ANAHEIM -- The Dodgers are aware of the perception among outsiders that they are playing beyond their abilities in maintaining the lead in the National League West without Matt Kemp and Mark Ellis.

"We could care less what other people feel," versatile and productive veteran Jerry Hairston said. "Even when we were back in [Spring Training] camp, we felt we were going to be in every ballgame. Let's do things to win ballgames; that's how we looked at it. We've got to keep doing that.

"We have guys who know how to play the game, guys who have played a long time and been around the game their whole lives. We understand how to move a guy over, make the right play. Probably the most important part is the pitching; they've kept us in ballgames.

"We always pull for each other. It's a very unselfish group."

Hairston, who drove in one of the runs in a 3-1 victory over the Angels on Saturday and was given Sunday off by manager Don Mattingly, is batting .300 since returning from the DL (left hamstring strain) on May 25. He has started 37 games at four positions and is clutch with a .353 average from the seventh inning on.

ANAHEIM -- A versatile bench filled with veteran role players is more essential in the National League game, with its late-game maneuvering, than in the American League with its designated hitter. The Dodgers have loaded manager Don Mattingly's bench with a group of coolly competitive athletes fully aware of their roles.

"There is a thought to it," Mattingly said before Sunday's Interleague finale against the Angels. "The guys we brought in, we feel like they are kind of role players now. We wanted to make sure they've accepted that first, that you're not going be an everyday player."

Jerry Hairston, Adam Kennedy and Matt Treanor were free-agent acquisitions, while Bobby Abreu arrived after the Angels released him. Elian Herrera has shaken off the stereotype of career Minor Leaguer to emerge as an invaluable all-purpose player. Brilliant defensively with enough offense to hold his own, Tony Gwynn is as good as any fourth outfielder in the game.

"We can mix and match off the bench," Mattingly said. "With Jerry Hairston and Adam Kennedy, they're not coming in trying to knock somebody off his perch. They're good with playing four times out of seven [games]. In the National League game, you're in every game. You want guys who want to be in winning environments, playing for something -- not guys who are just playing out a year."

Hairston feels Abreu's role sliding into the No. 3 spot in the order in Matt Kemp's absence has been especially important. The Dodgers are 9-6 with Abreu hitting third, the role he's spent most of his career in while racking up borderline Hall of Fame numbers.

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Emmy Award winner Mario Andreacchio. Picture: Mangan Chris Source: AdelaideNow

EMMY Award winner Mario Andreacchio has managed to secure the feature rights to The Alchemyst, the first in Michael Scott's six-book series The Secrets of the Immortal Nicholas Flamel.

It's big news for Adelaide's Mario who runs AMPCO Films out of Norwood, as the complete series of the books has sold in excess of 25 million copies, and the latest one, The Enchantress, has already reached No.2 on the New York Times best sellers list. Hunger Games is No.1.

Mario, of Napoleon and The Dragon Pearl fame, and Konstantin Thoeren will produce the film.

Mario tells Confidential the film does not yet have a studio and it is unsure whether some of it will be filmed in SA, using the South Australian Film Corp's Adelaide studios.

"This type of franchise is rare for Australia," Mario says. "We are not wired up to think that we can do a Harry Potter, or a Twilight or a Hunger Games. But then, no one thought Peter Jackson could do Lord of the Rings in New Zealand.

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— What is that chemical?

A couple of years ago, a letter popped up in the Chemistry World inbox, wondering about the identity of a chemical-looking logo on the Technicals line of outdoor gear from UK chain Blacks. General concensus at the time was that it could represent some kind of stylised neurochemical, but strictly the logo looked like a saturated hydrocarbon.

Well, two years and an undergraduate synthesis project later, another letter has arrived…

— Blacks logo synthesis

Mark Cockerton at Plymouth University in the UK took up the challenge to synthesise the logo hydrocarbon. Under the supervision of Simon Belt, Cockerton used Friedel-Crafts acylation of ortho-xylene and two rounds of hydrogenation to reduce out the ketone and benzene ring functionality, leaving the bare bones hydrocarbon ‘logo chemical’ as shown in the synthetic scheme here.

