor Jill K. Rehmann2005 Chair-electACS, New York SectionSt. Joseph’s College

1:45 PM Molecular Perspectives of Water through Professor Mark A. JohnsonNanomatrix Spectroscpoy Professor of Chemistry

Yale University

2:30 PM Time Resolved Solvent Rearrangement Professor W. Carl LinebergerDynamics E.U. Condon Distinguished Professor

University of Colorado

3:15 PM Coffee Break

3:45 PM Chemistry at Reaction Thresholds Professor John I. BraumanJ.G. Jackson–C.J. Wood Professorof ChemistryStanford University

4:30 PM Reaction Dynamics: Seeing the Light Professor Richard N. ZareNICHOLS MEDALIST

5:45 PM Social Hour

6:45 PM William H. Nichols Medal Award Dinner

More information regarding the Symposium is available on the New York Section’s website athttp://www.newyorkacs.org

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THIS MONTH IN CHEMICALHISTORYHarold Goldwhite, California StateUniversity, Los Angeles

Prepared for SCALACS, the Journal of theSouthern California, Orange County, andSan Gorgonio Sections of the AmericanChemical Society

Let me take you back to 1843 and a dip into“The Year Book of Facts in Science and Art”(I wish I could reproduce the deliciousVictorian typography of the original), theearliest in the series that I recently acquired.Published in London by Tilt and Bogue ofFleet Street, the slim and small volume,crammed with information in a tiny typeface,is profusely illustrated. The front illustrationsare devoted to earth science and paleontol-ogy, with a splendid skeletal rendering of“The Missouri Leviathan”, based on fossilsfound in 1838 in that state. The leviathanwas an extinct member of the mastodonfamily.

But let me turn to chemical science in 1843.MM. Marchond and Erdmann have reportedon new determinations of atomic weightswith a view to proving Prout's hypothesis -that all atomic weights are integral multiplesof that of hydrogen - is correct. Oxygen, car-bon, nitrogen, calcium, and silver fall nicelyinto line (go and check your atomic weighttable) but their result for chlorine at 36 isoutside acceptable limits even for 1843. Anadjacent paragraph mentions that Laurentand Berzelius get results for chlorine thatare not in accord with Prout's hypothesis.

There is a long report by Lyon Playfair onLiebig’s celebrated book on OrganicChemistry as Applied to Physiology andPathology, but that topic is so important thatI plan to devote a whole column to it in thenear future.

Mr. Marsh, of the celebrated test for arsenic,reports a new and improved process for thepreparation of gaseous oxygen which con-sists of heating powdered potassium chlo-rate with a small admixture of manganesedioxide, a preparative method repeated inthousands of elementary chemistry textsand laboratory courses to this very day. Newexperiments by M. Magnus on the coeffi-cient of dilatation of elastic fluids (coeffi-cients of thermal expansion of gases in cur-rent scientific language) have shown thatthis coefficient, accepted generally to be

1/480 for each degree Fahrenheit, actuallyis slightly different for different gases.

A preparation of noiseless Congreves(chemical matches) is reported by Dr.Boettger. The crackling of ordinaryCongreves, according to Boettger, is due tothe potassium chlorate they contain. Theleast noise is observed from a mixture ofgum Arabic, phosphorus, saltpeter, and ver-milion. “In order to prevent the injurious influ-ence of the atmosphere on the mass, it isadvisable to cover the points of the match-es, after being dipped and dried, with adilute varnish of copal, or with a solution ofgum containing saltpeter.”

Mr. Croft read to the British Association (forthe Advancement of Science) a paper byProfessor Bunsen “On Kakodylic Acid, andthe Sulphurets of Kakodyl”. Bunsen didextensive researches on cacodyl (modernspelling) that we now recognize as thedimethylarsino group. The 1840’s were aperiod in which attempts were being madeto organize organic chemistry in terms ofradicles (1840’s spelling), which wereadvanced as being to organic compoundsas the elements were to inorganic com-pounds. Liebig and Woehler characterizedthe first organic radicle, the benzoyl radicle,in 1832. Bunsen’s work on cacodyl cost himdearly; an explosion lost him the sight of oneeye. But he persevered, as this articleshows, characterizing bis(dimethylarsino)sulfide, and disulfide and the acid we calldimethylarsonic acid, “A very remarkablefact with respect to this body [the acid] is,that the poisonous properties of the arsenicseem totally annihilated; eight grains admin-istered to a rabbit exerted no poisonousaction.” Incidentally Bunsen's “free” cacodylradicle was later shown to be the dimertetramethyldiarsine.

