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American Chemical Society Course on Polymer Chemistry Principles and Practice at Virginia Tech., Blacksburg, Virginia, March, August, and December, 1989 (Instructors Professors M. E. McGrath, T. C. Ward, and G. L. Wilkes). 

M. Szycher, Introduction to Biomedical Polymers, ACS Audio Courses, American Chemical Society, Washington, D.C., 1989. 

C. P. Rader, Uu/canicyation, Intermediate Correspondence Course Rubber Division, American Chemical Society, Akron, Ohio, 1985. 

Of course, many other professional societies have played their part in this successful reaching out between specialisms. As outlined above, the big metallurgical societies have broadened resolutely, and the American Physical Society and American Chemical Society are now much more hospitable to their members in industry than they apparently were 30 years ago. 

The editors thank the authors of the papers for their valuable contributions, the reviewers for their interest and helpful suggestions, the American Chemical Society Staff for their editorial effort, and the Society and the Division of Fuel Chemistry for their sponsorship of this work. Lastly, we acknowledge the help of R. Tracy Eddinger, the 1974 Storch Award Recipient, during the course of putting this Symposium together. 

I cite this history including these two recent examples of attempts to insert chemistry into the thicket of materials research already densely populated by physicists, ceramists, metallurgists, and chemical and civil engineers, because they form the background for my recommendations in the following sections. It is, of course, directly relevant to the initiative in education of the American Chemical Society. First let me list good reasons for such an initiative ... 

Our main motivation for writing Microwaves in Organic and Medicinal Chemistry derived from our experience in teaching microwave chemistry in the form of short courses and workshops to researchers from the pharmaceutical industry. In fact, the structure of this book closely follows a course developed for the American Chemical Society and can be seen as a compendium for this course. It is hoped that some of the chapters of this book are sufficiently convincing as to encourage scientists not only to use microwave synthesis in their research, but also to offer training for their students or co-workers. 

His many scientific contributions and their industrial applications were recognized by the awards and honors he received. They include the American Chemical Society Kendall Award in Colloid and Surface Chemistry in 1973, the American Chemical Society Lubrizol Award in Petroleum Chemistry in 1983, and the Alexander von Humboldt Senior Scientist Award. The Robert L. Burwell Lectureship Award of the North American Catalysis Society was established in recognition of his outstanding contributions to catalysis. Professor Burwell was also known for the first short course in heterogeneous catalysis, which he taught for several years with Michel Boudart. 

The grant funds enabled me to enroll in ten American Chemical Society and Pittcon short courses since 1995. Often taught by industrial chemists, these courses were key resources in the manuscript s development. 

John Brian Siddall, a brilliant young scientist and member of the Executive Committee of the American Chemical Society s Division of Pesticide Chemistry, died from a sudden attack of acute leukemia on April 26, 1981, at the age of 41, during the course of organizing the symposium on which this book is based. This book and that symposium are dedicated to his memory. 

Time-course of human manganese superoxide dismutase reaction after generation of superoxide by pulse radiolysisT The experiment demonstrates decrease in absorbance at 250 nm (e = 2000 M cm ) for a solution containing 0.5/aM enzyme, 50/aM EDTA, 10 mM sodium formate, and 2 mM sodium pyrophosphate at pH 9.4 and 20°C. The starting concentrations of superoxide were 11.6 /xhA (upper curve), 6.5 /aM (middle curve), and 3.4 /aM (lower curve). The calculated progress curves shown as solid lines were obtained by using the KINSIM software and the model of Bull et aF Reproduced here with the permission of the authors and the American Chemical Society. 

Jonnard, A. Business Aspects of Chemistry, American Chemical Society Audio Course Washington, DC, 1974. 

Two American Chemical Society short courses were instrumental in the development of this manuscript. These were (1) "Quality Assurance in the Analytical Testing Laboratory/ taught by Gillis and Callio, and (2) "Good Laboratory Practices and ISO 9000 Standards Quality Standards for Chemical Laboratories," taught by Mathre and Schneider. 

Commonly Found Errors According to an American Chemical Society short course in which the concepts of GLP regulations and ISO 9000 accreditation are discussed, errors that the QAU commonly finds in the course of its work are mostly errors of record-keeping. The list provided at the short course is reproduced in Box 8.1. 

Box 8.1 Common errors found during laboratory audits according to the GLP/IS09000 American Chemical Society short course. Used with permission. 

He received his Ph.D. from Cornell University in 1974 and worked on semiconductor manufacturing techniques at the Engineering Research Center of Western Electric Co. until 1976. He then spent a year as a director s postdoctoral staff member at Los Alamos National Laboratory and moved to Madison as an assistant professor in 1977. He was chair of the department from 1995 to 1998, and is currently chair of the Committee on Professional Training of the American Chemical Society. His research in chemical reaction dynamics uses lasers to explore and control the course of chemical reactions in both gases and liquids. He is a member of the National Academy of Sciences. 

Professor William McPherson, president of the American Chemical Society in 1930, said in his presidential address that he once asked a former student who had distinguished himself in the field of literature whether he had derived any benefit from his course in chemistry. The young gentleman replied that the idea that had helped most to frame his philosophy of life was the periodic law. He had been much confused by what seemed to him an entire absence of order in the universe ... 

Content of Undergraduate Physical Chemistry Courses. 1984, American Chemical Society Washington DC. 

Fig. 10. Evaluation of kinetic parameters for the DOC model—HC adsorption/desorption (reaction R7 in Table II). Comparison of the measured and simulated outlet Ci0H22 concentrations in the course of the adsorption/desorption experiment. Synthetic gas mixture, other gases 6% C02, 6% H20, N2 balance, SV = 30,000 h 1 (Kryl et al., 2005). Reprinted with permission from Ind. Eng. Chem. Res. 44, 9524, 2005 American Chemical Society.

S. Cram, How to Develop, Validate, and Troubleshoot Capillary GC Methods, American Chemical Society Short Course, 1996. 

Figure 2.1 Typical dependence of a physical property on the molecular weight of a polymer. Reprinted with permission from J. E. Mark, Physical Chemistry of Polymers, ACS Audio Course C-89, American Chemical Society, Washington, DC, 1986. Copyright 1986, American Chemical Society.

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