American Chemical Society

Division of Inorganic Chemistry

SUMMER NEWSLETTER

June 1996
Prepared by Michael J. Clarke, Secretary

ITEMS FOR SPECIAL ATTENTION

1. MESSAGE TO THE DIVISION FROM THE CHAIR, Ken Raymond.
Since the tenure of the Chair of the Inorganic Division is one year, you say "hello" in your first message to the Division and "good-bye" in the second! This year has been a busy one for the DIC Executive Committee. At our meeting in New Orlean s, the Bioinorganic Subdivision played a prominent role in establishing the future relationship of the ACS Inorganic Division with the new Society of Biological Inorganic Chemistry (SBIC) and the associated Journal of Biological Inorganic Chemistry . There seem to be several areas where cooperative and mutually beneficial activity can occur between the DIC and the SBIC.
Having discovered yet again that costs must be decreased and/or income increased in order to balance our budget, we are striving to contai n our largest costs, which are primarily associated with staging programs at national meetings. Nevertheless, the Executive Committee has reluctantly acted to raise DIC dues in order to head off projected deficits. For example, current student dues do no t cover the cost associated with the distribution of abstracts and other information to them.
Finally, the Division has continued to pursue the question of ACS meeting registration fees for postdoctoral fellows. This is in recognition of most postdocs ha ving a status (and income) that is closer to a Ph.D. student than to a professional employee in industry or academe.
Several of these issues will be revisited at the DIC meeting in Orlando and I look forward to your input prior to that meeting.

2. CHANGE IN DIC DUES
In order to balance rising costs of the Division, particularly those involving symposia and programs at ACS National Meetings, the DIC Executive Committee voted to recommend an increase in DIC dues at its meeting this March in New Orleans. T he recommended dues for 1997 are: Members, $12; Division Affiliates, $14; ACS Affiliates, $12 and Student Affiliates, $6. Dues for emeritus members and the DIC Subdivisions remain free. The new dues will be discussed and voted upon at the DIC Membership Meeting at 5:00 pm, Tuesday, August 27. See the events Calendar for the Orlan do ACS Meeting for the meeting room.

3. MESSAGE FROM THE SECRETARY, Michael J. Clarke.
The Division's web site has proved enormously efficient for disseminating informati on about the DIC. Soon, we hope to have an on-line ACS Abstract form available that will indicate whether the authors are DIC members, which will now be given priority for session space at ACS National Meetings. Organizers of meetings and symposium shoul d send the URL regarding their call for papers and meeting program to Clarke@bc.edu, for posting in our meetings lists. The internet address has changed and is now http://www.bc.edu/acs-inorganic (it is always given on the newsletter masthead). The URL f or the Bioinorganic web site is http://sbchm1.sunysb.edu/koch/biic.html, where Steve Koch keeps the latest information on bioinorganic meetings and other happenings. Both sites maintain lists of future meetings for inorganic chemists, which is the most po pular listing. (See the Notes from the Program Chair below, indicating that listings of the INOR papers delivered at ACS National Meetings may soon be available through the DIC web pages.) The next most popular is the DIC membership list, which does not include e-mail addresses. The inclusion of E-mail addresses on membership materials is certainly something the ACS should enact. As yet, there are no Organometallic nor Solid State Subdivision www sites. The DIC site does include a printable form for j oining the DIC subdivisions.

4. NOTES FROM THE PROGRAM CHAIR, Tom Bitterwolf
The program for the Orlando meeting in August is looking slightly smaller than that for New Orleans, but with a very high overall quality. This program will see three major symposia, Micromaterials: From Angstroms to Microns; Mechanisms of Metal-Mediated Biopolymer Cleavage, and Supramolecular Systems, as well as the first Polyhedron Awards symposium, a joint Organic/Inorganic symposium honoring Prof. Robert Bergman for h is recognition as the 1996 A.C. Cope Awardee, and the Exxon Award in solid State Chemistry. General sessions in transition metal and main group chemistry, organometallic, solid state, and bioinorganic are also to be presented.
Oral Session Limitations with Preference for DIC Members . The Division of Inorganic Chemistry programs at national meetings have grown to the maximum size allowed by ACS, so that there is a possibility that oral presentations may be limited at future meetings. The DIC Executive Committee voted at the last me eting to give preference to DIC members, when selecting papers for oral presentation. Authors are encouraged to note on their abstract form whether they are DIC members. If you are not already a member of the DIC, a print -out/mail-in form is available on the DIC WWW site.
WWW INOR Program Listing: The Inorganic Division is working with ACS to place the Inorganic Division's program on the internet as soon as it is completed. Please watch the Inorganic Home Page for information.

