Chemistry Newsletter - 04/12/1999

 

University of Wisconsin-Madison Department of Chemistry Newsletter

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XXXIV No. 15

April 12th, 1999

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Finance Committee and Department Meeting Dates

Spring 1999

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Department Committee - Tuesday at 1:30 p.m. In Room 8335.

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Finance Committee - Tuesday at 1:20 p.m. - In Room 1301.

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Organic Chemistry Cumulative Exam Schedule, 1999.

Thursdays, 7:30 p.m., room B371 Chemistry Building.

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Inorganic Cume Dates for 1999.

9:00 a.m., Room 2373 Chemistry Building.

 

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ATTENTION GRADUATE STUDENTS

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IMPORTANT DATES:

MINOR AGREEMENT FORMS: The Graduate School requires that the minor program be outlined in an agreement which is approved by the Department no later than halfway through completion of the sequence of minor courses. The minor requirement is expected to be completed by the end of the third year of graduate school. Minor agreement forms are available in Room 1221.

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Orders for cap and gown must be placed at the University Bookstore no later than April 15,1999. Degree candidates and escorts will receive a letter containing further instructions about one month before commencement.

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General information on the commencement ceremonies (when/where, etc.) may be obtained from Mary Kay in Room 1221 Chemistry.

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***PLEASE NOTE*** - Mary Kay's Office has now moved to the first floor and is located in room 1221.

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SEMINARS

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Monday, April 12^th, 1999 - ACS Seminar, 2:25 p.m., Room B371 Chemistry Building. Professor Dr. Heinrich Vahrenkamp, Institut fuer Anorganische und Analytische Chemie Universitaet Freiburb. "Preparative and Mechanistic Chemistry of Zinc Related to the Function of Zinc Enzymes"

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Tuesday, April 13^th, 1999 - Organic Chemistry Seminar, 3:30 p.m., Room 1361 Chemistry, Professor Olaf Wiest, University of Notre Dame. "Mechanism and Models of DNA Photolyase"

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Tuesday, April 13^th, 1999 - Physical Chemistry Seminar, 11:00 a.m., Room 8335 Chemistry Building. Marcos Dantus, Michigan State University. "Observation and Control of Chemical Reactions"

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Tuesday, April 13^th, 1999 - Chemical Engineering Seminar, 3:55 p.m., Room 1227 Engineering. Manos Mavrijkakis, Center for Atomic-Scale Materials Physics, Technical University of Denmark. "Catalysis on Transition Metal Surfaces: Insights from First-Principles Mechanistic Studies"

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**PLEASE NOTE - Schedule Change - New Date Will be Thursday, April 29th, 1999** - Organic Chemistry Seminar, 11:00 a.m., Room 1361 Chemistry, Zhi-Qiang Yang, Graduate Student.

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**PLEASE NOTE - Speaker Change** Thursday, April 15^st, 1999 - Analytical Sciences Seminar, 12:05 p.m., Room B371 Chemistry Building. Travis Berggren, Graduate Student. "Development of High Throughput Detection Methods for Analyzing Genetic Variations by MALDI Mass Spectrometry"

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Thursday, April 15^th, 1999 - CBI Highlights Seminar, 2:25 p.m., Room B371 Chemistry Building. Professor Steve Burke, University of Wisconsin-Madison. "Form and Function in Natural and Unnatural Macrocyclic Molecules"

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Thursday, April 15^th, 1999 - Chemical Engineering Seminar, 3:55 p.m., Room 1227 Engineering. L.K. Doraiswamy, Iowa State University. "Strategies for Rate Enhancement in Organic Synthesis: A Chemical Engineering Approach"

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Friday, April 16^th, 1999 - Teaching/Learning Chemistry Seminar, 1:15 p.m., Room 2377 Chemistry Building. Professor Orville Chapman, UCLA. "Computerized Peer Review (CPR) of Student Writing Assignments in Chemistry"

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Monday, April 19^th, 1999 - CBI Highlights Seminar, 3:30 p.m., Room B1118 Biochemistry Building. Professor Jun Liu, MIT. "Molecular Mechanism of Angiogenesis Inhibition by the Fumagillin Family of Natural Products"

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Monday, April 19^th, 1999 - Inorganic Division Seminar, 2:30 p.m., Room B371 Chemistry Building. Brett Bodsgard, Graduate Student.

