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Dr. Landon Greene2017 North Jersey Section Chair

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THIS MONTH IN CHEMICAL HISTORY

Harold Goldwhite, California State University, Los Angeles • [email protected]

In recent columns I drew to your attention a new book about the history of chemistry. called“The Chemistry Book” by Derek B. Lowe, published by Sterling in 2016. Its subtitle is “Fromgunpowder to graphene; 250 milestones in the history of chemistry”. One of the bookʼs mostattractive features is that each one page article is accompanied by a full page illustration,mostly in color, relevant to the milestone described. One final column on this work, with muchmore recent examples, now follows.

Letʼs turn to 1932, and the isolation of Vitamin C. The condition known as scurvy, due to aVitamin C deficiency, has been known since as early as 400 BCE. It particularly afflictedsailors on long voyages and was of great concern to the British Admiralty in those days when“Britain Ruled the Waves” as the song “Rule Britannia” tells us. Many “cures” for scurvy wereproposed. In fact, when Joseph Priestley “invented” soda water in the 18th. century he pro-posed it as a cure for scurvy! Around that same time the Scottish physician James Lind rantests on various acids that he thought would cure scurvy. Vinegar was ineffective, but citrusjuices did the trick. The Admiralty finally followed up his discovery, and on future voyages ofthe Royal Navy supplies of oranges, lemons, and limes were made standard issue. Hencethe nickname of “limeys” for British sailors – and other Brits.

In the 1920s the Hungarian Albert Szent-Gyorgi was trying to isolate the actual agent in cit-rus that was the curative ingredient. He finally obtained small amounts of a six-carbon mate-rial that he named ascorbic (anti-scurvy) acid. But attempts to obtain larger quantities fromcitrus fruits were vitiated by the presence of many other similar compounds. The story goesthat while he was in a period of major frustration his wife served up a dish of that Hungarianfavorite, red peppers. He realized that he hadnʼt tested red peppers for ascorbic acid. Theyturned out to be an extremely rich source; within a few weeks he had kilogram amounts ofpure Vitamin C. And in 1937 he won a Nobel prize for his work.

In 1935 the Du Pont experimental stationʼs team on synthetic fibers was headed by a youngchemist, Wallace Hume Carothers. Back in those times some American chemical companiesactually supported exploratory basic chemistry, without always worrying about the immedi-ate bottom line. At that period two important synthetic polymers were known: bakelite, invent-ed early in the 20th. century; and polyethylene, discovered in 1933 but not yet in production.Neither one seemed to be a promising candidate for making fibers. The Carothers group hadalready had one big success with neoprene, a synthetic rubber. They now turned topolyamide synthesis, varying the length of the carbon chain between the amide groups In1935 they came up with their big winner: the polyamide with a 6 carbon chain betweenamide groups. This material could be drawn into fibers that were uniform, strong, and silkyin feel. They named it nylon. Within 3 years nylon fiber was being made on an industrialscale by Dupont – just before World War II broke out. For the first few years most nylon wentinto parachute manufacture, but after the war the demand for nylon fabrics, particularly inwomenʼs stockings (“nylons”) soared.

In 1936 the IG Farben chemist, Gerhard Schrader and his associates, were investigating anovel class of insecticides, a set of compounds based on phosphorus esters and amidescontaining a P-F bond. They experienced alarming symptoms including a fading of theirvision, and chest constrictions. They quickly left the lab. – a wise decision. They had pre-pared Tabun, a deadly nerve gas. Further studies were strongly supported by the GermanWar Department, and the mode of action of Tabun and similar compounds was soon estab-lished. They inhibited the action of the cholinesterase enzyme thus interfering with nerveimpulse transmission – hence nerve gases. During World War II both the Germans and theAllies made significant amounts of nerve gases and initiated research programs on theseagents. They were never used during that war, perhaps because of the expectation of retal-iation in kind. International treaties have banned their use, but occasional incidents of sus-pected and actual nerve gas used have surfaced from time to time. A final personal note; Iwas a Ph. D. student at Cambridge University in the U.K. working with Dr. B. C. Saunderswho took part during World War II in the British nerve gas program.

(See second article by Harold Goldwhite on page 24.)

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Wednesday, January 18, 2017High School Teachers Topical GroupSee page 9.

Saturday, January 21, 2017New York Section Sectionwide MeetingSee page 9.

Thursday, January 26, 2017Long Island Board MeetingSee page 10.

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Thursdays, February 23, March 30, April27, and May 5, 2017Long Island Subsection Board MeetingsSee page 11.

Tuedays, February 7 and June 6, 2017New York Nanoscience Discussion GroupSee page 11.

Thursday, February 9; Friday, March 3;and Wednesday, April 12, 2017Westchester Chemical SocietySee page 12.

Fridays, February 10, April 28, June 9,September 15, and November 17, 2017New York Section Board MeetingsSee page 9.

Fridays, February 10, March 17, April 21,and May 19, 2017High School Teachers Topical GroupSee pages 12-13.

Thursdays, February 2, March 2, andApril 6, 2017Long Island Subsection SeminarsSee page 11.

Thursday and Friday, March 2 and 3,2017Dr. Joseph Nagyvary Series of Lectures See page 13.

Friday, March 24, 2017Nichols SymposiumSee pages 6 and 7.

Friday, March 31, 2017The Inaugural Edward J. McNelis Lecturein Chemistry - at NYUSee page 13.

Friday, April 21, Saturday, May 6, andTuesday, May 9, 2017Long Island Subsection Other EventsSee pages 11 and 19.

Saturday, May 6, 201765th Annual Undergraduate ResearchSymposiumSee page 19.

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2017 North Jersey Section Chair’s MessageThank you all for the opportunity to serve as the 2017 Chair of the North Jersey Section ofthe ACS. I am honored to have the luxury of leading forward a very successful and impact-ful section. I would like to thank all our leaders, volunteers, members and community forwhat they have done to make this section great. I am confident, with such a strong program,we can improve upon this success in 2017.

Our section continues to have the vision to “...improve peopleʼs lives through the transform-ing power of science.” As your Chair, I support this vision and believe it is my duty to empow-er our section to do so. My top priority this year will be to engage our members and com-munity to help empower them in their scientific pursuits, to fulfill our vision.

My focus this year will be around the following strategic goals:

• Engage our members to understand and support their interests in ACS. Foster theircareer and professional development.

• Improve the sustainability of our section through actively recruiting future leaders andimproving communication.

• Promote the public recognition and appreciation of chemists and chemistry by supportingeducational and community outreach programs.

