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2019 April Chemical Bulletin Chicago Section http://chicagoacs.org April • 2019 CHICAGO SECTION AMERICAN CHEMICAL SOCIETY MONTHLY PROGRAM MEETING FRIDAY, APRIL 8, 2019 REGISTRATION, POSTER SESSION North Central College & SOCIAL HOUR 5:30 PM – 6:30 PM Wentz Science Center, Stevenson Ratio Hall (2nd Floor) 131 South Loomis St. PRE-DINNER PRESENTATION Naperville, IL 60540 BY MARCUS LAPORTE/NICK MIELKE 6:00 PM – 6:15 PM Parking: Free in adjacent lots or on the streets http://chicagoacs.org/images/downloads/Maps_of_venues/ncc_sciencecenter.pdf DINNER 6:15 PM – 7:00 PM Also Being Streamed to Satellite Locations: ANNOUNCEMENTS AND SAFETY #1 #2 MINUTE 6:45 PM – 7:00 PM Purdue University Northwest Loyola University Gyte Building Room 240 Flanner Hall, Room 105 LECTURE BY 2200 169th Street 1068 W. Sheridan Road JOHN BUSCH 6:45 PM – 7:30 PM Hammond, IN 46323 Chicago, IL 60660 Q&A PLUS BOOK PARKING: SIGNING 7:30 PM – 7:45 PM Cost: Free $7.00 http://chicagoacs.org/images/downloads/Maps_of_venues/purduenw_map.pdf https://www.pnw.edu/visitors-guide/maps/hammond-campus https://www.luc.edu/media/lucedu/pdfs-campusmaps/lsc.pdf #3 #4 North Park University Wilber Wright College Johnson Science Center (Building 17) Science Building, S100 Room 336 4300 N. Narragansett Ave 5141 N. Christiana Ave. Chicago, IL 60634 Chicago, IL 60625 PARKING: Cost: Free - Parking is available in the Faculty and Staff lot located on Kimball Ave. https://www.northpark.edu/seminary/ll admissions/visit/campus-map/ IN THIS ISSUE 2 John Laurence Busch 5 My Favorite Element Biography 6 2019 CCEW Poem Contest 2 Safety Minute 7 Financial Report 2 Gibbs Medal Symosium 8 Who Is This? 3 Marcetta Y. Darensbourg 8 Micron Analytical Services 4 Great Lakes Regional Meeting 9 Calendar John Laurence Busch 4 Illinois Institue of Techonogy 9 Mass-Vac Products Historian 5 Harris Cartoon Building the first Steamship in History (continued on page 2) 4/19 2 ABstract Emergency RESPONSE—A “SAFETY First” MINUTE Best Practices to Advance a Culture of SAFETY Historian and author John Laurence Busch will attempt to re-calibrate your Welcome to the “Safety First” Minute for April! It is exciting to continue this best mind before showing why the proposition practice that we adopted at the start of the year to begin our section meetings with a reflection on a safety theme, and to provide a short write-up on this topic for the Chemi- of making the first crossing of the Atlantic cal Bulletin as well. I am grateful to Peggy Schott, longtime section officer and board Ocean by a “steamship” was met with a member, for volunteering a topic and providing written support for this month’s reflection. mixture of skepticism and fear. Then he Peggy serves as Personal Assistant to Sir Fraser Stoddart at Northwestern University. will explore the chemical rationale behind One of Peggy’s colleagues is a new research professor, Douglas Philp, who came from Captain Moses Rogers’ design for this the University of St. Andrews in Scotland and still has a laboratory at the university. On revolutionary vessel. February 10, 2019, a significant fire broke out in the Biomedical Sciences Building at St. Andrews. Luckily, there were no injuries or fatalities. The fire severely damaged four labs as it spread upwards and downwards through the building, and water damage was BIOGRAPHY extensive. In an email to colleagues and friends at Northwestern, Douglas Philp shared several observations relative to the fire and its impact. Thank you to Professor Philp for John Laurence Busch is an indepen- granting permission to share this information with the Chicago Section as well. dent historian who focuses upon the interaction between humanity and tech- • “Whilst the formal investigation is currently ongoing, it appears that the source of nology, specializing in the first genera- the fire was an incident with a flammable base bath that was being used to clean tion of steam-powered vessels. He has glassware containing a small amount of potassium. The ensuing situation could not devoted years of research to discovering be contained and controlled by the personnel in the lab, and the result is significant the true story of Captain Moses Rogers destruction which resulted in closing of the building. Repairs and renovation are ex- and the steamship Savannah. The result pected to take 18–24 months.” is STEAM COFFIN, described by numer- • “When considering an operation in the laboratory, you must always make an assess- ous book reviewers as the definitive ac- ment of the process risk as well as the chemical hazard. If you cannot contain the count of what truly is America’s sea saga. worst-case scenario in terms of process risk, you should not be doing the experiment.” • “If faced with an incident involving fire, raise the alarm immediately, make sure every- one in the area evacuates and