I will close this brief look at some of the sig-nificant chemistry reported in 1843 with acomment about another well-known com-pound. Nicotine was first isolated in a stateof purity by the great French analystVauquelin in 1809. M. Barrul presented arefined analysis of nicotine in 1843 andreported on some of its properties: “... apowerful alkali, under the form of a liquid,with a very low equivalent ... as comparedwith other vegetable alkalis. It is also a veryenergetic poison: a single dropp placed onthe tongue of a middle-sized dog, killed himin three minutes.”


TEACHER AFFILIATESExecutive Committee Meeting

Date: Monday, March 14, 2005Time: 4:30 PMPlace: Chatham High School

255 Lafayette AvenueChatham NJ

Contact: Diane Krone [email protected] or (201) 385-4810.

✲ChemTAG MEETINGSDate: Wednesday, March 15, 2005Place: Ramapo High School

331 George StreetFranklinLakes, NJ

Contact: Jane Cassidy [email protected]

▼NEW JERSEY GROUP OFSMALL CHEMICAL BUSINESSESSpring Meeting: “What’s Happening inYour Industry Secor in 2005? How CanWe Help You Manage It?”

Take this opportunity to network with yourpeers about the rapid changes in the chem-ical industry – and strategic plans to meetthe challenge. In the process, NJGSCB cantalk with you about plans for 2005, andblend your input with our program.

Date: Thursday, March 17, 2005

Times: Networking - Cash Bar 5:30 PM Dinner - Attendee Introductions

6:30 PM Presentation and Discussion

7:15 PM Q & A - Networking - Dessert

8:00 PM Place: Holiday Inn, North

Frontage Rd.Newark, NJOn north side of Newark Airport

Cost: $45 for members$55 for non-members

Advance Registration is Required:Reserve electronically at our web site:http:NJChemBus.org

Reserve by: March 15, 2005. Pleasereserve early.

Cancellation Policy: Please cancel 48 hoursbefore the meeting, or be invoiced.

Check payable to: NJ Group of SmallChemical Businesses

Mail Payment to:NJ Group of Small Chemical Businesses P.O. Box 423, Summit, NJ 07902

◆CHEM CENTRALWednesday, March 23, 2005Place: Colts Neck High School

Five Points Road & Route 537Colts Neck, NJ

Contact: Roseann McCarth [email protected]

North Jersey Meetingshttp://www.njacs.org

EXECUTIVE COMMITTEE ANDSECTION MEETINGAll ACS members are welcome to attend.

Date: Monday, March 28, 2005Time: 5:30 PMPlace: Fairleigh Dickinson University

New Academic Building, 1st FloorRice Lounge, Madison, NJ

Cost: Dinner $10.00 (Pizza and Soda)

For reservations, call (732) 463-7271 oremail [email protected] and state yourwish to make reservations for the ACSDinner before Wednesday, March 23,2005.

Dinner at the North Jersey Meeting ispayable at the door; however, if you arenot able to attend and did not cancelyour reservation, you are responsible forthe price of your dinner.

CAREERS IN TRANSITION GROUPJob Hunting??

Are you aware that the North Jersey Sectionholds monthly meetings at FairleighDickinson University in Madison to helpACS members? Topics covered at thesescost-free workshops are:

• The latest techniques in resume prepa-ration

• Ways for improving a resume

• Answers to frequently asked interviewquestion and

• Conducting an effective job searching.

