http://chicagoacs.org FEBRUARY • 2008 CHICAGO SECTION AMERICAN CHEMICAL SOCIETY Joint Meeting of the Illinois Institute of Technology Department of Chemistry and the Chicago Section ACS Kilpatrick Lecture and Banquet FRIDAY, FEBRUARY 22, 2008 Illinois Institute of Technology PARKING: The closest parking lots are JOB CLUB: 5:00 - 6:00 P.M. McCormick Tribune Campus Center the Visitor's Parking Lot A4 immediately Auditorium and Ballroom MTCC north of the MTCC and Lot D1 immedi- SOCIAL HOUR: 5:30 - 7:00 P.M. 3201 South State Street ately south (across 33rd street) of the Cash Bar Chicago, IL MTCC. Parking is free after 7 p.m. in Lots A4 and D1. Before 7 p.m., parking PRE-DINNER TALK 6:00 - 7:00 P.M. DIRECTIONS TO THE MEETING is metered. "Highly Efficient Syntheses of There is free street parking on both Mechanically Interlocked Molecules" The IIT McCormick Tribune Campus sides of 30th street (for a block west presented by Dr. William R. 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More 90/I-94) east and exit at 31st Street, details will be given in The Chemical continue to 33rd Street, turn left (west) Bulletin and also at the Chicago onto State Street. Section web page: www.chicago acs.org. We would also like to hear Dr. Fraser Stoddart, a Trustees Pro- By Public Transportation: about your thoughts and guidance fessor at Northwestern University, Both the Red and Green Lines serve IIT as we make this change; please Evanston, IL with stations at 35th street. Several send comments and questions to: CTA buses running on State Street stop change@ mychemist.net. (continued on page 2) at the MTCC. 2/08 2 (continued from page 1) gy on the nanoscale level. It is an his more than 790 publications have approach to nanoscience and nan- been cited over 500 times, 11 over 300, Kilpatrick Lecture otechnology that relies fundamentally 54 over 100, and 155 over 50. For the Title: "Chemistry and Molecular Nan- upon concept transfer from the life sci- period from January 1997 to February otechnology in Tomorrow's World" ences into materials science. 28, 2007, he is ranked by the Institute for Scientific Information as the third Molecular compounds, comprised of Speaker's Biography: Fraser Stoddart most cited chemist with a total of mechanically interlocked components, received his BSc (1964) and PhD (1966) 12,840 citations from 293 papers at a can now be obtained efficiently using degrees from Edinburgh University. In frequency of 43.8 citations per paper. template-directed protocols that rely 1967, he went to Queen’s University He has given almost 700 plenary/invit- upon supramolecular assistance to (Canada) as a National Research Coun- ed lectures. During 37 years, over 280 covalent synthesis. Since the weak non- cil Postdoctoral Fellow, and then, in PhD and postdoctoral students have covalent interactions that orchestrate 1970, to Sheffield University as an Impe- passed through his laboratories and the synthesis of such compounds (e.g., rial Chemical Industries (ICI) Research been inspired by his imagination and catenanes and rotaxanes) containing Fellow, before joining the academic staff creativity, and more than 60 have sub- mechanical bonds live on between the as a Lecturer in Chemistry. He was a sequently embarked upon successful components inside the molecules there- Science Research Council Senior Visit- independent academic careers. after, they can be activated such that ing Fellow at the University of California, their components move with respect to Los Angeles (UCLA) in 1978. After each other in either a linear fashion spending a sabbatical (1978-81) at the (e.g., the ring component along the rod ICI Corporate Laboratory in Runcorn, he returned to Sheffield where he was pro- of the dumbbell component of a rotax- NOTICE TO ILLINOIS ane as in a molecular shuttle) or a rotary moted to a Readership in 1982. He was manner (e.g., one ring in a [2]catenane awarded a DSc degree by Edinburgh in TEACHERS circumrotating through the other ring as 1980 for his research into stereochem- istry beyond the molecule. In 1990, he The Chicago Section ACS is an in a bistable switch). Thus, [2]rotaxanes ISBE provider for professional can be likened to linear motors and took up the Chair of Organic Chemistry at Birmingham University and was Head development units for Illinois teach- [2]catenanes to rotary motors. More- ers. Teachers who register for this over, these molecules can be activated of the School of Chemistry there (1993- 97) before moving to UCLA as the Saul month's meeting will have the by switching the recognition elements opportunity to earn up to 4 CPDU's. on and off between the components Winstein Professor of Chemistry in 1997. chemically, electrically, and optically In July 2002, he became the Acting Co- such that they perform motions (e.g., Director of the California NanoSystems shuttling actions or muscle-like elonga- Institute (CNSI). On May 1, 2003, he tions and contractions) reminiscent of was appointed the Director of the CNSI the moving parts in macroscopic and assumed the Fred Kavli Chair of machines. Such motor-molecules and NanoSystems Sciences. On January 1, molecular machines hold considerable 2008, he became a Trustees Professor promise for the fabrication of sensors, at Northwestern University. actuators, amplifiers and switches at the Stoddart is one of the few chemists of nanoscale level. the past quarter of a century to have Professor Stoddart and his research created a new field of organic chemistry group work primarily in four different – namely, one in which the mechanical areas, recognizing that chemistry is bond is a pre-eminent feature of molec- about three M's — Making, Measuring ular compounds. and Modeling: (1) unnatural product His work has been recognized by synthesis that is either kinetically or many awards, including the Carbohy- thermodynamically controlled; (2) physi- drate Chemistry Award of The Chemi- cal organic chemistry, principally as it cal Society (1978), the International relates to chemical topology and Izatt-Christensen Award in Macrocyclic supramolecular phenomena; (3) design Chemistry (1993), the American Chemi- and construction of artificial molecular cal Society’s Cope Scholar Award machinery, with actuators and switches (1999), and the Nagoya Gold Medal in particularly in mind; (4) the application Organic Chemistry (2004). of nanoscale chemistry to fundamental In addition to being made an Honorary problems at the interfaces with materi- Professor at the East China University als science and the life sciences. of Science and Technology in Shanghai During the past two decades, the and the Carnegie Centenary Visiting Stoddart group has demonstrated how Professor at the Scottish Universities in the emergence of the mechanical bond 2005, Stoddart has been awarded in chemistry has brought with it a real named lectureships by more than 40 prospect of integrating a bottom-up universities. He went on Royal Society approach, based on self-assembly and Lecture Tours of the USSR and Japan self-organization of motor-molecules, in 1986 and 1987, respectively, and has with a top-down approach, based on been knighted by Queen Elizabeth. micro- and nanofabrication, to create Some measure of the influence and nanomechanical systems in order to impact of Stoddart's work may be harness, manipulate and transfer ener- drawn from citation statistics. Four of 2/08 3 1. borax crystals will be clear), but it will stain the eggshell behind February, 2008 Vol. 95, No. 2. Pub- the crystals, giving the geode lished by the Chicago Section of some color. Neon green coloring The American Chemical Society, looks great. Editorial Staff: Cherlyn Bradley, Edi- The Elementary Education Committee tor; Fran Kravitz, Associate Editor; of the Chicago Section ACS presents To Grow the Crystals: Fadwa Al-Taher and Richard Trep- this column. 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