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THIS MONTH IN CHEMICAL HISTORYHarold Goldwhite, California State University, Los Angeles • [email protected] one of those coincidences that can enliven our lives, at the recent ACS meeting inWashington D.C. the Division of the History of Chemistry sponsored a symposium onchemists who should have won Nobel Prizes in chemistry but failed to do so. One sessionco-sponsored by the Women Chemists’ Committee was “Ladies in Waiting for Nobel Prizes:Overlooked Accomplishments of Women Chemists”. Among 175 chemists who have wonNobel Prizes there are only 4 women: Marie Curie; Irene Curie; Dorothy Hodgkin; and AdaYonath. Symposium speakers made convincing cases for a dozen or so of the overlookedchemists. In continuation of my recent columns on women chemists I will present the careerof one of the overlooked, Ida Tacke Noddack. You can make the call on whether shedeserved a Nobel Prize.

Ida Tacke was born in Germany in 1896, studied chemistry at the Technical University ofBerlin, and was one of the first women in Germany to earn a doctorate, which was grantedby the Technical University in 1921 for work on anhydrides of fatty acids. She worked inindustry for a time, the first woman Ph.D. to do so in Germany, and married another chemist,Walter Noddack, in 1926. She returned to an academic life and served at a number of insti-tutions, usually in unpaid positions. The Noddacks worked as a team and focused on isolat-ing two elements to fill gaps in the periodic table: numbers 43 and 75, now termed tech-netium and rhenium. In 1925 they claimed to have isolated these new elements. Their claimto rhenium was confirmed, but they had not isolated number 43, that they called masurium,as later studies by others showed.

In 1934 Enrico Fermi claimed that neutron bombardment of uranium produced trans-uranicelements, a claim that was part of the reason why Fermi was awarded a Nobel Prize in 1938.Ida Noddack was critical of Fermi’s claims to have made element 93. She pointed out thatFermi had not excluded the possibility that the radio-activities he observed after the bom-bardment of uranium by neutrons were due to isotopes of lighter elements. She wrote: “it isconceivable that the nucleus breaks up into several large fragments, which would of coursebe isotopes of known elements but would not be neighbors of the irradiated element”. In thisstatement she foresaw the possibility of nuclear fission, that was observed in 1938 by Hahnand Strassmann and interpreted by Meitner and Frisch, just as Ida Noddack had foreseen.

Later in their careers the Noddacks turned their attention to geochemistry, and to the occur-rence of heavy metals in sea creatures. The Noddacks were nominated in all three times forNobel Prizes in chemistry in 1933, 1935, and 1937. They did not win. Ida Noddack wasawarded the Scheele Medal and the Liebig Medal by European chemical societies. She diedin 1978 aged 82.

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alsoFriday, December 1, 2017, and TBD,2018NY/NJ Society for Applied SpectroscopySee pages 10 -11.Tuesday, December 5, 2017Westchester Chemical SocietySee pages 11-12Tuesdays, January 30 and June 19, 2018New York Nanoscience Discussion GroupSee page 7.

NORTH JERSEY SECTIONWednesday, November 8 and Monday,November 13, 2017,NY/NJ Society for Applied SpectroscopySee pages 12-13.Monday, November 13, 2017North Jersey Executive MeetingSee page 12.Thursday, November 30, 2017,Organic Topical GroupSee page 13.

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2017 Baekeland AwardeeWILLIAM R. DICHTELCovalent Organic Frameworks as a Platform for Molecular Assembly