To me, this is a fine example of the importance of communication to science – through whatever channels that happens, and gives me a warm, fuzzy feeling that somehow our original correspondent, the people who commented on the blog and myself have helped inspire someone to do some new chemistry. Not only that, but in doing so, we may have helped guide a budding chemist on the way to exploring chemistry further. In his letter, Cockerton says:

Good luck to you, Mark, in your further studies and exploration of the world of chemistry. However, there still remains one conundrum – what is the logo meant to represent in the first place? I guess this will forever be one of those unanswered questions…

Phillip Broadwith

                  

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Research and Markets (http://www.researchandmarkets.com/research/x554w7/analytical_methods) has announced the addition of John Wiley and Sons Ltd's new book "Analytical Methods in Supramolecular Chemistry, Second, Completely Revised and Enlarged Edition, 2 Volume Set" to their offering.

The second edition of "Analytical Methods in Supramolecular Chemistry" comes in two volumes and covers a broad range of modern methods and techniques now used for investigating supramolecular systems, e.g. NMR spectroscopy, mass spectrometry, extraction methods, crystallography, single molecule spectroscopy, electrochemisty, and many more. In this second edition, tutorial inserts have been introduced, making the book also suitable as supplementary reading for courses on supramolecular chemistry. All chapters have been revised and updated and four new chapters have been added.

A must-have handbook for Organic and Analytical Chemists, Spectroscopists, Materials Scientists, and Ph.D. Students in Chemistry.

From reviews of the first edition:

"This timely book should have its place in laboratories dealing with supramolecular objects. It will be a source of reference for graduate students and more experienced researchers and could induce new ideas on the use of techniques other than those usually used in the laboratory." Journal of the American Chemical Society (2008) VOL. 130, NO. 1 doi: 10.1021/ja0769649

Key Topics Covered:

Preface

List of Contributors

1 Introduction

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Along with teaching chemistry, Burtt also was a passionate bird watcher and wrote a weekly column for The Post-Standard for more than 50 years.

Benjamin P. Burtt Sr., who taught chemistry at Syracuse University for nearly 50 years, had such an influence on his students that they decided to honor his memory in a special way by recreating his famous Water Lecture.

The lecture, which he gave to freshmen every year shortly before finals, was a joke presentation that he did seriously, including demonstrations that go wrong and an explosion. Students say it was funny and a great stress reliever.

Burtt, who died in February at age 91, influenced many students to love chemistry so much that they went on to become chemistry teachers.

One of his former students, Jamie Cucinotta, a Fayetteville-Manlius chemistry teacher since 1997, has taken a lead role in coordinating the special event on Thursday.

She, along with East Syracuse Minoa chemistry teacher Sally Mitchell and SU chemistry professor Michael Sponsler, will re-enact the lesson at 7 p.m. at Syracuse Universitys Stolkin Auditorium.

The event, sponsored by the Syracuse Section of the American Chemical Society, is open to the public. It also will include recognition of U.S. and local National Chemistry Olympiad exam takers and others being honored for achievements in chemistry.

Cucinotta said Burtts legacy lives on through the scores of chemistry students he taught and influenced.

Cucinotta, who was Mitchells mentor and master teacher, said she believes Burtts influence inspired many chemistry teachers. At the event, which has been named as the Ben P. Burtt Lecture Series, students and teachers who have made a difference in chemistry also will be honored.

Cucinotta said Burtt was was a very good, intense teacher, she said. and he tested on what he taught.

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Joseph Uichico said yesterday chemistry is an issue the Philippine team must address quickly in preparing for the Southeast Asian Basketball Association (SEABA) championships set in Chiang Mai, Thailand, on July 3-7.

Uichico, 49, will call the shots for the national squad in his first stint as head coach since piloting the Philippines to fourth place at the Asian Games in Busan in 2002. He has captured six titles for San Miguel Beer and two for Barangay Ginebra in the PBA so winning isnt new to the former La Salle cager, now Meralco assistant coach.

But the problem he faces is getting the team together for practice with the departure looming on July 1. Center Marcus Douthit is still in the US and wont be back until early next week. There are players in the 24-man lineup submitted to the SEABA for notification not sure of their availability.

Under SEABA rules, each participating country must initially turn in a 24-man lineup which is then trimmed to 12. The final roster will be confirmed at the team managers meeting on July 2 and may not necessarily be the reduced 12-man cast. The only requirement is the players in the final roster must be picked from the original 24-man pool.

The 24-man pool includes players from the PBA. However, if the teams of the listed PBA players remain in contention in the Governors Cup, they will be excluded from the final 12. The Governors Cup elimination schedule ends July 1. Only players from eliminated PBA teams will be considered for the final roster. Smart Gilas head coach Chot Reyes said the PBAs participation in the SEABA tournament will be clarified in a Board of Governors meeting on June 28. He declined to name the PBA players in the 24-man pool pending notification of the Board and team owners.

