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SC-XRD_ACA_PrintFP_D8 Quest ECO_Sep 2013 Print.pdf 1 9/3/13 1:22 PM American Crystallographic Association Cover: The cover image, from Omar Farha and Chris Wilmer, Northwestern University, depicts the metal-organic ACA RefleXions framework (MOF), of NU-111. Fall, 2013 See On the Cover, p 3. ACA HOME PAGE: www.AmerCrystalAssn.org Table of Contents 3 President’s Column, On the Cover, Sad News about Dave Rognlie The New D8 QUEST ECO 4 Letter to the Editor, Council Highlights, ACA RefleXions Co-Editors & Staff, Errata Crystallography with a Conscience 6 News & Awards 9 Introducing new staff member Chiara Pastore, 2013 Class of ACA Fellows 10 Contributors to this Issue 13 Net RefleXions, Index of Advertisers 15 Jerome Karle (1918 - 2013) 18 Ray Davis (1938 - 2013) C 20 Charles Norris Caughlan (1915 - 2013), Student Help in Hawaii M Y 21 Poster Prizes in Hawaii CM 24 Accompanying Members MY 25 Annual ACA Meeting in Hawaii CY 64 High School Outreach in Hawaii CMY 65 Books K 66 Workshop on Dynamic Structural Photocrystallography 67 Puzzle Corner 68 46th Course at Erice 71 Bruker/MIT Symposium 72 2014 ACA Meeting in Albuquerque 75 Corporate Members 77 Calendar of Meetings The D8 QUEST ECO Contributions to ACA RefleXions may be sent to either of the Editors: Please address matters pertaining to advertisements, membership With the D8 QUEST ECO, making the right choice is easy. Not only is it affordable and economical inquiries, or use of the ACA mailing list to: with minimal maintenance, it is also environmentally friendly offering low power requirements and Connie (Chidester) Rajnak Judith L. Flippen-Anderson 4210 Old Field Trail 3521 Launcelot Way Marcia J. Colquhoun, Director of Administrative Services no external water cooling. Yet, the D8 QUEST ECO still delivers the high performance and quality Kalamazoo, MI 49008 Annandale, VA 22003 American Crystallographic Association P.O. Box 96, Ellicott Station 269-342-1600 703-346-2441 data you have to come to expect from Bruker. Buffalo, NY 14205 [email protected] [email protected] tel: 716-898-8692; fax: 716-898-8695 Contact us for a personal system demonstration www.bruker.com/d8questeco [email protected] Deadlines for contributions are: February 1 (Spring), May 1 (Summer), August 1 (Fall) and November 1 (Winter) ACA RefleXions (ISSN 1058-9945) Number 3, 2013. Published four times per year in the spring, summer, fall and winter for the membership of the American Crystallographic Association, P.O. Box 96, Ellicott Station, Buffalo, NY 14205-0096. Membership in the ACA includes a non-deductible Crystallography charge of $1.75 from membership dues to be applied to a subscription to ACA RefleXions. Periodicals postage paid at Buffalo, New York. POSTMAS- Innovation with Integrity TER: Send address changes to ACA, P.O.Box 96, Ellicott Station, Buffalo, NY, 14205-0096. Teach Structure Determination President's Column & On the Cover Fall 2013 Do-it-yourself CHEMICAL CRYSTALLOGRAPHY The annual ACA meeting in Honolulu was both a scientific and The strategic planning commit- social success with 767 attendees. Crystallography informs many tee met in Hawaii and estab- diverse areas of science; more and more our meetings have become lished action items to help us venues for educating members in the theory and applications of move forward. Each committee crystallography in disciplines other than their own. The four day member has an assignment and meeting format made it challenging to fit in the three workshops, we plan to touch base in Sep- the 20 oral sessions (263 talks) and 3 evening poster sessions tember. Action items are related (291 presentations). However, despite the beautiful surroundings to organizational structure, and the near perfect weather, all were well attended. A record 78 by-laws, marketing, education, students were given travel grants to support their attendance. The and expanding involvement of first Bau Neutron Diffraction Award was presented to Tom Koetzle, members. We are committed to the Fankuchen Award went to Richard Dickerson (as Dick was continuing the process until we have developed a plan for the not able to attend, Alex McPherson presented a retrospective on future of ACA. Dickerson’s work). The Trueblood Award went to Tom Terwilliger, As we consider where we are going, I think it is important to and Eric Ortlund won the Etter Early Career Award. remember where we have been and to remember the colleagues On the journal front, we are very pleased to announce that our new and friends we have lost since our summer issue went to press; journal, Structural Dynamics, co-published by the ACA and AIP Jerome Karle (past ACA and IUCr president), Ray Davis (past Publishing started accepting papers at the beginning of Septem- ACA president), Charles Caughlan (local chair for the Boze- ber. The editor of