The next meeting for the Careers InTransition Group will be held Thursday,March 3, 2005, in the Rice Lounge on thefirst floor of the New Academic Building.The meeting will start at 5:30 PM and end at9:00. There will be a Dutch-treat dinner. Toget the most from the meeting, be sure tobring transparencies of your resume.

Please contact [email protected], if youplan on attending this meeting.


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WESTCHESTER CHEMICALSOCIETYNanotechnology

Speaker: Rolande R. HodelCUNY, Queens CollegeGraduate Student

Nanotechnology has become a buzzword.With increasing government funding fornano research and venture capitalists hop-ing that this tiny technology will be the nextbig thing, the question arises: “What isNanotechnology and what is it not?” Toanswer this question, the presentation willfirst give a historical overview and thenexplain in more detail the unique physicalproperties of nano material using cadmiumselenide quantum dots as an example.Cadmium selenide is a semiconductor wide-

ly used in computer chip and light emittingdiode manufacturing. However, synthe-sized in size ranging from 2-10 nanometers(10-50 atoms) in diameter, they are alsoreferred to as quantum dots. At these smallsizes, materials behave differently givingquantum dots unprecedented turnability andenabling never before seen applications toscience and technology.

Date: Wednesday, March 2, 2005Times: Social 5:30 - 6:00 PM

Presentation 6:00 - 7:00 PMPlace: Westchester Community College

Administration BuildingValhalla, NY

Times: Dinner 7:30 PMPlace: Gianfranco's Restaurant

88 Virginia RoadWhite Plains, NY

For further information, contact Joan Laredo-Liddell at [email protected]

For directions, contact Dr. Bernard Koser [email protected]

ORGANIC CHEMISTRY TOPICALGROUPSpring Symposium

“Cope Award Winners”

Speakers: Professor Robert BergmanUniversity of CaliforniaBerkeley

Professor David EvansHarvard University

Professor Robert GrubbsCalifornia Institute of Technology

Professor Gilbert StorkColumbia University

Date: Thursday, March 24, 2005Times: Registration will begin at 12:00

Symposium 1:00 PMReception 5:30 PMDinner 6:30 PM

Place: Somerset Marriott110 Davidson AvenueSomerset, NJ

Cost: Symposium and Reception $60.00,with dinner $85.00

Students or Post-docs:Symposium and Reception $20.00,with dinner $40.00

For directions/information and more updated details please see our website:www.njacs.org/organic.html

Z. Jake Song, (Chair), Merck Jay Tagat, (Past Chair), Schering-Plough

Michael M. Miller, (Treasurer), Bristol-MyersSquibb

Jianshe Kong, Schering-Plough

Ann Gelormini, (Secretary), Sanofi-Aventis

Binh Vu, Hoffmann-La Roche

Lawrence Williams, Rutgers University

Due to limited seating, registration andpayment are required by March 15.

Please check one:❏ Symposium Only ($60)❏ Symposium and Dinner ($85)

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❍TEACHER AFFILIATES2004-2005 Crystal Growing Contest

Attention Chemistry Teachers

Can you grow the largest single crystal?

The American Chemical Society TeacherAffiliates North Jersey Section is sponsoringa contest guaranteed to stimulate studentinterest in science while teaching conceptsof saturation, supersaturation, and crystalstructure. This hands-on activity will allowstudents to grow their own “gem”.

Watch them take ownership of their crystaland nurture it as it grows. Your students willbe amazed at how fast their crystal growsinto its natural shape. Take your studentsbeyond the classroom by participating in thefun, low-cost Crystal Growing Contest.

Two winners will receive $75 Flinn Scientific,Inc. gift certificates.

Contest guidlines and an entry from can bedownloaded from http://www.njacs.org/teacher.html

Entry forms are due by April 15th.


HIGH SCHOOL TEACHERSTOPICAL GROUP

Movies: Greenland on the Hudson andScientist and Eemian

Speaker: Dr. Yuri GorokhovichDept. of GeologyColumbia University

Two 20-minute movies: “Greenland on theHudson,” shows Hudson River glacialdeposits and takes you back 18,000 yearsto view a variety of glacial settings whichare still visible today; and “Scientist andEemian,” how two scientists obtain climaticrecords from the Greenland ice sheet.These movies were part of a presentationat the 32nd International GeologicalCongress, Florence, Italy, August 2004.

