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NEW YORK SECTIONSaturday, February 2, 2013New York Sectionwide MeetingSee page 6.

Tuesday, February 5, 2013Nanoscience Discussion GroupSee page 8.

Thursday, February 7, 2013Westchester Chemical SocietySee page 7.

Thursday, February 7, 2013Chemical Marketing & Economics GroupSee page 8.

Thursday, February 7, 2013Long Island Subsection SeminarSee page 9.

Friday, February 8, 2013High School Teachers Topical GroupSee page 9.

Friday, February 15, 2013New York Section Board MeetingSee page 7.

Thursday, February 28, 2013Long Island Subsection Board MeetingSee page 9.

NORTH JERSEY SECTIONMonday, February 11, 2013Careers in Transition GroupSee page 16.

Wednesday, February 20, 2013Laboratory Robotics Interest GroupSee pages 16-17.

Wednesday, February 20, 2013NMR Topical GroupSee page 17.

Monday, February 25, 2013North Jersey Executive Committee MeetingSee page 16.

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THIS MONTH IN CHEMICAL HISTORYHarold Goldwhite, California State University, Los Angeles• [email protected]

Any in-depth survey of the history of chemistry is incomplete without some con-sideration of the history of alchemy. In many respects chemistry is a continuationof alchemy, and owes many of its methods and materials to the older (pseudo-sci-entific?) field of study. This continuity is made vividly clear in a new one volumehistory of alchemy, “The Secrets of Alchemy” by Lawrence M. Principe of JohnsHopkins University (University of Chicago Press, 2013). Dr. Principe is both a pro-fessor of chemistry and of the history of science, and is the highly regarded authorof previous books on the history of science and on alchemists. This new book fillsa striking vacancy in the history of chemistry. It is both a scholarly and a lively suc-cessor to such valuable earlier works like E.J. Holmyardʼs “Alchemy”, published in1957, and F. Sherwood Taylorʼs “The Alchemists” first published in 1949.

In the more than half century since these earlier books appeared there has beena lot of new scholarship studying original alchemical texts, some of it by Principehimself, and this new book incorporates the new views of alchemy that havedeveloped. I am probably being foolhardy, but I will try and summarize two mil-lennia of alchemy in a couple of paragraphs. Origins of alchemy in Greco-Egyptiantexts show a practical field of techniques, altering properties of common materialsto make them resemble more precious substances. Sometimes eminently practi-cal processes were hidden in a cryptic almost mystical language, so that onlyadepts might understand them. The Arabic conquerors of the EasternMediterranean translated many of these recipes into Arabic, and added to themboth in practice and in theory. They also began to apply alchemy to medicine. Inthe 12th. century Western scholars visited Spain to study the works of the Arabsand the Greek texts they were based on (incidentally bringing the works of Plato,Aristotle and others into Western scholarship) and produced the first Latin alchem-ical manuscripts.

Alchemy flourished in medieval and renaissance Europe, often for the most prac-tical reasons; the transmutation of base metals into precious ones by the action ofthe Philosopherʼs Stone hinted at a path to wealth not only for the alchemists, butalso for the nobility who were their patrons and who were usually sorely disap-pointed. The brunt of their disappointment often fell upon the alchemists them-selves. With the rise of science and scientific methods in the 17th. and 18th. cen-turies alchemy was transmuted into chemistry, though a strain of ancient alchemywas still practiced well into the 20th. (and the 21st.?) centuries.

A fascinating and new aspect of Principeʼs book is the painstaking way in whichhe explains the actual chemistry that lies behind some alchemical processes. Forexample the 16th. century alchemist, Basil Valentine, gives a highly allegoricalmethod for producing a medicine, “Sulfur of Antimony” from the toxic element anti-mony. In Principeʼs hands and laboratory, after deciphering the text, the steps onthis journey from the antimony ore stibnite are reproduced and shown to be rea-sonable. It appears that Valentineʼs “Sulfur of Antimony” is actually iron acetateproduced when an iron crucible and stirring rod are used in a late step in theprocess! The baby (antimony) was thrown out with the bathwater.

If you want to read an absorbing short history of alchemy Principeʼs book is thetext of choice. It corrects many errors of interpretation of earlier books and bringsmodern scholarship to bear on this fascinating field that was one ancestor of mod-ern chemistry.


NEW YORK SECTION — 2013 SECTION-WIDE CONFERENCEDate: Saturday, February 2, 2013Times: 9:30AM – 1:00PMPlace: St. John’s University, 8000 Utopia Parkway, Jamaica, NY

(Please visit http://www.NewYorkACS.org for the meeting venue.)Cost: Free to all

PROGRAM

9:30 AM Arrival and Refreshments

10:00 AM Greetings from the 2013 Chair of the ACS New York Section Dr. Philip H. Mark

10:10 AM Award PresentationsService Plaque and Pin to the 2012 New York Section Chair Dr. JaimeLee Iolani Rizzo

New York Section Outstanding Service Award for 2012 Dr. Stephen Z. Goldberg

Nichols Foundation H.S. Chemistry Teacher Award for 2012 Mr. Steven O'MalleyStuyvesant High School in New York, New York

10:30 AM Report from the 2012 Elections Nominating Committee Dr. Pamela K. Kerrigan(Presentation of Candidates) 2013 Chair-elect of the ACS New York Section

10:45 AM Keynote Speaker Dr. Alfredo MellaceAssistant Professor of Organic Chemistry

Nassau Community College, SUNYTitle: Ancient Roman Science and TechnologyAncient civilizations are often treated as nonchalant discourse of the past about a time that no longerexists. Unfortunately, this allows ambivalence towards the past, potentially closing the door to a period thatis fascinating in both art and technology. The focus of this lecture will be the Roman Civilization specifi-cally in the period of the 1st century AD between the time of Augustus and Trajan. Rome will be placed inthe context of the ancient world, with respect to its achievements in technology specifically military equip-ment, links that influenced the way the Roman engineers, smiths, textile manufacturers, leather workers,and artisans designed items and objects, and the breadth and quality of Roman craftsmanship that allowedthem to conquer foreign lands and establish the Roman influence on civilization. This presentation will alsoinclude the science and technology behind the metallurgy, dye processes, armor production, leatherwork,carpentry, masonry, and siege machine. Furthermore, a discussion of the ancient world would not be com-plete without relating innate objects such as weapons and armor to the people who wielded them. To thisend, the civilization itself and life of the Romans will also be discussed in context to their technology.