Uichico said the reduced 12-man lineup submitted to the SEABA included NLex mainstays Borgie Hermida, Dave Marcelo, Garvo Lanete, Eman Monfort and Woody Co, Cebuana Lhuillier center Vic Manuel, Philippine Patriots forward and Smart Gilas veteran Aldrech Ramos, Smart Gilas captain Chris Tiu and Douthit. Included in the 24-man pool were two other NLex stalwarts Cliff Hodge and Chris Ellis.

We got together just last Monday and we werent even complete, said Uichico. Were hoping to get in some practice time Friday (today) and Saturday. Then, well try to arrange practice games. Were playing La Salle on Thursday at PhilSports Arena and were also playing Ateneo. This is a brand-new team were forming. Its not Gilas, its not Sinag. The talent level isnt as high as either Gilas or Sinag but I think if we get the chemistry we want, well be okay. This tournament is like a bridge to get us to the Stankovic Cup in Tokyo where the best Asian national teams will be playing. Only the SEABA champion will go to Tokyo. Well be playing only four games in Chiang Mai so its a short tournament.

The Philippines has won five of the last six SEABA championships since 2001 and the only miss was in 2005 when Malaysia won with the Philippines disqualified from participation because of its FIBA suspension. Aside from the Philippines and Malaysia, the other SEABA contenders are Thailand, Indonesia and Singapore.

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*EPA Honors 2012 Presidential Green Chemistry Challenge Award Winners*

WASHINGTON June 18, 2012: Today the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency recognized innovative chemical technologies that have the potential to prevent pollution in the United States. These awards recognize leading researchers and industrial innovators who create safer and more sustainable chemical designs, processes, and products that reduce the need to use chemicals that pollute the environment and threaten Americans' health. The awardees were honored during the 17th Annual Green Chemistry Challenge Awards Ceremony in Washington, D.C.

"EPA congratulates the 2012 winners for designing, developing, and implementing these innovative green chemistry technologies that will help create more sustainable industries and greener, safer products to protect people's health and the environment," said Jim Jones, EPA's acting assistant administrator for the Office of Chemical Safety and Pollution Prevention. "These are exciting technologies that have great potential to improve the safety of the detergents and personal care products we use in our homes; reduce energy consumption and hazardous waste in industrial metal production processes; improve the paper goods and plastics we use daily so that they are made with a smaller environmental footprint and can be recycled more effectively; and even a potential alternative to BPA-based can linings,"

The Presidential Green Chemistry Challenge Awards include five categories: Academic, Small Business, Greener Synthetic Pathways, Greener Reaction Conditions and Designing Greener Chemicals.

This year, EPA is recognizing two winning academic technologies: Robert M. Weymouth, PhD, Stanford University, Stanford, Calif., and James L. Hedrick, PhD, San Jose, Calif., for organic catalysis -- an innovation that removes hazardous metals used in the production of plastics. The technique creates a safer end product that allows bottle-to-bottle recycling, thereby providing an opportunity to reduce the millions of pounds of plastics that end up in landfills.

Geoffrey W. Coates, PhD, Cornell University, Ithaca, N.Y., for synthesizing biodegradable polymers from carbon dioxide and carbon monoxide that can be used in a wide range of adhesives, foams, plastic and potentially lead to the development of a BPA-alternative for use in can linings.

In the small-business category, Elevance Renewable Sciences, Inc., Woodridge, Ill., is being recognized for the production of high-performing, green specialty chemicals at advantageous costs. These green chemicals can be produced with less energy, significantly reduced greenhouse gas emissions compared to petrochemical technologies, and used in a wide range of consumer and industrial products and processes.

Winners in the "Greener Reaction Conditions, Designing Greener Chemicals, and Greener Synthetic Pathways," categories include:

Cytec Industries Inc., Woodland Park, N.J. for MAX HT "Bayer Process" scale inhibitor products that result in a drastically more energy efficient and less hazardous process for the production of alumina, a raw material for making aluminum. Application of this technology can result in reducing hazardous acid waste by millions of pounds annually and preventing billions of pounds of CO2 from being released into the atmosphere.

Buckman International, Inc., Memphis, Tenn., for enzymes to be used in papermaking that modify the cellulose in wood to increase the number of "fibrils" that bind the wood fibers to each other. The innovation produces paper with improved strength and quality without additional chemicals or energy. The process also allows papermaking with less wood fiber and higher percentages of recycled paper, enabling a single plant to save $1 million per year.

