CINTACS Newsletter of the Cincinnati Section of the American Chemical Society October, 2008 Vol. 46, No. 2 Meeting Calendar October Event: Oesper Award Oct. 22 Science Café Banquet, Poster Session & Symposium @ Hofbrauhaus, Newport at the University of Cincinnati Oct. 19-25 National Chemistry Week “Having a Ball with October 24, 2008 Chemistry” Oct. 24 Oesper Award Banquet Great Hall & Symposium Tangeman University Center @ Univ. of Cincinnati University of Cincinnati Dec. 4 J. Francisco, Purdue U. @ Xavier University Sponsored by the University of Cincinnati, Jan. 14 Sara Risch, Mich. St. U. Department of Chemistry @ Givaudan Feb. 11 Chemist of the Year @ Miami University The 2008 Ralph & Helen Oesper Symposium and Mar. 11 S. Corriher, Food Chemist Banquet will be held at Tangeman Center of the University of Joint with Dayton section Cincinnati on Friday, Oct. 24. The annual Oesper Poster Ses- sion will also be held at UC on Oct. 24. Apr. 15 Education Awards Night @ NKU The Oesper Symposium will honor Professor Alan G. May ? Party Night Marshall of Florida State University as this year’s Oesper Riverboat or Reds game Award winner. The title of Professor Marshall’s presentation In this issue is, “The Quiet Revolution of Ultrahigh-Resolution Mass Spectrometry.” October mtg. announcement 1 From the Chair 2 The Oesper Banquet will also take place on Friday, Oesper poster session invitation 3 Marshall to receive Oesper Award 3-4 Oct. 24 and will feature Nobel Laureate Sir Harold Kroto Prof. Marshall’s abstract 4 (also of Florida State University) as the after-dinner speaker. Kroto to speak at Oesper banquet 5 Professor Kroto’s topic will be, “Kentucky Fried Creationism National Chemistry Week 5, 7, 9-10 and Other Food for Thought.” Sarquis receives ACS award 6 Note from the editor 6 More details & information on pages 3—5. Call for section meeting sponsors 7 ACS Member Network 8 (Continued on Page 3) ScienceCafé on drinking water 8 Chem Info Update 11 CINTACS NEWSLETTER 2 THE CINTACS NEWSLETTER From the Chair Vol. 46, No. 2 October, 2008 I am pleased to announce the ChemLuminary Awards th Editor.....................................Kevin Ashley received by members of the Cincinnati Section on August 19 Advertising.......... …………..Ed Hunter at the Philadelphia National ACS Meeting. CINTACS is published eight times a year Mickey Sarquis (MU-Middletown) received the Helen M. (September through May; but no issue in Free Award for Public Outreach. Also, the 39th Central Re- November) by the Cincinnati Section of the American Chemical Society. The submission gional Meeting (CERMACS 2007) won the Outstanding Re- deadline will be approximately November 10 gional Meeting Award from the Committee on Meetings and for the December 2008 issue. Electronic submission is strongly preferred. All Expositions. Congratulations to Joe Caruso and the CER- materials should be sent to: MACS Committee. Joe provided a poster on CERMACS 2007. The Cincinnati Section was nominated for two other ChemLu- Dr. Kevin Ashley CDC/NIOSH minary Awards, in Outstanding Industrial Involvement and in 4676 Columbia Parkway the Outstanding Teacher Program. The Outstanding Teacher Mail Stop R-7 Program won. Congratulations to Susan Hershberger and the Cincinnati, OH 45226-1998 Tel.: (513) 841-4402; Fax: (513) 458-7189 committee. Susan provided a poster on the Science Café event. E-mail: [email protected] Thanks to Kathy Gibboney and Jim Knittel helping with the posters at the ChemLuminary program. ACS Cincinnati Section October is an exciting month for the Section. National Chemistry Week (NCW) is celebrated October 19-25 by chemi- Chair: cal demonstrations in the area’s library branches and at the Cin- Roger Parker cinnati Museum Center. Please help Keith Walters and Heather 513-771-3613 Bullen (NKU) with NCW. A Science Café (Susan Hershber- [email protected] ger) Q & A on our Drinking Water will be held at the Hofbrau- haus in Newport on October 22 (Water or Beer?). The Oesper 1st Vice Chair & Chair-Elect: Award Banquet and Symposium is October 24th at the Univer- Susan Hershberger 513-727-3438 sity of Cincinnati. Sir Harold Kroto, Florida State University [email protected] (FSU) will speak. Congratulations to Alan Marshall (FSU), the 2008 Oesper Award winner. 2nd Vice Chair: Joseph Francisco, Purdue University will give two talks at Jeanette Krause the December 4th meeting at Xavier University. 513-556-9226 January 14, 2009 we meet at Givaudan. Sara Risch, [email protected] Michigan State University, will speak on the chemistry of T&A (Taste and Aroma). Secretary: February 11 we honor the Technician and Chemist of the Rich Mullins Year at the Miami University campus in Oxford. 