11:45 AM Coffee Break — There will be poster presentations by the New York Section Project SEED Students.

12:00 PM ACS, New York Section Committee Planning Sessions for 2013

Educational Activities: (Chemagination, Chemists Celebrate Earth Day, Continuing Education, HighSchool Olympiad, National Chemistry Week, Nichols Foundation Teacher Award, Project Seed, StudentMembership)

Chair: Dr. Alison Hyslop

Member Affairs: (ACS Fellows, Awards, Employment and Professional Relations, History of the NewYork Section, Indicator, Membership, Outstanding Service Award)

Chair: Dr. Ralph Stephani

Program Review: (Subsection and Topical Discussion Group Chairs)Chair: Dr. Anne T. O’Brien

Public Affairs: (Academe and Industrial Relations, Environmental Chemistry, Fund Raising,Government Affairs, Information Technology, Public Relations, Speakers Bureau)

Chair: Dr. Robert P. Nolan

12:45 PM Reports from the Chairs of the Committee Planning Sessions

1:00 PM Conclusion of the Meeting — Join with colleagues for lunch at a local restaurant.

To inquire about the Section-wide Conference, please call the New York Section Office at 516-883-7510 or e-mail Marilyn Jespersen, Office Administrator, at: [email protected]

Directions are at: http://www.stjohns.edu/about/general/directions/directions/queens

All are invited to participate. Hope to see you at the Conference.


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NEW YORK SECTION BOARDMEETING DATES FOR 2013The dates for the Board Meetings of theACS New York Section for 2013 were cho-sen and approved at the November 30,2012 Board Meeting. The meetings areopen meetings – all are welcome. If nonboard members would like to attend themeeting, please let the New York Sectionoffice know by emailing Mrs. MarilynJespersen at [email protected] orcalling the office at (516) 883-7510.

The 2013 Board Meetings will be held on thefollowing Fridays at 6:30 PM at St. JohnsUniversity, DʼAngelo Center, Jamica, NY. Dr.Philip H. Mark will chair the meetings.

Friday, February 15Friday, April 19Friday, June 7Friday, September 27Friday, November 15

Also, please mark your calendar with thedates of the following major events.

Saturday, February 2, 2013 — AnnualSectionwide Conference

Friday, March 15, 2013 — NicholsSymposium and Award Banquet

More information will be posted in futureissues of The Indicator and on the New Yorkwebsite at http://www.NewYorkACS.org.

LWESTCHESTER CHEMICAL SOCIETYSpecial Seminar — Real-Time in-vivoImaging of Biological Events with FIONA

Speaker: Christopher Randolph Salnave, MSAdjunct LecturerSt. John’s UniversityQueens, NY

Myosin VI is an actin based molecular motorthat has been known to be involved in cellmigration, spermatogenesis, signal trans-duction and the process of intracellularorganelle and vesicle transport. Myosin VIalso assists with the stabilization of stere-ocilia, the mechanosensing organelles inhair cells in the inner ear. Myosin VI is con-sidered to be an unconventional myosin,

because to carry out these physiologicalprocesses it moves toward the pointed endof the actin cytoskeleton; in contrast to othercharacterized myosins. In this study, byusing fluorescent labeled endosomes weare able to track myosin VI usingFluorescence Imaging with One NanometerAccuracy (FIONA) and total internal reflec-tion fluorescence microscopy (TIRFM). As aresult of implementing FIONA, backwardand forward steps were observed which areconsistent with previous mechanistic studiesof myosin VI. Data analysis reveals an aver-age forward step of 39.9 nm (±1.98 nm) withN = 143 steps and an average speed of 676nm/s (±147 nm/s).

Mr. Salnave, M.S. was an interdisciplinarygraduate research assistant under the direc-tion of Paul Selvin in the department ofPhysics at the University of Illinois at UrbanaChampaign. In the Selvin lab, he learnedhow to use and build high resolution fluores-cence microscopy instruments and state ofthe art imaging techniques such as FIONA(fluorescence imaging with one nanometeraccuracy). FIONA is a method that shattersthe diffraction limit of light and has revolu-tionized the field of fluorescence microscopyand biophotonics for the past decade.Combining methods of FIONA and totalinternal reflection microscopy he is able totrack detailed molecular motor mechanismswith nanometer precision both in vitro and invivo. He obtained his M.S. degree inChemistry from the University of Illinois atUrbana Champaign. He is a recipient of anNIH-Molecular Biophysics training grant anda former member of the Center for thePhysics of Living Cells at the University ofIllinois at Urbana Champaign. He is current-ly an Adjunct Lecturer in the department ofChemistry at Saint Johnʼs University wherehe teaches the Introduction to General andOrganic Chemistry to incoming freshmanand sophomore students. He has aspira-tions of improving drug therapy and diag-nostic assays in the medical and pharma-ceutical field.

