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PROGRESS in Inorganic Chemistry

The cutting edge of scientific reporting

Nowhere is creative scientific talent busier than in the world of inorganic chemistry experimentation. Progress in Inorganic Chemistry continues in its tradition of being the most respected avenue for exchanging innovative research. This series provides inorganic chemists and materials scientists with a forum for critical, authoritative evaluations of advances in every area of the discipline. With contributions from internationally renowned chemists, this latest volume offers an in-depth, far-ranging examination of the changing face of the field, providing a tantalizing glimpse of the emerging state of the science. "This series is distinguished not only by its scope and breadth, but also by the depth and quality of the reviews." Journal of the American Chemical Society

"[This series] has won a deservedly honored place on the bookshelf of the chemist attempting to keep afloat in the torrent of original papers on inorganic chemistry." Chemistry in Britain

CONTENTS OF VOLUME 57

Author:

Kenneth D. Karlin, PhD, is Ira Remsen Chair in Chemistry and Professor of Chemistry at Johns Hopkins University. He received his PhD from Columbia University.

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Research and Markets (http://www.researchandmarkets.com/research/8dd239/advances_in_enviro) has announced the addition of John Wiley and Sons Ltd's new book "Advances in Environmental Chemistry and Toxicology of Mercury" to their offering.

Recent research by the EPA has concluded that one in six women of childbearing age have unsafe levels of mercury in their bodies, which puts 630,000 newborn babies each year at risk of neurological impairment. Mercury poses severe risks to the health of animals and ecosystems around the world, and this book provides the essential information that anyone interested in environmental sciences should know about the fundamentals of the entire mercury cycle.

Comprised of four parts that present an overview of mercury in the environment, mercury transformations, transport, and bioaccumulation and toxicology, each chapter of Environmental Chemistry and Toxicology of Mercury includes the basic concepts of the targeted subject, a critical review of that subject, and the future research needs.

This book explains the environmental behavior and toxicological effects of mercury on humans and other organisms, and provides a baseline for what is known and what uncertainties remain in respect to mercury cycling. The chapters focus on the fundamental science underlying the environmental chemistry and fate of mercury. This work will be invaluable to a wide range of policy experts, environmental scientists, and other people requiring a comprehensive source for the state of the science in this field.

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Guangliang Liu, PhD, is Research Scientist in the Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry, Florida International University, where he manages the Mercury Laboratory.

Yong Cai, PhD, is Professor in the Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry, Florida International University. He has been working on environmental chemistry and the geochemistry of mercury for almost twenty years.

Nelson O'Driscoll, PhD, is Canada Research Chair in Environmental Biogeochemistry and Associate Professor in the Department of Earth and Environmental Science, Acadia University.

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Benjamin Burtt will be remembered by his colleagues and students as a pleasant, organized professor with a passion for teaching and a great influence over those he taught.

The former Syracuse University professor emeritus died at age 91 on Feb. 23 in Columbus, Ohio. He taught chemistry at SU for 47 years.

"He was so professional. He was so sure of himself. He knew what he was going to do, and he developed that in his students' minds," said Sally Mitchell, a 1982 SU alumna. "He really loved what he did."

Mitchell, now a chemistry teacher at East Syracuse-Minoa High School, keeps a photo of Burtt from the 1940s in her classroom, and Burtt's son gave her Burtt's original "magic" chemistry demonstration book. She said she models her teaching style after the late professor.

Burtt was well known for his lecture on water in his freshman chemistry class toward the end of each semester. In that lecture, Burtt would perform various experiments that were both entertaining and informative.

"Everything he did was funny, and he kept a straight face the whole time," said Mitchell. "It was the most entertaining chemistry demo show that I've ever seen."

The water lecture will be recreated and performed June 21 in Stolkin Auditorium, Mitchell said, as a public event in honor of Burtt. She will be using flasks, test tubes and beakers that Burtt handed down to her during the experiments.

Mitchell attended Burtt's water lecture each year during her time at school, and she credits it as her inspiration to become a chemistry teacher. She said Burtt's son, Academy Award-winning sound designer Benjamin Burtt Jr., has put together tapes of the lecture on DVD to preserve it.

Aside from his love for teaching chemistry, Burtt is remembered for another passion: bird watching.

