http://chicagoacs.org MAY • 2008 THE NINETY-SEVENTH PRESENTATION OF THE WILLARD GIBBS MEDAL (Founded by William A. Converse) to PROFESSOR CAROLYN R. BERTOZZI sponsored by the SECTION AMERICAN CHEMICAL SOCIETY FRIDAY, MAY 9, 2008 Carriage Greens Country Club DINNER 7:00 P.M. function and medical diagnostics. 8700 Carriage Greens Drive Darien, IL 60561 Dinner reservations are required. To Acceptance of the Award 630-985-3400 reserve your tickets, please call the Chicago Section office at 847-647-8405 From Chicago: or register at http://ChicagoACS.org Take the Stevenson Expressway (I-55) by Tuesday, May 6 and pay $45 at the west past the Tri-State Tollway (I-294) door, or fill out the reservation form on and exit north on Cass Avenue. Turn page 7 and mail it with your payment of left on the North Frontage Road. Follow $45 by Wednesday, April 30 to the the frontage road alongside I-55 to Car- address given on the form. If you have riage Greens Drive. Turn right on Car- not paid dues to the Local Chicago riage Greens Drive and proceed to the Section ($15 per year), the price is $47. country club. Note: Professors must make reserva- tions for their students ($22.50). From Milwaukee or the north: (continued on page 2) Take I-94 East to I-294 South. Stay on I-294 to I-55 West. Go west to Cass AWARD CEREMONY 8:30 PM Avenue. Exit northbound on Cass and Dr. Carolyn R. Bertozzi turn left on the North Frontage Road. The Willard Gibbs Medal T.Z. and Irmgard Chu Distinguished Follow the frontage road alongside I-55 Professor of Chemistry and Professor to Carriage Greens Drive. Turn right on Dr. David S. Crumrine, Chair of Molecular and Cell Biology, Universi- Carriage Greens Drive and proceed to Chicago Section, ACS ty of California, Berkeley the country club. Introduction of the Medalist ACCEPTANCE ADDRESS From Northern Indiana or the south: Take I-294 North to I-55 West. Head Presentation of the Medal and Citation “Chemistry in Living Systems: west to Cass Avenue and follow the Shedding Light on Glycans” directions above. The Citation: Abstract: A majority of cell surface Parking: Free For profiling changes in cell surface and secreted proteins are posttransla- glycosylation associated with cancer, tionally modified by the addition of gly- RECEPTION 6:00-7:00 P.M. inflammation and bacterial infection; for cans. These complex structures can Hors-d’oeuvres exploiting this information for develop- provide information regarding the state Champagne Punch and Non-alcoholic ment of diagnostic and therapeutic of health of cells or organisms. Indeed, Punch approaches; and for developing changes in the structures of protein- nanoscale technologies for probing cell (continued on page 2) 5/08 2 (continued from page 1) (continued from page 1, column 2) NOTICE TO ILLINOIS and cell surface-associated glycans are TEACHERS Tables of 10 may be reserved. If you a hallmark of many cancers, chronically request seating for a group, please inflamed tissues, and microbial infec- The Chicago Section ACS is an include a list of names of the people in tions. The ability to probe glycosylation ISBE provider for professional your group and their meal choices. in living systems may therefore reveal development units for Illinois teach- Tickets and nametags will be available new biomarkers of disease and provide ers. Teachers who register for this at the door. No refunds will be made new avenues for diagnostic imaging. month's meeting will have the after noon, on Tuesday, May 6. We are developing chemical technolo- opportunity to earn up to 3 CPDU's. gies for visualizing glycans in living sys- THE MENU: Caesar Salad; a choice of tems. As products of secondary Seared Medallions of Beef with Bur- metabolism, glycans are constructed REGISTER ONLINE for gundy Reduction Sauce, Broiled from simple monosaccharide precur- Chicago Section Atlantic Salmon with Bearnaise Sauce, sors. We exploit these metabolic path- or Pasta Primavera; Twice Baked ways to incorporate bioorthogonal monthly meetings www.ChicagoACS.org Potato and Whole Baby Green Beans; chemical reporters into glycans. The Peach Cobbler; Wine chemical reporters comprise small func- tional groups, such as the azide, that can be detected by covalent reaction with highly selective probes. New chemical reactions have been devel- oped for this purpose, such as the Staudinger ligation with phosphines and strain-promoted [3+2] cycloaddition with functionalized cyclooctynes. Applica- tions of the technique to the identifica- tion of cancer-associated glycan biomarkers and noninvasive imaging are currently being pursued.