Date: Friday, March 18, 2005Time: Social and Dinner 5:45 PMPlace: Caffe Pane e Cioccolato

10 Waverly Place at Mercer St.(southwest corner)New York, NY(You eat, you pay, cash only,no credit cards)

Time: Meeting 7:15 PMPlace: New York University

Silver Center Room 20732 Waverly Place (southeastcorner Washington Square East)New York, NY

Security at NYU requires that you show apicture ID to enter the building. In case ofunexpected severe weather, call JohnRoeder (212) 497-6500, between 9 AMand 2 PM to verify that meeting is still on;(914) 961-8882 for other info.

Note: For those who prefer indoor attend-ed parking, it is available at theMelro/Romar Garages. The entrance is onthe west side of Broadway just south of 8thStreet, directly across from Astor Place. Itis a short, easy walk from the garage to therestaurant or meeting room.

NY-ACS BIOCHEMICAL TOPICALGROUP — JOINT MEETING WITHTHE NYAS BIOCHEMICALPHARMACOLOGY DISCUSSIONGROUP Statins: Not Just Lipid-Lowering AnyMore

Organizers: Carolyn FosterBoehringer Ingelheim Pharmaceuticals

Janet KerrMerck Research Laboratories

June SonnenbergWyeth Research

Featured Speakers:

Ellen L. Berg,BioSeek, Inc.

James MonroeMerck Research Laboratories

Uwe SchoenbeckBoehringer Ingelheim Pharmaceuticals

Larry SparksRoberts Laboratory of Neuro-degenerative Disease Research

Scott ZamvilUniversity of CaliforniaSan Francisco

Date: Tuesday, March 29, 2005Time: 9:00 AM – 5:00 PM

(All Day Meeting)Place: The Lighthouse International

Theatre111 East 59th Street (between Park and Lexington Avenues)New York, New York

Reserve a seat on-line athttp://www.nyas.org/events or telephone212.838.0230 x 322.

NYAS Members and BPDG Affiliates mayattend BPDG meetings free of charge.

Non-members may attend for a fee of $20per event; Student Non-members for $10.

To become a Member of the Academy, visithttp://www.nyas.org/landing.html

LONG ISLAND SUBSECTIONStructure-based Design of PotentInhibitors of Collagenase-3 (MMP-13)

Speaker: Dr. William J. PittsBristol Myers Squibb Co.

Computer aided drug design led to a newclass of spiro-barbiturates (e.g., 4a, MMP-13 Ki = 4.7 nM) that are potent inhibitors ofMMP-13. MMP-13 is implicated in thebreakdown of Collagen which in turn isinvolved in arthritis. Thus development ofinhibitors of this enzyme would be expectedto have potential therapeutic value in thetreatment of this and related diseases.

Date: Thursday, March 3, 2005Times: Coffee: 5:30 PM

Seminar 6:00 PMDinner 7:00 PM, optional

Place: Hofstra University, Lister AuditoriumNew Chemistry BuildingCalifornia AvenueHempstead, NY

Cost: Dinner $20 ($25 with wine)

■CHEMICAL MARKETING &ECONOMICS GROUPKeeping R&D Spinning in a Spin-off

Speaker: Dr. L. Louis HegedusSenior Vice President of R&DArkema Inc. (formerly Atofina Chemicals, Inc.)Philadelphia, PA

Date: Tuesday, March 15, 2005Times: Cocktails 11:30 AM

Luncheon 12 NoonPresentation 1:15 PM

Place: The Chemists’ Club40 West 45th StreetNew York City

Fees: $35 discount price for Memberswho reserve by Friday, March 11(12 noon). $50 for Guests and Members (at the door without reservations)

To reserve: Please reserve early to be eligi-ble for discount price. Call Probe Economicsat (914) 923-4505, or via e-mail to:[email protected]. To pay online bycredit card (via PayPal), go to the CM&EWebsite:http://home.nyc.rr.com/chemmarkecon/

✻STATEN ISLAND SUBSECTIONSpring Seminar Series

"Beyond the Lab and Bench: AlternativeCareers in Science"

Speaker: Greta ZennerScience EditorInterdisciplinary Education GroupMRSECUW-Madison

Date: Wednesday, March 16, 2005Time: 1:00 PMPlace: Wagner College

Spiro Hall 2Staten Island, NY

For further information, please contactWendy deProphetis at [email protected] or 718-390-3405.