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It's time to put the magic back into the classroom. For more than 16 years running, the Minot State University Science Department is hosting an open house tomorrow that will include biology and geology displays on all three floors or Cyril Moore Hall, and the most popular display, the annual chemistry magic show.

Around 800 students within a 100 mile radius bus in for a full day of science activity. Starting at 9 a.m., the forty minute magic show will run every hour on the hour with the final show starting at 3 p.m. While schools will take in the daytime displays, the science department would like to invite the public to the 3 p.m. magic show. There, you will witness chemical reactions that cause displays of light and sound that are most easily explained as magic.

(Guy Hanley, Minot State University Science Department) "We get students interested in science. They see things on YouTube that you probably shouldn't do in your garage that we are actually able to do here. So they get to see demonstrations first hand that they probably wouldn't be able to see."

Again, the chemistry magic show is at 3 p.m. on Tuesday at MSU's Cyril Moore Hall, room 16.

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March 5, 2012 GSWs Iordanova earns prestigious chemistry award at Sanibel Symposium

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AMERICUS Nedialka I. Iordanova, Ph.D., associate professor of chemistry, and student, Jonathon Deriso, attended the 52nd Sanibel Symposium on St. Simons Island earlier this month. Representing Georgia Southwestern State University (GSW), they presented a poster titled Theoretical Characterization of Low-energy Particle Deposition on PMMA Surfaces.

The Sanibel Symposium attracts 250-300 scientists every year from over 30 different nations. During the symposium, Iordanova was awarded the Wiley-International Journal of Quantum Chemistry Young Investigator Award in computational and theoretical chemistry.

This is a very competitive award, said Iordanova. Many young scientists that attend the symposium apply and only two receive the honor.

Iordanova has been on the Department of Chemistry faculty since 2005, when she and her husband, Tzvetelin Iordanov, Ph.D., arrived at GSW. She worked as a post-doctoral research scientist at Pacific Northwest National Laboratory in Washington from 2003 to 2005. She earned her doctorate in chemistry from The Pennsylvania State University in 2003. Prior to that, Iordanova earned bachelors and masters level degrees in her native Bulgaria.

Nedialka and Tzvetelin reside in Americus and have two children.

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In the March podcast, Laura takes the team somewhere over a graphene rainbow so Phillip can get a brain to explain carbon-carbon quadruple bonds (with minimal use of the word ‘quantum’), and Andy finds the courage to tear open the toughest material ever made and expose its beating science heart. Plus, there’s new fingerprinting methods with Paul Kelly and super-sensitive techniques for detecting and identifying metal species with Norbert Jakubowsky.

                  

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Researchers from Singapore, Japan, the UK and USA have discovered how soil bacteria carry out surprising chemistry, defying a longstanding set of chemical rules and thus paving the way for new synthesis of polyether drugs.

Principal investigator, Chu-Young Kim, Assistant Professor at the Department of Biological Sciences of the National University of Singapore (NUS) Faculty of Science, and his group have made use of powerful X-rays to decipher how antibiotic-producing bacteria defy a longstanding set of chemical rules.

Their result, reported today in Nature (DOI: 10.1038/nature10865), details how a soil bacterium, Streptomyces lasaliensis, is able to convert an epoxide into a six-membered cyclic ether during synthesis of lasalocid, a natural polyether antibiotic. The fact that bacteria can perform such chemistry has puzzled chemists and biologists for decades because this type of chemical transformation is known to be kinetically unfavorable.

According to "Baldwin's Rules for Ring Closure," which govern the way these rings form, lasalocid should contain a five-membered ring instead of the observed six-membered ring.

"Our study has broad implications because the six-membered cyclic ether is a common structural feature found in hundreds of drug molecules produced by nature," said Dr Kim. "We have analysed the genes of six other organisms that produce similar polyether drugs and we are now confident that the biosynthetic strategy we have uncovered is also used by these organisms."

The solution to the molecular mystery depended in large part on a deeper understanding of the unique enzyme Lsd19 that catalyses the formation of two cyclic ether moieties that is part of the lasalocid structure. To determine the protein's atomic structure, researchers hit frozen crystals of Lsd19 with X-rays at the Stanford Synchrotron Radiation Lightsource, SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory, and analysed how the crystals diffracted the X-rays. "You need atomic-level detail of the protein's structure to understand what's really happening," said co-author Irimpan Mathews, a staff scientist at SLAC.

Lessons from the bugs

"The bugs have taught us a valuable chemistry lesson," Dr Kim said.

