Happy Valentine’s Day - The Indicator

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FEBRUARY 2013 Vol. 94 • No. 2 ISSN0019-6924
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February Calendar
NEW YORK SECTION NORTH JERSEY SECTION
Saturday, February 2, 2013 Monday, February 11, 2013
New York Sectionwide Meeting Careers in Transition Group
See page 6. See page 16.
Tuesday, February 5, 2013 Wednesday, February 20, 2013
Nanoscience Discussion Group Laboratory Robotics Interest Group
See page 8. See pages 16-17.
Thursday, February 7, 2013 Wednesday, February 20, 2013
Westchester Chemical Society NMR Topical Group
See page 7. See page 17.
Thursday, February 7, 2013 Monday, February 25, 2013
Chemical Marketing & Economics Group North Jersey Executive Committee Meeting
See page 8. See page 16.
Thursday, February 7, 2013
Long Island Subsection Seminar
Deadline for items
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Friday, February 8, 2013 to b e included in
High School Teachers Topical Group
See page 9. the March 2013
Friday, February 15, 2013 issue of
New York Section Board Meeting
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Thursday, February 28, 2013
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THIS MONTH IN CHEMICAL HISTORY
Harold Goldwhite, California State University, Los Angeles
• [email protected]
Any in-depth survey of the history of chemistry is incomplete without some con-
sideration of the history of alchemy. In many respects chemistry is a continuation
of alchemy, and owes many of its methods and materials to the older (pseudo-sci-
entific?) field of study. This continuity is made vividly clear in a new one volume
history of alchemy, “The Secrets of Alchemy” by Lawrence M. Principe of Johns
Hopkins University (University of Chicago Press, 2013). Dr. Principe is both a pro-
fessor of chemistry and of the history of science, and is the highly regarded author
of previous books on the history of science and on alchemists. This new book fills
a striking vacancy in the history of chemistry. It is both a scholarly and a lively suc-
cessor to such valuable earlier works like E.J. Holmyardʼs “Alchemy”, published in
1957, and F. Sherwood Taylorʼs “The Alchemists” first published in 1949.
In the more than half century since these earlier books appeared there has been
a lot of new scholarship studying original alchemical texts, some of it by Principe
himself, and this new book incorporates the new views of alchemy that have
developed. I am probably being foolhardy, but I will try and summarize two mil-
lennia of alchemy in a couple of paragraphs. Origins of alchemy in Greco-Egyptian
texts show a practical field of techniques, altering properties of common materials
to make them resemble more precious substances. Sometimes eminently practi-
cal processes were hidden in a cryptic almost mystical language, so that only
adepts might understand them. The Arabic conquerors of the Eastern
Mediterranean translated many of these recipes into Arabic, and added to them
both in practice and in theory. They also began to apply alchemy to medicine. In
the 12th. century Western scholars visited Spain to study the works of the Arabs
and the Greek texts they were based on (incidentally bringing the works of Plato,
Aristotle and others into Western scholarship) and produced the first Latin alchem-
ical manuscripts.
Alchemy flourished in medieval and renaissance Europe, often for the most prac-
tical reasons; the transmutation of base metals into precious ones by the action of
the Philosopherʼs Stone hinted at a path to wealth not only for the alchemists, but
also for the nobility who were their patrons and who were usually sorely disap-
pointed. The brunt of their disappointment often fell upon the alchemists them-
selves. With the rise of science and scientific methods in the 17th. and 18th. cen-
turies alchemy was transmuted into chemistry, though a strain of ancient alchemy
was still practiced well into the 20th. (and the 21st.?) centuries.
A fascinating and new aspect of Principeʼs book is the painstaking way in which
he explains the actual chemistry that lies behind some alchemical processes. For
example the 16th. century alchemist, Basil Valentine, gives a highly allegorical
method for producing a medicine, “Sulfur of Antimony” from the toxic element anti-
mony. In Principeʼs hands and laboratory, after deciphering the text, the steps on
this journey from the antimony ore stibnite are reproduced and shown to be rea-
sonable. It appears that Valentineʼs “Sulfur of Antimony” is actually iron acetate
produced when an iron crucible and stirring rod are used in a late step in the
process! The baby (antimony) was thrown out with the bathwater.