Covalent organic frameworks (COFs) are two or three-dimensional polymer networks withdesigned topology and chemical functionality, permanent porosity, and high surface areas.These features are potentially useful for a broad range of applications, including catalysis,optoelectronics, and energy storage devices. But current COF syntheses offer poor controlover the material’s morphology and final form, generally providing insoluble and unprocess-able microcrystalline powder aggregates. Homogenous polymerization conditions forboronate ester-linked, 2D COFs that provide stable colloidal nanoparticles will be described.These colloids can be grown into larger, single-crystalline particles through careful control ofthe reaction conditions. This structural control provides new opportunities for understandingCOF formation and designing morphologies for device applications. Mechanistic studies ofimine-linked 2D COFs will also be discussed. These studies have revealed new catalyststhat are amenable to interfacial polymerizations and the formation of extremely thin films.Will Dichtel was born in Houston, Texas and was raised in Roanoke, Virginia. He was anundergraduate student at MIT, where he majored in chemistry and was gained his firstresearch experience working in the laboratory of Prof. Tim Swager. Will went to UC-Berkeleyfor graduate school, where he earned his Ph.D. for investigating light harvesting macromol-ecules under the supervision of Prof. Jean M. J. Fréchet. He next moved to Los Angeles fora joint postdoctoral appointment with 2016 Nobel Laureate Fraser Stoddart, then at UCLA,and Prof. Jim Heath, then at Caltech. There his research focused on developing efficientstrategies for the synthesis of mechanically interlocked compounds and incorporating thesemolecules onto surfaces and into solid-state devices. Prof. Dichtel began his independentcareer in the Department of Chemistry and Chemical Biology at Cornell University in 2008and was promoted to the rank of Associate Professor in 2014. He was a visiting MillerProfessor at UC-Berkeley in 2016, after which he moved to Northwestern University as theRobert L. Letsinger Professor of Chemistry.In addition to the 2017 Baekeland Award, Will has been recognized with a number of nationalawards, including a MacArthur Fellowship in 2015, the National Fresenius Award from thePhi Lambda Upsilon National Chemistry Honor Society, the Polymer International – IUPACAward for Creativity in Applied Polymer Science, the Camille Dreyfus Teacher-ScholarAward, an Arthur C. Cope Scholar Award from the American Chemical Society, a CottrellScholar Award from the Research Corporation for Science Advancement, the SloanResearch Fellowship, and a Beckman Young Investigator Award from the Arnold and MabelBeckman Foundation. The Dichtel Research Group may be found at http://sites.northwestern.edu/dichtel/



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www.newyorkacs.orgNEW 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 beFriday, November 17, 2017More information will be posted in futuremonthly issues of The Indicator and on theNew York website athttp://www.NewYorkACS.org.

tCHEMICAL MARKETING ANDECONOMICS GROUPM&A Lessons from Private EquityDate: Thursday, November 2, 2017Times: Registration and Networking — 11:15 AM - 12:00 Noon

Luncheon — 12:00 - 1:00 PM Talk/Webcast — 1:00 - 2:00 PMPlace: Penn Club 36 West 44th Street New York, NYFor complete program, see flyer on page 8.

oNY NANOSCIENCE DISCUSSIONGROUP2017-2018 SessionsHosted by the New York UniversityDepartment of ChemistrySpeakers to be announced.The NYNDG is an ACS Topical Group thatmeets in the New York University Depart -ment of Chemistry. Sessions feature three30-minute presentations on nano science,one each with strong orientation in biology,chemistry, and physics/applied mathemat-ics. Presentations will be focused on dis-cussion of recent work, although speakerswill place the work in a context understand-able to a broad audience.

Mark your Calendars:Dates: Friday, November 3, 2017 Tuesday, January 30, 2018 Tuesday, June 19, 2018Times: Refreshments — 7:00 PM Science — 7:30 PMPlace: New York University Dept. of Chemistry, Room 1003 (10th Floor) Silver Center 31 Washington Place (between Washington Sq. East & Green St.) New York, NYFor more information, contact: JamesCanary ([email protected])