513-745-3361 th [email protected] On March 11 , my favorite food chemist and cook, Shirley Corriher, will speak at our joint meeting with Dayton. Treasurer: (site TBD). Ramona Quintanilla April 15th is Education Awards Night at Northern Ken- 513-627-8411 tucky University. Presentations will be given by Mickey and [email protected] Jerry Sarquis. See you at a Public Library, the Hofbrauhaus and at the Trustee (Chair): Oesper Banquet. Emel Yakali 513-745-5686 -Roger Parker [email protected] CINTACS NEWSLETTER 3 (Continued from Page 1) Prof. Alan G. Marshall 2008 Oesper Awardee In addition to Professor Marshall’s Oesper Award address, the symposium will also feature the following speakers: The Department of Chemistry at the Uni- Professor Hilkka Kenttamaa versity of Cincinnati, Purdue University and the Cincinnati Sec- tion of the ACS will present the 2008 Oesper Professor Neil Keller Award to Professor University of Illinois Alan Marshall from Florida State University Professor Michael Bowers at the Oesper Banquet University of California at Santa Barbara and Symposium at UC, October 24, 2008. Professor Jack Beauchamp California Institute of Technology Biography: Alan G. Marshall was born in Bluffton, Ohio in 1944, and grew up through high school in San Professor Roman Zubarev Diego. He entered the then-new six-year medical pro- gram at Northwestern University in 1961, persisted Uppsala University, Sweden through the first year of medical school, and then left to complete his B.A. degree with Honors in Chemistry in → Mark your calendars now! 1965. He completed his Ph.D. in Physical Chemistry from Stanford University in 1970, working with John Baldeschwieler on both NMR and ICR projects. He OESPER POSTER joined the Chemistry faculty at the University of Brit- SESSION: 2nd ish Columbia (Vancouver, Canada) in 1969. While in Canada, Alan was ace hitter for the 1978 Canadian Call for Submissions Men's Open Volleyball National Champion team. He moved to Ohio State University in 1980 as Professor of It is time again to present your research at Chemistry and Biochemistry and Director of the Cam- th pus Chemical Instrument Center. In 1993, he moved the 28 Ralph & Helen Oesper Poster Session to Florida State University, where he is Robert O. to be held at the University of Cincinnati, Fri- Lawton Professor of Chemistry and Director of the Ion day, October 24, 2008 in the Great Hall of Cyclotron Resonance Program, supported by NSF as a Tangeman University Center. The poster ses- national user facility. Although he has published ex- sion is open to any student who would like the tensively in several areas of spectroscopy, he is best opportunity to present current research. Please known for his co-invention and continuing leading de- submit abstracts (single spaced, 100 words or velopment of Fourier transform ion cyclotron reso- less not including references) or questions nance (FT-ICR) mass spectrometry. His major recog- about the poster session to Heather Trenary at nitions include: Fellow of American Physical Society, [email protected] by October 15, 2008; Fellow of American Association for the Advancement of Science, Fellow of the Society for Applied Spectros- an email conformation of abstract receipt will copy; three American Chemical Society national serve as registration for the poster session. awards (Chemical Instrumentation, Field-Franklin For more information about all the Oesper Award, and Analytical Chemistry Award); two Spec- events log on to: http://www.che.uc.edu/ troscopy Society of Pittsburgh Awards (Hasler Award alumni_community/oesper/default.html (Continued on next page) CINTACS NEWSLETTER 4 (Continued from previous page) The Quiet Revolution of Ultrahigh-Resolution Mass and Spectroscopy Award); the American Society for Mass Spectrometry Distinguished Contribution Spectrometry Award; the International Society for Mass Spec- trometry Thomson Medal; and the Chemical Pioneer Alan G. Marshall Award from American Institute of Chemists. He is a Florida State University former President of the American Society for Mass Spectrometry, and serves on several editorial boards. ABSTRACT: Every molecule has mass: thus, a He has published four books, four patents, and 450 mass spectrum is potentially a universal detec- refereed journal articles, and has presented 1,400 tor. Ultrahigh-resolution broadband mass re- talks/posters at conferences, universities, government solving power (m/Dm50% > 400,000, available labs, and industry. His papers have been cited only with Fourier transform ion cyclotron reso- 16,000 times. Of his 103 former Ph.D.'s and post- nance) has two important advantages. First, it docs, 29 have gone on to academic positions. His becomes possible to separate complex mix- current research spans FT-ICR instrumentation de- tures (see Figure) without prior chroma- velopment, fossil fuels and environmental analysis, tographic or gel separation. Second, elemen- and mapping the primary and higher-order structures tal composition, CcHhNnOoSs…, may be deter- of biological macromolecules and their complexes. mined from accurate (to better than 1 ppm) mass measurement alone for unknown mole- The 2008 Oesper Symposium & Banquet will be cules up to ~1,000 Da. At higher mass, bio- held on Friday, Oct. 24. The Oesper Symposium macromolecular primary and higher-order will feature Prof.