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VANCOUVER , June 19, 2012 /CNW/ - CanAlaska Uranium Ltd. (TSX - CVV) ("CanAlaska" or the "Company") is pleased to announce assay and trace element geochemistry results for the Grid 5 winter drilling program at its West McArthur project, a 50/50 joint venture between the Company and MC Resources Canada Ltd., a subsidiary of Japan's Mitsubishi Corporation (See also News Release - April 13 th, 2012). The seven drill holes completed during the program, comprising total drilling of 6,421.5 metres, tested targets along six kilometres of conductive trends located immediately SW of the new uranium discovery at Read Lake (See Cameco's website description of its Read Lake project and Saskatchewan Geological Assessment Report #74H-0065).

For maps click here: http://www.canalaska.com/s/News.asp?ReportID=531725

Drill holes WMA028 and WMA034 produced very positive results for uranium. Both intersected parts of a highly-altered graphitic pelite unit and are thought to be within 50 metres of the targeted conductor, which was identified from the down-hole geophysical surveys.

The targets generated at the eastern end of Grid 5 matched and extended a historical conductor, which was drill-tested by Uranerz in 1989. Neither of the two historical drill holes intersected their targeted basement conductor, but, significantly, contained dravite clay and pyrite along with narrow, steep, clay rich fault gouges/breccia in the top 350-400 metres of the sandstone column. In one historical hole, the upper 400 metres of sandstone showed anomalous uranium and trace elements. Drill holes WMA028 and WMA034 are located in this area. Both show deep alteration into the basement rocks, indicating and confirming a substantial hydrothermal alteration system.

Drill hole WMA028 intersected a series of fracture zones and faults between 80 metres and 335 metres above the unconformity, and a geochemical halo (U, As, Ni)reaching 23 metres above the unconformity In drill hole WMA034, the geochemical halo extended 360 metres above the unconformity (U, B, As, Ni, Cu in the first 125 metres, followed by As only for the next 235 metres). Below the unconformity, WMA028 and WMA034 intercepted multiple graphitic pelites and semi-pelites, with up to 35% disseminated graphite, as well as graphite-rich breccia zones with up to 60% graphite in the matrix. The borehole EM surveys indicate that neither of these holes intercepted the main conductor on which they were targeted.

Drill hole WMA028 (see Figure 2) shows a series of fracture zones and faults from 450 metres to 730 metres down-hole, associated with hydrothermal bleaching. The last 25 metres of sandstone are enriched in uranium, arsenic and nickel associated with Mg-chlorite and sudoite alteration. The basement rocks are clay altered. A radioactive peak of 1,220 cps (counts per second) in probing at 786.55 metres corresponds to one metre at 0.014 % U3O8, associated with anomalous nickel, arsenic, cobalt, copper, and gold values (see table). A radioactive peak of 1,165 cps occurs at 790.4 metres. This assayed 0.030 % U3O8 over 0.5 metres. The borehole EM survey indicates that any follow-up drilling should target the main graphitic unit which is imaged just to the south of the intersection.

Drill hole WMA034 (see Figure 3) has a strong geochemical halo combining uranium, nickel copper, and arsenic which reaches 360 metres above the unconformity. It also shows stronger hydrothermal alteration signature in the last 20 metres of sandstone, but less structural disturbance than drill hole WMA028. The strong geochemical halo at the base of the sandstone is associated with bleaching, disseminated and sooty pyrite and faulting.

The basement rocks in drill hole WMA034 contain graphitic pelites, but the borehole EM survey indicates the target is 50 metres north of the drill hole. A radioactive peak just below the unconformity corresponds to 0.5 metres at 0.013 % U3O8 in a six metre zone of metal enrichment (nickel, arsenic, cobalt, and copper) starting immediately below the unconformity. There is a 6-metre zone of graphitic breccia with multiple fracture events from 929.3 to 935.3 metres and clay (kaolinite) alteration to the bottom of the hole.

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WASHINGTON, June 18, 2012 News media and others interested in advancing the role of green chemistry can join a panel discussion on Wednesday, June 20, during the 16th annual Green Chemistry & Engineering Conference. From 9:30 to 11:45 a.m. (EDT) the American Chemical Society Green Chemistry Institute (ACS GCI) will provide live streaming video of "Advancing Global Green Chemistry The Role of Government, Business and Academia." To participate, click here.