WESTCHESTER CHEMICAL SOCIETYSpecial Seminar – “Ligand-Guided Selection (LIGS): A SELEX Variant toIdentify Specific Aptamers Against Cell-surface Markers”Speaker: Prabodhika Mallikaratchy, PhD Assistant Professor of Chemistry New Science Hall Office S-4404/Lab S-4401 City University of New York- Lehman College 250 Bedford Park Blvd. West Bronx, NY 10468Abstract:Nucleic Acid Aptamers (NAAs) are a class ofmolecules with significant potential in devel-oping molecular tools in biomedical applica-tions. Aptamers are selected using a screen-ing method called Systematic EvolutionLigands by EXponential enrichment(SELEX). Recently, a number of SELEXapproaches utilizing whole cells to evolveaptamers against cell-surface membraneproteins were introduced. To this end, wereported on a new variant of SELEX termedLigand-Guided-Selection (LIGS) to identifyhighly specific aptamers against a predeter-mined epitope of a cell-surface target.Hallmark of LIGS is rooted in the ability toexploit the evolutionary selection step inSELEX as a strategy to evolve highly specif-ic aptamers. The iterative process in con-ventional SELEX is designed to outcompetelow-affinity binders through a competitiveprocess whereby high affinity binders moveon through the selection process. By intro-ducing a naturally occurring stronger, highlyspecific bivalent binder, for example, an anti-body (Ab) interacting with its cognate epi-tope, LIGS out-competes specific aptamersfrom a partially enriched SELEX poolagainst cells expressing the same epitope.Utilizing LIGS we have selected aptamersagainst membrane bound IgM (mIgM)expressed on B-cells and Cluster of differen-tiation 3 (CD3) expressed on T-cells. Basedon the detailed validation studies conductedusing one of the aptamers selected usingLIGS, we will show that aptamers identifiedusing LIGS can be optimized into higheraffinity variants. In addition, we will showthat LIGS generated aptamers show similarspecificities to that of the secondary ligandutilized to out-compete the aptamers.Presentation will conclude with a short dis-cussion on ongoing projects aimed at select-ing DNA aptamers against CD3 molecule

expressed on human T-cells at physiologicaltemperatures. Biography:Dr. Mallikaratchy obtained her undergradu-ate degree in chemistry from The Institute ofChemistry, Colombo, Sri Lanka in 2000, herM.S. in organic chemistry from theUniversity of Louisiana, Monroe, LA in 2003,and her Ph.D in analytical biochemistryfrom the Center for Bio-Nano Interface, TheUniversity of Florida, Gainsville, FL in 2008.From 2008 to 2012, she was a research fel-low at The Memorial Sloan-Kettering CancerCenter, in New York, NY. In 2012, she wasappointed as Assistant Professor in theDepartment of Chemistry, PhD program inChemistry and Biochemistry, at theGraduate Center of the City University ofNew York. There, she has worked to lay thegroundwork to establish a new method foraptamer selection, resulting in a patentapplication and two peer-reviewed publica-tions. Concurrently, she established her labin the Department of Chemistry at LehmanCollege (CUNY). She has an extensivebackground in aptamer selection andmanipulation of aptamers to develop molec-ular tools for disease detection and therapy.A number of aptamer selection methodshave become available to select aptamersagainst cell-surface proteins; however, noneof these methods has successfully identifiedaptamers specific to an antigen of a cell-sur-face receptor at its endogenous level andnative conformation. Such precise targetingof known proteins will determine the suc-cess of molecular tools used for diseasedetection and therapy. Therefore, to selectaptamers against the predetermined site ofa cell-surface receptor in its native state, hergroup, for the first time, introduced a simplemethod called Ligand-guided Selection(LIGS), the subject of the current talk. Shehas received several awards (the 2008Crow Stasch Awards for excellence in publi-cations, University of Florida Recipient, the2009 Lauri Strauss Leukemia ResearchFellow award, the 2010-12 Lymphoma Re -search Foundation Research Fellow award,and the 2017Junior Faculty ResearchAward-runner-up at CUNY). She is also amember of several professional associa-tions.Date: Wednesday, November 8, 2017Times: Refreshments – 5:30 PM Lecture – 6:00 PM


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Place: Westchester Community College 75 Grasslands Road Valhalla, NY 10595 Gateway Building Room 110Cost: Free and Opened to the PublicFor further information: contact Paul DillonE-Mail [email protected] 1-914-393-6940