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One of the key reasons defending champs Dortmund look a good bet to retain their crown is that they all seem to get along. It's a situation that Bayern Munich can only look upon with envy.

Perhaps what was most admirable about the seconds after Mainz scored a relatively late equalizer against Dortmund on Saturday was what didn't happen. Several players shared the blame for that goal, yet there was no finger pointing.

They simply went back on the attack, and eighty seconds later, they had reestablished their lead. Mainz's will was broken and the match ended 2-1.

Key to the game-winner was something else that didn't take place. Reserve attacking midfielder Ivan Perisic, no doubt very keen to make an impression, had advanced the ball up the right. Yet instead of trying to pull something difficult out of his hat, he simply stepped aside for Lukas Piszczek, who threaded a cross in for Shinji Kagawa. The Japanese midfielder duly blasted home.

"It's remarkable how much these players trust one another," said former German national goalkeeper Jens Lehmann who was commentating on the match for TV.

That moment showed how important interactions between players are in determining the outcome of tight matches. It also illustrated that, their obvious skill and fitness notwithstanding, chemistry is one of the major reasons Dortmund have put seven points between themselves and second-placed Bayern.

Well-loved boss

There was a reunion between Zidan, Klopp and the Dortmund mascot

The lion's share of the credit for the unusual harmony has to go coach Jrgen Klopp. The feelings of identification with the club even extend to players who no longer ply their trade in Dortmund.

Conspicuous was the fact that Mainz's Mohamed Zidan, who played for Dortmund until this winter, refused to celebrate the goal that temporarily knotted the score. Normally strikers are especially jubilant when they perform against clubs where they failed to make their mark. The Egyptian seemed more concerned with expressing respect for Klopp, who used to coach Mainz and is considered Zidan's mentor.

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MESA, Ariz. (CBS) Chemistry and camaraderie are extremely important to winning in baseball, if you believe most players.

Heres a sample from both ends of town on the subject.

Ive mentioned for a long time its ultra-important in baseball, and especially so at Wrigley Field said Cubs pitcher, Jeff Samardzija. Its a small clubhouse and were right on top of each other and you need to have a close team and need to understand each other. There are going to be some run ins, but as long as you have that foundation and have everybody pulling for each other, you can brush those things aside and move on.

Meanwhile, on the other side of town, White Sox pitcher John Danks couldnt agree more.

You have to like coming to the ball park, so I think its critical, he said. You have to enjoy coming to work and if you dont like your teammate or have a problem with some guys, youre not going to enjoy it. Fortunately, we have a great group of guys and everyone gets along.

Danks knows if ever there is a problem, then the team captain Paul Konerko will intervene.

Paulie is a guy we lean on, Danks said. Hes the captain for a reason. He goes about it the right way and has the respect of everybody.

Gordon Beckham has only been in the majors for a short period of time, but he also knows the value of having a tight clubhouse.

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I think we’ve all had a bellyful of this week’s compound. In fact, we’d be in trouble if we hadn’t. Brian Clegg digests hydrochloric acid in this week’s Chemistry in its element podcast.

                  

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HAMMOND - Theres a sports axiom that unlike their male counterparts, female teams have to really, really like each other in order to be successful.

If thats so, then how do you square this from Salmen senior point guard Jade Johnson - Outside of basketball we dont really hang around much. We do our bonding at practice. But mentally, were just sort of all over the place. with the fact that the Spartans are 27-1, on a 23-game winning streak and are playing Vandebilt Catholic tonight in the Class 4A semifinals at Southeastern Louisiana University?

Its just a chemistry we seem to have, senior forward Samara Dingiswayo said. We do a lot of three-on-three work in practice and the coaches sub us in and out in games a lot, so everybody knows how to work with everybody else.

We dont talk a lot about whos happy or whos unhappy. Everybody seems pretty happy to me.

Obviously, with a season like the Spartans are having, theres a lot to be happy about.

A program that last reached the semifinals in 2000 that had struggled somewhat after that due to the departure of long time coach Pam Slayton compounded by Hurricane Katrina which devastated the campus and has since reduced enrollment by about 100 only regained its footing last year with a co-district championship with Ursuline.

This season with the arrival of 6-foot-3 freshman phenom Kalani Brown plus the emergence of several other freshmen and sophomores, Salmen hasnt had a close game in almost two months. The Spartans have won their last 11 games by an average of 28.2 points including playoff victories by 36, 21 and 17 point-margins.