This free event will allow ACS GCI to utilize state-of-the-art technology to further enhance the profile and importance of green chemistry while linking the global green chemistry community. All green chemistry enthusiasts, including chemists, engineers, researchers, policy analysts, managers/directors, venture capitalists, chemistry and engineering students, chemistry and business school professors and others are encouraged to participate.

Panelists Include:

Each panelist will provide a 15-minute presentation followed by a 10-minute question-and-answer session. Virtual audience members will submit questions for the panelists via a secure web server, and a moderator will assist the panelists with the flow of questions and responses.

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Please click here to register. Advance registration enables attendees to submit questions before the session and to receive a reminder email and password the day before the session.

The American Chemical Society is a nonprofit organization chartered by the U.S. Congress. With more than 164,000 members, ACS is the world's largest scientific society and a global leader in providing access to chemistry-related research through its multiple databases, peer-reviewed journals and scientific conferences. Its main offices are in Washington, D.C., and Columbus, Ohio.

The ACS Green Chemistry Institute is an organization focused on catalyzing and enabling the implementation of green chemistry and engineering throughout the global chemical enterprise. ACS GCI operates industrial roundtables; conducts conferences, seminars and training; maintains an international network of 26 green chemistry chapters; and with its partner NSF International, led the effort to establish the first consensus standard for greener chemical products and process information in the United States.

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Andrew Garfield and Emma Stone

Emma Stone and Andrew Garfield had 'instant chemistry'.

The couple began dating after meeting on the set of 'The Amazing Spider-Man' and the actress loved working closely with the actor on the superhero movie and hoped their close bond is reflected in their characters.

Emma - who plays Gwen Stacy - said: 'It was really great to work with Andrew. We just had instant chemistry as soon as we were on set and I think it was great to be able to build that relationship.'

Emma has previously worked with hunky actors including Penn Badgley in 'Easy A' and Ryan Gosling in 'Crazy, Stupid, Love' and jokingly claimed she only agrees to appear in films with 'hot' co-stars.

Speaking at the UK premiere of 'The Amazing Spider-Man' in London's Leicester Square this evening (18.06.12), she told BANG Showbiz: 'I only seem to work with hot men and it''s pretty great to get that contractually written.'

The 23-year-old beauty also admitted she much prefers the 'romance' element to 'The Amazing Spider-Man' as she was more comfortable shooting those scenes than getting to grips with anything physical.

She said: 'The romance is my favourite part of filming because I don't do the action quite as well.'

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PRINCETON, N.J., June 18, 2012 /PRNewswire/ -- Covance Inc. (CVD) today announced that Steve Street, Ph.D., has joined the company as Global Vice President and General Manager, overseeing Covance's worldwide safety assessment and pharmaceutical chemistry services. He will be based in Harrogate, UK.

Dr. Street, with more than 27 years of experience in biopharmaceutical R&D, joins Covance from Pfizer, Inc., where he served as Vice President and Head of two global R&D units the Research Centers of Emphasis and Continuous Improvement. In these roles, he led the company's high-performing technology and operations group to increased portfolio development speed and project survival, ultimately creating a positive impact across multiple therapeutic areas, including chemistry and biology outsourcing, innovation, and new indications. During his tenure at Pfizer, Dr. Street also served as Head of the company's Worldwide Chemistry Discipline.

"Steve's keen strategic insights and exceptional R&D background will benefit Covance as we refine our global presence and strengthen our scientific expertise in early development," said Deborah Tanner, Executive Vice President and Group President, R&D Laboratories, Covance. "Science is at the core of everything we do, and the addition of a leader like Steve allows us to continue to meet clients' needs in this increasingly complex industry and, ultimately, remain the drug development partner of choice."

"Covance is known for its continuous global innovation in development, superior quality of products and services, and long-standing client relationships, all of which are essential elements for sustained success in today's highly competitive R&D landscape," said Dr. Street. "With an increasing focus on outsourcing, this is a very exciting time to transition from pharma to a contract research organization, and I am proud to join the industry leader. I look forward to learning from and working with a talented, dedicated group of new colleagues at Covance."

Dr. Street is a Fellow of the Royal Society of Chemistry, a member of the American Chemical Society, and recently served as a visiting Professor of Chemistry at the University of Nottingham, UK. He received a doctorate from Leeds University in the UK.

Covance generates more new drug development data than any other organization in the world. The company offers the industry's broadest and most integrated portfolio of R&D services, offering flexible, milestone-based solutions and full development solutions in clinical pharmacology, early clinical development, and molecule development.