If you want to read an absorbing short history of alchemy Principeʼs book is the
text of choice. It corrects many errors of interpretation of earlier books and brings
modern scholarship to bear on this fascinating field that was one ancestor of mod-
ern chemistry.
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NEW YORK SECTION — 2013 SECTION-WIDE CONFERENCE
Date: Saturday, February 2, 2013
Times: 9:30AM – 1:00PM
Place: St. John’s University, 8000 Utopia Parkway, Jamaica, NY
(Please visit http://www.NewYorkACS.org for the meeting venue.)
Cost: Free to all
PROGRAM
9:30 AM Arrival and Refreshments
10:00 AM Greetings from the 2013 Chair of theACS New York Section Dr. Philip H. Mark
10:10 AM Award Presentations
Service Plaque and Pin to the 2012 New York Section Chair Dr. JaimeLee Iolani Rizzo
New York Section Outstanding Service Award for 2012 Dr. Stephen Z. Goldberg
Nichols Foundation H.S. Chemistry Teacher Award for 2012 Mr. Steven O'Malley
Stuyvesant High School in New York, New York
10:30 AM Report from the 2012 ElectionsNominating Committee Dr. Pamela K. Kerrigan
(Presentation of Candidates) 2013 Chair-elect of the ACS New York Section
10:45 AM Keynote Speaker Dr. Alfredo Mellace
Assistant Professor of Organic Chemistry
Nassau Community College, SUNY
Title: Ancient Roman Science and Technology
Ancient civilizations are often treated as nonchalant discourse of the past about a time that no longer
exists. Unfortunately, this allows ambivalence towards the past, potentially closing the door to a period that
is fascinating in both art and technology. The focus of this lecture will be the Roman Civilization specifi-
cally in the period of the 1st century AD between the time of Augustus and Trajan. Rome will be placed in
the context of the ancient world, with respect to its achievements in technology specifically military equip-
ment, links that influenced the way the Roman engineers, smiths, textile manufacturers, leather workers,
and artisans designed items and objects, and the breadth and quality of Roman craftsmanship that allowed
them to conquer foreign lands and establish the Roman influence on civilization. This presentation will also
include the science and technology behind the metallurgy, dye processes, armor production, leatherwork,
carpentry, masonry, and siege machine. Furthermore, a discussion of the ancient world would not be com-
plete without relating innate objects such as weapons and armor to the people who wielded them. To this
end, the civilization itself and life of the Romans will also be discussed in context to their technology.
11:45 AM Coffee Break— There will be poster presentations by the New York Section
Project SEED Students.
12:00 PM ACS, New York Section Committee Planning Sessions for 2013
Educational Activities:(Chemagination, Chemists Celebrate Earth Day, Continuing Education, High
School Olympiad, National Chemistry Week, Nichols Foundation Teacher Award, Project Seed, Student
Membership)
Chair: Dr. Alison Hyslop
Member Affairs:(ACS Fellows, Awards, Employment and Professional Relations, History of the New
York Section, Indicator, Membership, Outstanding Service Award)
Chair: Dr. Ralph Stephani
Program Review:(Subsection and Topical Discussion Group Chairs)
Chair: Dr. Anne T. O’Brien
Public Affairs: (Academe and Industrial Relations, Environmental Chemistry, Fund Raising,
Government Affairs, Information Technology, Public Relations, Speakers Bureau)
Chair: Dr. Robert P. Nolan
12:45 PM Reports from the Chairs of the Committee Planning Sessions
1:00 PM Conclusion of the Meeting — Join with colleagues for lunch at a local restaurant.
To inquire about the Section-wide Conference, please call the New York Section Office at 516-883-
7510 or e-mail Marilyn Jespersen, Office Administrator, at: [email protected]
Directions are at: http://www.stjohns.edu/about/general/directions/directions/queens
All are invited to participate. Hope to see you at the Conference.