And when the team actually does get in a bit of trouble such as in Mondays quarterfinal game against Broadmoor when they trailed 25-22 late in the third quarter they can go on a roll.

Salmen closed that game on a 26-4 run to win by 17.

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WASHINGTON -- Go ahead. Call digestion a disassembly line. The body takes that carrot, burger, tofu whatever morsel of food makes a journey once whimsically described as "through the lips, past the gums, lookout stomach, here it comes!" Digestion breaks the food down, extracts nutrients, and discards the waste. This amazing example of chemistry in action is the focus of a new episode of the ChemMatters video series, available at BytesizeScience.com.

The video is based on an article in the latest issue of ChemMatters, ACS' quarterly magazine for high school students, and was produced by the team behind ACS' award-winning Bytesize Science videos.

This episode explains that our body relies on three major types of food: carbohydrates, fats and proteins. The video highlights how the body breaks down these big three food groups and puts their nutrients to use. Even though all the chemical reactions involved in digestion are different, they are variations of the same type of reaction hydrolysis.

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For additional entertaining video podcasts from ACS, go to http://www.bytesizescience.com. The Bytesize Science series is produced by the ACS Office of Public Affairs.

For more entertaining, informative science videos and podcasts from the ACS Office of Public Affairs, view Prized Science, Spellbound, Science Elements and Global Challenges/Chemistry Solutions.

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The noise of talking in the crowded classroom gradually subsided as Lou Wojcinski, K-State assistant teaching scholar of chemistry, displayed the following question through the class projection system:

"Do you think most scientists agree with one another about whether or not global warming is happening, or do you think there is a lot of disagreement among scientists on the issue?"

Wojcinski then instructed the students to answer the question with their I-clickers; 70 percent of the class responded that there is significant disagreement among scientists, whereas only 30 percent said that the issue is settled.

As the political global warming debate surges, this poll raises the question of whether or not scientists agree on the issue.

Wojcinski said roughly 90 percent of scientists agree that global warming is occurring.

"Projections about the future are much harder to do; I would say there is less agreement there," Wojcinski said.

Wojcinski said there are a variety of factors that contribute to global warming.

"There is a human contribution to increased temperatures," he said. "I think it is important to say that it is not just a human contribution. There are natural contributions to the temperatures that we have, and I think that what some people think when they hear that it's a human-caused problem they think it's just a human-caused problem, which sounds a little silly. I think part of the hesitancy in accepting the science comes from people interpreting it as solely a human problem."

Besides disagreeing about what scientists think, students at K-State also have differing views about what global warming is and its implications for the future.

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The Chemistry Club, an independent business serving the technology industry, has today announced it will provide advanced leadership coaching sessions in the UK. The one-on-one lessons will be aimed at business managers of all ability levels and are scheduled to start later this year.

London (PRWEB UK) 29 February 2012

CEO of The Chemistry Club, Mark Simon has stated We believe leaders think logically, make sensible decisions and inspire those around them. Our leadership coaching aims to create a greater dynamism within organisations, allowing for swifter conclusions to be made ensuring better results.

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The Chemistry Club is a leading company serving the technology industry. The business was established in 1999 and holds a series of business-to-business events, networking master classes and special briefings. The organisation run by Mark Simon is known for its networking events which have enabled people to meet and share their views in a neutral environment. For more information, please refer to The Chemistry Club website at http://www.networkingmasterclass.com.

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Rockies third-base prospect Nolan Arenado, 20, who drove in 122 runs for the High-A Modesto Nuts last season and was the MVP of the Arizona Fall League, takes a practice cut Tuesday as spring training ratchets up at Salt River Fields at Talking Stick in Scottsdale, Ariz. AAron Ontiveroz, The Denver Post

SCOTTSDALE, Ariz. A change of culture, better team chemistry and authentic relationships between the players.

Those are the catchphrases of the Rockies' 2012 spring training. Dan O'Dowd uses them, Jim Tracy uses them, even some of the players use them.

The professional cynic in me rolls his eyes and wonders how a change in philosophy and the addition of a bunch of 30-something ballplayers can transform the Rockies from a 73-89 ballclub into a contender.

It seems too touchy-feely.

Yet I have already seen some tangible changes on a team that was so out of sync last season.