About Covance

Covance, with headquarters in Princeton, New Jersey, is one of the world's largest and most comprehensive drug development services companies, with annual revenues greater than $2 billion, global operations in more than 30 countries, and more than 11,000 employees worldwide. Information on Covance's products and services, recent press releases, and SEC filings can be obtained through its website at http://www.covance.com.

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Statements contained in this press release (and in the webcast announced in this press release), which are not historical facts, such as statements about prospective earnings, savings, revenue, operations, revenue, earnings growth, and other financial results are forward-looking statements pursuant to the safe harbor provisions of the Private Securities Litigation Reform Act of 1995. All such forward-looking statements including the statements contained herein regarding anticipated trends in the Company's business are based largely on management's expectations and are subject to and qualified by risks and uncertainties that could cause actual results to differ materially from those expressed or implied by such statements. These risks and uncertainties include factors described in the Company's filings with the Securities and Exchange Commission including its Annual Report on Form 10-K and Quarterly Reports on Form 10-Q. The Company undertakes no duty to update any forward looking statement to conform the statement to actual results or changes in the Company's expectations.

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Cytec Wins EPA Presidential Green Chemistry Award

Woodland Park, New Jersey, June 18, 2012 - Today, Cytec Industries Inc. (CYT) was awarded the top honor in green chemistry, the Presidential Green Chemistry Challenge Award. The award, created by the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA), recognizes companies that have pioneered sustainable technologies that incorporate the principles of green chemistry. Cytec`s MAX HT scale control technology enables greener conditions within the Bayer process, a process used for converting bauxite ore to alumina, the primary raw material for aluminum. The innovation reduces pollution at the source in addition to reducing energy use and waste generation. "Cytec has been a pioneer in developing innovative solutions for the mining industry while maintaining a focus on sustainable technologies. We are honored to receive such a prestigious award from the EPA," said Shane Fleming, Cytec`s Chairman, President, and CEO.

Today`s green chemistry award recognizes one of the many technology innovations Cytec has achieved within its In Process Separation business segment. MAX HT Bayer Sodalite Scale Inhibitor is the first scale inhibitor product in the market for this application and solves a legacy production challenge within the alumina industry. This technology provides benefits by reducing or eliminating the scale formation in heat exchangers resulting in higher heat transfer rates while reducing energy consumption and waste generation. "The realized energy saving for the combined customers currently utilizing our MAX HT technology is approximately 47 trillion Btu, which is the equivalent of up to 8 billion pounds of carbon dioxide (CO2) not released to the atmosphere," said Martin Court, Cytec`s Vice President, In Process Separation business. Martin added, "Fewer cleaning cycles also result in a realized annual hazardous waste reduction of up to 200 million pounds in total for all of the current operations using this product."

Cytec`s sustainability strategy is focused on developing innovative and environmentally sustainable products that compete in a global economy; achieving the highest standards of safety, health and environmental stewardship and operational excellence. The company uses business-specific market drivers and best practices to drive the sustainability efforts.

Corporate Profile Cytec`s vision is to deliver specialty chemical and material technologies beyond our customers` imagination. Our focus on innovation, advanced technology and application expertise enables us to develop, manufacture and sell products that change the way our customers do business. Our pioneering products perform specific and important functions for our customers, enabling them to offer innovative solutions to the industries that they serve. Our products serve a diverse range of end markets including aerospace composites, structural adhesives, automotive and industrial coatings, electronics, inks, mining and plastics.

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Platform for cyclizing peptides promises to increase efficiency of early-stage drug discovery

BOSTON , June 18, 2012 /CNW/ - Encycle Therapeutics, a MaRS Innovation spin-off company, has created a ground-breaking chemistry platform for cyclizing peptides that promises to increase the efficiency of the early-stage drug discovery process.

Peptides have long been sought after as therapeutics due to their high specificity they can hit specific cellular targets, especially complex protein-protein interaction targets implicated in cancer, cardiovascular disease and metabolic disorders.

In their linear form, however, peptides are unstable. When used as drug-delivery agents, they break down before reaching therapeutic targets or fail to permeate cell walls, presenting a long-standing challenge to medicinal chemists.

Encycle's breakthrough chemistry platform stabilizes linear peptides for drug development by cyclizing them. This process has demonstrably increased the drug-like properties of these molecules, increasing their stability in the body and providing a higher degree of cell permeability. The platform adapts to any linear peptide input and has the power to generate libraries of compounds to facilitate drug discovery and development.