• Increase section membership by enhancing our programs and supporting the interests ofour constituents.

These goals align with the strategic plan for ACS and the North Jersey Section. These goalswill be achieved by implementing several new initiatives and enhancing those already inplace. Most importantly, these goals will strengthen our events. Events this year include(but are not limited to):

• Professional activities: Topical groupsʼ seminars/symposia, Baekeland Award Symposium,Careers in Transition meetings

• Educational programs: National Chemistry Week at the Liberty Science Center, ChemistryOlympiad, Earth Day activities

• Community outreach: Project SEED, street fairs, Community Nights at the Liberty ScienceCenter

For more events and information please visit us at www.njacs.org and follow us onFacebook.

This year, I look forward to communicating with all of you and I encourage you to be involvedin some of our events. Please feel free to contact me with any thoughts, ideas, or sugges-tions at [email protected].

Sincerely,

Landon Greene, PhD2017 Chair, North Jersey Section ACS



2017 WILLIAM H. NICHOLS MEDALDISTINGUISHED SYMPOSIUM AND AWARD DINNER

Symposium: IMPROVING LIFE THROUGH ADVANCES IN CHEMISTRY AND NANOSCIENCEAward Recipient: PROFESSOR CHAD A. MIRKIN

Northwestern University Date: Friday, March 24, 2017Time: 12:30 PM Registration 1:00 PM – 5:30 PM Symposium

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

PROGRAM1:00 PM Welcome Professor Brian R. Gibney

2017 Chair, ACS, New York SectionBrooklyn College and Graduate Center of CUNY

1:05 PM Opening of the Distinguished Symposium Professor Joseph M. Serafin2017 Chair-elect, ACS, New York Section

St. John’s University1:15 PM Dynamic Droplets: Biosensors from Changes in Professor Timothy M. Swager

Orientation and Morphology of Complex Liquids Massachusetts Insitute of TechnologyProtein kinases are critical players in intracellular signal transduction pathways and the etiology of manyhuman diseases. Over the last three decades, our understanding of this biological target class hasgrown such that there are now ca. 25 kinase inhibitors on the market, predominantly for the treatmentof cancer. This presentation will describe the evolution of kinase drug discovery and development usingseveral clinical candidate case histories to highlight key past milestones and future challenges.

2:00 PM Molecular Imaging of Transition Metal Professor Christopher J. ChangSignaling in the Brain and Beyond University of California, Berkeley

Metals are essential for all forms of life, and the traditional view of this bioinorganic chemistry is thatmobile fluxes of alkali and alkaline earth metals like sodium, potassium, and calcium are used asdynamic signals and transition metals like copper and iron must be buried and protected as static meta-bolic cofactors to prevent oxidative stress. We have identified a new paradigm of transition metal sig-naling, using copper as a primary example to show how such elements can influence neural circuitryand regulate fundamental behaviors such as eating and sleeping.2:45 PM Shape-Shifting Drug Carriers for Targeting Professor Nathan C. Gianneschi

Cytotoxins and Immunotherapeutics to Cancer University of California, San DiegoNanoparticle targeting strategies have largely relied on the use of surface conjugated ligands designedto bind overexpressed cell-membrane receptors associated with a given cell-type. We envisioned a tar-geting strategy that would lead to an active accumulation of nanoparticles by virtue of a supramolecu-lar assembly event specific to tumor tissue, occurring in response to a specific signal. For this purpose,we utilize enzymes as stimuli, rather than other recognition events, because they are uniquely capableof propagating a signal via catalytic amplification. We will describe the preparation of highly functional-ized polymer scaffolds utilizing ring opening metathesis polymerization, their development as in vivoprobes and their utility as a multimodal imaging platform and as drug carriers capable of targeting tis-sue. Furthermore, we will describe new methods and approaches for characterizing this kind of dynam-ic material at the nanoscale, including by liquid cell transmission electron microscopy and combinedisotopic and optical nanoscopy.3:30 PM Coffee Break 4:00 PM Metal-oxos in Chemistry and Biology Professor Harry B Gray

California Institute of TechnologyThe dianionic oxo ligand occupies a very special place in coordination chemistry, owing to its ability tostabilize high oxidation states of metals. The ligand field theory of multiple bonding in metal-oxos waspublished in two papers in the first volume of Inorganic Chemistry. The theory, which accounts for theground state electronic structures and spectroscopic properties of these complexes, predicts that an“oxo wall” separates Fe-Ru-Os and Co-Rh-Ir in the periodic table. I will review this early work, then dis-cuss the roles metal-oxos play in two of the most important chemical reactions on planet Earth, hydro-carbon oxygenation catalyzed by cytochrome P450, and solar-driven water oxidation catalyzed by photosystem-II.

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4:45 PM Unlocking the Potential of Spherical Nucleic Acids Professor Chad A. Mirkinin Biology and Medicine NICHOLS MEDALIST

A fundamental tenet of nanotechnology is that bulk materials, when miniaturized, exhibit new and inter-esting chemical and physical properties. These properties often positively impact the development ofnew technologies, especially in the areas of biology and medicine where frontier advances require rapidchanges in how living systems are probed and regulated. Spherical nucleic acids (SNAs), nanostruc-tures typically made by chemically templating short strands of DNA or RNA on the surface of a particle,display extraordinary architecture-dependent properties. Unlike conventional nucleic acids, SNAs canrapidly enter cells without the need for transfection agents, and they can be utilized as novel intracellu-lar probes and efficacious agents for regulating gene expression and immune system response.Consequently, SNAs constitute an entire new class of therapeutics that are being utilized to attack dis-eases and disorders, including autoimmune diseases and many forms of cancer, at their genetic roots. 5:45 PM Social Hour6:45 PM William H. Nichols Medal Award Dinner Professor Harry B. Gray will introduce

Professor Mirkin, Nichols MedalistMore information on the William H. Nichols Medal Events is available on the New York Section’s web-site at http://www.NewYorkACS.org. Tickets may be reserved using the following form, or preferably through the New York Section website thataccepts credit cards or Paypal. http://www.NewYorkACS.org.

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NEW YORK SECTION — 2017 SECTION-WIDE CONFERENCEPlease register at: http://www.newyorkacs.org/meetings/sectionwide/sectionwide2017.php

Date: Saturday, January 21, 2017

Times: 9:30AM – 1:00PM

Place: Queensborough Community College - CUNY, 222-05 56th St., Bayside, NY Oakland Bldg.