SCENES FROM NEW YORK SECTION ACTIVITIES

Westchester Chemical Society

NationalChemistryWeek

NEW YORK CHEMISTRYSTUDENTS’ ASSOCIATION53rd Annual Undergraduate ResearchSymposium

The New York Chemistry Students’Association of the ACS, NY-Section will holdits 53rd Annual Undergraduate ResearchSymposium at Stony Brook University,Stony Brook, NY, on Saturday, May 7, 2005.Information regarding the symposiumincluding electronic submission will be avail-able on the following website: http://www.newyorkacs.org/grp_students.html.

The deadline for submission is April 5,2005. Faculty who are directing theresearch efforts of undergraduate chemistrystudents are asked to encourage their stu-dents to participate in this worthwhile event.

Date: Saturday, May 7, 2005Times: Registration 9:30 AM

Symposium to followPlace: Stony Brook University

Stony Brook, NY

For commute information go to http://ws.cc.stonybrook.edu/sb/directions.shtml

For further information contact: [email protected] or [email protected].

LONG ISLAND SUBSECTIONNinth Annual Frances S. SterrettEnvironmental Chemistry Symposium

“Long Island Air Quality – To Breathe orNot To Breathe?”

Date: Thursday, May 26, 2005Place: Hofstra University

California AvenueHempstead, NY

Speakers to include representatives fromthe EPA, OSHA, and the New York DEC.

Reserve the date now!

The annual Frances S. Sterrett Symposiumis dedicated to presenting the public withup-to-date, factual scientific information onenvironmental topics. Watch for programupdates at http://www.newyorkacs.org.

Jean Delfiner, Joan Laredo-Liddell, co-chairs of WCS, andBernard Koser (right), pastchair, with Yuri Gorokhovich ofColumbia University,December presenter. Topic:“The Volcanic Eruption on theGreek island of Santorini.”

Jean Delfiner (co-chairWCS), Bernard Koser(past chairii), Robert

Hilbrandt, Jr., Octoberpresenter, Joan Laredo-

Liddell (co-chair). Octobertopic: “Radon Occurrence

and Health Risk.”

First Harlem Science StreetFair and Festival thatincluded the Health andWellness Theme of NCW, aswell as music and dancing.It was organized by Dr. SatBhattacharya, ResearchScientist at MemorialSloan-Kettering CancerCenter, MolecularPathology.


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MORE SCENES FROM NEW YORK SECTION ACTIVITIES

High School Teachers Topical Group

Ivi Tamm and Joan Laredo-Liddell of HSTTG presenting at the November STANYS(Science Teachers Association of New York State) conference in Ellenville, NY.

Dr. Peter Corfield and BobDayton checking out ACS materi-als that were distributed by JoanLaredo-Liddell at the STANYSconference.

— Photos courtesy ofJoan Laredo-Liddell

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The online abstract program and advanceregistration opened November 16, 2004.Abstracts will be accepted until March 15,2005. Submit online through the MARM2005 website at www.marmacs.org, andvisit the website for periodic programupdates. For more information, please con-tact the Technical Program Co-Chairs, LesMcQuire at [email protected] or Joseph Potenza at jpoten-za@rutchem. rutgers.edu.

❏MARM 2006

Chemistry in Chocolate Town.