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BREWERY TOURNovemberFest – The Science and Art ofBrewingSpeaker: Kasey LaMothe Head of Quality Control, Head of Microbiology, and Brewer Broken Bow Brewery 173 Marbledale Avenue Tuckahoe, NY 10707 (914) 268-0900To say Broken Bow Brewery is a “familyaffair” is an understatement. The LaMothefamily has created a winning formula atBroken Bow Brewery in Tuckahoe.Launched in 2013 by all 5 family members,Broken Bow has become the beer of choicefor thousands of craft beer aficionados.Even the name Broken Bow has a familialmeaning…it’s the small town in Nebraskawhere Kasey’s mom grew up. Broken Bow’s team includes her dad, Lylewho is in charge of sales, her older sisterKristen, who is the event and marketingguru, her mom, Kathy, who is head of HR,does accounting & generally keeps theplace running smoothly, her brother Mike,the head brewer, and Kasey, who is head ofquality control and a brewer. When Kasey was studying at CarnegieMellon, earning a B.S. in BiologicalSciences, a minor in Biomedical Engi -neering, and a concentration in Neuro -science, she was still deciding on her careerpath. By the time she graduated in 2013,the family hobby of brewing beer was turn-ing into a business. Each family memberhad a specific role to fill, and Kasey’s sci-ence background landed her perfectly intoquality control.

Kasey takes her role in the brewery veryseriously. Not long after Broken Bowopened, Kasey attended the World BrewingAcademy/Siebel Institute in Chicago, earn-ing an associate degree in AdvancedBrewing. Kasey is also a Certified BeerServer, the first of four levels of certificationto become an Advanced Cicerone, which inthe beer world is equivalent to a wine som-melier. Tonight we will be able to tour Broken Bow’sfacilities and will hear some of the ins andout of craft brewing. Of course, sampling ofvarious beers will be done (please 21+only). Note that there is room for only 40attendees. RSVPs are needed.Date: Thursday, November 16, 2017Times: Tasting Begins: 5:15 PM Lecture and Tour: 5:30-7:00 PMPlace: Broken Bow Brewery (see above)Open: To the public, but adults only. Limited to 40 attendees.Cost: $30.00 per person (includes two beers)For RSVPs and further information:contact Paul DillonE-Mail [email protected] (914) 393-6940

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CALENDAR 2017“Why use the Norris Regression - theDerivative Quotient Math in Regression?” Speaker: David Hopkins Date: Wednesday, November 8, 2017Place: Horiba

* * * * *Eastern Analytical Symposium: GoldMedal Award to Prof. Richard Van Duyne“Nanoscale Chemical Imaging with Tip-Enhanced Raman Spectroscopy”Speaker: Prof. Richard Van Duyne“Translating SERS into a RobustDetection Platform for Uranium inComplex Matrices”Speaker: Amanda J. Haes University of Iowa


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“Polymer-Enabled Analytical SERSSensing”Speaker: Christy L. Haynes University of Minnesota“Imaging Mass Spectrometry on theNanoscale with Cluster Ion Beams”Speaker: Nicholas Winograd Pennsylvania State UniversityDate: Monday, November 13, 2017

* * * * *“Materials testing at the Met: What dis-play, shipping, and storage materialsshould or shouldn’t be near the art.”Speaker: Eric BreitungDate; Friday, December 1, 2017Place: Metropolitan Museum of Art

CALENDAR 2018“Vibrational spectroscopy applicationsunderstanding protein secondary struc-ture or application in protein productionusing NIR”Speaker: John WasylykDate: to be determinedPlace: BMSFor more information, visit our website atwww.NYSAS.org.

aEMPLOYMENT AND PROFESSIONAL RELATIONSCOMMITTEE OF THE NEWYORK SECTIONTo Human Resources Departments inIndustry and AcademiaThe 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] from our roster who meet therequirements you describe will be asked tocontact you.