Directions: http://www.qcc.cuny.edu/about/getting-here.html

Map of Campus: http://www.qcc.cuny.edu/about/campus-map.html

Cost: FREE TO ALL

PROGRAM

9:30 AM Arrival and Refreshments

10:00 AM Greetings from the New York ACS 2017 Chair Dr. Brian R. Gibney

10:10 AM Award PresentationsService Plaque and Pin to the 2016 New York Section Chair Dr. Alison G. Hyslop

New York Section Outstanding Service Award for 2016 Dr. Paris Svoronos

Nichols Foundation H.S. Chemistry Teacher Award for 2016 Ms. Kristyn PluchinoStuyvesant High School

NYC

10:30 AM Presentation of Candidates for the 2017 Elections Dr. Joseph M. Serafin2017 Chair-elect

ACS New York Section

10:45 AM Keynote Speaker Professor Rein UlijnDirector, ASRC Nanoscience Initiative

City University of New YorkNew York, NY

Title: Peptide Nanotechnology: Building on the Building Blocks of Life

11:45 AM Coffee Break — Poster presentations by the New York Section Project SEED Students.

12:00 PM ACS, New York Section Committee Planning Sessions for 2017

Educational Activities: (Chemagination, Chemists Celebrate Earth Day, Continuing Education, HighSchool Olympiad, National Chemistry Week, Nichols Foundation H.S. Teacher Award, Project SEED,Student Membership Activities (URS))

Chair: Dr. Alison G. Hyslop

Member Affairs: (ACS Fellows, Awards, Employment and Professional Relations, History of theNew York Section, The 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, New York ACS Office Administrator, at: [email protected]



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NEW YORK SECTION BOARDMEETING DATES FOR 2017The dates for the Board Meetings of theACS New York Section for 2017 have beenselected and approved. The meetings areopen to all – everybody is welcome. All non-board members who would like to attendany of the meetings should inform the NewYork Section office by emailing Mrs. MarilynJespersen at [email protected] orby calling the Section office at (516) 883-7510. All 2017 Board Meetings will be held at TheGraduate Center, Science Center, Room4102, 365 Fifth Avenue, New York, NY10016, except for the January 21 Section -wide Conference and March 24 NicholsSymposium. Prof. Brian Gibney will chair allmeetings. Refreshments will be availablestarting at 6:00 PM while the actual meetingwill start at exactly 6:30 PM. The board meetings dates for 2017 will beSaturday, January 21, 2017 — JanuarySectionwide Conference at QueensboroughCommunity College - CUNY, 222-05 56thStreet, Bayside, NY, Oakland Building.Friday, February 10, 2017Friday, March 24, 2017 — William H.Nichols Symposium and Medal AwardDinner at the Crowne Plaza Hotel, WhitePlains, NY.Friday, April 28, 2017Friday, June 9, 2017Friday, September 15, 2017Friday, November 17, 2017

More information will be posted in futuremonthly issues of The Indicator and on theNew York website at

http://www.NewYorkACS.org.

qCHEMICAL MARKETING & ECONOMICS GROUPChemical Industry Micro andMacroeconomic Outlook

Speaker: G. Sam Samdani, PhDSenior Industry KnowledgeExoertMcKinsey & Company

Date: Wednesday, January 11, 2017Time: 11:15 AM - 2:00 PMPlace: Penn Club

30 West 44th StreetNew York, NY

See flyers on page 8.

pHIGH SCHOOL TEACHERS TOPICAL GROUPHow You Can Cover the Regents Chemistry Curriculum with SignificantTime Constraints

Speaker: Tehilla P. RieserSAR High School503 West 259th StreetRiverdale, NY

*** NOTE: DIFFERENT DAY – WEDNESDAY ***

Date: Wednesday, January 18, 2017Time: Social and Dinner — 5:45 PM

Meeting — 7:15 PMPlace: Social and Dinner — See below.

Meeting — SAR High School503 West 259th StreetRiverdale, NY

Directions: To get to SAR High School, takethe #1 train to 231th (which has an elevator)and the Bx7 or Bx10 bus to 259th and theschool. (The Bx7 takes a slightly shorterroute.) There are very few stops between238th and 259th so the trip is quite fast. Onthe way back, only the Bx10 bus goes all theway to the 231 subway station. The Bx7turns south a long block before the station.SAR High School is 1/2 block west of thebus stop at 259th and Riverdale Avenue onthe north side of 259th. There is free parkingfor drivers at the side of the school and thereare four restaurants directly across thestreet: The Pizza Block, Dunkin' Donuts,Carlos & Gabby's (Mexican, 3.9 stars,http://carlosandgabbysriverdale.com),and the deluxe Riverdale K Grillhouse (4.3

stars, http://www.kgrillhouse.com). All arekosher (including DD). Carlos & Gabby'sand the K Grill are on the SW corner of theintersection. Dunkin' Donuts and PizzaBlock are in the shopping center across259th (south) of the school. Parking is onthe west side of the school building. Do NOTpark in the large shopping center lot.

LONG ISLAND SUBSECTIONBoard MeetingDate: Thursday, January 26, 2017Time: 6:30PMPlace: Nassau Community College

Life Science BuildingChemistry Dept, 2nd Floor

*EMPLOYMENT AND PROFESSIONAL RELATIONSCOMMITTEE OF THE NEWYORK SECTION

To Human Resources Departments inIndustry and Academia

The Employment and Professional Rela tionsCommittee maintains a roster of candidateswho are ACS members seeking a position inthe New York metropolitan area. If you havejob openings and would like qualified candidates to contact you, please senda 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.


LONG ISLAND SUBSECTIONFUTURE MEETINGS CALENDAR

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Board Meeting DatesThursday, February 23, 2017Thursday, March 30, 2017Thursday, April 27, 2017Thursday, May 25, 2017Time: 6:30PMPlace: Nassau Community College

Life Science BuildingChemistry Dept, 2nd Floor

Spring SeminarsThursday, Februrary 2, 2017Time: 5:30PMPlace: Queensborough Community

College, S-112Speaker: Dr. Emily Mundorff

Hofstra UniversityTitle and abstract: TBA

Thursday, March 2, 2017 Speaker: Dr. Joseph Nagyvary

Professor EmeritusTexas A&M University

Tentative title: Stradivariʼs secretsAbstract: TBA

Thursday, April 6, 2017Speaker: Dr. Fabiola Barrios Landeros

Yeshiva UniversityTitle and abstract: TBA

OTHER EVENTS:Friday, April 21, 2017Chemistry Challenge

Saturday, May 6, 2017Undergraduate Research Symposium

Tuesday, May 9, 2017High School Awards

5NEW YORK NANOSCIENCE DISCUSSION GROUP2017 Sessions

Hosted by the New York University Department of Chemistry

Speakers and details to be announced.