then, and only if it does not place you at excessive MENU risk, try to contain the fire. “ Menu (Main Site Only): This last point really struck home with me. When confronted with a “small” or incidental • Chermoula spiced chicken skewers fire on a laboratory benchtop, in a commercial work space, or even at home, when is the with tzatziki sauce right time to call an alarm? As the reports from St. Andrews suggest, an event that may • Kafta meatballs on tabbouleh with red seem trivial or small at first can quickly spiral out of control. chili tomato sauce Do you have ideas or suggestions for future “Safety First” Minutes? Please contribute! • Mini falafel with tahini sauce Call or email me, our section chair, or the editor of the Chemical Bulletin to suggest topics. • Lentil hummus with grilled pita chips • Mezze grilled & marinated vegetables Irene Cesa with hummus • Marinated olives GIBBS MEDAL SYMPOSIUM No Dinners will be served at the Remote Locations. Schedule for May 3, 2019 9:25 9:30 Introduction Dinner Registration Deadline: 9:30 10:10 Speaker 1 12:00 noon on Thursday, April 4 10:10 10:50 Speaker 2 Lecture-only Registration Deadline: 10:50 11:30 Speaker 3 12:00 noon on Friday, April 5 11:30 1:00 Lunch Break 1:00 1:40 Speaker 4 Dinner reservations are required and 1:40 2:20 Speaker 5 should be received in the Section Office 2:20 3:00 Speaker 6 via phone (847-391-9091), email (chi- 3:00 3:20 break [email protected]) or website 3:20 4:00 Speaker 7 (https://chicagoacs.org/meetinginfo. 4:00 5:00 Marcetta Darensbourg php?id=144). PLEASE HONOR YOUR 5:00 6:00 break RESERVATIONS. The Section must 6:00 8:00 poster session/cocktail hour pay for all dinner orders. No-shows 8:00 dinner and award presentation for GLRM and Gibbs will be billed. The order of the speakers has not been determined at this time. The 7 speakers are: Craig Grapperhaus [email protected] The mission of the Chicago Michael Hall [email protected] Section of the ACS is to advance Brian Hoffmann [email protected] the chemical sciences and their Thomas Rauchfuss [email protected] practitioners for the benefit of Charles Riordan [email protected] Earth and its people Bassam Shakhashiri [email protected] Wendy Shaw [email protected] 4/19 3 THE ONE HUNDRED AND EIGHTH PRESENTATION OF THE WILLARD GIBBS MEDAL (Founded by WILLIAM A. CONVERSE) TO PROFESSOR Marcetta Y. Darensbourg sponsored by the CHICAGO SECTION of the AMERICAN CHEMICAL SOCIETY at THE Great LAKES Regional MEETING FRIDAY, MAY 3, 2019 ABstract BIOGRAPHY THE Citation From lessons learned of the most funda- Professor Marcetta Y. Darensbourg For lifelong accomplishments in inorgan- mental chemistry of metal-carbon bonds is a native of Kentucky, USA, with an un- ic chemistry, including in organolithium compounds and transi- dergraduate studies at Union College, Barbourville, Ky., and a Ph.D. from the tion metal carbonyls, the last half-century • control of metal carbonyl anion struc- has provided this organometallic chemist University of Illinois. Following academic posts at Vassar College and Tulane Uni- ture and reactivity with the background to contribute to the versity, she joined the faculty at Texas • extensive work in synthesizing com- understanding of hydrogenases, H2ases. A&M University, College Station, TX, in plexes that serve as models for hy- As nature’s masterpiece enzymes for hy- 1982. She holds the title of Distinguished drogenase enzymes drogen production or activation, and its Professor of Chemistry. Trained as an or- • introduction of novel catalysts for hy- use as an energy vector in hundreds of ganometallic chemist in the laboratories drogen production microorganisms, an array of enzymatic of Professor Theodore L. Brown, and with and spectroscopic probes, crowned by earlier research programs in low valent transition metal hydrides, the possibility modern protein X-ray diffraction technol- of metal hydrides in nature, specifically ogy, have defined the intricate 2H -ase as intermediates in hydrogenase en- active site molecular machinery. The zymes lured her into the new field of bio- translation of air and light-sensitive or- organometallic chemistry. She has been ganometallics with structural features of a leader in the development of synthetic the hydrogenase active sites into proton analogues of the diiron and nickel-iron reduction electrocatalysts has offered a hydrogenase active sites and the insight they bring to the catalytic mechanism of platform for synthesis development of these natural fuel cell catalysts. Metallo- biological catalysts akin to that of organic enzyme active sites that catalyze carbon- chemists in the realm of natural products carbon coupling reactions but use abun- for the pharmaceutical industry. This new dant metals such as nickel also inspire field of bioorganometallic chemistry is her research activities.
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