Date: Thursday, February 7, 2013Times: Refreshments 5:30 PM

Lecture 6:00 p.m.Place: Westchester Community College

Gateway Building Room 11075 Grasslands RoadValhalla, NY

Cost: Free and open to the public


NEW YORK NANOSCIENCE DISCUSSION GROUPSpeakers to be announced.

Hosted by the Department of Chemistry,New York University

The NYNDG is an ACS Topical Group thatmeets in the New York UniversityDepartment of Chemistry. Sessions featurethree 30-minute presentations on nano -science, one each with strong orientation inbiology, chemistry, and physics/appliedmathematics. Presentations will be focusedon discussion of recent work, althoughspeakers will place the work in a contextunderstandable to a broad audience.

Mark your calendars for the next meeting, onMarch 26, when we will celebrate the 10thyear of this topical group!

Date: Tuesday, February 5, 2013Times: Refreshments 7:00 PM

Meeting 7:30 PMPlace: New York University Silver Center

31 Washington Place betweenWashington Square and GreeneStreet, Room 1003 (10th Floor)New York, NY

For more information, contact: James Canary ([email protected])

http://www.nyu.edu/projects/nanoscience

TCHEMICAL MARKETING ANDECONOMICS GROUPLuncheon and Webcast — Japan: LifeScience Innovation

Presentations by: John Keller, Ph.D.Shionogi, Inc.

Catherine SazdanooffTakeda Pharmaceuticals

Alexander ScottEisai Pharmaceuticals

George RodriquezArgeni

Over the last decade, the top Japanesepharmaceutical companies have establishedthemselves as shining global players after aperiod of rapid international expansionthrough major strategic acquisitions, aninnovative pipeline and partnerships withemerging biotech companies. However, asthey face increasing demographic changes,cost pressures of health care systems world-

wide, personalized drugs and demand formore efficient targeting, some questionsremain.

• What are the drivers and trends thatimpact their global innovation strategies?

• What role will vaccines, bio-betters, tar-geted therapies, drug-diagnostic co-development and new approaches willplay in the next decade?

• What are the challenges and opportuni-ties for the industry?

Date: Thursday, February 7, 2013Place: Yale Club

50 Vanderbilt AvenueNew York, NY

Time: 11:00 AM - 2:00 PMCost: Luncheon: $140 for non-CM&E

members in support of STEM edu-cation; $120 for CM&E and NYPFmembers in support of STEM edu-cation; $90 for non-CM&E mem-bers; $70 for CM&E, Chempharmaand NYPF Members Only. Early-Bird discount of $20 applica-ble if you register by Friday,January 18, 2013.Webcast fees: $50 for STEM sup-port. $20 for all others. Available asa Webcast recording.No webcast registrations acceptedthe day of the event.

Special Offer: Webcast recording at nocharge for ACS members only. (Must pro-vide membership number next to Job Title).

Venue: The Yale Club in NYC

No cancellations after February 1, 2013.Cancellations are subject to fees. Pricesmay change without notice.

Please note: recent meetings have beenoversubscribed. For example, theDecember 6, 2012 Inaugural LeadershipAwards and M&A luncheon was a full housewith 180 attendees and over 190 registra-tions. So, we encourage readers to registerearly to be sure of having a place at thetable.


LONG ISLAND SUBSECTIONBoard of Directors and Meeting Datesfor Spring 2013

The Long Island subsection of the ACS NewYork section is pleased to announce itsBoard of Directors for 2013.

Chair: Alfredo MellaceChair-Elect: Marlon MorenoPast-Chair: John SchmermundSecretary: Terry BrackTreasurer: Philip MarkDirectors: David Lloyd, Emily Mundorff,Ralph Stephani, Luis Vargas

Board meetings of the Long Island subsec-tion of the ACS New York section will be heldat Nassau Community College, LifeSciences Building, room LS 220C, at 6:30PM on the following dates.

Thursday, January 31Thursday, February 28Thursday, March 21Thursday, April 25

Monthly seminars will be held on the follow-ing dates, with a social gathering at 6:30 PMfollowed by the seminar at 7:00 PM.

Thursday, February 7Queensborough Community Collegeroom TBASearching for Safer Anti-inflammatoryDrugsSpeaker: John Regan

Queensborough CommunityCollege

Thursday, March 7Hofstra Universityroom and speaker TBA

Thursday, April 4Hofstra Universityroom TBA and speaker

Thursday, May 2Hofstra Universityroom and speaker TBA

The LI-ACS Chemistry Challenge will beheld on Friday, April 26th at QueensboroughCommunity College and the High SchoolAwards are scheduled for May.

Please check the LI-ACS webpage atwww.newyorkacs.org/sub_island.php forupdates.

HIGH SCHOOL TEACHERS TOPICAL GROUPEngineering Failures and Design Principles

Speaker: Sheldon LevineVice President for Marketingand Business DevelopmentAeroNav LaboratoriesCollege Point, NY

This talk will present well-known engineer-ing failures such as the Millennium Bridge,New Orleans levees, World War II libertyships, the John Hancock Building, theLeaning Tower of Pisa, DeHavilland Cometjet aircraft, and the Tacoma Narrows Bridgeto demonstrate the importance of designprinciples in preventing failures. It will alsopresent a brief overview of some of the envi-ronmental simulation testing equipment inthe AeroNav Laboratories facility.

Date: Friday, February 8, 2013Time: Social and Dinner 5:45 PMPlace: No reservations required

M&G Pub (Murphy and Gonzales) 21 Waverly Place (at Green Street,North-east corner)New York, NY

Time: Meeting 7:15 PMPlace: New York University

Silver Center Room 20732 Waverly Place (South-east corner Washington Sq. 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 9:00 AMand 2:00 PM to verify that meeting is still on;(516) 385-4698 for other info.