THE MEDALIST Carolyn Bertozzi is the T.Z. and Irm- gard Chu Distinguished Professor of Chemistry and Professor of Molecular and Cell Biology at UC Berkeley, an Investigator of the Howard Hughes Medical Institute, and Director of the Molecular Foundry, a nanoscience insti- tute at the Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory. She completed her under- SMALL BUSINESS IN THIS ISSUE graduate degree in Chemistry from Har- INNOVATION RESEARCH 1 — Gibbs Banquet and vard University in 1988 and her Ph.D. in PROGRAM Chemistry from UC Berkeley in 1993. Meeting After completing postdoctoral work at Are you starting a new science busi- 2 — Notice to Illinois Teach- UCSF in the field of cellular immunolo- ness? Finding funding for your innova- gy, she joined the UC Berkeley faculty tive venture can be challenging. SBIR ers in 1996. or Small Business Innovation Research 2 — Small Business Innova- Prof. Bertozzi’s research interests is a program that will help jump start tion Research span the disciplines of chemistry and your new science business. iBIO, the biology with an emphasis on studies of Illinois Biotechnology Organization, pro- 3 — ChemShorts for Kids: cell surface glycosylation pertinent to vides workshops periodically through- Periodic Tables disease states. Her lab focuses on pro- out the year. For more information 3 — Important Notice filing changes in cell surface glycosyla- about the next SBIR seminar contact tion associated with cancer, inflamma- Ann Reed at iBIO Institute 3 — Join Us at the Fair! tion and bacterial infection, and exploit- ([email protected]) or Lisa 4 — LAN ing this information for development of Kurek of Biotechnology Business Con- 5 — diagnostic and therapeutic approaches. sultants ([email protected]). In addition, her group develops The next iBIO Institute SBIR workshop 6 — Another Scientist in the nanoscience-based technologies for will be held in Chicago this April. House probing cell function and for medical National conferences coming up are on 6 — Science Debate 2008 diagnostics. July 22-23 in Atlanta, GA and Nov 12- 14 in Hartford, CT (http://www.sbir. 6 — Send in Your Email gov/events/). Address! For more details please read the sum- 7 — Gibbs Dinner Coupon mary of the January iBIO workshop, http://www.ibio.org/members/ 7 — Ad Index only/atibio/2008-01/sbirwork 8 — Calendar shop.html 5/08 3

