Upcoming meetings
Board of DirectorsBoard of Directors meetings are held the 2nd Thursday night of each month (September through May) in the clubhouse at Glen Echo Country Club, 
map unless you see a special date or location announced on the home page events calendar. Social hour starts at 5:30, dinner and officers’ reports at 6:30, and the business meeting at 7:15. Meetings are open to all section members, but attendees must pay for their own dinners. The usual cost is $20; officers and chairs of major committees who are post-docs or unemployed, $10. There is no cost to attend only the business meeting. Elected officers and committee chairs have the right to vote; others in attendance have voice but no vote.
Dinner reservations are required by noon on the Monday before the meeting. Contact the section Chair to make a reservation.
Chromatography Discussion GroupChair: Bruce Ritts, bruce_ritts@steris.com
What’s up next with the Chromatography Discussion Group? Abstract: Please RSVP by Tuesday 9/14/2010. Note parking tag download. For more information contact Bruce Ritts ( bruce_ritts@steris.com )
James Mott, Senior Technical Support Specialist, Shimadzu Scientific Instruments Midwest Regional Office, Lenexa, KS will speak on Practical Strategies for Flow Switching Designs in HPLC and GC on Wednesday, September 15th, in McMillen 311 (Chemistry), Danforth Campus of Washington University. Pizza at 6 pm, presentation at 6:30. Use the parking garage northwest of McMillen, between Throop Drive and Forest Park Parkway. Print out the parking pass and leave it on your dashboard. RSVP to bruce_ritts@steris.com by noon on September 14th to ensure that enough food is ordered.
Speaker’s notes: The use of valves in chromatography systems is nothing new. Valves are necessary for any GC system, especially those that perform fixed gas sampling. Valves have been used in HPLC systems for detector selection, column selection, or off-line column flushing.
Combining effecting strategies in valving options can have significant benefits to the chromatographer. The ability to involve multiple column technologies as part of one analysis can provide much more detailed information about the sample, or it may make it possible to remove matrix interference from the analytes of interest. Multi-dimensional chromatography, which combines valving with other technologies, has been highly effective in expanding the concept of chromatography.
HPLC analysis of diluted whole blood plasma can greatly improve the ability to recover the full amount of the drug in a clinical sample. GC analysis with multiple columns can give the ability to detail specific peak groups in complex samples by the use of heart cutting. Being able to direct specific analytes to appropriate detectors can enhance detectability. This presentation will describe several examples of valved GC and HPLC configurations, some that make use of multi-dimensional analysis.
The St Louis Chromatography Discussion Group appreciates the financial support made possible by the generous donations of:
Agilent Technologies
Shimadzu
Waters Corporation
We also appreciate the generous meeting sponsorship provided by
Dionex Corporation
Grace Davison Discovery Sciences
Computational Chemistry Discussion GroupCCDG meetings are held at Tripos, Inc., 1699 South Hanley Road, St Louis, MO 63144.
For more information about the meetings or if you would like to speak at a future meeting contact Philippa Wolohan (314-647-8837 x 3201 or pwolohan@tripos.com) or Mitchell Polley (314) 647-8837 x 3358 or mpolley@tripos.com
Educational Topics Discussion GroupDiscussion group leader: Sandy Mueller of John Burroughs School (smueller@jburroughs.org).
If you would like your name, or colleagues’ names, added to the Education Topics Discussion Group e-mail list, email Hal Harris, hharris@umsl.edu.
General TopicsDwight Chasar, research scientist and field ornithologist
Chemistry is for the Birds, a public science seminar cosponsored by St Louis Academy of Science and Sigma-Aldrich Corporation
Monday, April 12, 2010, 6:20–7 pm: hands-on chemistry for students only (parents, family members, and guests welcome to observe)
7:15 pm: public lecture
at Sigma-Aldrich headquarters, 3050 Spruce Street, St Louis, MO(map). Parking is free in the Sigma-Aldrich parking lot.
Preregistration required by April 7, and space is limited. To RSVP for hands-on chemistry and/or public lecture, call 314.533.8586 or email events@academyofsciencestl.org. Please provide first and last names of each guest. Hands-on chemistry is limited to the first 25 students to RSVP.
Speaker’s notes: To better understand bird life and behavior, and using the tools chemists have used for years, avian biologists and chemists have recently begun to examine more closely the chemistry associated with birds. In this fascinating look at the chemistry of birds, chemist and birder Dr. Dwight Chasar talks about the chemical pigments that give birds color, the chemicals birds use for survival in the wild, chemicals that nearly extirpated raptors, and the use of stable isotopes to understand bird migration. From the simplicity of bird poop to the complexity of bird DNA analysis, chemistry is playing a big role in our understanding of bird dynamics. Chemistry is for the Birds covers enough chemistry to satisfy general interest chemists and is simple enough to help non-chemists and students appreciate the beauty and complexity of the chemistry of birds.
Mass Spec Discussion GroupThe Midwest Mass Spectrometry Discussion Group is made possible by contributions from the following organizations:
Agilent Technologies
Applied Biosystems
Bruker Daltonics, Inc
Chemir
Eksigent Technologies
JEOL USA
LECO
Monsanto
Pfizer
Shimadzu
Sigma-Aldrich Corp
ThermoFisher Scientific
Varian
Waters Corporation
Washington University Department of Chemistry
St Louis Section of the American Chemical Society
For more information, contact Henry Rohrs at the Washington University NIH/NCRR Mass Spectrometry Resource, (314) 935-8164 or rohrs@wustl.edu, or visit the website, msr.dom.wustl.edu/MWMS_Discussion_Group/index.htm
NMR Discussion GroupLots of ways to stay informed:
St Louis Section–American Institute of Chemical EngineersOur brothers and sisters on the engineering side of the divide host an active monthly program featuring a guest speaker or special event. For up-to-date information, visit the AIChE website, and check out the current newsletter and schedule of future events.
St. Louis Rubber GroupContact Paul Pfaff at Weskem-Hall for further information (314) 725-2600.
Women Chemists CommitteeFor more information contact Leah O'Brien, (618) 650-3562 or e-mail lobrien@siue.edu.
Younger Chemists CommitteeNext event: YCC meeting/happy hour Sunday, (yes, Sunday!), April 25, 4 pm at the Thai Country Café, 6223 Delmar Boulevard, Saint Louis, MO 63130. A good time to meet other ACS YCC members and find out what is going on in the area. Bring a friend or a co-worker with you! The more the merrier....
For information about YCC membership or programs, contact Eric Bruton, eric.bruton@gmail.com.
College and university seminar seriesArea colleges and universities host seminar series throughout their academic year calendars. Details of each seminar are often unavailable until shortly before the event, so it is best to consult the website or email the faculty seminar coordinator for the most up-to-date information.
Seminars are on Fridays at 12 noon in Carlo Auditorium, Tegeler Hall, unless noted otherwise. Refreshments follow.
For more information, contact Dana Baum, dbaum1@slu.edu. The Chemistry Department’s seminar page has a schedule of the semester’s topics/speakers.
Seminars are held on Mondays at 4:00 pm in Room 451 Benton Hall unless otherwise specified. Refreshments 15 minutes prior to seminar time. Check the Chemistry Department’s seminar page for current information.
Seminars are in McMillen 311 at 4 pm unless otherwise noted. Coffee is available 20 minutes prior to the talk, and refreshments follow. For information, contact: Lev Gelb, gelb@wustl.edu. An up-to-date list of seminars is available on the Chemistry Department’s seminar page.
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