Chemical work group collaboration

ISO, IUPAC and AOAC INTERNATIONAL have co-operated to produce agreed protocols on the Design, Conduct and Interpretation of Collaborative Studies 14 and on the Proficiency Testing of [Chemical] Analytical Laboratories .11 The Working Group that produced these protocols has prepared a further protocol on the internal quality control of data produced in analytical laboratories. The document was finalised in 1994 and published in 1995 as the Harmonised Guidelines For Internal Quality Control In Analytical Chemistry Laboratories .12 The use of the procedures outlined in the Protocol should aid compliance with the accreditation requirements specified above. 

David Morgan is a member of the Chemical Ecology Group at Keele University. He was bom in Newfoundland and had his university education there, at Dalhousie University and University of King s College in Halifax, Nova Scotia, and at Oxford. His doctorate thesis was on the lipids of Mycobacterium tuberculosis. He later worked at the National Institute for Medical Research in London, and for Shell Chemical Company and Shell Research under the direction of Sir Robert Robinson, O.M., Nobel Laureate. From 1966 he has been at Keele in Staffordshire as lecturer, senior lecturer, reader, and professor. He discovered the natural pesticide azadirachtin and collaborated with S. V. Ley for its final structure elucidation. He is the author of over 300 papers and reviews, mostly on insect chemistry, editor, and contributor to several volumes and author of the book Biosynthesis in Insects. ... 

The Czech Aerosol Society (CSA) was formed in 1999 from the former Working Group on Aerosol Research of the Czech Society of Chemical Engineering at the occasion of the European Aerosol Conference held in Prague in 1999. As given in its constimtion the Society maintains a forum of researchers from various Czech instimtions and universities in order to promote collaboration in all areas of aerosol research, to promote by means of meetings and publications the spread of information between the members and the public, to support education in aerosol related fields at all levels, and to support international co-operation. 

The Working Group is to establish a pilot program within DHS, EPA, and DOE to validate best practices and to test innovative methods for federal interagency collaboration regarding chemical facility safety and security. 

The rapid progress in the understanding of the active site of aconitase in the 1980 s has primarily originated from the work of H. Beinert and his collaborators. Three essential factors contributed to the success of this work 1) a ready and consistent source of enzyme (gram quantities), 2) a solid chemical and biochemical understanding of aconitase, and 3) close interactions with outstanding collaborators (most notably E. Munck s group for Mossbauer spectroscopy and B. M. 

A number of important workers who, up to that time, had been working in relative isolation, now became more involved in CALPHAD conferences and publications. The Canadian group, led by Pelton, had evolved is own representation of thermodynamic quantities in a specific set of non-metallic systems (Pelton and Flengas 1969, Pelton and Schmalzried 1973, Bale and Pelton 1974) but found that many of the concepts being outlined for alloys could also be applied in their area. This was to eventually lead to a Facility for Analysis of Chemical Thermodynamics (F A C T) (Bale and Pelton 1979) and the foundation of the Centre of Research for Thermodynamic Calculations at Montreal. In due course there would be further collaboration (Thompson et al. 1983) between F A C T and the SOLGASMIX programme of Eriksson (1975). 

The resultant master ORF clones should be checked by several different criteria DNA sequence, protein productivity, and the structure of produced proteins see Note 5). Once these master ORF clones whose quality has been well-checked become available to the research community, a wealth of time, labor, and cost will surely be saved and provide a solid basis for reverse chemical genomic approaches. In this context, many groups working on ORFeome cloning have made their ORF clones open to the research community For human ORF clones, the ORFeome collaboration is actively working to generate a complete set of human ORF clones as an international collaboration (http // www.orfeomecollaboration.org/) Schizosaccharomyces pombe ORF clones are already available at the DNA bank of RIKEN... 

It is a pleasure to acknowledge the contributions of my coworkers and scientific collaborators Richard Stratt, Mark Maroncelli, Munir Skaf, Teresa Fonseca, Baw-Ching Pemg, Don Phelps, Mike Weaver, Ivana Borin, Jim Faeder, and Shannon Klein to the research discussed here. The work in my group has been supported by grants from the National Science Foundation and the Petroleum Research Fund, administered by the American Chemical Society. 

The authors would like to acknowledge Prof. B.F. Chmelka (Dept, of Chemical Engineering, UC Santa Barbara) and Prof. G.D Stucky (Dept, of Chemistry, UC Santa Barbara) and their groups for very helpful discussions. This work is part of a CNRS/NSF collaborative exchange program. 

The use of ab initio methods for the calculation of NMR chemical shifts was pushed forward by Schleyer and his coworkers in collaboration with the Kutzelnigg group or other groups116. The success of this research tremendously increased the acceptance of ab initio results in general and ab initio NMR results in particular among experimentally working chemists. 

I am indebted to the U.S. Air Force Office of Scientific Research for support of the research on polyphosphine synthesis. In addition the work on the synthesis and catalytic activity of polyphosphines containing neomenthyl terminal groups was part of an United States-Hungarian cooperative science project in collaboration with L. Marko of the Veszprem University of Chemical Engineering and funded jointly by the U.S. National Science Foundation (Grant INT-76-20080) and the Hungarian Institute for Cultural Relations. In connection with these projects I acknowledge the skillful experimental collaboration of Pramesh Kapoor, John Cloyd, William Masler, Jozsef Bakos, and Carl Hoff. 

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