The NYNDG is an ACS Topical Group thatmeets in the New York UniversityDepartment of Chemistry. Sessions featurethree 30-minute presentations onnanoscience, one each with strong orienta-tion in biology, chemistry, and physics/applied mathematics. Presentations will befocused on discussion of recent work,although speakers will place the work in acontext understandable to a broad audi-ence.

Dates: Tuesdays, February 7 andJune 6, 2017

Times: Refreshments at 7:00 PMScience at 7:30 PM

Place: New York University, Silver Center31 Washington Place (betweenWashington Square East andGreene Street)Room 1003 (10th floor)

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

Topical Group History: http://www.nyu.edu/projects/nanoscience


WESTCHESTER CHEMICAL SOCIETY

FUTURE MEETINGS

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Special Seminar – “Yes, But Why Sulfuric Acid? - Young William H NicholsEntry into 19th Century Chemical Industry”

Speaker: Peter Corfield, PhDDepartment of ChemistryFordham UniversityBronx, NY

William H Nichols was a remarkable manwho had great influence on the young NewYork chemical industry. He and his friendCharles Waters started manufacturing min-eral acids when he was only eighteen. Heeventually founded the General ChemicalCompany, which after many mergers and acquisitions became the Allied ChemicalCorporation. He was noted for his entre pre -neurial spirit, for bringing scientific principlesinto manufacturing, and for high ethical stan-dards. As a mature industrial chemist,Nichols funded the gold medal for the NewYork Sectionʼs new annual research awardin 1902. This became the first nationalaward of the American Chemical Society,now known as the William H. Nichols MedalAward. The presentation will exploreNicholsʼ contributions in the context of thestate of chemical industry in New York dur-ing the latter part of the nineteenth century.

Peter Corfield has taught as a full-timeLecturer at the Chemistry Department ofFordham University from August 2011 to thepresent. He engages also in research withundergraduate students, and has publisheda dozen papers on old and new work sincejoining Fordham, making 62 publications inall. Previously, he was Director of theCenter for Science and Math Education atPurchase College, SUNY for sixteen years,where he developed the Centerʼs Mission tosupport excellence in K-16 science andmath education, and to offer outreach pro-grams for middle and high school students.He prepared grant proposals and contractsto fund all the programs he managed, with atotal of over seven million dollars. Prior tothat, he taught at The King's College, NY fortwenty one years, as professor of chemistryand chair of the Division of Math andScience.

Date: Thursday, February 9, 2017Times: Refreshments 5:30 PM

Lecture 6:00 PMPlace: Westchester Community College

Gateway Building, Room 11075 Grasslands RoadValhalla, NY

Cost: Free and Open to the Public

Further Information: Paul [email protected](914) 393-6940

Note: Inclement Weather: CancellationDue to Inclement WeatherShould Westchester Community College'sValhalla campus close due to inclementweather (or has delayed opening or closesearly) the meeting will be cancelled.Decisions about delay/closure are madearound 6:00 AM for day courses and 3:00PM for evening courses. The college willcommunicate delays, closings or early dis-missals on their website(www.sunywcc.edu), Facebook, Twitter,and the (914) 606-6900 phone line.

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Special Seminar – “From MixingMolotov Cocktails to Mining StradivariʼsSecrets”

Speaker: Joseph Nagyvary, PhDProfessor EmeritusTexas A&M University

TentativeDate: Friday, March 3, 2017See also Dr. Nagyvary article on page 13.

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Special Seminar – “Cutting and Pastingwith DNA: Genome Editing”

Speaker: Evan Merkhofer, PhDAssistant Professor (Biology)Mount Saint Mary College

TentativeDate: Wednesday, April 12, 2017Times, Place, Cost and Further Information:See under February meeting.

a HIGH SCHOOL TEACHERS TOPICAL GROUP

FUTURE MEETINGS:****

The Feynman Picture of Quantum Confinement of Small Molecules

Speaker: Joseph Gendagorta

and

Computational Chemistry Methods forCrystal Structure Prediction

Speaker: Dr. Leslie VogtNYU.

Date: Friday, February 10, 2017Times: Social and Dinner — 5:45 PM

Meeting — 7:15 PM


Place: Social & Dinner — DoJo Restaurant14 West 4th St. (@Mercer Street)New York, NYMeeting — New York UniversitySilver Center for Arts and Sciences, Room 207Enter from 32 Waverly Place South-east corner Washington Sq. East or Washington PlaceNew York, NY

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Preparing an Application for the Mathfor America Master Teacher Fellowship

Speaker: Lena Douris <[email protected]>

I will share information about my experiencein the MfA Master Teacher program. Thedetails of the application process and thebenefits of being involved in the wonderfulMfA community. Note: MfA covers theChemistry program in New York City.

Date: Friday, March 17, 2017For times and place, see under Februarymeeting, above.

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“Demo Derby II”

Date: Friday, April 21, 2017For times and place, see under Februarymeeting, above.

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The Development of Carolacton-derivedMacrolactones for the Perturbation ofBacterial Biofilms

Speaker: Dr. Americo J. FabroniDepartment of ChemistryTemple UniversityPhiladelphia, PA.

Date: Friday, May 19, 2017For times and place, see under Februarymeeting, above.

BJOSEPH NAGYVARY LECTURESFrom Mixing Molotov Cocktails toMining Stradivariʼs Secrets

Dr. Joseph Nagyvary, Professor Emeritus atTexas A&M University, will give a series oflectures in the New York area March 2 and3, 2017. He recently published his memoirof Hungary that describes the lives of chem-istry students during the period of the ColdWar, and their participation in the 1956

uprising and fight for freedom. As noted byDr. Nagyvary “some great chemists, Olah,Somorjai, Pavlath, etc. came out of Hungaryin 1956.” His presentations will be based onhis book, published in October to coincidewith the sixtieth anniversary celebrations ofthe 1956 events and now available atAmazon:

https://www.amazon.com/Violence-Violins-Making-Hungarian-Refugee/dp/1536894060/

For more information on its content, go towww.violenceandviolins.com and see thenews release from Texas A&M University:

http://today.tamu.edu/2016/10/13/violence-and-violins-prof-recalls-his-role-in-hungarian-revolution/

The presentations will be made at

• St. Johnʼs University (Dr. Neil Jespersen,[email protected])

• Queensboro Community College (Dr.Dominic Hull, [email protected])

• Nassau Community College (contact,information: Dr. Daniel Resch,[email protected])

• Westchester Community College (Dr.Paul Dillon,[email protected]).