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because to carry out these physiological
New York Meetings
processes it moves toward the pointed end
of the actin cytoskeleton; in contrast to other
www.newyorkacs.org characterized myosins. In this study, by
using fluorescent labeled endosomes we
NEW YORK SECTION BOARD
are able to track myosin VI using
MEETING DATES FOR 2013
Fluorescence Imaging with One Nanometer
The dates for the Board Meetings of the Accuracy (FIONA) and total internal reflec-
ACS New York Section for 2013 were cho- tion fluorescence microscopy (TIRFM). As a
sen and approved at the November 30, result of implementing FIONA, backward
2012 Board Meeting. The meetings are and forward steps were observed which are
open meetings – all are welcome. If non consistent with previous mechanistic studies
board members would like to attend the of myosin VI. Data analysis reveals an aver-
meeting, please let the New York Section age forward step of 39.9 nm (±1.98 nm) with
office know by emailing Mrs. Marilyn N = 143 steps and an average speed of 676
Jespersen at [email protected] or nm/s (±147 nm/s).
calling the office at [phone].
Mr. Salnave, M.S. was an interdisciplinary
The 2013 Board Meetings will be held on the graduate research assistant under the direc-
following Fridays at 6:30 PM at St. Johns tion of Paul Selvin in the department of
University, DʼAngelo Center, Jamica, NY. Dr. Physics at the University of Illinois at Urbana
Philip H. Mark will chair the meetings. Champaign. In the Selvin lab, he learned
Friday, February 15 how to use and build high resolution fluores-
Friday, April 19 cence microscopy instruments and state of
Friday, June 7 the art imaging techniques such as FIONA
Friday, September 27 (fluorescence imaging with one nanometer
Friday, November 15 accuracy). FIONA is a method that shatters
the diffraction limit of light and has revolu-
Also, please mark your calendar with the
dates of the following major events. tionized the field of fluorescence microscopy
and biophotonics for the past decade.
Saturday, February 2, 2013 — Annual
Combining methods of FIONA and total
Sectionwide Conference
internal reflection microscopy he is able to
Friday, March 15, 2013 — Nichols track detailed molecular motor mechanisms
Symposium and Award Banquet with nanometer precision both in vitro and in
vivo. He obtained his M.S. degree in
More information will be posted in future
Chemistry from the University of Illinois at
issues of The Indicatorand on the New York
Urbana Champaign. He is a recipient of an
website at http://www.NewYorkACS.org.
L NIH-Molecular Biophysics training grant and
a former member of the Center for the
Physics of Living Cells at the University of
WESTCHESTER CHEMICAL
Illinois at Urbana Champaign. He is current-
SOCIETY
ly an Adjunct Lecturer in the department of
Special Seminar — Real-Time in-vivo Chemistry at Saint Johnʼs University where
Imaging of Biological Events with FIONA he teaches the Introduction to General and
Organic Chemistry to incoming freshman
Speaker: Christopher Randolph Salnave, MS
and sophomore students. He has aspira-
Adjunct Lecturer
tions of improving drug therapy and diag-
St. John’s University
nostic assays in the medical and pharma-
Queens, NY
ceutical field.
Myosin VI is an actin based molecular motor
that has been known to be involved in cell Date: Thursday, February 7, 2013
migration, spermatogenesis, signal trans- Times: Refreshments 5:30 PM
duction and the process of intracellular Lecture 6:00 p.m.
organelle and vesicle transport. Myosin VI Place: Westchester Community College
also assists with the stabilization of stere- Gateway Building Room 110
ocilia, the mechanosensing organelles in 75 Grasslands Road
hair cells in the inner ear. Myosin VI is con- Valhalla, NY
sidered to be an unconventional myosin, Cost: Free and open to the public
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NEW YORK NANOSCIENCE wide, personalized drugs and demand for
DISCUSSION GROUP more efficient targeting, some questions
remain.
Speakers to be announced.
• What are the drivers and trends that
Hosted by the Department of Chemistry,
impact their global innovation strategies?
New York University
• What role will vaccines, bio-betters, tar-
The NYNDG is an ACS Topical Group that
geted therapies, drug-diagnostic co-
meets in the New York University
development and new approaches will
Department of Chemistry. Sessions feature
play in the next decade?
three 30-minute presentations on nano -
science, one each with strong orientation in • What are the challenges and opportuni-
biology, chemistry, and physics/applied ties for the industry?
mathematics. Presentations will be focused
Date: Thursday, February 7, 2013
on discussion of recent work, although
Place: Yale Club
speakers will place the work in a context
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understandable to a broad audience.