This technology, discovered in Professor Andrei Yudin 's chemistry laboratory at the University of Toronto , will be developed with the collaboration of Professor Eric Marsault, specialized in medicinal chemistry at the Institut de Pharmacologie de Sherbrooke of Universit de Sherbrooke. Together, they will demonstrate that Encycle's foundational chemistry technology functions for a wide variety of peptides and that the platform can hit therapeutic targets of interest. Encycle will then be well positioned to pursue discovery-stage relationships with the pharmaceutical partners involved in the project around targets of their choosing.

"It costs over $1 billion to bring a new drug to market under the current high through-put pharmaceutical discovery model," says Yudin, professor of Chemistry at U of T and Encycle Founder. "Instead of randomly searching millions of compounds, Encycle's platform will allow us to design a peptide molecule with small molecule properties, such as stability and cell permeability, while remaining more likely to interact with a targeted therapeutic area. In theory, this approach would save time, money and reduce overhead risk."

"The approach pioneered by Andrei Yudin is remarkable for its efficiency in the synthesis of macrocycles, which are otherwise very difficult to reach and thus difficult to exploit in drug discovery," says Marsault. "This collaboration will unlock the potential of this class and provide much-needed new classes of drug candidates able to mimic the natural structural elements of proteins."

"This innovative project is a successful result of our established commitment towards technology transfer of excellent research and partnering with the private and public sectors," says Jacques Beauvais , vice-rector of research at the Universit de Sherbrooke.

The project has received $1 million in seed funding, largely derived through The Qubec Consortium for Drug Discovery's funding programs, and has attracted interest from four pharmaceutical companies.

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The saltpetre men of the 17th century could be described as the first biochemists. But they could also be described as a ‘rowdy and undesirable’ lot, hated and feared for the disruption and distress they caused in their search for their precious namesake. Lars Ohrstrom tells the story of potassium nitrate in this week’s Chemistry in its element podcast.

                  

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Ward Hill, MA - Alfa Aesar, a Johnson Matthey Company, is pleased to announce the addition of a variety of compounds for use in click chemistry reactions to its expanding range of bio products.

Click chemistry is a newer approach to synthesis that makes use of simple, rapid and reliable reactions. It has several benefits over other synthesis approaches such as being orthogonal to conventional methods and occurring under relatively mild conditions. These reactions also proceed with high, almost quantitative, yields. These benefits have made click chemistry reactions a popular method of introducing labels and other tags to biomolecules. The most popular click chemistry reaction is the Huisgen 1,3-dipolar cycloaddition of alkynes to azides, which is generally carried out with catalysis by copper (I), or by introduction of an azide to a strain-promoted cyclooctyne.

Alfa Aesar's click chemistry product range offers bifunctional linkers, fluorescent tags and chemical modifications that can be used with the azide-alkyne click chemistry technique.

To request a product flyer on these products or for a free copy of the full Bio product catalog, contact Alfa Aesar at 1-800-343-0660 or email info@alfa.com.

About Alfa Aesar Alfa Aesar, a Johnson Matthey Company, is a leading international manufacturer and supplier of research chemicals, metals and materials. With over 36,000 products listed in its catalogs, Alfa Aesar is the single source for customers' needs for chemicals and materials in sizes for research and scale up. The Alfa Aesar catalog carries materials for biological research, organic compounds, high purity inorganics, pure elements, alloys, precious metal catalysts, AA/ICP standards and more. Alfa Aesar has sales offices and distribution facilities throughout North America, Europe and Asia and a distributor network covering the globe.

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Rodents feeding on sweet mignonette love the fruit, but dislike the spicy seeds. So they spit them out, thereby dispersing them--to the plant's benefit. Karen Hopkin reports.

June 14, 2012

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Plants that use animals to disperse their seeds can find themselves in a pickle. They need to make fruit tasty enough to entice the local fauna. But they also need to make sure that their animal assistants dont digest the very seeds theyre meant to spread.

In Israels Negev Desert, a plant called sweet mignonette came up with a distasteful strategy. Critters called spiny mice feed on mignonette. They love the fruit. But they hate the seeds. And so they spit them out all over the place. Just as the plant planned. Thats according to a study in the journal Current Biology. [Michal Samuni-Blank et al, Intraspecific Directed Deterrence by the Mustard Oil Bomb in a Desert Plant]

Sweet mignonette produces little black berries that house about 20 seeds apiece. Inside those seeds is an enzyme. When a berry-chomping mouse crushes a seed, the enzyme is freed up to produce compounds that taste like hot mustard. Hence, ptooey, better leaving through chemistry.