For instance, Jamie Moyer, a 49-year-old lefty hoping for one more season, was given a locker next to prospects Tyler Chatwood and Drew Pomeranz. As the Rockies hoped, the youngsters are asking for advice from Moyer, who's happy to provide it.

As part of the culture-building concept, the players were each given a homework assignment. They drew the name of a teammate and are then required to present a biography of that player in front of the rest of the team. Moyer began it with a 20-minute dissertation on newcomer Jeremy Guthrie. The players loved the needling, the jokes and the inside information.

Monday, Tracy briefly addressed the team before handing things over to veterans including Troy Tulowitzki, Todd Helton, Jason Giambi and Carlos Gonzalez. The impressive thing, to me: It was the players who asked Tracy if they could lay out the expectations for 2012.

I asked Giambi, a 17-year veteran, about all this clubhouse culture stuff. He told me that it's real and it's important, explaining that when he played for the successful Oakland A's teams from 1995-2001, the A's had a homegrown family atmosphere.

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Today, as part of its continuing commitment to work with best-of-breed solutions for laboratory animal resources management, Virtual Chemistry, Inc. announced support for reading cage census data from Allentowns Wi-Com Sensus system. Utilizing the same RFID technology employed in other industries that manage high volume inventory, such as retail warehouses, Wi-Com Sensus reads an entire room of cages at once, eliminating time-consuming paper or barcode scans of individual cage locations. Now, high-volume RFID cage census data flows seamlessly into Mosaic Vivariums powerful, web-based laboratory animal resources (LAR) management software. The combination advances Virtual Chemistrys vision of the data-driven LAR facility.

Laboratory animal resources are a scientifically critical, financially expensive, and ethically sensitive tool for advancing medical knowledge. Mosaic Vivarium empowers organizations to utilize these resources as efficiently as possible. As part of our strategy to openly partner with proven hardware vendors, were extremely excited to integrate with Allentowns Wi-Com Sensus to provide our customers with the means to drastically reduce the labor costs of LAR management, said Terry R. Coley, CEO of Virtual Chemistry Inc.

About Virtual Chemistry Inc.

Founded in 1995, Virtual Chemistry, Inc. (VCI) creates solutions to help make life science research more efficient. The Mosaic platform captures over a decade of experience in LAR management and scientific data collection and puts these best practices in the hands of our customers.

About Allentown, Inc.

Allentown, Inc. is the global leader in research animal housing solutions with over 600 customers and more than 20,000 installations worldwide. For more than 40 years, Allentown has provided quality products and services to the biomedical research community. For more information, please visit http://www.allentowninc.com.

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VeruTEK® Technologies, Inc. (VTKT), a provider of patented Green Chemistry technologies for environmental remediation and enhanced oil recovery, announced today a Certificate of Completion (COC) has been issued by the New York State Department of Environmental Conservation (NYSDEC) for the successful cleanup of a New York City brownfield.

The site, located along the East River in Hunters Point, Queens, NY will be redeveloped for a new branch of the Queens Public Library and a New York State Parks ranger station. VeruTEK successfully implemented its patented Surfactant-enhanced In Situ Chemical Oxidation (S-ISCO®) technology at this former industrial site to remediate contamination from coal tar repurposed from Manufactured Gas Plants (MGPs) for use in the production of roofing products.

This S-ISCO remediation marks the first time a Green Chemistry solution of this kind has been used to remediate MGP-related contamination in New York City and sets a precedent for the use of innovative technologies to achieve a COC within the state’s Brownfield Cleanup Program.

S-ISCO provided a low-impact solution that benefits the health and safety of the community and environment. Specifically VeruTEK’s innovative treatment:

Destroyed contamination in place, avoiding digging and hauling thousands of truck-loads of contaminated soil through the community while preserving the stability of the subsurface and high-rise buildings on adjacent parcels; Prevented surrounding businesses and residents from being exposed to dust and emissions related to large scale excavation, and also reduced soil gas contamination; Took place during a short time frame (five months), without disturbing the community; and Provided a permanent solution to site contamination, preparing the site for safe and productive reuse.

Arana Hankin, President of Queens West Development Corporation (QWDC), the New York State public authority responsible for the development of the Queens West project, said, “Issuance of a Certificate of Completion for this brownfield site is an exciting milestone in the redevelopment of Queens waterfront property. We look forward to beginning the next phase of redevelopment, construction by the City of New York of a state-of-the art public library on the site, which was cleaned up with virtually no disruption to the community.”