Note: For those who prefer indoor attendedparking, it is available at the Melro/RomarGarages. The entrance is on the west sideof Broadway just south of 8th Street, direct-ly across from Astor Place. It is a short, easywalk from the garage to the restaurant ormeeting room.

Learn more about the New York Section atwww.newyorkacs.org

WESTCHESTER CHEMICAL SOCIETYSpecial Seminar — “Modeling Protein-DNA Interactions at ElectrifiedInterfaces”

Speaker: Keeshan Williams*The Polytechnic Institute of NYUDepartment of Chemical andBiological EngineeringBrooklyn, NY

Coupling self-assembled monolayer (SAM)techniques with biodiagnostic applicationshas led to custom made electrochemicalsensors that can be produced with relativeease, in multiplexed formats, and at lowcost. For example, DNA monolayers havebeen used to detect complementarysequences within complex sample matricesas well as to elucidate the thermodynamicand kinetic parameters of binding variousspecies (e.g. proteins, small molecules) toDNA. Here, electroactively labeled, doublestranded DNA (dsDNA) monolayers areinterrogated using alternating currentvoltammetery (ACV) to monitor associationbetween a transcription factor protein andthe monolayer. Various ACV input frequen-cies are tested to determine those most sen-sitive to protein binding, and concentrationseries are performed to generate Langmuir-type binding isotherms for quantitativedetermination of binding affinities. Becausethe DNA binding reaction is coupled to pro-tein dimerization in solution a model thataccounts for coupling between the twoequlibria is needed to fully characterize theexperimental data. This presentation will dis-cuss optimization of the experimentalapproach as well as model-based extractionof thermodynamic parameters for protein-DNA interactions using a classical biomole-cular systems derived from bacteriophagelambda.

Mr. Williams received a B.A. degree inChemistry from Queens College, CityUniversity of New York, Flushing, NY, in2005. Upon graduation, he worked as aChemist for a materials testing laboratory inCollege Point, NY. While pursuing hisMasters of Science in Chemical Engineeringat NYU-Poly he also worked as a MaterialsEngineer for the Port Authority of New Yorkand New Jersey. In 2008, he started pursu-ing a Ph.D. degree in Chemical andBiological Engineering at NYU-Poly.

* Coauthor: Rastislav Levicky, PolytechnicInstitute of NYU.

Date: Thursday, April 11, 2013Times: Refreshments 5:30 PM

Lecture 6:00 p.m.Place: Westchester Community College

Gateway Building Room 11075 Grasslands RoadValhalla, NY

Cost: Free and open to the public

For more information, contact Paul Dillon:E-Mail [email protected] (914) 393-6940http://www.newyorkacs.org/sub_west.php

LNY SECTIONʼS SECOND ANNUAL EARTH DAY PARADEWalk the Brooklyn Bridge

The New York Sectionʼs Second AnnualEarth Day Parade, “Walk the BrooklynBridge” will be hosted by Pace University onSaturday, April 20, 2013!

Dr. JaimeLee Rizzo, 2012 Immediate PastChair of the Section and Coordinator of theEarth Day Event will organize the parade.

Earth Day was first officially recognized onApril 22, 1970 as a way to demonstrate sup-port for a healthy environment, raise aware-ness about environmental issues, andremind people that we all need to contributeto a sustainable planet. Each year, ACShighlights one of four general topics (water,air, plants/soil or recycling) and chooses aspecific “theme name” under the topic tofocus the CCED celebration.

This yearʼs theme is, “Our Earth: Handlewith Care!”

ACS local sections, Student MemberChapters, and divisions are encouraged totake part in the celebration, particularly theannual community event. To register for the“Walk the Brooklyn Bridge, for more infor-mation, and to see photos from last yearʼsevent please go to our official Earth Daywebsite: http://www.newyorkacs.org/meetings/EarthDay/CCED.php


ACS NY SECTION—61st ANNUAL UNDERGRADUATERESEARCH SYMPOSIUM (URS)Research Adventures in MolecularBiophysics: fungal, vegetable and ani-mal tales

Keynote Speaker: Prof. Ruth StarkDept. of ChemistryCity University of New York (CUNY)

The Keynote Address will be followed byoriginal research presentations given by stu-dents from colleges and universitiesthroughout the tri-state area.

Date: Saturday, April 27, 2013.Times: 8:00 AM - 3:00 PMPlace: CUNY City College of New York

New York, NY

Sign up as an attendee at http://www.newyorkacs.org/meetings/urs/urs.php

Conference Registration Window:February 22, 2013 to March 14, 2013

E-mail questions to:[email protected]

SIGNFICANT DATES FOR 61st URS

Deadline for Abstract Submission - March15, 2013

Notification of the abstract acceptance –March 26, 2013

Deadline for Symposium AdvancedRegistration – March 27, 2013

FREE Registration for student members ofthe National ACS, faculty mentors who reg-ister in advance and sponsors. For non-ACS members and guests, the registrationis $35 in advance. All on-site registration is$45 for faculty, staff and guests. Checks forthe registration fee should be made out to:"NY ACS URS" and sent to:

Prof. Joseph Serafin, St. Johnʼs University,Department of Chemistry, 333 St. AlbertHall, Queens, NY 11439.

wEMPLOYMENT AND PROFESSIONAL RELATIONSCOMMITTEE OF THE NEWYORK SECTIONTo Human Resources Departments inIndustry and Academia

The Employment and Professional Rela -tions Committee maintains a roster of candi-dates who are ACS members seeking aposition in the New York metropolitan area.If you have job openings and would likequalified candidates to contact you, pleasesend a brief job description and educational/experience background required to [email protected].