Currently, the schedule is tentative; detailswill follow in subsequent issues of TheIndicator.

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SPRING 2017 SEMESTER ATNYU

Mark Your Calendars

The Inaugural Edward J. McNelisLecture in Chemistry

Speaker: John F. HartwigUniversity of California/Berkeley

Date: Friday, March 31, 2017Times: 3:30 PMPlace: New York University, Silver Center

Hemmerdinger Hall, Room 10231 Washington Place (betweenWashington Square East andGreene Street)

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


NEW YORK LOCAL SECTIONCELEBRATES NATIONALCHEMISTRY WEEKDr. Ping Furlan, Dr. Scott Lefurgy, andMrs. Erin WassermanNational Chemistry Week Project LeadersNew York Local Section

On Sunday, October 30, 2016 from 11 a.m.to 4 p.m., for the 12th consecutive year,more than 250 volunteers representingtwenty-two area universities, nonprofit orga-nizations, business centers and industriesjoined in the Local Sectionʼs effort and cele-brated 2016 National Chemistry Week at theNew York Hall of Science, located inQueens. Through forty tables of nearly fiftyfun-filled hands-on activities, the programshowcased the chemical principles relatingto “Solving Mysteries through Chemistry!”and demonstrated the values of chemistry inour everyday lives. This year, the Sectiononce again achieved the highest number ofsponsoring organizations and offered thegreatest number of tables of activity. Fourgenerous donors included Hall of Science,Maruzen, Pearson, and 4Imprint that provid-ed the program site, safety glasses andfinancial support. Admission to the Hall ofScience was FREE on the event date from10-11 a.m., allowing the Section to effective-ly reach and engage over 1,000 museumvisitors, especially students in grades K-8,with this highly interactive outreach pro-gram.

Theme of forensics was will displayedthrough all of the different exhibits including“Secret Writing”, “Invisible Ink”, “GasChromatography”, “Lifting Prints”, “GlowingBlood Tests”, “Detective PenChromatography”, “Fruit DNA Extraction”,“Who Is The Candy Culprit?”, “Which One IsWater?”, “Whatʼs In That Drink You Like SoMuch?”, “The Secret Behind ʻFortuneTellingʼ” and “Are These Cups Of Water TheSame?”. Representing the Sectionʼs Boardof Directors, Dr. Paris Svoronos, theSectionʼs Past Chair, hosted a table at theevent. Dr. Alison Hyslop, the Section Chair,and Dr. Ping Furlan, the NCW CommitteeChair, presented “Nickel (Ni)”, “Palladium(Pd)” and “Platinum (Pt)” pins to fifteen coor-dinators of different participating organiza-tions for their Long-term and On-going NCWLeadership and praised all the volunteers fortheir invaluable contribution to the successof this largest public outreach program of theNew York Local Section.

Inside the Hall of Science, NCW balloonsand ACS banners were seen everywhere inthe hallway and stairs leading to the ViscusiGallery where the event took place. At theadmission table in front of the Galleryentrance, volunteers welcomed the childrenand other participants with programbrochures and ACS giveaways, ensuredthey had eye protection and answered ques-tions. During the whole day, the activitytables were crowed and swamped with theenthusiastic museum visitors. Children, par-ents, and the presenters alike obviouslyenjoyed their time spent together learningabout chemistry, experiencing the “magic”,color, and marvels chemistry brings to them.Thanks to the volunteers this year who col-lected a large number of program evaluationforms. The results were extremely positive:100% agreed that they learned somethingnew or interesting at the event, would like toattend another event in the future, and thinkthat chemistry is awesome or interestingafter this event. Many also indicated thatthey would share what they learned with oth-ers after they get home! As the volunteersclosed down the program, all were pleasedwith the day and felt gratified for being partof this terrific program. Many agreed – ayear in advance – that they would be backfor National Chemistry Week 2017!

This year, in addtion to the Indicator, NYSection and NYSCI Websites, the event fly-ers were sent to 3,000 school adminstra-tions in the 5 boroughs, Nassau, Suffolk,Westchester, and Rockland counties withthe flyers in both English and Spanish, ask-ing that they be forwarded to science teach-ers. Additionally, top prizes were awarded tothe winners of the 2016 NCW IllustratedPoem Contest in the following three cator-goies: Grades K-2, Grades 3-5, and Grades6-8.

We would like to extend our warmest thanksto our volunteers as well as the sponsoringcolleges, universities, companies and non-profit organizations. Their enthusiastic sup-port, their strong leadership and communityspirit have made the continued success ofthis largest chemical hands-on public edu-cational event in the area possible.

Long-term and On-going NationalChemistry Week Leadership RecognitionNickel (Ni) PinsScott Lefurgy, Emily Mundorff, AnthonyNigro, Paul Sideris, Kenya Velez, JosephWiener


Palladium (Pd) PinsDavid Deutsch, Jeonghee Kang, KenKishida, Mike Melcer, Erin Wasserman

Platinum (Pt) PinsZhaohua Dai, Neil Jespersen, PemelaKerrigan, Erin Thelen

2016 National Chemistry Week New YorkSection Sponsors New York Hall of ScienceMaruzen International Co., Ltd PearsonEducation 4Imprint

2016 National Chemistry Week New YorkSection Exhibitors 1. Adelphi University 2.American Institute of Chemical Engineers 3.

Barnard College 4. Bronx CommunityCollege 5. College of Mount Saint Vincent 6.Columbia Unviersity 7. Cooper Union 8.Hoftstra University 9. Maruzen InternationalCo., Ltd. 10. New York Hall of Science 11.New York University 12. New York ACSBorad of Directors 13. Pace University 14.PepsiCo 15. Queensborough CommunityCollege 16. St. Johns University 17. St.Josephʼs College 18. Stern College forWomen 19. Stony Brook University,Graduate Students 20. Stony BrookUniversity, Undergraduates 21. U.S.Merchant Marine Academy


Coordinators of different participating organizations arehonored for their Long-term and On-going NCWLeadership.

(Photo courtesy of Mark Hogan)

The youngsters enjoy the color, fun,and happy surprises chemistrybrings to them during the New YorkLocal Scetionʼs event at the New YorkHall of Science.

(Photo courtesy of Dr. Alison Hyslop)

(At left) Winner of the2016 National ChemistryWeek Illustrated PoemContest.