New York, NY
Mark your calendars for the next meeting, on Time: 11:00 AM - 2:00 PM
March 26, when we will celebrate the 10th Cost: Luncheon: $140 for non-CM&E
year of this topical group! members in support of STEM edu-
cation; $120 for CM&E and NYPF
Date: Tuesday, February 5, 2013
Times: Refreshments 7:00 PM members in support of STEM edu-
Meeting 7:30 PM cation; $90 for non-CM&E mem-
Place: New York University Silver Center bers; $70 for CM&E, Chempharma
31 Washington Place between and NYPF Members Only.
Washington Square and Greene Early-Bird discount of $20 applica-
Street, Room 1003 (10th Floor) ble if you register by Friday,
New York, NY January 18, 2013.
Webcast fees: $50 for STEM sup-
For more information, contact: James
port. $20 for all others. Available as
Canary ([email protected])
a Webcast recording.
http://www.nyu.edu/projects/nanoscience No webcast registrations accepted
T the day of the event.
Special Offer: Webcast recording at no
CHEMICAL MARKETING AND charge for ACS members only. (Must pro-
ECONOMICS GROUP vide membership number next to Job Title).
Venue: The Yale Club in NYC
Luncheon and Webcast — Japan: Life
Science Innovation No cancellations after February 1, 2013.
Cancellations are subject to fees. Prices
Presentations by:John Keller, Ph.D.
may change without notice.
Shionogi, Inc.
Please note: recent meetings have been
Catherine Sazdanooff
Takeda Pharmaceuticals oversubscribed. For example, the
December 6, 2012 Inaugural Leadership
Alexander Scott Awards and M&A luncheon was a full house
Eisai Pharmaceuticals with 180 attendees and over 190 registra-
George Rodriquez tions. So, we encourage readers to register
Argeni early to be sure of having a place at the
table.
Over the last decade, the top Japanese
pharmaceutical companies have established
themselves as shining global players after a
period of rapid international expansion
through major strategic acquisitions, an
innovative pipeline and partnerships with
emerging biotech companies. However, as
they face increasing demographic changes,
cost pressures of health care systems world-
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LONG ISLAND SUBSECTION HIGH SCHOOL TEACHERS
Board of Directors and Meeting Dates TOPICAL GROUP
for Spring 2013
Engineering Failures and Design Principles
The Long Island subsection of the ACS New
York section is pleased to announce its Speaker: Sheldon Levine
Board of Directors for 2013. Vice President for Marketing
and Business Development
Chair: Alfredo Mellace
Chair-Elect: Marlon Moreno AeroNav Laboratories
Past-Chair: John Schmermund College Point, NY
Secretary: Terry Brack
This talk will present well-known engineer-
Treasurer: Philip Mark
ing failures such as the Millennium Bridge,
Directors: David Lloyd, Emily Mundorff,
Ralph Stephani, Luis Vargas New Orleans levees, World War II liberty
ships, the John Hancock Building, the
Board meetings of the Long Island subsec-
Leaning Tower of Pisa, DeHavilland Comet
tion of the ACS New York section will be held
at Nassau Community College, Life jet aircraft, and the Tacoma Narrows Bridge
Sciences Building, room LS 220C, at 6:30 to demonstrate the importance of design
PM on the following dates. principles in preventing failures. It will also
Thursday, January 31 present a brief overview of some of the envi-
Thursday, February 28 ronmental simulation testing equipment in
Thursday, March 21 the AeroNav Laboratories facility.
Thursday, April 25
Date: Friday, February 8, 2013
Monthly seminars will be held on the follow-
Time: Social and Dinner 5:45 PM
ing dates, with a social gathering at 6:30 PM
Place: No reservations required
followed by the seminar at 7:00 PM.