Candidates from our roster who meet therequirements you describe will be asked tocontact you.


WESTCHESTER CHEMICAL SOCIETYJames (Jim) Freeman, the Director of AssayDevelopment for the ADVIA Centaur®Vitamin D Total assay for SiemensHealthcare Diagnostics in Tarrytown, NY,made a very interesting, informative andenthusiastically received presentation enti-tled "Vitamin D: Understanding theTechnical Challenges in Testing" to theWestchester Chemical Society onDecember 5th at the WestchesterCommunity College. Jim discussed some ofthe work he has done on this assay. Henoted that Vitamin D, specifically 25(OH)-vit-amin D, is a challenging assay to accuratelymeasure. After giving background into why

Vitamin D is interesting clinically, he exam-ined why vitamin D is such a complex testand discussed considerations to keep inmind when comparing different assays andmethodologies. In particular, he explored thechallenges Vitamin D measurements pre-sent to assuring equimolar detection of theimportant Vitamin D isoforms, while minimiz-ing cross-reactivity to clinically unimportantvariants, and to assay standardization, par-ticularly in regard to manufacturer to manu-facturer variation. The audience participatedin a lively discussion with Jim following histalk. See the photo at the top of the nextpage of the Westchester Chemical Societyboard members, along with Jim, after thepresentation.


Paul Dillon, Rolande Hodel, Jim Freeman and Peter Corfield at Jimʼs WestchesterChemical Society Vitamin D Presentation.

(Photo courtesy of Rolande Hodel)


2013 WILLIAM H. NICHOLS MEDAL DISTINGUISHEDSYMPOSIUM AND AWARD BANQUETSymposium: Addressing Cutting Edge Challenges in Catalysis & Energy

Award Recipient: PROFESSOR RICHARD EISENBERGTracy Harris Professor Emeritus at the University of Rochester.

PROGRAM

1:30 PM Welcome Professor Philip H. Mark2013 Chair, ACS, New York SectionSUNY - Nassau Community College

1:35 PM Opening of the Distinguished Symposium Professor Pamela K. Kerrigan2013 Chair-elect

ACS, New York SectionThe College of Mount Saint Vincent

1:45 PM The Catalytic Conversion of CO2 Professor Clifford P. Kubiakto Liquid Fuels University of California – San DiegoCatalysis of the conversion of carbon dioxide to liquid fuels using solar and electrical energy is a criticalglobal challenge that will positively impact the carbon balance by recycling CO2 as fuels. The importanceof catalyst turnover frequency in the overall efficiency of the conversion of solar energy and CO2 intochemical fuels will be discussed. The state of the art in natural and artificial catalysts for the chemicalreduction of CO2 will be reviewed. The improvement in the activities of several rhenium based catalysts,and infrared spectroelectrochemical studies that probe the mechanism of catalysis will be described.Recent improvements in CO2 reduction catalyst rates and lifetimes have allowed the photochemical “split-ting” of CO2 to CO and O2 to be achieved. The importance of proton coupled mechanisms will be dis-cussed with respect to lowering the potentials for for CO2 reduction. The development of nickel com-plexes as artificial formate dehydrogenases will be described as one means of achieving proton coupledelectron transfer in the CO2/HCOO- couple. The application of Density Functional Theory (DFT) to com-pute CO2 binding energies will be reviewed, and the method will be applied to explain the selectivity andactivity of the well-studied nickel cyclam CO2 reduction catalyst system. High resolution XANES spec-troscopy has been applied to several CO2 reduction catalysts to probe their electronic structures and therole of non-innocent ligands in storing electronic charge. Stopped flow kinetics studies of several CO2reduction catalysts which show kinetic selectivities for CO2 vs. H+ reduction of >35 will be presented, andinterpreted in terms of an electronic structural model that favors π–symmetry ground states for CO2reduction and �–symmetry ground states for H+ reduction. The implications of these findings for fur-ther catalyst development will be discussed.

2:30 PM Strong C-H and C-C Bond Cleavage Reactions Professor William D. JonesUsing Homogeneous Transition Metal Complexes University of RochesterOver the past 20 years substantial progress has been made in the understanding of the activation of C-Hand other strong bonds by reactive metal complexes in low oxidation states. This talk will present anoverview of the use of pentamethylcyclopentadienyl and trispyrazolylborate rhodium complexes for thedetermination of thermodynamic factors that influence the activation of arene and alkane C-H bonds.Insights into bond strengths, kinetic and thermodynamic selectivities, and the nature of the intermediatesinvolved will be examined. The influence of substituent effects on the thermodynamics of bond activationswill also be analyzed. Trends in the activation of fluoroaromatic C-H bonds will be presented. Extensionsto C-C activation at nickel will also be made, demonstrating critical factors involved in C-C cleavage.

3:15 PM Coffee Break

3:45 PM Molecular Constructs as [FeFe]-H2ase Professor Marcetta Y. DarensbourgEnzyme Active Site Biomimetics for Texas A & M UniversityProton ReductionThe structurally unique diiron catalytic unit that exists in the active site of the [FeFe]-H2ase is of specialinterest to biomimetic/synthetic chemists as its construction exploits diatomic CO and CN− ligands, per-haps deriving from primordial iron/sulfur chemistry, rather than typical donors covalently bound to a pep-tide chain. Thus the torsion angles responsible for the mismatch of donor ligand-metal geometric pref-erences that lead to high rates of catalysis in classical transition metal biocatalysts are minimal in suchorganometallics. These features, along with the ease of modifying a simple precursor, (µ-S(CH2)3S)[Fe(CO)3]2, that has core features of the [FeFe]-H2ase enzyme active site (eas), and the possi-bility to develop base metal catalysts for fuel cell use, have attracted a new coterie of chemists to bio-mimetic synthesis. They bring the spectroscopic tools and structure/bonding approaches oforganometallic chemistry to bear on defining the features that are the primary differences between theeas and the parent model. This lecture will describe approaches to stabilize and isolate the unusual «rotated » structure, and insight gained into Nature’s choice of the diiron construct.