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FUTURE MEETINGSSpecial Seminar – “FTIR Microscopyand Imaging – When You Need It andHow To Use It”Speaker: Linda Kidder Yarlott, PhD Product Manager – Molecular Spectroscopy Shimadzu Scientific Instruments, Inc. 7102 Riverwood Drive Columbia, MD 21046FTIR Microscopy and Imaging – theHows and Whys of “Seeing Infrared”What do the FGM-148 Javelin anti-tank mis-sile and laboratory-based FTIR imaging sys-tems have in common? Both use infraredsensitive focal plane arrays – albeit with dif-ferent goals in mind. The Javelin uses the IRdetector (64 x 64 pixel MCT) to create ther-mal images of targets for “locking-on” pur-poses, and ultimate destruction of theintended target. Laboratory-based FTIRimaging systems have an entirely differentgoal, incorporating a wavelength filter (inter-ferometer) to creates images based on IRfunctional groups that enable the spatial dis-tribution of sample components to be char-acterized. I will explore various technologiesthat enabled the development of IRmicroscopy and imaging, from single pointmicro-spectroscopy to mapping and imag-ing. I will also discuss applications of spatial-ly resolved IR spectroscopy, from materialscharacterization to pathology, as the ulti-mate value in developing novel analyticalinstrumentation is to add tools to our analyt-ical toolbox.

Biography:Dr. Linda Kidder graduated from WilliamsCollege with a B.A. in Chemistry andreceived her Ph.D. in physical chemistryfrom the Johns Hopkins University, whereshe was the recipient of the Sonneborn andErnest Marks Fellowships. During her post-doc in the Laboratory of Chemical Physics atNIH, she developed a deep appreciation formolecular spectroscopy: developing,deploying, and characterizing Raman andFourier transform infrared hyperspectralimaging systems. Since then, her career hasfocused on the development and commer-cialization of novel analytical instrumenta-

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tion: as co-founder of Spectral Dimensions,Senior Scientist at Malvern Instruments aspart of the Bioscience DevelopmentInitiative, Vice President of MarketDevelopment at BrightSpec, and currentlyas Strategic Product Leader at ShimadzuScientific Instrumentation. She is a long-standing member of the Society for AppliedSpectroscopy, the Coblentz Society, and theAmerican Chemical Society, and has con-tributed to ASTM on both E13.10 and E55committees. She has also worked on out-reach for vibrational spectroscopy, as pro-gram coordinator at the FACSS (now SciX)and EAS meetings, as well as organizing theSAS Tour Speakers program in 2011 andupcoming in 2018. In her “spare time” sheand her husband are raising two active boys(11 and 9), and looking after a flock of petsincluding 2 Australian shepherds, 3 ham-sters, a rabbit, a guinea pig and a parakeet. Date: Tuesday, December 5, 2017Times, Place, Cost and Further Information:See November announcement on pages 9and 10.

zNOMINATING COMMITTEE FORTHE 2018 ELECTIONS MEETSIN DECEMBERThe Nominating Committee of the New YorkSection will meet in December to select can-didates for the 2018 elections.Positions available are:Chair-elect for 2019Secretary for 2019 - 2020Directors-at-Large for 2019Councilors and Alternate Councilors for2019 – 2021If a member of the New York Section wishesto run for office or to suggest a member forconsideration by the NominatingCommittee, please write to the AmericanChemical Society, New York Section, Inc.,St. John’s University, Department ofChemistry, 8000 Utopia Parkway, Jamaica,NY 11439 or send an e-mail to the New YorkSection office at [email protected] November 30.

DR. DEBRA ROLISON OF THE U .S. NAVAL RESEARCH LABORAORY IS THE WILLIAM H. NICHOLS MEDALIST FOR 2018The New York Section is pleased toannounce that the Nichols Award Jury haschosen Dr. Debra Rolison to be the WilliamH. Nichols Medalist for 2018. Dr. Rolisonheads the Advanced ElectrochemicalSection Surface Chemistry Branch at theU.S. Naval Research Laboratory inWashington, DC. Dr. Rolison is being hon-ored for “pioneering energy relevant 3Dnanoarchitectures.”The Nichols Distinguished Symposium andMedal Award Dinner are planned for Friday,April 13, 2018 at the Crowne Plaza Hotel, 66Hale Avenue, White Plains, NY. The sympo-sium is titled "The Future of Energy Science. . . Without Chemists? Unachievable!” It willfeature four internationally known chemists— Dr. Hector D. Abruña of Cornell Uni ver sity,Dr. Stephanie L. Brock of Wayne StateUniversity, Dr. Jillian L. Dempsey of theUniversity of North Carolina – Chapel Hill andDr. Rolison, Nichols Medalist. Dr. Henry S.White of the University of Utah will introduceProf. Rolison at the Nichols Award Dinner.The entire program and reservation form willbe published in the Jan., Feb. and Mar.Indicators and on the New York Sec tionwebsite at http://www.NewYorkACS.org