5. MESSAGE FROM THE NOMENCLATURE COMMITTEE, Richard Potts
Did you know that your division has a nomenclature committee and that this division has one of the few divisional nomenclature committees in the whole Society? Yet the process for d ealing with nomenclature issues within the Society is that proposals are to be initiated in the divisions and forwarded to the Society's Committee on Nomenclature. The chair of each division's committee is a representative on the Society's Committee and c an present proposals. The Council of the Society has delegated authority to the Society's Committee on Nomenclature to speak for the Society on nomenclature matters and transmit to the National Research Council (NRC) and the International Union of Pure an d Applied Chemistry (IUPAC) its resolutions and reactions. (The NRC is the official USA representative group to the IUPAC.) In the reverse direction, documents which the IUPAC releases for comment or approval come through the Society's Committee on Nomenc lature and are distributed to the divisions for review by experts in the field. The Society's proposals (Seaborgium) and responses to the recent nomenclature activity in the naming of the transfermium elements has originated in this division and the Divisi on of Nuclear Chemistry. The work of this division committee is not insignificant and can have major impact on scientific communication for a long time in the future.

The thanks for the existence of this committee and its important contributions goes to Tom Sloan of the Chemical Abstracts Services. Tom has chaired this committee for over fifteen years and has lent his expertise and devotion to inorganic nomenclature. He has asked for input from division members, represented the division on the Society' s Committee on Nomenclature, and served on the IUPAC inorganic committee. Tom has decided to slow his pace as he approaches retirement and is giving up the chair of the division committee. Inorganic chemists around the country should give Tom a big THANK S! for looking after our chemical language for the past years.

The Chair of the division has appointed me chair of the division's nomenclature committee for a three year term to fill some big shoes. In fulfilling the charge of this committee, I will nee d help. I have asked previous members of the committee to continue serving to take advantage of their experience. However, they too have served long and would like others to step forward. If you have interest in serving, please contact me (below). The committee meets annually at the Fall National Meeting and items requiring input are distributed as they arrive. If you wish not to become a member but would like to provide input on specific topics, please contact me. Recommendations coming down from IUP AC on which inorganic chemists should make comment are fullerene and organometallic nomenclature. If you have interest in making input on these topics, please contact me. The transfermium element names may not yet be settled and require further input fro m us. The work of this division committee has a major impact on scientific communication world wide and this can continue for a long time into the future with the active support of the division membership.

Richard A. Potts, Chair, DIC Nomenclature Commit tee, Department of Natural Sciences, University of Michigan at Dearborn, 4901 Evergreen Rd., Dearborn, MI 48128-1491; Ph: 313-593-5374 Fax: 313-593-4937 e mail: rpotts@sb-f1.umd.umich.edu

6. EXXON FACULTY FELLOWSHIP AWARDED TO PETER DORHOUT
The Solid State Subdivision is happy to announce that Professor Peter Dorhout at the Dept of Chemistry at Colorado State University has been awarded the 1996 Exxon Faculty Fellowship in Solid State Chemistry. Peter will receive a $10,000 award and present some of his research in an invited talk at the Orlando ACS meeting.