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LOS ANGELES UCLA psychobiology major Anantha Singarajah admits she disliked chemistry before taking professor Neil Garg's popular undergraduate organic chemistry course (Chemistry 14D) this quarter.

"Chem 14A was the first class I took as a first-year, and it was disheartening," she said. "By the end of 14C, I could not wait to get it over with. However, I had heard good things about 14D with Neil Garg and waited until spring quarter especially to take it with him. This class is just as amazing as everyone describes it, and now I enjoy chemistry. Professor Garg engages you, and he brings himself to your level so you achieve full comprehension. I can say that Chem 14D has been one of my favorite classes at UCLA."

You can see that joy in "Remember the Mechs," a music video that Singarajah and three of her classmates produced as an extra-credit assignment. As most undergraduates in the sciences know by now, students in Garg's course are given the option of making their own music videos about organic chemistry, with lyrics containing mostly technical information about chemical structure, reactions and synthesis.

Maria-Kassandra "Kassey" Coronel, a psychobiology major who helped create "Remember the Mechs" with Singarajah, said that because of this course, she now finds herself "falling back in love with learning."

"Who knew putting a chem spin on an old song could be so educational?" Coronel said. "What's funny is that after making the video, I realized every time the instrumental came up on my playlist, I found myself rapping my chem lyrics instead of the original ones by Fort Minor.

"Professor Garg is without a doubt the best professor I have had at UCLA. He finds revolutionary ways to combine what college students like music videos, technology and expressing ourselves with what they need to know: organic chemistry. His passion for teaching and dedication to students is such a breath of fresh air, and it really shows when so many students, like me, are even more inspired to learn. What I love most about organic chemistry is it combines problem-solving and deduction skills with creativity, and gives me that great feeling that I'm accomplishing something meaningful. Shhh! I'm an O-chem nerd at heart now! If UCLA had a chemistry minor, I would do it in a heartbeat."

When Garg gave his students the guidelines for the music video assignment, he first showed them "Chemistry Jock," a video produced by his students in 2010 that is now approaching 60,000 views on YouTube. (Its creators, Justin Banaga, Kimberly Bui and Yannick Goeb, are graduating from UCLA this month, and all will attend graduate school.) The classroom echoed with laughter throughout the video, and one student gasped, "How did they do that?"

Then they went to work. For Singarajah, Coronel, Oz Davis and Brian Dickey, that meant 6:30 a.m. meetings that resulted in "Remember the Mechs," which itself has a few "how did they do that?" moments. (The "mechs," Coronel explained, refer to the mechanisms that show the step-by-step occurrences of a particular reaction, given certain chemical conditions.)

A common reaction among people who watch the chemistry music videos made by Garg's students is, "I love them, but what do the lyrics mean?" The answer is that they are about various chemical reactions the undergraduates study in organic chemistry.

Garg said he is amazed by the quality and creativity of the videos. Among this year's best are "Payphone," by Karla Canizales, China Magno and Anuvir Singh, (with beautiful lead vocals by Canizales) and "Hey There Neil Garg" by Firuz Yumul, Aaron Lalehzarian, Neda Ghassemi and Tianna Wilson.

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Contact: Joan Coyle J_coyle@acs.org 202-872-6229 American Chemical Society

WASHINGTON The American Chemical Society's (ACS') 16th annual Green Chemistry & Engineering (GC&E) Conference takes place June 18-20 at the Marriott Wardman Park Hotel in Washington, D.C. This year's theme is Innovation, Jobs, Sustainability The Role of Green Chemistry.

Media registration for the GC&E Conference is complimentary for credentialed members of the news media. Media registrants have access to the breakfasts, education sessions, keynote speakers, sponsors' luncheon, exhibition, press room and opening-night reception. For complete media registration guidelines, please contact ACS GCI at 202-872-6022 or Shefali Algoo at s_algoo@acs.org.

On-site registration: Media wishing to register on-site must present valid, current media credentials (e.g., official picture identification from the employing news organization, signed letter from assignment editor on company letterhead or a bylined article from the publication). Without proper, approved credentials, on-site media registration will be denied. Marketing and public relations executives, analysts, consultants, authors and researchers may not register as media.

Press briefings will be held in the Marriott's Jefferson Room. Media can also participate via live webcast, or they can view the archive later at the same site.

Tuesday, June 19, Morning Press Briefings: Innovation, Jobs, Sustainability The Role of Green Chemistry

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