(At right) The serious“forensic detectives”solving a “crime”.

(Photo courtesy ofDr. Alison Hyslop)

Our dedicated volunteers of all ages.

(Photos courtesy of Dr. Alison Hyslop and Dr. Scott Lefurgy)

WESTCHESTER CHEMICALSOCIETYOn November 10, 2016 Mr. Xiayun Huangspoke on the “Competitive AlphaScreen®Assay for Hyaluronan Detection”. Mr.Huangʼs talk described a new competitiveassay for Hyaluronan (Hyaluronic Acid, HA).HA is a linear polymer composed of repeat-ing disaccharides of β-D-glucuronic acidand N-acetyl-β-D-glucosamine. It is the onlynon-sulfated glycosaminoglycan and is amajor component of the extracellular matrixin connective tissues. It has a wide range ofmolecular weights (up to several millionDaltons). Elevated serum HA is a marker forliver impairment (such as liver fibrosis) andinflammatory diseases (such as rheumatoidarthritis). Elevated urine HA is a marker forbladder cancer. Mr. Huang described thedevelopment of an HA assay that detectsHA with concentrations of about 25 to 3200ng/mL, essentially independently of the mol-ecular weight (down to 10 monosaccha-rides) and its distribution. The assay is anal-ogous to a typical immunoassay but,because HA is not immunogenic, a bindingprotein, Aggrecan, is used to capture HA.Unlike typical ligand capture and immunoas-says, this assay is homogenous and doesnot require a wash step. It usesAlphaScreen® technology. AlphaScreenuses two types of beads (donor and accep-tor). The donor beads convert ambient oxy-gen to singlet oxygen upon illumination at680 nm. The singlet oxygen can diffuseapproximately 200 nm in solution beforesystem-crossing to its ground triplet state. Ifan acceptor bead is within this distance,energy can be transferred from the singletoxygen to the acceptor causing emission ofa 520-620 nm signal. The two beads arebrought into proximity through the HA-Aggrecan interaction. Typically, polymericanalytes are assayed using “sandwich

assays” because they are large enough tobind both a capture and a signal ligand.However, the wide range of HA molecularweights complicates this. In a sandwich, thedistance between donor and acceptor beadswill vary with the molecular weight of the HAmolecule tethering them. Higher molecularweights will decrease the probability that thesinglet oxygen will diffuse to the acceptormoiety and thus affect the signal. Becauseof this, a competitive format is used. Donorbeads are coated with streptavidin, which isreacted with a terminally mono-biotinylatedHA of fixed molecular weight. The acceptorbeads are conjugated with Aggregan. Usingan HA-free sample, the two beads willbecome tethered and generate a strong sig-nal. HA in a sample will compete for theAggrecan with the HA on the donor beads,reducing the number of tethered bead pairsand, thus, reducing the signal. With an opti-mized test protocol, a linear response wasfound over the 25-1600 ng/mL range, withlittle molecular weight effect over the rangeof 8 to 1000 kDa (20 to 250 disaccharideunits). Unfortunately, in human serum, albu-min appears to interfere with the test, mak-ing pretreatment necessary. Follow-up workon this is planned. There was interestingdiscussion with the audience during andafter Mr. Huangʼs talk, given at theWestchester Community College in Valhalla,N.Y. Mr. Huang has a B.S. in Pharma ceu ti -cal Science from Fudan University,Shanghai, China. He is a PhD student inMaterials Chemistry at the Tandon School ofEngineering, New York University, workingthere with Dr. Mary Cowman. After the talkseveral of the attendees enjoyed a dinnertogether at a nearby restaurant. The photobelow is of Mr. Huang, his mentor, Dr. MaryCowman, Dr. Ralph Stephani, a member ofthe Board of Directors of the NY Section,and the WCS board members who attendedthe meeting.


Ralph Stephani, Paul Dillon, Rolande Hodel, Mary Cowman, Xiayun Huang, PeterCorfield, Joan Laredo-Liddell and Jean Delfiner

(Photo courtesy of Paul Dillon)


65th ANNUAL UNDERGRADUATE

RESEARCH SYMPOSIUM The Student Activities Committee of the

New York Section of the American Chemical Society

Saturday, May 6th

, 2017 at Fordham University

8:00 am – 3:00 pm (breakfast, luncheon and award reception included) Sign up as an attendee at http://www.newyorkacs.org/meetings/urs/urs.php

Keynote Speaker: Dr. Jin Kim Montclare

NYU Tandon School of Engineering Jin Kim Montclare is an Associate Professor in the Department of Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering (CBE) at NYU Tandon School of Engineering (NYU SoE), who is performing groundbreaking research in engineering proteins to mimic nature and, in some cases, work better than nature. Prior to joining NYU SoE, Jin was an NIH postdoctoral fellow at the California Institute of Technology in the Division of Chemistry and Chemical Engineering in the Tirrell lab. She received a Bachelor of Science in Chemistry from Fordham University as a Goldwater and Clare Boothe Luce undergraduate fellow, a PhD in Bioorganic Chemistry from Yale University as an NSF and Pfizer predoctoral fellow. In 2015 began serving as Graduate Studies Director for CBE and Associate Director for Technology Advancement for the NYU Materials Research Science and Engineering Center, while leading the multidisciplinary Center for Innovation and Entrepreneurship at NYU SoE. Among her many honors and awards are the 2016 ACS WCC Rising Star Award, 2015 Agnes Faye Morgan Research Award from Iota Sigma Pi, 2014 Executive Leadership in Academic Technology and Engineering Fellowship, and 2014 Distinguished Award for Excellence, Dedication to Invention, Innovation and Entrepreneurship.

Keynote Address

Intelligent Self-Assembling Biomaterials Through centuries of evolution, nature has developed biopolymers capable of folding and assembling into discrete structures with a functional consequence. Inspired by this, our lab focuses on engineering “intelligent” protein materials with entirely new properties and function. In particular, our lab has fabricated protein-derived nanomaterials: helix-elastin block polymers and coiled-coil fibers. We investigate the fundamental self-assembly and molecular recognition capabilities of these systems. More importantly, we are able to harness these structure as well as others to interface with small molecule therapeutics, genes, cells and inorganic metals. Central to this work is the integration of stimuli-responsive domains through rational design.

