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Volume 79, No. 2, April 2015 Inside Volume 79, No.2, April 2015 Articles and Features 74 Single cell transcriptomes: how low can you go? Chris Harris 79 The application of membrane technology to post-combustion separation of carbon dioxide from coal-fired power plant flue gas Matthew G. Cowan 83 Obituary: Betty Wignall 1927-2014 84 Misassigned Natural Products Richard A. Lamb 87 DVD review: Rutherford - The life and work of Ernest Rutherford 88 Solid phase extraction Christie Lombardi 90 1080 91 Hot new chemistry from a kiwi pepper tree Alistair T. B. Richardson 94 Membrane lytic antimicrobial lipopeptides Gayan Heruka DeZoysa and Viji Sarojini 102 Spectroscopic studies of oxide interfaces in aquatic geochemical systems Peter J. Swedlund 107 A chemical perspective on the recreational use of geothermal waters Peter Hodder 110 Dubious use of fine particle mass-based standards for regulating urban air quality in a hypothermic environment John L. Hoare 116 Obituary: Anthony (Tony) David Woolhouse, FNZIC (1946-2014) Other Columns 68 Comment from the President 117 Dates of Note 68 From the Editor Inside back Conference Calendar 69 April News 67 Chemistry in New Zealand April 2015 Comment from the President It was a pleasure to chair cessible major international conference on our revolving my first NZIC Council meet- chemistry calendar and should be a primary conference ing in Wellington on Friday focus for many of our chemists for 2015. I do encourage 20 February, where we ex- you to participate and raise the flag for New Zealand amined a range of issues chemistry. As well as the value to our researchers there is from Pacifichem, to en- actually a small subtext here since our national chemistry hanced engagement with body does capture a small royalty from any Pacifichem the RSC, to improvement profits proportioned to our attendance. You would have of our web interface, and to agree that, aside from the professional value, Hawaii President/Editor much more. I’ll pick up on has an agreeably pleasant climate for a conference in De- one or two of these issues cember. shortly. As a fun counter- The Chemical Education 2015 conference is to be held point, our Council meeting this year in partnership with the Biology Educators' As- was held against the back- sociation of New Zealand (BEANZ) at Victoria University drop of the New Zealand cricket team crushing the Eng- from 5-8 July. The conference focus is “Moving Forward: land team at the Wellington Stadium over the other side Pathways and Partnerships for Biology and Chemistry of our capital city. Who knows what will have happened Learning” and targets our Chemistry and Biology edu- by the time this text gets to print! cators (see: http://biolivechemed.nz/). The NZIC is sup- First, in this issue we celebrate the lives and contributions porting both this conference and also what promises to of two unique individuals who made their marks in very be a unique chemistry experience for many: Dr Peter different ways in support of Chemistry in New Zealand. Wothers ‘Chemistry of Light’ extravaganza, with 5 per- formances to be held in Wellington (the last of which will Betty Wignall was Administrative Secretary of the NZIC held during the opening ceremony for BioLive/Chem Ed for 15 years and worked tirelessly with the Canterbury 2015). There are also 3 performances to be held at Palm- Branch in particular over many years. She graciously erston North. Peter Wothers (Cambridge Uni) is a bril- leaves the tangible legacy of a scholarship to support our liant science communicator. Check out his RSC lectures Canterbury PhD Chemistry students, established in 2011. on YouTube. Tony Woolhouse was a gifted synthetic organic chemist Finally, let me introduce our new NZIC office bearers for and a Fellow of our Institute. All who knew Tony (includ- 2015: our 1st Vice-President is Associate Professor Paul ing myself from the early 70s) recognised his ability to Pleiger from the Manawatu Branch and Massey Univer- combine the highest quality science delivery with the sity (who is also co-chair for the 2016 NZIC conference) most extraordinary flair and charisma. and our 2nd Vice President is Professor Penny Brothers I want to draw your attention to two issues active in the from the Auckland Branch. It was abundantly clear dur- 2015 NZ Chemistry scene that featured at our February ing our Council meeting that these experienced research Council meeting. leaders have ideas and drive that will bring great benefit to the aims and outputs of our Institute over the next Pacifichem 2015 will be held in Hawaii this December, few years. with abstract submissions open until early April. With the next domestic NZIC conference scheduled for August Ian Brown 2016 in Queenstown (to be hosted by Massey) the Paci- Callaghan Innovation fichem conference represents the largest and most ac- NZIC President 2015 From the Editor I am pleased to report that competition. As you will notice from the biographical de- the problem I mentioned in tails, the