M&G Pub (Murphy and Gonzales)
Thursday, February 7
21 Waverly Place (at Green Street,
Queensborough Community College
North-east corner)
room TBA
New York, NY
Searching for Safer Anti-inflammatory
Drugs Time: Meeting 7:15 PM
Speaker: John Regan Place: New York University
Queensborough Community Silver Center Room 207
College 32 Waverly Place (South-east
Thursday, March 7 corner Washington Sq. East)
Hofstra University New York, NY
room and speaker TBA
Security at NYU requires that you show a
Thursday, April 4
picture ID to enter the building In case of
Hofstra University
unexpected severe weather, call John
room TBA and speaker
Roeder, [phone], between 9:00 AM
Thursday, May 2
and 2:00 PM to verify that meeting is still on;
Hofstra University
[phone] for other info.
room and speaker TBA
The LI-ACS Chemistry Challenge will be Note: For those who prefer indoor attended
held on Friday, April 26th at Queensborough parking, it is available at the Melro/Romar
Community College and the High School Garages. The entrance is on the west side
Awards are scheduled for May. of Broadway just south of 8th Street, direct-
Please check the LI-ACS webpage at ly across from Astor Place. It is a short, easy
www.newyorkacs.org/sub_island.php for walk from the garage to the restaurant or
updates. meeting room.
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WESTCHESTER CHEMICAL * Coauthor: Rastislav Levicky, Polytechnic
SOCIETY Institute of NYU.
Special Seminar — “Modeling Protein- Date: Thursday, April 11, 2013
DNA Interactions at Electrified Times: Refreshments 5:30 PM
Interfaces” Lecture 6:00 p.m.
Speaker: Keeshan Williams* Place: Westchester Community College
The Polytechnic Institute of NYU Gateway Building Room 110
Department of Chemical and 75 Grasslands Road
Biological Engineering Valhalla, NY
Brooklyn, NY
Cost: Free and open to the public
Coupling self-assembled monolayer (SAM)
For more information, contact Paul Dillon:
techniques with biodiagnostic applications
E-Mail [email protected]
has led to custom made electrochemical
sensors that can be produced with relative Phone [phone]
ease, in multiplexed formats, and at low http://www.newyorkacs.org/sub_west.php
L
cost. For example, DNA monolayers have
been used to detect complementary
sequences within complex sample matrices
NY SECTIONʼS SECOND
as well as to elucidate the thermodynamic
and kinetic parameters of binding various ANNUAL EARTH DAY PARADE
species (e.g. proteins, small molecules) to
Walk the Brooklyn Bridge
DNA. Here, electroactively labeled, double
stranded DNA (dsDNA) monolayers are The New York Sectionʼs Second Annual
interrogated using alternating current Earth Day Parade, “Walk the Brooklyn
voltammetery (ACV) to monitor association
Bridge” will be hosted by Pace University on
between a transcription factor protein and
Saturday, April 20, 2013!
the monolayer. Various ACV input frequen-
cies are tested to determine those most sen- Dr. JaimeLee Rizzo, 2012 Immediate Past
sitive to protein binding, and concentration Chair of the Section and Coordinator of the
series are performed to generate Langmuir-
Earth Day Event will organize the parade.
type binding isotherms for quantitative
determination of binding affinities. Because Earth Day was first officially recognized on
the DNA binding reaction is coupled to pro- April 22, 1970 as a way to demonstrate sup-
tein dimerization in solution a model that port for a healthy environment, raise aware-
accounts for coupling between the two ness about environmental issues, and
equlibria is needed to fully characterize the
remind people that we all need to contribute
experimental data. This presentation will dis-
to a sustainable planet. Each year, ACS
cuss optimization of the experimental
approach as well as model-based extraction highlights one of four general topics (water,
of thermodynamic parameters for protein- air, plants/soil or recycling) and chooses a
DNA interactions using a classical biomole- specific “theme name” under the topic to
cular systems derived from bacteriophage focus the CCED celebration.
lambda.
This yearʼs theme is, “Our Earth: Handle
Mr. Williams received a B.A. degree in
with Care!”
Chemistry from Queens College, City
University of New York, Flushing, NY, in ACS local sections, Student Member
2005. Upon graduation, he worked as a Chapters, and divisions are encouraged to
Chemist for a materials testing laboratory in take part in the celebration, particularly the
College Point, NY. While pursuing his
annual community event. To register for the
Masters of Science in Chemical Engineering
“Walk the Brooklyn Bridge, for more infor-
at NYU-Poly he also worked as a Materials
mation, and to see photos from last yearʼs
Engineer for the Port Authority of New York
and New Jersey. In 2008, he started pursu- event please go to our official Earth Day
ing a Ph.D. degree in Chemical and website: http://www.newyorkacs.org/
Biological Engineering at NYU-Poly. meetings/EarthDay/CCED.php