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Tuesday, April 20^th, 1999 - Physical Chemistry Seminar, 11:00 a.m., Room 8335 Chemistry Building. Amy Mullin, Boston University. "Putting Out Molecular Fires With Collisional Energy Transfer: The Fire Extinguisher of the Fire Hose"

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Tuesday, April 20^th,1999 - Pharmacology Sciences lecture, Noon, Room 3765 MSC, also 3:30 p.m., in Chemistry. Professor Glenn Prestwich, University of Utah. "Using Affinity Probes to Identify Phosphinositide Targets"

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Wednesday, April 21^st, 1999 - Second Inorganic McElvain Speaker Seminar, 3:30 p.m., Room B371 Chemistry Building. C. Jeffery Brinker, Los Alamos National Lab. "New Directions in Sol-Gel Processing: Self-Organized Micro- and Mesostructured Media"

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Thursday, April 22^nd, 1999 - Analytical Sciences Seminar, 12:05 p.m., Room B371 Chemistry Building. Todd Strother, Graduate Student.

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Thursday, April 22^nd, 1999 - CBI Highlights Seminar, 11:00 a.m., Room B371 Chemistry Building. Professor Dennis Curran, TBA.

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Thursday, April 22^nd, 1999 - Chemical Engineering Seminar, 3:55 p.m., Room 1227 Engineering.David A. Dixon, Pacific Northwest National Laboratory. "Computational Chemistry for Material and Process Design"

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Thursday, April 22^nd, 1999 - Teaching/Learning Chemistry Seminar, 12:00 noon, Room 2373 Chemistry Building. Professor Ram Lamba, University of Puerto Rico - Cayey. "Is Low-Cost Equipment Only Useful in Developing Countries?"

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Friday, April 23^rd,1999 - Pharmaceutical Sciences lecture, 3:30 p.m., Professor Ben Liu, University of Minnesota. "Biosynthesis of Deoxysugars"

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Monday, April 26^th, 1999 - Inorganic Division Seminar, 2:30 p.m., Room B371 Chemistry Building. Richard Hooper, Postdoc.

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Tuesday, April 27^th, 1999 - Physical Chemistry Seminar, 11:00 a.m., Room 8335 Chemistry Building. Professor J. Andrew McCammon, UC San Diego. "Dynamics of Molecular Recognition"

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Thursday, April 29^th, 1999 - Analytical Sciences Seminar, 12:05 p.m., Room B371 Chemistry Building. Chris Hunt, Graduate Student.

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Thursday, April 29^th, 1999 - CBI Highlights Seminar, 2:25 p.m., Room B371 Chemistry Building. Professor Arnold E. Ruoho, UW Pharmacology. "The Catalytic Core of Adenylyl Cyclase"

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Thursday, April 29^sh, 1999 - Chemical Engineering Seminar, 3:55 p.m., Room 1227 Engineering. George Georgiou, University of Texas-Austin. "High Throughput Screening Technologies for the Isolation of Novel Antibodies, Enzymes and Metabolic Pathways"

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Recent Publications

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Vedejs E; Fields SC; Hayashi R; Hitchcock SR; Powell DR; Schrimpf MR

Asymmetric memory at labile, stereogenic boron: Enolate alkylation of oxazaborolidinones

JOURNAL OF THE AMERICAN CHEMICAL SOCIETY 1999, Vol 121, Iss 11, pp 2460-2470.

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Appella DH; Barchi JJ; Durell SR; Gellman SH

Formation of short, stable helices in aqueous solution by beta-amino acid hexamers

JOURNAL OF THE AMERICAN CHEMICAL SOCIETY 1999, Vol 121, Iss 10, pp 2309-2310.

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West CW; Janetka JW; Rich DH

Formation of substituted aromatic rings in amino acid systems via intramolecular or intermolecular ruthenium activated SNAr reactions.

ABSTRACTS OF PAPERS OF THE AMERICAN CHEMICAL SOCIETY 1999, Vol 217, pp U148-U148.

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Gellman SH

Beta-peptide foldamers.

ABSTRACTS OF PAPERS OF THE AMERICAN CHEMICAL SOCIETY 1999, Vol 217, pp U160-U160.

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Kiessling LL

Tuning cellular responses with synthetic, multivalent ligands.

ABSTRACTS OF PAPERS OF THE AMERICAN CHEMICAL SOCIETY 1999, Vol 217, pp U160-U160.