essays have been written by students who are at January of having more mate- various stages of their degree programmes. It is excellent rial than we could publish has to see these submissions from our young future scientists been repeated for April! It is and of course it gives them valuable experience in scien- very encouraging to have again tific writing. Well done to all of the entrants. received additional unsolicited contributions. Thank you to all We also have two articles from Auckland - on antimicro- the authors who were happy to bial peptides and aquatic geochemistry - that were held have their contributions held over from the previous issue, a chemical perspective on over to the next issue, including our regular unremem- the recreational use of geothermal waters in NZ, a review bered chemists and patent proze items which will return of a DVD on Ernest Rutherford and an article on the topic in July. of air pollution which might provoke some controversy - and perhaps generate some Letters to the Editor? Enjoy This issue features Otago students past and present, the the April issue. latter having participated in the annual student essay Cath Nicholson 68 Chemistry in New Zealand April 2015 New Zealand Institute of Chemistry News supporting chemical sciences April News Branch News AUCKLAND The Auckland Branch held its AGM in November 2014 and planned sev- eral activities for 2015 including two events centered on postgraduate students. The AGM was followed by a lecture entitled Bringing drugs to clinical trial from a university setting by Professor Bill Denny. The University of Auckland The School of Chemical Sciences cel- The successful TB drug development team from the Auckland Cancer Society Research ebrated the 100th anniversary of the Centre. From left: Senior Research Fellows Dr Hamish Sutherland, Dr Andrew Thomp- establishment of the Department of son, and Dr Adrian Blaser with Distinguished Professor Bill Denny and Associate Profes- sor Brian Palmer. Chemistry, now the School of Chemi- cal Sciences. The SCS Centenary Cel- ebrations were held on 13-14 March. opment project with the TB Alliance. seminar entitled Ionic liquids for News and highlights from the cel- sustainable chemistry: applications ebrations will be shared in the July The School of Chemical Sciences in the chemical-, materials-, elec- issue of the journal. was well represented at AMN7 (Ad- tro- and bio- sciences was given in vanced Materials and Nanotechnol- the Department by Professor Doug- University of Auckland researchers ogy Conference) held in Nelson in las R. MacFarlane, RSC Australasian were crucial in the development of February with keynote (Professor Lecturer 2014, School of Chemistry, a potential tuberculosis drug (TBA- Kevin Smith and Associate Professor Monash University, Victoria, Austra- 354) that is the first to advance to Cather Simpson) and plenary (Pro- lia on 11 December 2014 (http:// Phase One clinical trials in six years as fessor Jadranka Travas-Sejdic) lec- www.chem.monash.edu.au/ionicliq- was announced by the TB Alliance in tures delivered by staff. SCS students uids). The original seminar advertise- New York in February 2015. TBA-354 (Julie Kho, Nina Novikova and Nihan ment, which includes biographical emerged from the studies conducted Aydemir) won highly commended notes, can be found at: http://www. by the TB Alliance in collaboration poster awards. chem.canterbury.ac.nz/news/semi- with the University of Auckland and nars/2014/McFarlane,%20Douglas. University of Illinois-Chicago. The New Zealand Institute of pdf Advanced Study (NZIAS), Massey “Our chemistry team has worked University, Auckland on this since 2006 when the TB Alli- Postgraduate Student Research ance approached us to help with this Thomas Fallon recently joined Showcase project,” says Professor Bill Denny, Massey University Auckland as the The Department of Chemistry held director of the Auckland Cancer So- new lecturer in organic chemistry. its 4th Postgraduate Student Research ciety Research Centre and a Principal His work is focused around fluxional Showcase on 20 February. This was Investigator in the Maurice Wilkins molecules such as bullvalene. Thom- an afternoon event that celebrated Centre at the University of Auckland. as received his PhD from ANU in Can- the past and prospective research “We made several hundred com- berra and joined the organic chemis- endeavours of our 2nd year post- pounds, from which TBA-354 was try group of Martin Oestreich at the graduate students (PhD). There were selected for clinical development in Technical University of Berlin as an six excellent presentations during 2011. It’s a validation of our work Alexander von Humboldt Fellow. two sessions, given by Fiona Given, designing this compound to create a Kajitha Suthagar, Nathaniel Gunby, Peter Schwerdtfeger has been in- new and improved drug for the treat- Vivek Poonthiyil, Marat Sibaev and vited to deliver the Källen Lecture se- ment of tuberculosis.” A group of five Chris Burn.
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