7. SOCIETY AND JOURNAL FOR BIOLOGICAL INORGANIC CHEMISTRY
At the New Orleans ACS Meeting, the DIC Executive Committee discussed what relationship should exist between the DIC, the Bioinorganic Subdivision and the newly-formed Society of Biological Inorganic Chemistry (SBIC). The SBIC is a learned society, estab lished to advance research and education in the field of Biological Inorganic Chemistry including: 1. The Journal of Biological Inorganic Chemistry (JBIC). 2. The promotion of training courses, workshops, conferences and other activities to facilitate the exchange of scientific information. 3. Enhancing both the popular and academic understanding and awareness of the significance of Biological Inorga nic Chemistry. Professor Robert Scott, Associate Editor of the JBIC, from the University of Georgia and a member of the SBIC organizing committee, suggested that the DIC and the SBIC might jointly sponsor symposia and that the DIC might p ublicize SBIC meetings in the same way it does ICCC and other meetings. Since some conflict might arise in that Inorganic Chemistry also publishes bioinorganic papers, this will also be discussed at the Inorganic Chemistry editors meeting. The consensus of the Executive Committee was that the DIC would be as supportive as possible of the SBIC's endeavors; but would not directly support the JBIC and that there would be no formal liaison with the SBIC. The DIC Executive Co mmittee passed the following reso lution: "The Division of Inorganic Chemistry through the Bioinorganic subdivision will pursue positive interactions with the Society of Bioinorganic Chemistry (SBIC). We presently envision these to include sponsorship and co-sponsorship of Bioinorganic Symposia within the Division at National ACS meetings and the distribution of information concerning SBIC functions through the Divisional Newsletter." It has also been noted that the gender-specific SBIC/JBIC logo might be objectionable to some chemists and that the organization might consider changing it. Information about JBIC is available at http://science.springer.de/jbic/jbic.html and from the publications section of the DIC www pages.
Springer-Verlag, which publishes the new JBIC, plans to build a synergism with the new journal by spinning off bioinorganic reviews from its Structure and Bonding series into a new review series with the title Topics in Biological Inorganic Chemistry (TBIC), which is intended to provide comprehensive summaries and critical overviews of topics of high current interest in bioinorganic chemistry.

8. INORGANIC INTERNET COURSE MATERIALS (WWW SITES) SOUGHT
Many topics in inorganic chemistry courses are well suited to the medium of the web with it's potential for interactive exploration. If you have, or are developing, a web site for your courses or for research that might be appropriate for student use, p lease send an e-mail message with the URL to Tom Bitterwolf (e-mail: bitterte@osprey.csrv.uidaho.edu). These materials will be posted on the web (naturally) and accessible through the Inorganic Division Web site.

9. ON-LINE CHEMISTRY ConcepTests
DIC members may be familiar with Harvard physicist Eric Mazur's method of interactive instruction: A question is posed in the lecture room and students vote on several possible answers. They then attempt to persuade their neighbor(s) in the classroom tha t their answer is correct, which is followed by a second vote. This gives the instructor feedback on class understanding a nd allows for immediate adjustment of the pace and emphasis of the course. A website of Chemistry ConcepTests for the curriculum has been established, and DIC members are invited to contribute to the bank of questions and to assess their classroom effecti veness. The address is: http://www.chem.wisc.edu/~concept. Correspondence concerning the site may be sent to Art Ellis (ellis@chem.wisc.edu). A symposium on ConcepTests, sponsored by the Division of Chemical Education, will be held at the San Fra ncisco ACS Meeting this coming spring. If you are interested in participating, please contact one of the organizers: Art Ellis, George Lisensky (lisensky@beloit.edu), or DianeBunce (bunce@aol.com).

10. MEETINGS AND SYMPOSIA
E-MAIL announcements of meetings and symposiums of interest to DIC members to: Clarke@bc.edu.

ADVANCED INFORMATION FOR FUTURE ACS NATIONAL MEETINGS
General Papers. Submit the original and three copies of each abstract typed on the standard ACS abstract form to Tom Bitterwolf, Department of Chemistry, University of Idaho, Moscow, ID 83843 4199; e-mail: bitterte@osprey.csrv.uidaho.edu.