Groups of Elements Periodic Table -- May, 2008 Vol. 95, No. 5. Published (http://chemistry.about.com/library/ by the Chicago Section of The Ameri- weekly/blgroups.htm). If you click a link can Chemical Society, Editorial Staff: on this table you get information about Cherlyn Bradley, Editor; Fran Kravitz, The Elementary Education Committee the group to which the element belongs. Associate Editor; Fadwa Al-Taher and of the Chicago Section ACS presents Richard Treptow, Proofreaders; Frank this column. They hope that it will reach Fireworks Periodic Table -- Jarzembowski, Publications Business young children and help increase their (http://chemistry.about.com/library/w Manager. Address: 7173 North science literacy. Please cut it out and eekly/blfireworks.htm). Clicking an Austin, Niles, Illinois 60714; 847/647- pass it on to your children, grandchil- element will tell you how it is used in 8405. Subscription rates: $15 per dren, or elementary school teachers. 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Mendeleev arranged rows and columns All past “ChemShorts” are at We will send you the link to each so that elements were grouped accord- http://membership.acs.org/C/Chica- issue by email. You will have the ing to their recurring (periodic) proper- go/ChmShort/kidindex.html. option to not receive the email notifi- ties. Mendeleev's table forms the basis cation, and you will still be able to for the modern periodic table of the ele- reach each issue through the Sec- ments, which lists the elements in order tion web page. You also will still of increasing atomic number while have the option of receiving a paper grouping them according to periodic copy of The Chemical Bulletin for a properties. But there isn't just one mod- small additional fee. More details will ern periodic table of the elements. be given in The Chemical Bulletin Unless you want a table that is impossi- and also at the Chicago Section web ble to read, there is a limit to the num- page: www.chicagoacs.org. 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Our joint-sections' tent activities pro- net searches; a nice one that is particu- vide information to the public on chem- lar to our age group is http://www. istry with demos, hand-on activities, lit- chem4kids.com/files/elem_intro.html. erature, and give-aways. This fun and worthwhile outreach project gives us a Printable Periodic Tables -- chance to show the positive aspects of (http://chemistry.about.com/od/perio- chemistry to many Illinois citizens and dictableelements/a/printperiodic.htm). governmental leaders. Last year, over This is a collection of several different 10,000 people visited our tent! versions of the periodic table to which We particularly need volunteers to you can save or print. help during the fair. Student affili- DID YOU KNOW? ates and other student volunteers Periodic Table Image Gallery -- are welcomed! If you are interested in (http://chemistry.about.com/od/peri- helping us for a few hours (you do get odictables/ig/Periodic-Tables/). 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Baekeland 1913 1982 named for Professor Josiah Willard 1914 John D. Roberts 1983 Gibbs (1839-1903) of Yale University. Arthur A. Noyes 1915 Elias J. Corey 1984 Gibbs, whose formulation of the Phase Willis R. Whitney 1916 Donald J. Cram 1985 Rule founded a new science, is consid- Edward W. Morley 1917 Jack Halpern 1986 ered by many to be the only American William M. Burton 1918 Allen J. Bard 1987 born scientist whose discoveries are as William A. Noyes 1919 Rudolph A. Marcus 1988 fundamental in nature as those of New- F. G. Cotrell 1920 Richard B. Bernstein 1989 ton and Galileo. Mme. 1921 Richard N. Zare 1990 Mr. Converse supported the award 1923 Gunther Wilke 1991 personally for a number of years, and Gilbert N. Lewis 1924 Harry B. Gray 1992 then established a fund for it in 1934 1925 Peter B. Dervan 1993 that has subsequently been augmented Sir James Colquhoun Irvine 1926 M. Frederick Hawthorne 1994 by the Dearborn Division of W. R. John Jacob Abel 1927 Sir John Meurig Thomas 1995 Grace & Co. J. Fred Wilkes and his wife William Draper Harkins 1928 1996 have also made considerable contribu- Claude Silbert Hudson 1929 1997 tions to the award. 1930 Mario J. Molina 1998 Since the sale of the Dearborn/Grace Phoebus A. Levene 1931 Lawrence F. Dahl 1999 division to Betz, the BetzDearborn Edward Curtis Franklin 1932 Nicholas J. Turro 2000 Foundation, located in Horsham, Penn- Richard Willstatter 1933 Tobin J. Marks 2001 sylvania has most generously offered to Harold Clayton Urey 1934 Ralph Hirschmann 2002 continue the historic relationship Charles August Kraus 1935 John I. Brauman 2003 between the Section and Dearborn. 1936 2004 This Foundation has contributed annu- Herbert Newby McCoy 1937 David A. Evans 2005 ally since the purchase toward the Robert R. Williams 1938 Jacqueline Barton 2006 Willard Gibbs Medal Fund to help Donald Dexter Van Slyke 1939 Sylvia T. Ceyer 2007 defray the cost of the medal and of the Vladimir lpatieff 1940 banquet itself-helping to make the ban- Edward A. Doisy 1941 quet award the outstanding and gra- Thomas Midgley, Jr. 1942 Process cious event that it is. We are most Conrad A. Elvehjem 1943 appreciative of their support. George O. Curme, Jr. 1944 Technology The purpose of the award is "To pub- Frank C. Whitmore 1945 Engineering licly recognize eminent chemists who, 1946 through years of application and devo- Wendell M. Stanley 1947 www.processtechnologyengineering.com tion, have brought to the world develop- Carl F. Con 1948 ments that enable everyone to live Peter J. W. Debye 1949 more comfortably and to understand Carl S. Marvel 1950 this world better." Medalists are select- William Francis Giauque 1951 ed by a national jury of eminent William C. Rose 1952 THINKY mixers chemists from different disciplines. The Joel H. Hildebrand 1953 Degas and Mix at the nominee must be a chemist who, Elmer K. Bolton 1954 because of the preeminence of his work 1955 same time in seconds. in and contribution to pure or applied 1956 chemistry, is deemed worthy of special W. Albert Noyes, Jr. 1957 recognition. Willard F. Libby 1958 The award consists of an eighteen- Hermann I. Schlesinger 1959 carat gold medal having, on one side, George B. Kistiakowsky 1960 the bust of J. Willard Gibbs, for whom Louis Plack Haminett 1961 the medal was named. On the reverse 1962 is a laurel wreath and an inscription Paul D. Bartlett 1963 containing the recipient's name. lzaak M. Kolthoff 1964 Ask about our Free Given annually for ninety-six years, Robert S. Mulliken 1965 Demonstration or Trial… the recipients span nearly a century of Glenn T. Seaborg 1966 Develop a mixing solution in chemistry. Most of the names are famil- 1967 iar to chemists regardless of specialty. 