North Jersey Meetingshttp://www.njacs.orgNORTH 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, November 13, 2017Time: 6:30 PMPlace: Location TBD & Teleconference (See www.njacs.org for details)

0CAREERS IN TRANSITIONMEETINGSThere will be no Careers in TransitionMeetings until further notice.

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CALENDAR 2017“Why use the Norris Regression - theDerivative Quotient Math in Regression?” Speaker: David Hopkins Date: Wednesday, November 8, 2017Place: Horiba

* * * * *Eastern Analytical Symposium: GoldMedal Award to Prof. Richard Van Duyne“Nanoscale Chemical Imaging with Tip-Enhanced Raman Spectroscopy”Speaker: Prof. Richard Van Duyne“Translating SERS into a RobustDetection Platform for Uranium inComplex Matrices”Speaker: Amanda J. Haes University of Iowa“Polymer-Enabled Analytical SERSSensing”Speaker: Christy L. Haynes University of Minnesota“Imaging Mass Spectrometry on theNanoscale with Cluster Ion Beams”Speaker: Nicholas Winograd Pennsylvania State UniversityDate: Monday, November 13, 2017

* * * * *“Materials testing at the Met: What dis-play, shipping, and storage materialsshould or shouldn’t be near the art.”Speaker: Eric BreitungDate; Friday, December 1, 2017Place: Metropolitan Museum of Art

CALENDAR 2018“Vibrational spectroscopy applicationsunderstanding protein secondary struc-ture or application in protein productionusing NIR”Speaker: John WasylykDate: to be determinedPlace: BMSFor more information, visit our website atwww.NYSAS.org.

fNoJ ORGANIC TOPICAL GROUPNJACS-OTG Early Career SymposiumPresentationsSynthesis and Study of Unusual LipidsSpeaker: Prof. Noah Burns StanfordDesign and Development of theCommercial Process for a Tyk2 InhibitorSpeaker: Dr. Ke Chen

Bristol-Myers SquibbIron(III)-Catalyzed Carbonyl-OlefinMetathesisSpeaker: Professor Corinna Schindler

University of MichiganUsing Enzymes as Catalysts for Non-Natural Free Radical ReactionsSpeaker: Professor Todd Hyster

PrincetonRemote Functionalization of C–H Bondsof Aliphatic Amines via DecatungstatePhotocatalysisSpeaker: Dr. Dani Schultz

Merck)Catalytic Synthetic Methods Based onP(III) ⇌ P(V) Redox CyclingSpeaker: Professor Alex Radosevich MITOrganizing CommitteeKen Fraunhoffer (Chair, BMS) Steve Silverman (Merck) Michael Smith (BMS)Yalan Xing, (William Paterson University) Michael Zacuto (Celgene) Sue Zultanski (Merck)

Date: Thursday, November 30, 2017Time: Check-in & breakfast at 8:00 AM Symposium begins at 9:20 AMPlace: The Palace at Somerset Park 333 Davidson Ave, Somerset, NJ 08873Cost: Registration fee is $120.00 (which includes symposium and lunch). Students: $45 (limited number of seats)Deadline for registration and payment:November 20, 2017.For further details, see our website.

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FALL 2017 SEMINAR SERIES ATNJITDates: MondaysTime: 2:45 PM Place: Cullimore Lecture Hall 3 New Jersey Institute of Technology University Heights, Newark, NJ First Speaker: Professor Craig Arnold Princeton University, MAE and PRISMDate: Monday, September 11, 2017Seminar schedule: http://chemicaleng.njit.edu/news/seminars.phpFor more information contact the seminar coordinator, Dr. Gennady Gor(973) 596-2944, [email protected]://chemicaleng.njit.edu/people/gor.php [email protected]

Call for Nominations

COMMITTEE 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.orgunder 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. Neil Jespersen, [email protected]

ZWESTCHESTER CHEMICALSOCIETY DISTINGUISHED SCIENTIST AWARD 2018The Westchester Chemical Society isaccepting nominations for the “WCSDistinguished Scientist Award 2018”.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, 2018 to:Dr. Paul Dillon at [email protected] or 67 Matthes Road, BriarcliffManor, NY 10510or to:Dr. Peter Corfield at [email protected].