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Elder AM; Rich DH

Progress towards model systems of complestatin using a palladium catalyzed cross-coupling reaction.

ABSTRACTS OF PAPERS OF THE AMERICAN CHEMICAL SOCIETY 1999, Vol 217, pp U187-U187.

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Wang XF; Gellman SH

New class of water-soluble helix-forming beta-peptides.

ABSTRACTS OF PAPERS OF THE AMERICAN CHEMICAL SOCIETY 1999, Vol 217, pp U200-U201.

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Barda DA; Wang JB;Vedejs E

Studies toward the total synthesis of diazonamide A.

ABSTRACTS OF PAPERS OF THE AMERICAN CHEMICAL SOCIETY 1999, Vol 217, pp U219-U219.

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Crim FF

Exploring intramolecular dynamics in the frequency domain and time domain by photodissociation of vibrationally excited molecules.

ABSTRACTS OF PAPERS OF THE AMERICAN CHEMICAL SOCIETY 1999, Vol 217, pp U284-U284.

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Sibert EL; Mardis KL

The methyl radical plus hydrogen recombination reaction: A critical test of SACM theory via wavepacket dynamics.

ABSTRACTS OF PAPERS OF THE AMERICAN CHEMICAL SOCIETY 1999, Vol 217, pp U290-U290.

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Sharma R; Yang ZH; Yu H; Green M; Pak HK

Dynamic surface tension and relaxation of thermally stimulated PEO-PPO-PEO and PPO-PEO-PPO copolymers at the air-water interface.

ABSTRACTS OF PAPERS OF THE AMERICAN CHEMICAL SOCIETY 1999, Vol 217, pp U395-U395.

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Moore JW

Coloring the curriculum - From kindergarten through college.

ABSTRACTS OF PAPERS OF THE AMERICAN CHEMICAL SOCIETY 1999, Vol 217, pp U708-U708.

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Lisensky GC; Nordell KJ; Condren SM; Ellis AB

Exploring color and periodic properties with light-emitting diodes and diode lasers.

ABSTRACTS OF PAPERS OF THE AMERICAN CHEMICAL SOCIETY 1999, Vol 217, pp U709-U709.

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Badenhoop JK; Weinhold F

Natural steric analysis of internal rotation barriers.

INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF QUANTUM CHEMISTRY 1999, Vol 72, Iss 4, pp 269-280.

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Campbell DJ; Beckman KJ; Calderon CE; Doolan PW; Ottosen RM; Ellis AB; Lisensky GC

Replication and compression of bulk and surface structures with polydimethylsiloxane elastomer.

JOURNAL OF CHEMICAL EDUCATION 1999, Vol 76, Iss 4, pp 537-541.

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Ferry JD

Temperature dependence of viscoelastic properties: The Fitzgerald apparatus and the WLF equation.

JOURNAL OF POLYMER SCIENCE PART B-POLYMER PHYSICS 1999, Vol 37, Iss 7, pp 621-622.

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Gardner RR; Liang GB; Gellman SH

beta-turn and beta-hairpin mimicry with tetrasubstituted alkenes.

JOURNAL OF THE AMERICAN CHEMICAL SOCIETY 1999, Vol 121, Iss 9, pp 1806-1816.

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Eichler BE; Powell DR; West R

Reactivity of a 1-germapropadiene.

ORGANOMETALLICS 1999, Vol 18, Iss 4, pp 540-545.

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Middlecamp CH; Subramaniam B

What is feminist pedagogy? Useful ideas for teaching chemistry.

JOURNAL OF CHEMICAL EDUCATION 1999, Vol 76, Iss 4, pp 520-525.

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Kubicki JD; Sykes D; Apitz SE

Ab initio calculation of aqueous aluminum and aluminum-carboxylate complex energetics and Al-27 NMR chemical shifts.

JOURNAL OF PHYSICAL CHEMISTRY A 1999, Vol 103, Iss 7, pp 903-915.

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Copyright � 1998 Institute for Scientific Information

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A Reminder To All Graduate Students:

The Graduate Student-Faculty Liaison Committee (GSFLC) would like to inform fellow graduate students that applications are once again being accepted for Travel Allowances for conferences from May 1 through October 30,1999. This year we anticipate financial reimbursements will fall between $400 and $500 per graduate student.