1968 your lab with your materials. This fame may result from later recogni- 1969 Contact: tion, including, in many cases, the Frank H. Westheimer 1970 Nobel Prize. Another reason for the 1971 Mike Pfeifer - 847-714-9214 familiarity of these names may be that John T. Edsall 1972 [email protected] textbooks have permanently associated Paul John Flory 1973 Bill Kidder – 763-568-2992 5/08 6 BILL FOSTER WINS – SCIENCE DEBATE 2008 Put your business card here ANOTHER SCIENTIST IN THE As scientists, we know that science Reach prospective clients by HOUSE and technology lie at the center of a advertising in The Chemical Bulletin very large number of the policy issues ...... I followed the congressional race in facing our nation and the world - issues For more information, call the 14th Illinois congressional district that will profoundly affect our national the Section office (847) 647-8405 with some interest because (1) it is and economic security as science and or e-mail at nearby; (2) the former leader of the technology continue to transform our [email protected] House Republicans, Dennis Hastert, lives. Many believe that in the coming was their representative until Republi- years, the US could lose its edge with- cans lost control of the house; and (3) a out increasing its dependence on sci- physicist was running as a Democrat to ence and technology. Some of these YOUR SECTION NEEDS succeed Hastert. He was running science and technology issues include against Jim Oberweiss, who lost the climate change, energy, stem cell YOUR EMAIL ADDRESS!! Republican primary election for Gover- research, scientific innovation and sci- We need your e-mail address in nor last year. The election was held on ence education. A growing number of order to better communicate with you. a Saturday, March 8, which is unusual voters and scientists had been pushing The Chicago Section is investigating for any election in Illinois. for a Science Debate in April at the ways to reduce the Section budget so It is always interesting when a scien- Franklin Institute in Philadelphia, PA. more money can be used in mem- tist is running for office or gets involved The date and location of this event ber’s programs such as education, in any way in politics, because public coincided with the Pennsylvania prima- community outreach, and other pro- office is not one of those vocations that ry of April 22. Whether the debate hap- gram areas. One way is to change come to scientists as a natural part of pened or not (and as of early March, the Chemical Bulletin to an electron- their profession as it does for lawyers, none of the candidates had accepted ic version this year. This does not and to a lesser extent, business people. and no television network had agreed mean there will not be a paper ver- This evening, (Tuesday, March 11), I to broadcast this debate) organizers sion of the Chemical Bulletin, but the just happened to turn on C-SPAN. Bill insist that simply raising awareness of idea is to reduce our printing and Foster ran, and won, the race to repre- issues such as climate change serves a mailing costs. sent the 14th District and I watched as purpose. The American Chemical Soci- Please send your e-mail address he was sworn in. He was elected to fin- ety has signed on as one of the sup- with your name, phone number, and ish out the last 9 _ months of a 2-yr porters of “Science Debate 2008.” ACS membership number to the Sec- term, so he really won’t have the Please visit the website to get more tion office at chicagoacs@ chance to stop campaigning long information about the science debate ameritech.net. If you change your enough to do much serious law-making. and utilize every method to continue to email address, please let us know! We I was curious, because I know there advocate the use of science and tech- do not share this information with other are several physicists in the House, but nology in your deliberations prior to vot- organizations. I know of no chemists. Two well known ing. physicists who have been around for a while are Vern Ehlers (R, Mich, 3rd) http://www.sciencedebate2008.com/ and Rush Holt (D, NJ, 12th). I knew www/index.php there were others, so I “Googled” and ERROR brought up a list of about a dozen legis- We regret that the term "Abstract" in lators who have science, engineering, DID YOU KNOW? "Chemical Abstracts Service" was not and medical backgrounds. always in plural in the March issue as Oh yes, the site that gave me the list Soap has been around for 2,000 is appropriate. We were unaware that of representatives is called the “Curious years. Archaeologists discovered an we had done this until it was pointed Cat Science and Engineering Blog,”-- ancient soap-making area in Egypt that out to us by a member of the CAS see below. The only chemist in this is about 3,500 years old. Before there staff. Our sincere apology. group is Rep. John W. Olver (D, MA). was soap, people just washed with Rep. Olver has been in congress for a water or cleaned themselves with oil. Jim Shoffner number of years. I’ll certainly be watch- Cherlyn Bradley ing this November to see if Bill Foster retains his seat. http://engineering.curiouscatblog.net /2008/03/09/scientists-and-engineers- in-congress/