The Susquehanna Valley Section and theSoutheastern Pennsylvania Section areteaming up to bring the Middle AtlanticRegional Meeting to Hershey, PA in 2006(http://www.marm2006.org/). MARM 2006will be held from June 4 to 7 at the beautifulHershey Lodge and Convention Center.There will be something for every chemicalprofessional at MARM 2006. We will openon Sunday June 4th with an all-dayteacher’s conference. Whether you teachelementary, middle or high school there willbe many opportunities to attend workshops,learn about new teaching techniques, newexperiments and to network with other sci-ence / chemistry teachers. Monday throughWednesday morning will be filled with sym-posia covering the vast array of chemicalsciences including but not limited to thechemistry of chocolate (we are after all inHershey “The Sweetest Place on Earth”),chromatography, capillary electrophoresis,forensic chemistry, drug development, med-icinal chemistry, polymer chemistry, chem-istry education, and organic chemistry.

MARM 2006 will also include plenary talks,an exhibition program, an awards cere-monies, and a visit by Joseph Priestleyplayed by the Susquehanna Valley Section’sown Ronald Blatchley.

In addition to the science, Hershey(http://www.marm2006.org/area.html ) is anexcellent place to vacation. We will put ourown special twist on the traditional Bar-B-Que by holding it at Hershey Park(http://www.hersheypa.com/attractions/her-sheypark/index.html ). Hershey is just ashort drive away from Lancaster,Pennsylvania Dutch country, and the statecapitol in Harrisburg. For more informationabout area attractions check out our attrac-tion web site (http://www.marm2006.org/area.html). Bring your family andenjoy Hershey, and the surrounding areas.

We in the Susquehanna Valley andSoutheastern PA sections are looking for-ward to seeing you at MARM 2006 inHershey for Chemistry and fun!

✲NEW JERSEY CHEMISTRYOLYMPICS-2005A Competition for High School Students

Date: Wednesday, May 4, 2005Place: NJIT

Newark, NJ

There are three categories of events:Research, General, Laboratory. Turn yourstudents on to chemistry. Go tohttp://web.njit.edu/chemistryolympics/for more details and for information aboutregistering a team.

MARM 2005The 37th Middle Atlantic Regional Meeting

(MARM 2005), hosted by the North JerseySection, will be held at Rutgers University,Busch Campus, Piscataway, NJ, May 22-25,2005. The theme of the meeting is“Chemistry at the Crossroads of Science”and will feature the most popular technicalprogramming combined with the best fea-tures of a National ACS meeting tailored tothe needs and interests of area scientists.Abstract submissions are sought fromundergraduate and graduate students, andfrom professional industrial and academicchemists in all areas of chemistry.

The meeting will feature invited speakers atmajor symposia including “Bench to PilotPlant”, “Visions in Chemistry” (sponsored byAventis), “Environmental & Green Chem-istry”, “Pharmaceutical Profiling”, “ProteinFamily-Targeted Medicinal Chemistry- ThePractice of Medicinal Chemistry in the Ageof Chemogenomics”, “Advances in OrganicChemistry”, “Organometallic Catalysis”,“Novel Instrumentation and Applications ofMass Spectrometry in ADME Studies”,“Functional Proteomics and Cell Signaling”,“Biomarkers: Quantification, PK/PD Correla-tion and Bioanalytical Issues”, “Applicationsof LC-MS in Drug Discovery/Development”,“Solid State and Materials Chemistry”,“Nanoscience and Technology and SolidState & Materials Chemistry/Surface Chem-istry”, “Materials Chemistry/Inorganic &Organic Polymers” and “ADMET at theCrossroads of Drug Discovery”. There willalso be a special symposium, sponsored bythe Organic Chemistry Division, honoring aCope Scholar Awardee. Several chemicalengineering mini-courses will also beoffered by ACS & AIChE. The WaksmanAntibiotic Drug Discovery Process will

receive an ACS National Landmark Awardfor developing the cure for TB and manyother infectious diseases. The WaksmanNational Chemical Landmark Symposiumwill mix history with modern antibiotic dis-coveries. The Regional Innovation awardswill also feature a related symposium.

