Volume 75, No. 4, October 2011
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Inside Volume 75, No.4, October 2011 Articles and Features 169 Editorial — The Changing of the Guard 170 Multifunctionality and Multivalency Generation by Self-Assembly of Grid-type MetallosupramolecularArchitectures Jack Harrowfield and Jean-Marie Lehn 174 The Strongest Acid Christopher A. Reed 180 Supramolecular Co-ordination: Predesigned Metallacycles and Metallacages via Self- Assembly Peter J. Stang 183 Obituary: Allan J. Easteal 1939-2011 184 Physics, Chemistry and Magnetic Resonance: a New Zealand Perspective Paul T. Callaghan 188 Electrospray Ionization of Proteins: Elephants which Fly Peter J. Derrick, 194 Metallosupramolecular Chemistry – What Now? Peter J. Steel 198 Dora Suuring – 75 Years a Chemist Brian Halton 200 A History of Chemistry in Wellington since 1986 in Ten Artefacts Peter Hodder 208 Chemistry in Auckland 1981-2011 Gordon Miskelly and Gordon Rewcastle 214 Obituary: Jack Eric Fergusson 1933–2011 Other Columns 162 Comment from the President 215 Patent Proze 162 NZIC October News 216 Science Scene 173 Chemscrapes 217 Conference Calendar 187 Chemistry in the News 218 Author Index 2011 205 Dates of Note 218 Subject Index Vol. 75, 2011 207 Grants and Awards Advertisers Inside front cover 5th Asian Pacific Conference Back cover NZIC Conference 2011 161 Chemistry in New Zealand October 2011 Comment from the President As this is the last issue of this Journal with Brian Halton an was also awarded the NZIC ICI Prize in 1980. Outside as Editor, I would like to take the opportunity, both per- the NZIC Brian has been a Fellow of the Royal Society sonally, and on behalf of the NZIC to thank Brian for his of New Zealand since 1992, and was awarded the New excellent performance as Editor over the last 10 years, as Zealand Association of Scientists Shorland Medal in 2001 NZIC News well as for all of his significant contributions to the Insti- and its Research Medal back in 1974. tute over many more years. Brian took over the editorship of this Journal in 2001 and he has performed great service We all wish Brian well in his well deserved retirement in that role ever since, but his editorial contribution actu- from NZIC affairs, and once again thank him for his ally goes back much further than that, as he also wrote the dedicated 10-year editorship of this Journal. We also wish Guest Editorial for the December 1986 issue during his Brian’s replacement Peter Hodder all the best as he steps term as President of the Institute. up to his new role as dual editor of both Chemistry in New Zealand and ChemEd NZ. In addition to being the 1986/1987 President of the In- stitute, Brian has served several times as Wellington del- Finally, I would also like to remind everyone of the NZIC egate on the NZIC Council, and has contributed greatly conference in Hamilton next month, and if you haven’t to the running of the Wellington Branch, including time already done so, to register as soon as possible. I had a in the role of Branch Chairman. The involvement of New preview of the venue when I gave my Presidential Lec- Zealand in the International Chemical Congresses of Pa- ture in August, and everything looks like it is on track for cific Basin Societies (Pacifichem) is also greatly due to an excellent scientific meeting and accompanying social the efforts of Brian, who served as the NZIC representa- program. So I would like to express my thanks to the or- tive on the organising committee for the 1989, 1995, 2000 ganizing committee led by Michèle Prinsep, for all that and 2005 Pacifichem meetings. they have achieved so far, and we look forward to a very enjoyable meeting. Brian’s involvement with the NZIC is longstanding. He has been a Fellow of the Institute since 1977, and after Gordon Rewcastle his retirement from Victoria University in 2004 he was President raised to the higher level - Honorary Fellow in 2005. Bri- New Zealand Institute of Chemistry supporting chemical sciences October News The NZIC IYC National Secondary Engineering Geology, the Malaghan School (Southland) team: Schools Quiz Final was held un- Institute and Physics, all rounded Robert Tucker, Shanon Stanley, Ray- der the auspices of the Wellington off by afternoon tea before check-in mond Chen and Divyean Sivaraman Branch on July 5 last. The six region- at the hotel – Trinity on Willis. The al teams arrived in Wellington late teams and their teachers gathered at Canterbury: Burnside High School that morning and gathered at Victoria VUWs Commerce and Administra- (Christchurch) team: University’s MacDiarmid Building tion Faculty, Rutherford House, close Jason Guey, Tommy Peng, Sam White for lunch. The events of the afternoon to Wellington's Railway Station, for and Jack McAuley were introduced by John Watt, a for- the National Final that began at 6.30. mer NZ Young Scientist of the Year Wellington: Wellington College and presenter of TVNZs Ever Won- The Branch winners