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AMERICAN CHEMICAL SOCIETY CHICAGO SECTION 2008 WILLARD GIBBS MEDAL AWARD PRESENTATION FRIDAY, MAY 9, 2008

You and your guests are cordially invited to attend the 97th presentation of the Josiah Willard Gibbs medal to Professor Carolyn Bertozzi, the T.Z. and Irmgard Chu Distinguished Professor of Chemistry and Professor of Molecular and Cell Biology, University of California, Berkeley, on Friday, May 9, at Carriage Greens Country Club, 8700 Carriage Greens Drive, Darien, IL 60561. A social hour begins at 6 PM. Dinner is served at 7 PM. Dr. Bertozzi’s talk will begin at approximately 8:30 pm.

After a social hour with Hors-d’oeuvres and both Champagne Punch and Non-alcoholic Punch, dinner on this special occasion includes Caesar Salad; a choice of Seared Medallions of Beef with Burgundy Reduction Sauce, Broiled Atlantic Salmon with Bearnaise Sauce, or Pasta Primavera; Twice Baked Potato and Whole Baby Green Beans; and Peach Cobbler, as well as Wine.

To reserve your tickets, please call the Chicago Section office at 847-647-8405 or register at http://ChicagoACS.org by Tuesday, May 6 and pay $45 at the door, or fill out the attached reservation form and mail it with your payment of $45 by Wednesday, April 30 to the address below. If you have not paid dues to the Local Chicago Section ($15 per year), the price is $47. Tables of 10 may be reserved. If you request seating for a group, please include a list of names of the people in your group and their meal choices. Tickets and nametags will be available at the door. No refunds will be made after noon on Tuesday, May 6, 2008.

The Gibbs Award Dinner is always a memorable occasion. Only the Nobel Prize is considered more prestigious. Please come to salute the recipient and rejoice in Dr. Bertozzi’s achievements in and contribution to the science of Chemistry.

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May 6-9: The Consumer Specialty Product Association

AE MATERIAL DATED DELAY NOT DO (CSPA) Mid-Year Meeting, Chicago, IL. Contact Ann Wheeler at (202) 872-8110; email:[email protected]. Website: www.cspa.org.

May 8: The Society for Applied Spectroscopy is hosting an all day workshop at the McCrone Group, 850 Pasquinelli Drive, Westmont, IL. The focus of the workshop is atomic spectrscopy (AA, ICP-AES and ICP-MS). Registration deadline is May 2. For more information, go to www.sas- chicago.org.

May 9: Chicago Section's Gibbs Award Banquet. See information and reservation coupon in this issue.

June 18 - July 2: 2008 Science History Tour to France. Contact Lee Marek at [email protected] or Yvonne Twom- ey at [email protected].

June 20: Chicago Section's luncheon meeting. The Distin- guished Service Award will be presented and the 50-year members will be honored.

June 24-26: 12th Annual Green Chemistry & Engineering Conference, Washington, D.C. For more information, call (202) 872-6102, email: [email protected]. Web- site: www.gcande.org.

July 7-11: 60th Anniversary Inter/Micro Conference focused on applied microscopy, hosted by the McCrone Research Institute will be held in Chicago at the Millennium Knickerbocker Hotel. For information, contact Lauren Logan at [email protected] or go to www.mcri.org.

July 27-31: 20th Biennial Conference on Chemical Educa- tion, Bloomington, IN. For further information, email [email protected]. Website: bcce2008indiana.edu.

August 8-17: ACS Illinois Sections’ cooperative tent pro- ject at the Illinois State Fair. For further information on this fun and worthwhile outreach activity, contact the Section office at (847) 647-8405.

August 17-21: The 236th ACS National Meeting & Exposi- tion, Philadelphia, PA. Website:acs.org.

September 19: Chicago Section's Education Night jointly with Loyola University.

October 13: The International Coatings Expo: ICE 2008, Chicago, IL, For information, call (610) 940-0777. Website: www.coatingstech.org.

October 24: Basolo Medalist Lecture at Northwestern Uni- versity and dinner at Zhivago's.

October 25: Chicago Section’s Chemistry Day at Loyola University. U. S. POSTAGE Permit No. 171 Nonprofit Organization

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December 12: Chicago Section's Holiday Party jointly with the Chemists' Club and Iota Sigma Pi.