the journal is Majed Chergui from Lausanne, man ACA meeting back in 1964) and Dave Rognlie (known Switzerland. Two associate editors, Thomas Elsaesser and Franz to crystallographers as the smiling face of Blake Industries). Pfeiffer, are based in Germany and three associate editors, George Each of these individuals contributed to our community and Phillips, Jr., Gwyn P. Williams and Linda Young, are based in the each will be missed. U.S. Appropriate journal topics include: structural dynamics of Please remember that we are a volunteer organization and molecular systems, biological systems, solid materials, liquids and you get out as much as you put in. So do something note- solutions, and surfaces and interfaces; static structural determina- worthy. Volunteer for a committee. Nominate your colleagues tion, static imaging techniques and studies using highly coherent for awards. Run for a position on the Council. Organize a sources; dynamical studies of systems both in and out of equilibrium, scientific session for the annual meeting. Serve as a poster with a time resolution from femtoseconds to milliseconds; spatial judge. Organize a focus group. Get involved. You will be resolutions from 1 Å to 1 mm; and electronic structure studies glad that you did. Thanks! connected to molecular/lattice/protein structure. Further details are available on the journal website (sd.aip.org). Cheryl Stevens The cover image depicts the metal-organic framework (MOF), This research has been published in JACS: ‘Designing Higher of NU-111. MOFs are a new Surface Area Metal-Organic Frameworks: Are Triple Bonds class of multifunctional, Better Than Phenyls?' by O.K. Farha, C.E. Wilmer, I. Ery- crystalline, porous materials azici, B.G. Hauser, P.A. Parilla, K. O’Neill, A.A. Sarjeant, that have received tremen- S.T. Nguyen, R.Q. Snurr & J.T. Hupp, J. Am. Chem. Soc. dous interest due to their 2012, 134, 9860-9863. Amy Sarjeant gave a talk at the ACA potential applications in gas meeting in Hawaii on NU-110 (work built on the knowledge and chemical storage, separa- from NU-111 project), which is how it came to my attention tions, sensing, catalysis, ion (Connie Rajnak). This work was also published in JACS: exchange, light harvesting 'Metal-organic Framework Materials with Ultrahigh Surface and drug delivery. MOFs are Areas: Is the Sky the Limit?,' by O.K. Farha, I. Eryazici, N.C. hybrid materials comprised of Jeong, B.G. Hauser, C.E. Wilmer, A.A. Sarjeant, R.Q. Snurr, multitopic organic ligands S.T. Nguyen, A.Ö. Yazaydın & J.T. Hupp, J. Am. Chem. Soc. (struts) linking metal-based 2012, 134, 15016-15021. nodes. NU-111 exhibits many remarkable features including a high Omar Farha and Chris Wilmer, Northwestern University surface area (5,000 m2/g) and a high uptake of both hydrogen and methane. The images on the cover show the representa- It is with great sadness that we announce the passing on tion of NU-111 using three polyhedral cages (cuboctahedral, August 5th of Dave Rognlie. Dave was well-known as the truncated tetrahedron, and truncated cuboctahedron) that President and owner of Blake Industries and as a long term are derived from sketching straight lines between copper supporter of the ICDD. This issue is about to go to press, but paddlewheel nodes and are glued in such a way that they we plan to publish a full appreciation of his life in the winter form an uninterrupted pathway. Taking the curvature of the RefleXions. Anyone who wishes to contribute 'I knew Dave Rigaku Corporation and its Global Subsidiaries struts into account gives four types of polyhedral cages, when' or 'there was that time that Dave . .' memories should website: www.Rigaku.com | email: [email protected] which is another way of representing NU-111 and one that contact the winter issue editor, Judith Flippen-Anderson at better matches experimental pore size distributions. [email protected]. 3 Letter to the Editor, Errata, Council News Fall 2013 Dear Connie, Judy: Errata: the editors regret the omis- While I was reading the Summer edition of sion of Leemor Joshua-Tor, an HHMI RefleXions, I noticed a few minor typographical Investigator, and Professor at Wm M. errors. The first is in the announcement of the Keck Structural Biology Laboratory, 2014 Patterson Award to John Helliwell. John's Cold Spring Harbor, from the AAAS award is indeed well deserved, and while I would fellows listed in the spring issue News love to say that I work at the same university & Awards section, page 17. Leemor where John studied as an undergraduate, that is is an ACA member, and as such was supposed to be listed. Leemor and her team do structural screen optimization – not the case. John went to the University of York (in England), not York University (in Toronto, Canada). This was mixed up on line and biochemical studies of key proteins in the gene silenc- 7 of the first paragraph.