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4:30 PM Making Solar Hydrogen Professor Richard EisenbergNICHOLS MEDALIST

One of this century's greatest scientific and technological challenges is the conversion of sunlight intousable energy in a sustainable and environmentally benign way on a global scale. For light to chemicalenergy conversion in a designed photosynthetic system, the splitting of water into its constituent ele-ments is the key energy-storing reaction. As with natural photosynthesis, such a system relies on lightabsorption, charge separation, and catalysis. Recent efforts focus on new catalysts, light absorbers andsystem compatibility for the visible light-driven generation of hydrogen from aqueous protons. The lightabsorbers include metal complexes with charge transfer (CT) excited states, organic dyes and semicon-ductor nanoparticles. As catalysts, different sets of metal complexes have been investigated, includingpreviously unstudied systems that exhibit high activity. The most active systems yet reported for thereductive half of water splitting will be described, as will mechanistic studies of different systems forhydrogen photogeneration.

5:45 PM Social Hour6:45 PM William H. Nichols Medal Award Dinner

Professor Harry B. Gray will Introduce the MedalistDate: Friday, March 15, 2013Times: Registration 1:00 PM Reception 5:45 PM

Symposium 1:30 PM – 5:30 PM Award Dinner 6:45 PMPlace: Crowne Plaza Hotel, White Plains, NY

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NORTH JERSEY EXECUTIVECOMMITTEE MEETINGSection officers, councilors, committeechairs, topical group chairs, and sectionevent organizers meet regularly at the Exec -utive Committee Meeting to discuss topicsof importance to running the section andrepresenting the membership. All ACSmembers are welcome to attend this meet-ing and to become more involved in sectionactivities.

Date: Monday, February 25, 2013Time: 6:00 PMPlace: Fairleigh Dickinson University

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tLABORATORY ROBOTICS INTEREST GROUPLaboratory Automation - A View Fromthe Bench

Preliminary Program:

“The Bright and Dark Sides of FluorescentNucleic Acid Hybridization Probes”Salvatore A. E. Marras, Ph.D.Public Health Research InstituteNew Jersey Medical School - University ofMedicine & Dentistry of New Jersey

“Surrendering to the Robot Army: Why WeResist Automation in Drug Discovery andDevelopment”Lucinda Cohen, Ph.D.Director, NJ Discovery Bioanalytical GroupMerck Research Laboratories

“Transgenic Zebrafish in Microplates, aNovel Screening Method for EnvironmentalContamination”Carlos Molina, Ph.D.Dept. of Biology and Molecular BiologyMontclair State University

“Applications of Laboratory Automation andDoE to Generate Data-Rich StatisticalModels of Chemical Reactions for ProcessDevelopment”Victor Rosso (Principal Author), Jose Tabora, Jacob Janey, Vicky Vydra andErik RubinChemical DevelopmentBristol-Myers Squibb, New Brunswick, NJ

Other speakers are scheduled including ascientific representative from the AmericanCancer Society to talk about future direc-tions in cancer research.

Student Poster: “Design and Evaluation of


a Mobile Phone-Compatible WirelessElectrocardiograph”Principal Author: Catherine WongTeacher: Ms. Erin Colfax

Morristown High School

Student Poster: “How Rising WaterTemperatures Will Affect Mytilus gallo-provincialis (Mediterranean blue mussel)Population”Principal Author: Naomi PohlTeacher: Erin Colfax

Morristown High School

Date: Wednesday, February 20, 2013,Times: Doors open at 6:00 PM

for a free buffet, networking, and student poster contest.Technical program 7:00 PM

Place: The Hotel Somerset110 Davidson AvenueSomerset, NJ

Cost: Meeting is free but pre-registrationis requested to insure enough foodis ordered for everyone.

To register go to the Mid-Atlantic ChapterLaboratory Robotics Interest Group home-page (http://lab-robotics.org/mid_atlantic/)and follow the meeting links to the registrationpage.

For information about this meeting, pleasecontact Kevin Olsen. [email protected] or (973) 655-4076

\NMR TOPICAL GROUPStructural Studies of Small MultidrugResistance Membrane Proteins byOriented and Magic-Angle-SpinningSolid-State NMR Spectroscopy in LipidBilayers

Speaker: Dr. Nate TraasethAssistant ProfessorDepartment of ChemistryNew York University

Multidrug resistance (MDR) is a pervasiveclinical problem that reduces the effective-ness of treatment against bacterial infec-tions, viral infections, and cancer. Efflux ofdrugs across the lipid bilayer by MDR mem-brane protein transporters is one way inwhich resistance is conferred to the hostorganism or cell. To derive a structure/func-tion relationship for this class of proteins, ourstudy uses the small multidrug resistance(SMR) family as a model system for deci-phering the mechanism of transport with the

long-term goal of decoding the evolutionaryimportance of the transporter family. Weused solid-state NMR (SSNMR) spec-troscopy to study the topology and structureof EmrE in liposomes (magic-angle-spinningor MAS) and magnetically aligned lipid bilay-ers (oriented SSNMR or O-SSNMR). TheMAS experiments were used to map chemi-cal shift perturbations upon drug bindingwhile the O-SSNMR experiments revealedthe change in helix orientation upon bindingand transport. Together these complemen-tary techniques showed that drug bindingperturbs both the structure of EmrE as wellas the helical orientations with respect to thelipid bilayer.