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NY SECTION — SOCIETY FORAPPLIED SPECTROSCOPY 2018 GOLD MEDAL AWARDNominations are being sought for the 2018Gold 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 2018 Eastern AnalyticalSymposium. A nominating letter describingthe nominee’s specific accomplishmentsshould be submitted along with a biographi-cal sketch and list of publications by January10th, 2018. Please email all materials [email protected].






Students 2 ScienceAbout UsStudents 2 Science, Inc. is a 501(c)(3)model program in New Jersey that bridgesthe needs of the public and private sectors.Our mission is to inspire, motivate, and edu-cate elementary, middle and high schoolstudents to pursue careers in science, tech-nology, engineering and math (STEM sub-jects). We do so by providing an authentic,state-of-the-art laboratory experience com-plete with modern instrumentation and pro-fessional scientists. Additionally, we offer aremote, web-based virtual STEM experi-ence that eliminates geographic and lan-guage constraints and broadens our reachto serve a wider audience. Teams of stu-dents, working collaboratively with scientificprofessionals who serve as role models,solve real life problems while being intro-duced to a wide variety of 21st centurySTEM career opportunities.Take a look at our About Us Video:https://students2science.wistia.com/medias/hbxylzpw5o.We are very proud of the extraordinarygrowth and accomplishments of Students 2Science and the support and recognition wehave received from state, municipal and dis-trict leaders, teachers and administrators,

corporate partners, and many others.With the help and generosity of our partners,S2S has:• Been recognized as a national model inauthentic STEM education.• Increased our V-Lab program to 335 ses-sions during the 2016 - 2017 academic year.• Launched a new web-site, bringing muchneeded resources to educators and admin-istrators.• Continued to provide solutions to districtsaligning them to the Next GenerationScience Standards and 21st century skillsfor students.• Continued to encourage the developmentof STEM Ecosystems by working withdiverse leaders including innovators andvisionaries from academia, non-profit, publicpolicy, grass root membership and corpora-tions.• Created an exciting culture of passionaround science where the public and privatesectors are working together to close thegap in STEM education.To request a downloadable pdf of our annualreport “2016-2017: A Year in Review” pleasecall Cyndi Robeson at (973) 947-4880 ext.516.S2S is grateful for the support of ACS, andlooks forward to another great year of part-nership and collaboration.


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OPPORTUNITY FOR ACS MEMBERS TO AID STUDENTS 2SCIENCE IN A HYBRID VIRTUALLAB PROGRAMCan you spare a few hours of your time? Doyou like working with students and wouldyou like the opportunity to share your sci-ence knowledge in a classroom? Students2Science (S2S) is seeking volunteers tosupport its V-Lab program. S2S has a seriesof elementary, middle, and high schoolexperiments that run in various schoolsacross New Jersey. Members are especiallyneeded to mentor students in participatingschools to help with experiments. It's greatfun, a wonderful way to give back, and onlyrequires 1-2 hours of your time. Experimentsinclude CO2 to the Rescue, CuriousCrystals, Mystery of M&Ms, Thermo -chemistry: Exothermic and EndothermicChemical Reactions, and Glow it Up: TheChemistry of Luminol. All are age-appropri-ate and volunteers are provided with instruc-tions on how to support in the classroomprior to your scheduled volunteer day.For more information, contact CyndiRoberson, Director of Corporate Relations,at (973) 947-4880 ext. 516 or visit the web-site to register for the upcoming school year:www.students2science.org.

qSEMINAR SPEAKERS WANTEDThe New York Section of the ACS is insearch of speakers that we can add to ourSpeakers Bureau database of interestedlocal area speakers who are available forSection-wide seminars and symposia. Ifyou have an area of research or interest thatwould provide an interesting talk appropriatefor our Section members, and would like tobe included in our Speakers Bureau, pleasecontact the New York Section Office at(516) 883-7510 or send an email to [email protected] with the followinginformation that will be posted on theSection's website: your name, affiliation, atitle, and 5-6 words briefly summarizing yourarea of specialty. We look forward to hearingfrom you about topics that you wish to sharewith our other members!

