THE VALCHEMIST                 

Published three times a year by the Connecticut Valley Section   

of the American Chemical Society.

SECTION OFFICERS

Chair    Jon Sanborn

Chair-Elect    Jane Knox

Secretary    Ralph O. Moyer Jr.

Assoc. Secretary .   Julianne M. Smist

Treasurer    Arthur W. Dimock

BOARD OF PUBLICATIONS

Editor    Judith A. Douville

Associate Editor    Jon Sanborn

Advertising Editor    Frederick G. Haibach

Circulation Manager .   Phillip R. Douville

Editorial correspondence and manuscripts should be addressed to

Judith A. Douville, 23 Virginia Drive, Middletown, CT 06457-

4826, or sent via email to jdouville@juno.com. Business

correspondence should be sent to Dr. Frederick G. Haibach, Carr

Laboratory, Mount Holyoke College, South Hadley, MA 01075-

6407, or sent via email to fhaibach@mtholyoke.edu.  Free to

members of the Connecticut Valley Section of the ACS,

libraries, universities, and engineering societies. Single extra

copies may be obtained for 35 cents. To obtain large numbers,

arrangements must be made with the Circulation Manager on or

before the 15th of the month prior to publication. Advertising

schedule furnished on request. Printed in the USA by

Minuteman Press, Avon, CT. Copyright 2004. All rights reserved.

2004 Publication Deadlines:

Winter 2004                                Vol. 46 No. 3                                November 15, 2004

Spring 2005                                 Vol. 47 No. 1                                February 15, 2005

Fall 2005                                     Vol. 47 No. 3                                August 15, 2005

The Valchemist publishes information for members of the

Connecticut Valley Section of the American Chemical Society.

We continue to solicit contributions from all corners of the section,

and would particularly encourage electronic submissions, as follows:

1.               Email: send (a) simple text, in the body of the email

                  message, or (b) using attachments to the email

                  message, either in WordPerfect 6/7/8 or Word 97 or

                  2000. Macintosh documents must be converted to text

                  before sending.

2.               Fax: 860-344-1880 to the editor; please send cover

                  sheet separate from copy.

3.               Floppy disk: document format as in no. 1 above.

Graphics are best submitted as JPEG formatted items. For

problem documents or graphics please telephone the editor:

860-344-1880 (machine always on, home); 860-347-6933 ext.

117 (work).