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2017 Co-chair Dr. Naphtali O�Connor Lehman College - CUNY

[email protected]

2017 Co-chair Dr. Meredith Foley

New Jersey City University [email protected]

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North Jersey Meetingshttp://www.njacs.org

NORTH JERSEY EXECUTIVECOMMITTEE MEETINGSection officers, councilors, committeechairs, topical group chairs, and sectionevent organizers meet regularly at theExecutive Committee Meeting to discusstopics of importance to running the sectionand representing the membership. All ACSmembers are welcome to attend this meet-ing and to become more involved in sectionactivities.

Date: Monday, January 23, 2017Time: 6:00 PMPlace: Web & Teleconference(See www.njacs.org for details)

0CAREERS IN TRANSITIONMEETINGSJob Hunting??

Resume & LinkedIn writing and key wordsearch rules are changing. To be found, comeand utilize our latest insights. Our ACS trainedCareer Consultants offer assistance atStudents2Science to help members with theirjob search on the second Monday of eachmonth. Topics at this free workshop are:

• Techniques to enhance resume effectiveness

• Interview practice along with responding todifficult questions

• Networking to find hidden jobs

• Planning a more effective job search

Date: Monday, January 9, 2017New from now on is a second CITmeeting in East Windsor on thethird Monday. Contact Bill fordetails.

Times: Meeting 2:30 - 5:00 PMPlace: Students 2 Science, Inc.

66 Deforest AvenueEast Hanover, NJ

Cost: No charge

Reservations: at www.njacs.org/careers.html

A job board and networking assistance isoffered at most topical group meetings.Appointments with Bill can be arranged forpersonal assistance at (908) 875-9069 [email protected].

See www.njacs.org under the Career tab forJobs hidden from sight and relevant blogs.

UNJACS PARTNERS WITH STUDENTS2SCIENCEMembers are encouraged to volunteer attheir East Hanover facility and explore theirwebsite at www.students2science.org tolearn more about this innovative program.

S2S continues to expand their exciting labo-ratory experience the disadvantaged chil-dren. Many of our members continue to vol-unteer as mentors. At their 2 million dollaranalytical lab, every 40 kids are assisted by16 professional volunteer mentors. Theexperiments performed really make chem-istry and science come alive using state ofthe art analytical equipment working withstudents starting in 6th grade up to HSseniors. Each day is optimized for gradelevel and curriculum.

Now the program has further expanded withinternet video and experiments performed inthe classroom for 4th & 5th grades. Internetallows views of the lab in operation andrelates to simpler experiments setups donein the classroom with their teacher and apartnering chemist.

North Jersey members who volunteeredbenefited in many ways. Those in transitionexpanded their network and received jobfinding assistance. Retired chemists met upwith old friends and made many new friends.Those with jobs used the volunteer hours aspart of the company outreach programs andteam training. All feel great about making adifference in the lives of the youth who mayhave never met a scientist or considered acareer in the sciences.

Please consider volunteering and discover-ing more about this innovative program. Ifyou want to learn more, you can speak withDon Truss at (908) 334-8435


NMR TOPICAL GROUPPolyethylene Glycol (PEG) Quantitationin Biofluids supporting Drug Discovery

Speaker: Dr. Purnima KhandelwalBristol-Myers Squibb, NJ USA

Conjugation of macromolecular drugs topolyethylene glycol (PEG) improves theirtherapeutic potential by enhancing the half-life. As a substantial component of the drug,it is necessary to measure the pharmacoki-netic (PK) characteristics of PEG in vivo. Aquantitative NMR-based method was devel-oped and applied to measuring 40 kDa PEGin serum, enabling determination of PKparameters in preclinical species. Observedhalf-life was found to be consistent with125Iodine-labeled PEG methods. Moreover,urinary quantitation of 20kDa PEG wasused to investigate side effects of a pegylat-ed biologic. NMR spectroscopy was shownto be a convenient and reliable alternative tofollow pharmacokinetics of PEG in variousbio fluids.

Date: Wednesday, January 18, 2017 Times: Dinner 6:00 PM

Seminar 7:00 PMPlace: Dinner —Frick Chemistry Atrium

Seminar — Frick ChemistryRoom A81

Princeton University Cost: Dinner — $15 employed /

$5 students, postdoc, retired, unemployed.No charge for seminar only.

Directions: http://m.princeton.edu/map/campus?feed=91eda3cbe8&group=princeton&featureindex=0649&category=91eda3cbe8%3AALL&_b=%5B%7B%22t%22%3A%22Map%22%2C%22lt%22%3A%22Map%22%2C%22p%22%3A%22index%22%2C%22a%22%3A%22%22%7D%5D

Parking: Parking will be available in Lot21(see map link given above underDirections)

Public Transit: It is possible to take NJTransit all the way to Princeton campus(the symposium location is ~ 10 min walkfrom the train station). Take the NortheastCorridor NJ transit train to PrincetonJunction, then transfer to the small “dinky”train that ends on campus (5 min trainride).

Registration: http://www.njacs.org/nmr-spectroscopy-topical-group

Questions:Anuji Abraham [email protected] Harner [email protected]


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Call for NominationsCOMMITTEE ON THE HISTORYOF THE NEW YORK SECTIONOver the past twenty-three years the NewYork Section has participated in the desig-nation of seven National Historic ChemicalLandmarks and four New York SectionHistoric Chemical Landmarks. A briefdescription of these National and local sec-tion landmarks may be found on the NYSection Home Page at newyorkacs.org,under the Committee on the History of theNY Section. These landmark programsrecog nize achievements in the chemical sci-ences and related areas, in order to enhancepublic appreciation for the contributions ofthe chemical sciences to modern life.

Please consider making a nomination for anhistoric chemical landmark. The Committeeon the History of the NY Section will consid-er all nominations. In addition to a particularachievement, an historic library, building orassociation may be worthy of this distinction.

Please send your nomination, with sup -porting documentation, to the Chair of the Committee, Dr. John B. Sharkey, [email protected].

+WESTCHESTER CHEMICALSOCIETY DISTINGUISHED SCIENTIST AWARD 2017The Westchester Chemical Society isaccepting nominations for the “WCSDistinguished Scientist Award 2017”.Scientists who live or work in Westchester orthe Bronx qualify. The awardee is expectedto attend the Awards Dinner (April/May time-frame) and to present aspects of his or herwork. Self-nominations are acceptable.Nominations are not carried over from previ-ous years. New and possibly updated nom-inations should be submitted. Please senda cover letter stating why your nomineeshould receive the award along with thenominee's resume by January 31, 2017 to:

Dr. Paul Dillon [email protected] or67 Matthes Road, Briarcliff Manor, NY10510

or to: Dr. Peter Corfield [email protected].