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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 courseGradesMiddle School B Average or better inScience, B Average overall : High School BAverage in Chemistry, B Average overallLetter of RecommendationMath or Science/Chemistry Teachers orGuidance CounselorStatementMiddle 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 ToFreddie and Ada Brown Award, NJACSSection Office, 49 Pippens Way, Morristown,NJ 07960Due DateCompleted Applications must be post-marked no later than March 31 AnnuallyQuestions: Contact Jeannette [email protected] or (908) 239-1515



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IU DISCOVERY COULD REDUCENUCLEAR WASTEIndiana University scientists report new,highly accurate method to predict effec-tiveness of molecules that extract toxicelements from the environmentSeptember 14, 2017BLOOMINGTON, Ind. — A discovery byIndiana University researchers couldadvance the long-term storage of nuclearwaste, an increasingly burdensome andcostly task for the public and private agen-cies that protect people from these harmfulchemicals.In a study published today, the scientistsreport they have developed a new chemicalprinciple with the potential to revolutionizethe creation of specially engineered mole-cules that extract radioactive elements fromnuclear waste, significantly reducing the vol-ume of these dangerous materials. Themethod is also applicable to molecules cre-ated to extract chemical pollutants fromwater and soil."This work represents a major step forwardin the effort to engineer specially designednanostructures by providing a new, highlyaccurate method to predict how these mole-cules will behave in solution," said leadauthor Amar Flood, a professor in the IUBloomington College of Arts and Sciences'Department of Chemistry.The breakthrough is reported in a cover arti-cle in the journal CHEM.Flood said the study addresses the fact thatit is nearly impossible to predict how effi-ciently an engineered molecule will performin the real world. This is because chemistscan currently only design molecules to func-tion in isolation, despite the fact that mole-cules exist in combination — or "in solution"— with other molecules. Salt water, forexample, is a solution of salt in water.The primary researcher responsible for themethod is Yun Liu, a Ph.D. student inFlood's lab.Additional authors on the paper were profes-sor Krishnan Raghavachari and Ph.D. stu-dent Arkajyoti Sengupta, both in the IUBloomington Department of Chemistry, whowere responsible for the study's computa-

tional component.This research was supported by the U.S.Department of Energy.

NationalThis message is sent on behalf of GregMilligan, Chair of the Subcommittee onGrants and Awards of the Committee onLocal Section Activities (LSAC) and JasonRitchie, LSAC Chair.Dear Local Section Officer and/or Councilor,LSAC is offering a new grant opportunity forlocal sections this Fall. This grant program,"Local Section Members Engaging ThroughTechnology, or simply "METT", broadens theaims of last fall's pilot "Virtual EventParticipation Grant" beyond a single event.METT's purpose is to assist local sections toharness technology to further engage mem-bers to fulfill section's goals and activities,and to improve member recruitment efforts.METT Funding Guidelines & ProceduresLocal Sections can request funding of up to$2,000 per application. Only one applicationis permitted per local section. Reviewers arelooking for specificity in budgets. You canuse these linked sample budgets (A and B)as models for how to craft your project'sbudget. The focus of this grant is technolo-gy, and LSAC is expecting requests to pur-chase and utilize tools such as software,hardware, or subscriptions, etc. We encour-age local sections to limit food expenseswithin 25% and venue rental costs within15% of the total amount requested fromLSAC.The submission deadline is 11:59 pmEastern time on October 15, 2017Learn more and apply now.If you have any questions about METT,please contact [email protected],Greg Milligan and Jason RitchieAmerican Chemical Society1155 Sixteenth Street, NWWashington, DC 20036


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