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Date: Wednesday, February 20, 2013Times: Dinner 6:00 PM

Seminar 7:00 PMPlace: Fuji Japanese Sushi & Seafood

1345 US Route 1,North Brunswick, NJ

Cost: Dinner $15 ($5 for Student / postdoc / retired)No charge for seminar only.

Register online athttp://www.njacs.org/nmr.htmlor via e-mail [email protected]

mNMR TOPICAL GROUP2012 Activities

Co-Chairs: Charles PathiranaLuciano Mueller

NJACS NMR Topical group had a successfuland an exciting year. Monthly meetings con-tinued to be held at Fuji Buffet on Route 1 inNorth Brunswick, NJ. We had seven monthlymeetings featuring four speakers from NJ orsurrounding areas and three speakers select-ed by sponsors. In addition to listening to aninspiring seminar, attendees had the opportu-nity to taste Japanese-Chinese cuisineincluding a wide selection of sushi while inter-acting with people who share a common inter-est in NMR. At every meeting, beveragesincluding soft drinks and wine were availableto attendees free of charge. At the end ofeach meeting, the speaker had the privilegeto draw the winning raffle tickets to identify thelucky winners of two door prizes. Our month-ly meeting in October was replaced by a mini

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symposium (see below).

January meeting featured ACD labs. RyanSasaki, NMR Product Marketing Manager,ACD Labs spoke on “ACD/Spectrus – AContinuing Evolution of Leveraging Chemicaland Analytical Knowledge” on January 18.

Professor David Rovnyak from BucknellUniversity, PA was the speaker at the Meetingon February 15. His presentation was on“Enabling Enhanced Sensitivity in nD-NMRby Non-Uniform Sampling and Applications.”

Dr. Thomas Williamson from Merck & Co.spoke on “Whatʼs New in StereochemicalDetermination by NMR” at the March 14thmeeting.

The May 23rd meeting was sponsored byAgilent as Agilent Night. Two presenters fromAgilent gave presentations to a packed audi-ence. Ron Crouch, Sr. Applications Scientist,presented on “Investigating QuantificationPrecision with 1H and 13C” and CoreyMorcombe, Research Products Manager,presented on “Agilent Update from ENC andOn-going Activities for NMR.”

At the June 13th meeting, Dr. Anuji Abrahamfrom Bristol-Myers Squibb, New Brunswickwas the seminar speaker. Her seminar wason “On the Importance of Solid-state NMR inPharmaceutical Development.”

Bruker-Biospin sponsored Bruker Night onSeptember 19. At this heavily attendedmeeting, Senior Applications Scientist atBruker-Biospin, Dr. Amy Freund, presented aseminar on “An in-depth look at using adia-batic pulses for more than just carbon 180degree pulses: A look at old and new pulsesand their many uses from 19F NMR to multi-site band decoupling.”

The highlight of the year was the symposiumwhich hosted an impressive group of worldrenowned leaders in biological NMR. The2012 NJ ACS NMR Symposium held on October 24th at the Fiber Optics Auditoriumat the Busch Campus of Rutgers Universityfocused on NMR in Biomedical Research.Four leaders in the forefront of NMR researchmade presentations to a crowd of over 100attendees.

Professor Gaetano Montelione, Jerome andLoraine Aresty Chair from the Center for Advanced Biotechnology and Medicine andDepartment of Molecular Biology andBiochemistry at Rutgers, The State Universityof New Jersey, gave an overview of thestreamlined tools his team has developed inorder to determine high-quality NMR struc-

tures in a high throughput setting. His talkwas entitled “Improved Technologies forProtein Structure Determination by SolutionNMR.” A key feature of the methodology hepresented was the ability to selectively refinestructurally well-defined segments of a pro-tein. The next talk was presented byProfessor James Prestegard, a world experton NMR in glycoproteins. He is the EminentScholar of NMR Spectroscopy and Professorof Chemistry and Biochemistry at Universityof Georgia. He impressed the audience witha lively presentation entitled “NMRApproaches to the Structure and Dynamics ofGlycoproteins.” By his talk on “To Isolate orNot? The Sometimes Circuitous Route to theCharacterization of Impurities andDegradation Products,” Dr. Gary Martin, Sr.Principal Scientist at Merck Research Labshad no trouble persuading the audience thatNMR characterization of small molecules canbe fraught with serious challenges. The lastspeaker of the day was Dr. Ad Bax, Chief,Biophysical NMR Spectroscopy, NIH who isone of the worldʼs foremost experts in NMRmethodology. In his talk on “pH-Triggered,Activated State Conformations of theInfluenza Hemagglutinin Fusion PeptideProbed by NMR,” he presented a beautifulillustration of the versatility and power of mod-ern NMR. Utilizing a suite of state of the artNMR methods, he and his coworkers deci-phered key events in molecular re-arrange-ment of membrane associated hemagglutininwhich mediate the fusion of influenza viralparticle with host cells. The attendees hadthe opportunity to listen to these exciting pre-sentations and ample time to interact withspeakers and fellow attendees over snacksduring a mid-symposium break and a gener-ous post-symposium reception sponsored byCambridge Isotope Laboratories.

The final meeting of the year was held onNovember 14th at the usual venue in NorthBrunswick. Dr. Roberto Gil from CarnegieMellon University, Pittsburgh was the seminarspeaker who spoke on “Structural Analysis ofSmall Organic Molecules Assisted byResidual Dipolar Couplings.”