The eligibility requirements for Travel Allowances are as follows:

1. You must be currently enrolled as a chemistry graduate student and have dissertator status.
2. You must be presenting a poster/talk at the conference you will be attending.
3. You must not have previously received a Travel Allowance.

If you meet eligibility requirements and wish to apply, please stop by and pick up a form in Room 8363. Any questions regarding these requirements and completed applications should be addressed to Emily Reichert, reichert@chem.wisc.edu . Applications will be accepted from April 5th through April 19th, 1999 ONLY. You will receive notice by May as to whether you have received a Travel Allowance.

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For Industrial Positions, see the Chemistry Placement Newsletter at:

http://www.chem.wisc.edu/placement/7news.html

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FACULTY POSITIONS/TEMPORARY FACULTY/ACADEMIC POSITIONS

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NMR Facility Manager. The Department of Chemistry, National University of Singapore, is currently looking for a full time NMR facility manger to take care of the departmental NMR service. The Laboratory houses two 500 MHz (a Bruker DRX500 with PFG and a Bruker AXM500), one 400 MHz wide-bore solid state NMR system (Bruker AVANCE-400) equipped with CP/MAS, HRMAS and microimaging facility, one 300 MHz (Bruker ACF300) with sample changer and a JEOL FX90Q NMR spectrometers. We hope to appoint a candidate with PhD in Chemistry or related discipline with good experimental and theoretical knowledge in NMR spectroscopic techniques. Candidate with post-doctoral or industry experience with expertise in advanced NMR instrumentation will be an advantage. The successful applicant will have extensive experience in maintaining and troubleshooting NMR spectrometer hardware, and expertise in maintaining, upgrading, interfacing computer software and hardware. Other responsibilities will include:

• Provide NMR interpretative services to researchers within the university, research institutions and other clients from the industries.
• Undertake research collaboration with academic staff members in area of NMR spectroscopy.
• Conduct periodic tutorials and workshops to interested users and provide training to laboratory technologists and graduate students.
• Assist in grants application to acquire new instruments, software, etc for the Laboratory.
• Maintain the web pages of the NMR Laboratory and serve in the laboratory and work place safety committee.

Below are some of the Terms and Conditions of Service for your information.

• Contract Initial appointment is for 3 years. Continued employment will be considered approximately 6 months before the expiry of a contract.
• Gross Annual Emoluments Facility Manager S$ 58840-74800 Senior Facility Manager S$ 68410-144350 Principal Facility Manager S$ 128050-177840.

The salary will commensurate with training and experience In addition, the following may be payable under the flexible wage system:

- 13th month Annual Allowance of one month's salary

- an Annual Variable Component (normally of 2 months' salary) payable at mid-year and/or year end

Interested applicants please send your curriculum vitae to: Asst. Professor Teck Peng LOH, Department of Chemistry, National University of Singapore, Lower Kent Ridge Road, Singapore 119260, email: chmlohtp@nus.edu.sg .

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Chemistry Instructor, Normandale Community College. Responsibilities include: Classroom and laboratory teaching a broad spectrum of lower division chemistry courses, including organic chemistry and health science chemistry. Must be committed to providing quality instruction and services to students of all ages and backgrounds. Teaching assignments will include evening, and may include weekend and summer classes. Also expected to take an active role in the department. Master's degree with a major in chemistry or Masters Degree in a related field with 23 graduate quarter credits in chemistry. Date of Employment: August 23,1999. Classes begin August 25,1999. Starting Salary Range: $29,090 - $37,910 for academic year. (Based on education and experience.) Outstanding Benefits Package. The Search Committee will begin reviewing files on April 12,1999. Materials received after this date may or may not be considered. Please send a letter of application, current resume, unofficial copies of undergraduate and graduate transcripts, and at least three names of references who can address the applicant's qualifications for this position to: Joan Fosnow, Human Resources, Normandale Community College. 9700 France Avenue South, Bloomington, MN 55431, Phone: 612/832-6312, Fax: 612/832-6637, TTY: 612/832-6552, e-mail: j.fosnow@nr.cc.mn.us .

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POSTDOCTORAL POSITION AND/OR JOBS

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***NONE AVAILABLE FOR THIS NEWSLETTER***

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Please submit all newsletter information or address changes to: goldade@chem.wisc.edu or 262-0293. Thank You.

DETAILS ARE AVAILABLE IN ROOM 1380.

NEXT NEWSLETTER IS ON APRIL 19^th, 1999.