Sunday, May 22, 2005, designated “ScienceEducation and Career Day,” will celebratethe 100th anniversary of the New JerseyScience Teachers Association. High-schoolstudents, their parents and their teachersfrom throughout the region are encouragedto attend. Events will include chemistry andphysics demonstrations, showings of theIMAX film “Volcanoes of the Deep” withcommentary by the science advisor for thefilm, student and industrial panels to discusscollege and career opportunities in severalareas, symposia in several disciplines cen-tered about the theme “100 Years Then andNow,” workshops for teachers, poster pre-sentations and lunch with a scientist. Theprogram will provide unique opportunitiesfor students, teachers, and scientists fromdiverse disciplines to mix with each other inan informal, informative atmosphere.

In addition to technical symposia there willbe a number of special events including anawards banquet on Wednesday eveningwhere 50-year members will be honoredalong with the winners of a number of ACSregional awards. Special lunches will beheld for Senior Chemists and the WomenChemists Committees. There will also be a“Roving Feast” Monday & Tuesdayevenings, May 23rd & 24th, in conjunctionwith special programming, vendor exhibitsand posters. Student Affiliates will have afull program for sharing their research, out-reach programs, eminent scientist lectureand life in their chapter.

Rudolph DigiPol-781, the new Automatic Polarimeter

Small in size, Big on performanceContact for demo:

Rudolph Instruments, Inc.Fairfield, NJ 07004-2113

Call TOLL FREE: 1-888-4RUDOLPhTel: 973 227 0139 Fax: 973 227 4576

e-mail: [email protected] web: www.rudolphinst.comLittle Giant!

Registration: $40 Members, $50 Non-mem-bers

To Reserve: Call Linda B. Townsendat 1-973-729-6671 or e-mail:[email protected]

Advanced registration is required.

Cancellations must be made 24 hrs inadvance or be invoiced.

Please visit our web site for more details:www.chemconsult.org.

❒NEW JERSEY INSTITUTE OFTECHNOLOGY DEPARTMENTOF CHEMISTRY &ENVIRONMENTAL SCIENCESeminar Series - Spring 2005

March 2311:30 AM-Tiernan 373“ Variable Source Pollution: A New WaterQuality Paradigm"Dr. Todd WaterCornell UniversityandDr. Zeyuan QiuNew Jersey Institute of Technology

March 2911:30 AM-Tiernan 373“ Flexible Docking in Enzyme Active Sites"Dr. Shashidhar RaoSchrodinger Inc.

Seminar Series Coordinator: Dr. SanjayMalhotra 973-596-5583, [email protected]

✎RUTGERS UNIVERSITY,NEWARK — DEPARTMENT OFCHEMISTRYChemistry Seminar Series - Spring 2005

March 4“Ordered Nanoassemblies for EnergyConversion”Prashant KamatUniversity of Notre DameNotre Dame, IN

March 11“Small Molecule and Genetically EncodedReporters of Protein Trafficking, Activity,and Interactions in Live Cells”Alice Ting

Massachusetts Institute of TechnologyCambridge, MA

March 18“Using Raman Crystallography to Explorethe Chemistry of Drug Resistance”Paul CareyCase Western Reserve University

March 25“Evolution of a Preparative Process for aNew Drug Candidate”Sandor KaradyMerck Research LaboratoriesRahway, NJ

April 1“Mechanisms of Flavoprotein-CatalyzedOxidations”Paul FitzpatrickTexas A&M University

Dates: Fridays, as aboveTimes: Coffee Social 11:00 AMPlace: Olson Reading Room, 338Times: Seminar 11:30 AMPlace: Hill Hall, Room 108

Rutgers UniversityNewark, NJ

❆MID ATLANTIC CHAPTER -LABORATORY ROBOTICSINTEREST GROUP

Eleventh Annual Technology Exhibition& Presentations

An exciting day is planned with laboratoryrobotics, laboratory automation, otheradvanced technology exhibits in the mainhall. Oral Presentations will be featured inthe seminar areas throughout the day.

Over one hundred exhibitors will demon-strate their latest products and services.Extensive hors d'oeuvre, courtesy of theexhibitors, will be available as well as cashbars.