A. Orlando, FL, August 25 30, 1996 (Deadline for abstracts: April 19, 1996)
Macromaterials: From Ångstroms to Microns. G. Stucky, University of California, Santa Barbara, CA 93106 [(805) 893 4872, gaalends@sbitp.bitnet].
Supramolecular Systems. D. Coucouvanis, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI 48109 [(313) 764 7339]; R. Pasternack, Swarthmore College [(215) 328-8559].
Mechanisms of Metal Mediated Biopolymer Cleavage. C. Burrows, Univ. of Utah, Salt Lake City, UT 84112, [burrows@chemistry.utah.edu]; J. Chin, McGill University, Montreal, Quebec, Canada H3A 2K6 [(514) 398 6235, ch25@musica.mcgill.ca].
Applications of Inorganic Photochemistry to the Chemical and Biological Sciences . K. S. Schanze Department of Chemistry, Tulane University, New Orleans, LA 70118, [ph: 504-862-3566, Fax: 504-865-5596, schmehl@mailhost.tcs.tulane.edu] and R. H. Schmehl, Organizers (Sponsored by the Div. Chem. Ed.)

B. San Francisco, CA, April 13 17, 1997 (Deadline for abstracts: December 7, 1996)
Spectroscopic Methods in Bioinorganic Chemistry . Organizers: E. I. Solomon, Stanford University, Stanford, CA 94305 [(415) 723-9104, solomon@chem.stanford.edu] and K. O. Hodgson, Stanford University, Stanford, CA 94305.
Inorganic Chemistry and Materials Science. T. Mallouk, Pennsylvania State University, University Park, PA 16802 [(814) 865-6553, tom@chem.psu.edu], D. Keszler, Oregon State University, Corvallis, OR 97331 [(503) 737-6736, keszlerd@ccmail.orst.edu].
Metal-Mediated Enantioselective Transformations. E. Jacobson, Harvard U., Cambridge, MA.

C. Las Vegas, Nevada, Sept. 7-11, 1997 (Deadline for abstracts: April 30, 1997)
Supramolecular Organometallic Chemistry: Organized Assemblies and Liquid Crystals. T. Swager, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PA 19104 [(215) 898-0042, swager@a.chem.upenn.edu]
Electrochemistry in the Characterization of Inorganic, Organometallic and Biologically Systems. K. Mann , University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, MN 55455 [(612) 625-3563, mann@sunchem.chem.umn.edu]]; W. Geiger, University of Vermont, Burlington, VT 05405 [(802) 656-0268, wgeiger@moose.uvm.edu].
Atom Transfer Reactions. R. Morris Bullock, Department of Chemistry, Brookhaven National Laboratory, Upton, New York 11973-5000 [ Ph: (516) 344-4315, Fax: (516) 344-5815, e-mail: rmb@bnl.gov]

D. Dallas, TX, March 29-April 3, 1998

E. Boston, MA, Aug. 23-27, 1998. (Note that this is scheduled for the week preceding the ICCC meeting in Florence).

OTHER FUTURE MEETINGS OF INTEREST TO INORGANIC CHEMISTS

XVIIth INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE ON ORGANOMETALLIC CHEMISTRY
July 7 12, 1996, Brisbane, Australia. Contact: E. Comino, Secretariat, Faculty of Science and Technology, Griffith University, Brisbane 4111, Australia. Phone: +61 7 875 7564 FAX: +61 7 875 5369

6TH INTERNATIONAL MEETING: REACTION MECHANISMS 9-12 July, 1996; University of Kent, Canterbury, UK Contact: Dr J F Gibson The Royal Society of Chemistry Burlington House London W1V 0BN UK Tel: +44 (0)171 437 8656 Fax: +44 (0)171 437 8883

Solid-State Gordon Conference
July 14-18, 1996, New London, NH. Chair. M. Stanley Whittingham, Binghamton, Vice Chair,
Jack W. Johnson, Exxon; Peter Battle, Oxford, Vice Chair (Europe). WWW site: http://imr.chem.binghamton.edu/grc/Grc.html