representing (Wellington) team: dered. There was a series of small their area were: David Somerville, Nicholas On, group tours of Biology, Chemistry, Southland: James Hargest High Mulugeta Zewdie and Daniel Snell L-R: 1st Auckland with Wayne Sprosen (Agilent; rt); 2nd Waikato; 3rd Christchurch 162 Chemistry in New Zealand October 2011 Manawatu: Palmerston North on the 6th for Turkey and the Chem- every level, to impart knowledge rel- Boys' High School team: istry Olympiad), Rob Keyzers and evant for making dietary choices, and Tom Hall, David Welman, Sean Saun- Branch Chairman, Peter Hodder, a to catalyze the development of culi- ders and Adam Langton Burne number of Chemistry’s PhD students, nary creativity. His science outreach and the various active scientists as- efforts include appearances with the Waikato: St. Paul’s Collegiate sociated with the tours. Their time, Food Network, the Cooking Channel, School (Hamilton) team: effort and dedication to making this the Science Channel, NBC-Learn and James Kennedy, Evan Wilson, Lizzie time special for the Nation Final is the Discovery Channel. Wilson and Chang Zhai appreciated and applauded by Coun- cil. The various Branches provided Kent gave lectures at all the NZIC Auckland: McLeans College sponsorship as best able and the ac- Branches except Otago. In Welling- (Bucklands Beach) team: commodation, transport and catering ton, we were fortunate to align his vis- Warren Wang, Michael Wang, Raja in Wellington was sponsored by the it with the Wellington on a Plate food Patel and Andy Chen Branch and VUWs Science Faculty. festival. His scheduled lecture A Plate of Molecules was booked out within Under the careful control of quizmas- A Molecular 45 minutes of the Plate programme’s ter Dr Rob Keyzers and his graduate release and Kent generously agreed to assistants Jaqui Barber and Peter Gastronomist in New Zealand provide a repeat performance – it also Moore, the markers Peter Clark, attracted a filled lecture hall. Over Anna Henning and Jonathan Singh 600 people attended his two public were kept busy scoring the six rounds lectures, a lecture to school students of questions totalling 54 proffered by and university staff, presentations in Rob. Many contained material from a local bar, and participation in one of the senior syllabus and beyond, some Ruth Pretty’s cooking school sessions were light-hearted, but all encom- on the Kapiti Coast. His presence was passed chemistry as the central sci- even mentioned in Air New Zealand’s ence and were beautifully composed in-flight magazine! and set by Rob. His public lecture was recorded as st The winning teams were: 1 – A Plate of Molecules: Mediasite pre- McLeans College (Bucklands sentation Wednesday, August 10, nd A highlight of the celebration of Beach); 2 – St. Paul’s Collegiate 2011(1:14:11 duration) available for rd IYC in New Zealand has been the School (Hamilton); 3 – Burnside direct download from: http://md- lecture tour by Professor Kent Kir- High School (Christchurch). The sweb.vuw.ac.nz/Mediasite/Viewer/?p shenbaum (Chemistry Department complete prize package was gener- eid=efd670884e2d44099c0534af066 of Chemistry, New York University) ously provided by Agilent Technolo- bc1ec. gies, the world’s second largest sci- organized by NZIC’s Wellington entific instrument manufacturer and Branch. Kent leads a research group His radio interviews were: in Bioorganic Chemistry with a focus presented by their Wellington agent, Molecular cooking: Boiling vs fry- on developing sequence-structure- Wayne Sprosen as: 1st Prize: $300 to ing: This Way Up, National Radio, 27 function relationships in biomimetic each competitor and the school; 2nd August 2011: http://podcast.radionz. oligomers. His research includes Prize: $200 to each competitor and co.nz/twu/twu-20110827-1215-mo- several collaborations with biomedi- the school; 3rd Prize: An MP3 player lecular_cooking_boiling_vs_fry- cal investigators at NYU's School of to each competitor. A buffet dinner ing-00.ogg, and Kitchen Chemistry: Medicine, pursuing new antibiotics was served in the Commerce and Ad- Our Changing World, National Ra- and therapeutics for Alzheimer’s dis- ministration Faculty’s Board Room dio, 25 August 2011: http://podcast. ease; but more significantly for his at the end of the formal proceedings. radionz.co.nz/ocw/ocw-20110825- NZ visit, he is a co-founder of the Ex- 2106-kitchen_chemistry-00.ogg Following breakfast the next morn- perimental Cuisine Collective, along ing, the teams were collected from with Prof. Amy Bentley (Food Stud- NZ Wins Four Medals at their hotel and taken to the Grace- ies) and Chef Will Goldfarb (Pastry). the International Chemistry field Campus of IRL where they were The Experimental Cuisine Collective given tours of the Carbohydrate Gly- was initiated at NYU to provide a Olympiad cosyn (Richard Furneaux) and Su- venue for science outreach. Scientific The 2011 NZ Chemistry Olympiad perconductors (Jeff Tallon) facilities.