At this urban site, VeruTEK conducted S-ISCO injections to treat more than 50,000 pounds of coal tar contamination in the soil by destroying in-situ (in place underground) over 90% of the combined polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons (PAHs) and BTEX compounds, including 95% of the naphthalene. VeruTEK’s novel S-ISCO technology combines patented plant-based surfactant and co-solvent mixtures (VeruSOL) with free-radical oxidant systems to safely release (desorb) and destroy recalcitrant contaminants from the soil. VeruTEK’s S-ISCO technology destroyed the primary source of contamination, yielding a permanent solution for the site.

VeruTEK’s S-ISCO technology was selected by Fleming Lee Shue, a New York City based environmental management and consulting company which was commissioned to design and manage the cleanup effort by QWDC and a leading national developer and manager of high quality apartment communities. The S-ISCO treatment was augmented by Wavefront Technology Solutions US Inc’s (Wavefront) Primawave pressure-pulsing technology, as well as the RemMetrikSM process to quantify subsurface contamination, optimize its treatment and measure effectiveness.

Arnold Fleming, President of Fleming Lee Shue, added, “Our firm identifies and commissions innovative technologies which deliver cost effective and thorough environmental cleanup. We were very impressed with the results of VeruTEK’s S-ISCO technology implementation. Compared to full-scale excavations conducted on similar nearby sites, VeruTEK’s remedy not only reduced the project cost by over $5 million dollars but also avoided the release of dust and odor, prevented disruption to the community, and reduced the carbon footprint of the clean-up. The project was done cost effectively, completed on-time, under-budget and resulted in a Certificate of Completion.”

Dan Socci, VeruTEK’s CEO, praised the work of the combined Fleming Lee Shue and VeruTEK team that designed and implemented the S-ISCO remedy, as well as the results achieved, stating, “We are proud of the outcome of this project and had a very positive experience collaborating with Fleming Lee Shue. We look forward to repeating this project’s success and bringing a safe, effective and environmentally preferable solution to other brownfield sites, enabling their return to productive use.”

VeruTEK has successfully implemented S-ISCO at locations worldwide to treat former MGP sites, chlorinated solvents contamination—including industrial cleaning and dry cleaning chemicals, home heating oil spills, and gasoline station tank leaks. The successful destruction of MGP-related coal tar at the Hunters Point brownfield site in Queens, adjacent to the East River and in a densely developed urban setting, demonstrates the ability of S-ISCO to achieve contaminant source destruction in-situ quickly and safely for the benefit of the community and the environment.

About VeruTEK Technologies, Inc. (www.verutek.com)

VeruTEK®is a green chemistry company with a new, field-proven approach to addressing difficult environmental issues. The company has developed innovative, patented, time-controlled chemistry to deliver safe, high performing and lower cost remediation solutions. VeruTEK's technology platform addresses a broad range of applications including soil/groundwater remediation and enhanced oil recovery as well as industrial cleaning products for surface cleanup of oil spills and PCB contamination. VeruTEK is publicly-traded under the symbol VTKT.

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Research and Markets (http://www.researchandmarkets.com/research/ddc2b7/progress_in_inorga) has announced the addition of John Wiley and Sons Ltd's new book "Progress in Inorganic Chemistry (Volume 57)" to their offering.

Nowhere is creative scientific talent busier than in the world of inorganic chemistry experimentation. Progress in Inorganic Chemistry continues in its tradition of being the most respected avenue for exchanging innovative research. This series provides inorganic chemists and materials scientists with a forum for critical, authoritative evaluations of advances in every area of the discipline. With contributions from internationally renowned chemists, this latest volume offers an in-depth, far-ranging examination of the changing face of the field, providing a tantalizing glimpse of the emerging state of the science.

"This series is distinguished not only by its scope and breadth, but also by the depth and quality of the reviews." Journal of the American Chemical Society

"[This series] has won a deservedly honored place on the bookshelf of the chemist attempting to keep afloat in the torrent of original papers on inorganic chemistry." Chemistry in Britain

CONTENTS OF VOLUME 57

Author:

Kenneth D. Karlin, PhD, is Ira Remsen Chair in Chemistry and Professor of Chemistry at Johns Hopkins University. He received his PhD from Columbia University.