Open career positions or resumes may beposted on the job board.

There is no fee to attend the meeting.

Date: Tuesday, May 17, 2005Place: Hilton East Brunswick

Three Tower Center BoulevardEast Brunswick, NJ

Register on-line at: <http://lab-robotics.org/member/meetings.asp?rid=1>.


Call for Nominations

THE PAUL J. FLORY POLYMEREDUCATION AWARDPurpose: To recognize, encourage, andstimulate outstanding achievements by anindividual in promoting undergraduateand/or graduate polymer education.

Nature: The award consists of a plaque andan honorarium of $2000. The award is usu-ally presented biennially in even-numberedyears at the Spring meeting of the PolymerChemistry Division. The recipient is expect-ed to present an address at a symposiumorganized in his/her honor. Reasonabletravel expenses to the meeting are paid inaddition to the honorarium.

Establishment and Support: The award wasestablished in 1981 and is administered bythe Polymer Chemistry Division. TheDuPont Company sponsors the award.

Previous Recipients: Herman F. Mark, CarlS. Marvel, Paul J. Flory, Maurice Morton,Charles G. Overberger, George B. Butler, EliM. Pearce, Leo Mandelkern , Eric Baer,Roger Porter, James E. Mark, U. W. Suterand the team of James E. McGrath, ThomasC. Ward and Garth L. Wilkes.

Rules for Eligibility: A nominee must be amember or affiliate of the ACS Division ofPolymer Chemistry at the time of nomina-tion. The award shall be granted to an indi-vidual or team for significant contributions infurthering polymer education. The awardshall be granted to an individual or teamwithout regard to race, color, national origin,sex, religion, age, disability, or sexual orien-tation.

Nomination Procedure: Eight (8) collatedindividual copies of a complete nominatingdocument, including a synopsis of theaccomplishments of the nominee, a curricu-lum vitae, and a maximum of five reprints orother supplementary material for each copy,shall be submitted to the Awards Chairmanfor distribution to the committee. The docu-ment should be letter-size. A maximum ofthree (3) supporting letters, which containfactual information about the candidate notprovided in the nominating document maybe attached to the nomination. The nomina-tion and its accompanying material for the2006 award must be postmarked no laterthan July 1, 2005. Address nominating

material to: Dr. Thomas J. Pacansky, 281Valley Drive, Watchung, NJ 07069.

Dr. Thomas J. Pacansky281 Valley DriveWatchung, NJ 07069Phone (908) 753-0175Mobile (908) 672-3420Email [email protected]

OthersASSOCIATION OF CONSULTINGCHEMISTS & CHEMICALENGINEERS, INC.Forensic Consulting — Practice andPitfalls

Speaker: James F. KorczakSummit ProfessionalResources, LLC

The forensic consultant is called upon toserve a very important role in the litigationprocess. This evening we will discuss howan individual can get involved in theprocess. How the expert interacts with theclient, what expectations, and limitationsthere are, and how to avoid some of thecommon problems. Some examples ofissues that experts will face at some time intheir practice will be discussed.

James F. Korczak is President of SummitProfessional Resources, LLC, a consultingfirm founded in 1999 in Hackettstown, NewJersey. Summit is involved in litigation sup-port in matters involving all manner of prod-ucts and processes. A staff of over 60 inde-pendent expert witnesses in varying fieldsprovides analyses and testimony for attor-neys representing both plaintiff and defen-dants. Technical investigation and evidencedocumentation services are also encom-passed. Prior to forming Summit, Mr.Korczak was a member of a forensic con-sulting firm for 11 years, serving as a StaffEngineer, Managing Engineer andPresident. Mr. Korczak has a BS inIndustrial Management and an MS inEngineering Management from NJIT inNewark, New Jersey.

Date: Tuesday, March 22, 2005.

Times: Networking 6:00 PMDinner 6:30 PMPresentation 7:30 PM

Place: Sheffield’s Restaurant1050 Route 22 WestMountainside, NJ

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