6TH INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE ON THE CHEMISTRY OF THE PLATINUM GROUP METALS, July 21 26, 1996, York, UK. Contact: J. F. Gibson, The Royal Society of Chemistr y, Burlington House, Piccadilly, London, W1V 0BN, UK. Phone: +44 171 437 8656 FAX: +44 171 734 1227

Gordon RESEARCH Conference ON INORGANIC CHEMISTRY
July 21-26, 1996, New England College, Henniker, NH. Chair. D. Thorn, Central Research & Development Department, E.I. DuPont de Nemours and Co., Inc., Experimental Station, PO Box 80328, Wilmington, DE 19880-0328. Phone: (302) 695-3673. FAX: (302) 695- 9799. E-mail: thorn@esvax.dnet.dupont.com

10TH INTERNATIONAL SYMPOSIUM ON HOMOGENEOUS CATALYSIS
August 11-16, 1996, Princeton, NJ. Chair, Istvan T. Horvath, Exxon Corporate Research, Annandale, NJ. Co-Chair, Prof. John T. Groves, Dept. of Chemistry, Princeton University, Princeton, NJ. Contacts: E-mail: ISHC10 Secretariat, CVCS 71 University Place, Pr inceton University, Princeton, NJ 08540-1003. Phone: (609) 258-3901, Fax: (609) 258-4656, E-mail: ISHC10@pucc.princeton.edu.

31ST INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE ON COORDINATION CHEMISTRY
August 18 23, 1996, Vancouver, BC, Canada. Contact: C. Orvig, Dept. of Chemistry, University of British Columbia, Vancouver, BC, V6T 1Z1, Canada. Phone: (604)822 4449 FAX: (604)822 2847 E mail: orvig@chem.ubc.ca (Preceeds the Orlando ACS Meeting)

IX INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE ON X-RAY ABSORPTION FINE STRUCTURE 26-30 August, 1996; Grenoble, France Contact: XAFS IX Conference Office ESRF BP 220 F-38043 FRANCE Fax: +33 76 88 21 60 Email: XAFS9@esrf.fr

3RD INTERNATIONAL SYMPOSIUM: TRANSITION METALS IN ORGANIC SYNTHESIS 4-6 September, 1996; Imperial College, London, UK Conta ct: DrJ F Gibson The Royal Society of Chemistry Burlington House LONDON W1V 0BN UK Tel: +44 (0)171 437 8656 Fax: +44 (0)171 437 8883

GORDON RESEARCH CONFERENCE ON INORGANIC REACTION MECHANISMS
March 2-7, Ventura California. For information contact Jim Espenson, Iowa State University, Chemistry, Ames Iowa, 50011; 515-294-5730; espenson@ameslab.gov

5TH ACS, EPA AND DELAWARE WORKSHOP ON METAL SPECIATION Spring, 1997; Jekyll Island, Georgia, USA Contact: Dr A.W. Garrison U.S.E.P.A. Environmental Research Laboratory College Station Road Athens Georgia 30613-7799 USA

3RD INTERNATIONAL MEETING ON MOLECULAR MECHANISMS OF METAL TOXICITY AND CARCINOGENICITY Spring 1997; Sardinia, Italy Contact: Professor Max Costa Institute of Environmental Medicine Long Meadow Road Tuxedo New York 10987 USA

8TH INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE ON BIOINORGANIC CHEMISTRY (ICBIC- 8 ) 27 July-1 August, 1997; Yokohama, Japan. Contact: Prof Masanobu Hidai Department of Chemistry and Biotechnology Faculty of Engineering University of Tokyo Hongo 7-3-1 Bunkyo-ku Tokyo 113 Japan Tel: +81 3 3812 2111 (Ext: 7261) Tax: +81 3 5800 6945.