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US biotech – and Sanofi subsidiary – Genzyme has confirmed plans to close its R&D site in Cambridge, UK, by the end of 2012 putting 60 jobs under threat. The firm started the consultation process back in November 2011, when it said it was looking to consolidate its R&D structure geographically at four research hubs: one in Germany, one in France, one in Boston, US, and one somewhere in Asia. Sanofi says that it ‘remains committed to keeping its strategic presence in the UK’. It adds that it is ‘looking at options to minimise the number of job losses, either through transfer of roles within the Sanofi group or through assisting impacted employees in finding alternative employment’. The two other UK sites – a manufacturing site in Haverhill and an R&D site in Oxford – will remain.

French drug maker Sanofi bought Genzyme in February 2011 for $20 billion in one of the biggest biotech deals the industry has seen.

Are you affected by the closure? Let us know what you think…

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CAMBRIDGE, MA--(Marketwire -02/28/12)- Cambridge NanoTech, the world leader in Atomic Layer Deposition (ALD) science and equipment, has completed delivery of its 300th system to the Institute of Coal Chemistry (ICC) in Shanxi, China. Marking as a milestone for the company, Cambridge NanoTech's ALD systems have become an important strategic solution for researchers and manufacturers that require digital control for a variety of materials such as oxides, nitrides, sulfides, and metals.

The Institute of Coal Chemistry is a high-tech research and development institution affiliated with the Chinese Academy of Sciences (CAS). The Savannah will be the first ALD tool in their diverse R&D facility. "We chose the Savannah ALD system because we found that it was easy to get precise, uniform films, especially when trying new and novel precursors," explained Dr. Yong Qin, professor at State Key Laboratory of Coal Conversion, ICC. "We plan to use the Savannah for the ALD of supported nanocatalysts for applications in industrial catalysis. We expect the Savannah to be the workhorse of the lab, allowing us to run thermal process with little to no maintenance." The ICC will be working with a number of different materials including, TiO(2), SnO(2), VO(x), Pt, and Ru.

Cambridge NanoTech first introduced the Savannah ALD system nine years ago and has since expanded the world's most popular ALD system into three models: S100, S200, and S300. As a leader in the ALD industry, Cambridge NanoTech has expanded its product offerings to include the Fiji plasma-enhanced ALD systems for R&D and the Phoenix and Tahiti systems for batch and large area production needs.

"The widespread adoption of this technology, proliferation of the Savannah system and growth of ALD applications are helping accelerate the transformation of everyday products," said Jill Becker, CEO and founder of Cambridge NanoTech. "Six continents and thousands of research papers later, the Savannah ALD system has grown to become to gold standard for thermal ALD systems. Our team could not be more proud of this delivery as it is a testament to our systems, the versatility of ALD, and the market demand for this technology."

In addition to this milestone, earlier this month Cambridge NanoTech launched their first webinar series titled "What is Atomic Layer Deposition and Why Should You Care?" The first series of webinars focused on ALD basics and was attended by over 275 participants from 32 countries. "Modern technologies are dramatically changing the way we share information," explains Becker. "We are excited to be at the forefront of these social technologies, evangelizing Atomic Layer Deposition and providing people with tools that enable their material science solutions." Cambridge NanoTech's future webinars will feature topics ranging from the benefits of plasma ALD to the growth of self assembled monolayers. For more information on upcoming Cambridge NanoTech webinars, visit http://www.cambridgenanotech.com/seminars.

About the Institute of Coal Chemistry
The Institute of Coal Chemistry (ICC) is one of the high-tech research and development institutions affiliated with the Chinese Academy of Sciences (CAS). ICC mainly conducts basic and applied research in three academic scopes such as energy and environment, advanced materials and green chemistry.

About Cambridge NanoTech
Cambridge NanoTech delivers Atomic Layer Deposition (ALD) systems capable of depositing ultra-thin films that are used in a wide variety of research and industrial applications. Our manufacturing ALD systems are used in the production of semiconductors, flat panel displays, and solid state lighting. Cambridge NanoTech research systems are used by world class scientists on five continents to study superior ALD film properties such as electrical, anti-bacterial, UV-blocking, and anti-reflection. To learn more about Cambridge NanoTech, please visit http://www.cambridgenanotech.com.

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Major Milestone for Cambridge NanoTech: 300th ALD System Shipped