In closing, we wish to acknowledge the con-tributions from the following sponsors in sup-port of monthly meetings and the October 24symposium:

ACD Labs, Agilent Technologies, Bruker-Biospin, Cambridge Isotope LaboratoriesInc., Fuji Buffet , JEOL USA Inc., MestrelabResearch, New Era Enterprises, Sigma-Aldrich and Wilmad LabGlass.

Charles Pathirana & Luciano Mueller

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February 4Fluid Mixing in the Pharmaceutical Industry,“Challenges and Solutions”Professor Piero ArmenanteDept. of Chemical, Biological andPharmaceutical Engineering , NJIT

February 11“Roles of Computational Analysis to Optimizea Wide Range of Polymeric Materials andPlant Scale Processes”Dr. Steven ArturoAssociate ScientistThe Dow Chemical CompanySpring House, PA

February 18“Stochastic versus Deterministic: HumanHealth versus Engineering RiskAssessments”Dr. Jeffrey LewisSection HeadEpidemiology and Health SurveillanceExxon Mobil Biomedical Science, Inc.Clinton, NJ

February 25“Overcoming Pharmaceutical PowderProblems through Crystal and ParticleEngineering”Professor Changquan Cahin SunDepartment of PharmaceuticsCollege of Pharmacy, Minneapolis, MN

March 4“Downstream Process Development forMonoclonal Antibodies”Dr. Nihal TuycuMerck & Co. Inc.Department of Chemical EngineeringMichigan Technological UniversityHoughton, MI

March 11“Small Scale Rheology for Screening ScarceMaterials”Professor Eric M. Furst Director, Center for Molecular and Engineering ThermodynamicsUniversity of Delaware, Newark, DE

March 25“Thermochemistry and Elementary ReactionKinetic Models for Reactions of Mercury withHalogens, NOx ans SOx: Atmospheric andCombustion EnvironmentsʼMs Itsaso Auzmendi-MuruaPhD CandidateDept. of Chemical, Biological &Pharmaceutical Engineering, NJIT

April 1“An Industry Perspective on MaterialsCharacterization Techniques at theMolecular, Particulate and Bulk Level inSupport of Pharmaceutical ProductManufacturing”Dr. Steven ConwayMerck & Co., Inc.Whitehouse Station, NJ

April 8“Intermetallic Base-Metal Catalysts forChemoselective Reactions: ViableReplacements for Monometallic andBimetallic Precious Metal Catalysts”Professor Robert M. RiouxFriedrich G, Helfferich ProfessorDept of Chemical EngineeringThe Pennsylvania State University.

April 15“Catalysis and the Nature of Mixed MetalOxides at the Nanometer Level”Dr. Dario J. StacchiolaDept. of ChemistryBrookhaven National Laboratory.

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May 6“Nanoclusters of Boron and Gold”Professor Lai-Sheng WangDept. of ChemistryBrown University

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Call for NominationsEDWARD J. MERRILL AWARD FOROUTSTANDING HIGH SCHOOLCHEMISTRY TEACHER FOR 2013Now is the time to begin thinking about nom-inations for the Edward J. Merrill Award,North Jersey Section, for Outstanding HighSchool Chemistry Teacher for the year 2013.

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j ACS LOCAL SECTIONS ACTIVITIES — CHEM LUMINARYAWARDSDear Local Section Officers and Councilors,

The Committee on Local Sections Activities(LSAC) looks forward to receiving your localsection's annual report. In addition, LSACencourages you to nominate your sectionʼsactivities for any relevant ChemLuminaryAwards when submitting your annual report.As you know, annual reports andChemLuminary self-nominations areentered through FORMS with a submissiondeadline of February 15, 2013.

There are 41 awards available for self-nom-ination. Each award is sponsored by an ACSCommittee, which has established criteriaand a selection process for the award. LSACsponsors four awards and welcomes yoursubmission. The four awards are:

• Best Activity or Program in a LocalSection Stimulating Member Involvement

• Local Section Partnership Award

• Most Innovative New Activity or ProgramOutstanding Performance by a LocalSection (one award per section size cat-egory)

• Outstanding Performance (this award isbased on the total activity of the sectionincluding successful section manage-ment)

Visit www.acs.org/chemluminary for com-plete lists of past winners since 2007. If youhave any questions regarding FORMS orthe ChemLuminary Award self-nominationprocess, please contact [email protected].

As always, thank you for your service andcontinued community engagement.

V ACS INTERNATIONAL ACTIVITIESCOMMITTEE — 2012 GLOBALENGAGEMENT CHEM LUMINARYAWARDThe ACS International Activities Committee(IAC) invites you to self-nominate for the2012 Global Engagement ChemLuminaryAward, which will honor an ACS LocalSection in recognition of its efforts in theinternational realm, particularly in engagingACS International Chemical SciencesChapters.

The IAC recognizes that many groups mayalready be engaged in some of these activi-ties, but desires to see this award promoteinternational engagement both within andoutside the traditional realm of the Society,with a particular focus on work associatedwith International Chapters.

Nominees should provide written evidenceof their involvement in as many of the fol-lowing areas and highlight the internationalaspect of each:

• Enhance international cooperation byserving as a focal point or informationsource for activities by ACS InternationalChapters, national chemical societies,


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• Build capacity by engaging young peoplewith scientific disciplines, especially thescientific method of analysis developedby hypothesis, experiment, analysis, andconclusions.

Self-nominations for the 2012 awards, to begiven out during the fall National Meeting inIndianapolis, are now being accepted viaFORMS. The deadline for submission isFebruary 15, 2013.

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