12th INTERNATIONAL SYMPOSIUM ON PHOTOCHEMISTRY & PHOTOPHYSICS OF COORDINATION COMPOUNDS June 28 - July 3, 1997, Saint Michael's College, Colchester, Vermont 05439. For further information contact: 12th ISPPCC, Department of Chemistry, Saint Michael's College, Colchester, VT 05439or E-mail: VANHOUTEN@SMCVAX.SMCVT.EDU

INTERNATIONAL BIOMETALS SYMPOSIUM University of Calgary, Calgary, Alberta, Canada, August 10-14, 199 7. Organizers: Edward J. Laishley, University of Calgary; Gunther Winkelmann, Universitat Tubingen; Larry L. Barton, Univ. of New Mexico. Contact: Margaret-Anne Stroh, Olympic Volunteer Centre, 1833 Crowchild Trail, NW; Calgary, Alberta T2M 4S7, Canada. Phone: (403) 220-6229; Fax: (403) 284-4184.

32nd INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE ON COORDINATION CHEMISTRY
Santiago, Chile, August 24 - 29, 1997, Organizer: Juan Costamagna

TENTH INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE ON CYTOCHROME P450: Biochemistry, Biophysics and Molec ular Biology. August 21-26, 1997, Marriott Hotel (tentative) and Moscone Center, San Francisco, CA, USA. The Conference will be a satellite meeting of the 17th International Congress of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology Contact: Professor John H. Dawson, Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry, University of South Carolina, Columbia, SC 29208 USA 803-777-7234 (Phone), 803-777-9521 (Fax), Dawson@psc.sc.edu (Email)

XIIth FECHEM CONFERENCE ON ORGANOMETALLIC CHEMISTRY Aug 31 - Sept 5, 1997. Prague, Czech Republic. For information contact: J. Hetflejs, Conference Secretary Institute of Chemical Process Fundamentals AS CR; 16502 Prague 6-Suchdol, Czech Republic E-mail: FECHEM@icpf.cas.cz

CHEMISTRY OF METAL IONS IN BIOLOGICAL SYSTEMS April, 1997; Albufeira, Portugal Chairman: R N F Thorneley (Sussex, UK) Vice Chairman: M Fontecave (Grenoble, France) Contact: R N F Thorneley Nitrogen Fixation Unit University of Sussex Falmer Brighton Sussex BN1 9RQ UK Tel: +44 161 0273 678130 Fax: +44 1 61 0273 678133 Email: THORNELEYR@BBSRC.AC.UK

Fifth Chemical Congress of North America
November 11-15, 1997, Cancun, Mexico . (Symposium schedule not completed. Deadline for abstracts: April 30, 1997) Congress Manager: Christine Pruitt, congress Manager, c/o ACS, 1155 16th St. NW, Washington, D.C. 20036. Phone: 202 872 4397. Fax: 202 872 6128. E-mail: cpp91@acs.org.

33rd INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE ON COORDINATION CHEMISTRY (ICCC-33)
Florence, August 31- September 9, 1998

9th International Conference on Bioinorganic Chemistry (ICBIC 9)
University of Minnesota, Twin Cities Campus, St. Paul/Minneapolis, Summer 1999
Organizer: Lawrence Que. Contact. Susan Burke at (612) 625-3530; email: sburke@mail.cee.umn.edu
Web Site. http://bioinorg.chem.umn.edu/

10. DISCOUNTS ON COPIES OF MECHANISTIC BIOINORGANIC CHEMISTRY
DIC members can purchase copies of Mechanistic Bioinorganic Chemistry, edited by H. Holden Thorp and Vincent L. Pecoraro (ACS Adv. Chem. Series #246) by using the form below. Only orders submitted on this form will be honored.

11. Chemists with Disabilities . The American Chemical Society is seeking chemists, chemical engineers, and those who work in the chemical sciences with disabilities to be profiled in a booklet that will illustrate how those with mobility, visual, speech, hearing, chronic health, invis ible, and learning disabilities can work productively in the chemical professions. The booklet will also show through photographs and illustrations the successful strategies and workplace modifications used by chemists with disabilities. If you are willing to be interviewed for possible inclusion in the booklet, please contact Allison Edmondson by e-mail, a_edmondson@acs.org. You may also phone her at 800/227-5558 x2120; or write to her at the American Chemic al Society, 115516th St., NW, Washington, DC 20036.

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