THE SOCIETY FOR APPLIEDSPECTROSCOPY — NEW YORKSECTION 2017 Gold Medal Award

Nominations are being sought for the 2017Gold Medal Award of the New York Sectionof the Society for Applied Spectroscopy.This coveted award was established in 1952to recognize outstanding contributions to thefield of Applied Spectroscopy. The GoldMedal will be presented at a special awardsymposium, arranged in honor of theawardee, at the 2017 Eastern AnalyticalSymposium. A nominating letter describingthe nomineeʼs specific accomplishmentsshould be submitted along with a biographi-cal sketch and list of publications by January10th, 2017. Please email all materials [email protected] or mail to KathrynLee, Rap-ID Inc., 11 Deer Park Drive, Suite201, Monmouth Junction, NJ 08852.

This announcement and contact informationis also available on our websitewww.nysas.org

If you have any questions or require moreinformation, you may contact Kathryn Lee at(732) 823-1567.

Call for ApplicationsWILLIAM H. NICHOLS FELLOWSHIPThe New York Local Section of the AmericanChemical Society is proud to announce thecontinuation of a summer research opportu-nity for undergraduates, the William H.Nichols Fellowship. The Nichols Fellowshipis open to all college students majoring inchemistry (broadly defined) who will performresearch over the summer before gradua-tion at an institution in the NY Local Sectiongeographic area. Each Nichols Fellowreceives a stipend of $5,000 to support themas they perform their research, and isexpected to submit a two-page written reportat the end of the summer and present theirwork at the 2018 Undergraduate ResearchSymposium. In addition, each NicholsFellow and their mentor will be invited ashonored guests to the 2018 William H.Nichols Award Banquet.

Applications are available online at www.newyorkacs.org/NicholsFellowship.phpand are due December 15, 2016. All appli-cants will be notified by March 1, 2017.


FREDDIE AND ADA BROWN AWARDThis Award recognizes and encourages highachieving middle- and high-school students,of African American and Native Americanheritage, to further develop their academicskills, with views on careers in the chemicalsciences

Award AmountsMiddle School $100.00 Check and $50.00gift certificate : High School $200.00 Checkand $100.00 gift certificate

Who is EligibleMiddle School students enrolled in a scienceclass : High School students who have com-pleted a chemistry course

GradesMiddle School B Average or better inScience, B Average overall : High School BAverage in Chemistry, B Average overall

Letter of RecommendationMath or Science/Chemistry Teachers orGuidance Counselor

StatementMiddle School “Why I Like Science” : HighSchool “Why I Like Chemistry”

Selection CriteriaApplicants must be African American (Black)or Native American (including PacificIslander) or of mixed race.

TranscriptOfficial transcript required.

Financial NeedNot Required.

Applications available on the web:www.njacs.org/freddieadabrownor from your school guidance office.

Return Application To

Freddie and Ada Brown Award, NJACSSection Office, 49 Pippens Way, Morristown,NJ 07960

Due Date

Completed Applications must be post-marked no later than March 31 Annually

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THIS MONTH IN CHEMICAL HISTORY

Harold Goldwhite, California State University, Los Angeles •[email protected]

I have got into the habit of starting off the New Yearʼs columns with looking back one hun-dred years. I am not going to change my (relatively) recent ways and so this column, andperhaps a couple of succeeding columns, will be drawn from Volume XIV of the AnnualReports on the Progress of Chemistry for 1917 issued by The Chemical Society of London(now The Royal Society of Chemistry). This is a rather slim volume. “The continuance of warconditions has led to a further diminution of published research…” In 1917 the U.S. enteredthe war against Germany and its allies and much of the research carried out by both sidesduring the conflict was war-related and not published at the time. Still there is enoughresearch of interest to provide material for a few columns.

Isotope separation (the coinage of the term isotope by Soddy dates back only a few yearsfrom 1917) was a topic of continuing interest. Lead nitrate derived from carnotite, a urani-um vanadate mineral containing small amounts of lead from the radioactive decay of urani-um, “was subjected to fractional crystallization more than a thousand times. [!] A determi-nation of the atomic weight of the metal in the least and most soluble fractions gave num-bers agreeing within 0.006 per cent., which is well within the limits of the possible experi-mental error.” “Isotopes cannot be separated by crystallization processes.”

The work of W.D. Harkins on the evolution of the elements is directed towards understand-ing the basis of the periodic table. Harkins postulated that all elements derive initially fromhydrogen via helium nuclei thus giving rise to two distinct series of elements: “ those begin-ning with helium and containing elements of even atomic number, the other beginning withlithium and containing elements of odd atomic number.” He observed that even-numberedelements are present in the crust of the earth, or meteorites, in greater abundance thanthose of odd number. This perhaps reflects the relative stabilities of their nuclei.

The work of the Braggs, father and son, on X-ray diffraction by crystals of the alkali metalhalides is controversial. Their results “appear to be incompatible with the ordinary molecu-lar hypothesis as applied to solid substances.” To clarify, the Braggs showed that there areno NaCl molecules in a salt crystal. This was an unpalatable view to many chemists at thetime; it is only in hindsight that we can see that the work of the Braggs is entirely consistentwith the ionization hypothesis put forward by Arrhenius thirty years earlier. The study of crys-tal structure was still in its infancy in 1917, and many subsequent studies showed the cor-rectness of the view advanced by the Braggs. Langmuir suggested an interpretation thatmore accords with our present view; he advanced the idea that the entire crystal representsa single molecule. (Langmuir became one of the most ardent supporters of the views of G.N. Lewis on ionic and covalent bonds, and the octet rule.)

In an important addition to the techniques of X-ray diffraction of crystals Debye and Scherrerhave shown that a powder method can be used to determine structures of materials forwhich the crystallographic system (required by the Bragg method) is not known. They inves-tigated graphite and so-called “amorphous” carbon and showed that the latter is identicalstructurally to graphite, the difference being solely in the state of subdivision of the graphitecrystals. Thus “there are but two structurally different modifications of carbon, namely, dia-mond and graphite”. The Debye-Scherrer method is still widely used in X-ray studies of pow-ders.

To inorganic chemistry: in Group II element #4 is still being called glucinum. (Apparentlysome beryllium compounds have a sweet taste; hence the name glucinum. I warn my read-ers not to check this by personal experiment. Beryllium compounds are toxic!) The meltingpoint of glucinum has been estimated to be 1278o. The element was prepared by electrol-ysis of sodium glucinum fluoride and was estimated to be 99.5% pure, the main impuritybeing glucinum carbide.

There is more to be written about chemistry in 1917. Watch this space.


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