Chemists’ work communication

Writing a research proposal is a good way for you to learn how chemists work—how they define meaningful problems, design experimental approaches to investigate these problems, and anticipate how their research will contribute reliable scientific knowledge to the community of chemists. 

It is important that the laboratory record reflect the exact stage of each procedure as it is carried out. This is essential when the experimentalist carries out several preparations simultaneously. It is even more important as a means of communication between chemists working on various phases of a single project. After interruptions or emergencies, the record helps in determining how to proceed with the work. The notes should help in detecting causes of unusual observations, as well as causes of accidents or fires. In other words, there are important safety considerations. It cannot be emphasized enough that detailed and accurate notes are essential for patent applications and patent priority claims. 

This Conference was enthusiastically supported by the American scientific community the chemical industry, the U.S. National Science Foundation, and the Petroleum Research Fund, all made contributions that ensured an adequate financial base, and many chemists worked diligently on the numerous tasks that are associated with such an undertaking. The Editors express their deep appreciation to all. 

Surely, the concepts and paradigms of ionic liquids are new and still not fully accepted in the wider community many chemists consider with some skepticism the possibility of applying ILs as substitutes of common solvents in large-scale processes. Moreover, as has been recently evidenced,there are several prerequisites that determine the choices of development chemists working in the fine chemical industry ... 

Throughout the period, the Danish of the Danish Chemical Society meant Copenhagen . Although the society was and is a national society, it was not until the establishment of a second university in Denmark in 1928 that the Danish chemical community really expanded outside the vicinity of the capital. Even today, chemists working at the provincial universities feel neglected by the Danish Chemical Society, which still holds almost all of its meetings in Copenhagen. In fact, the Danish name of the society, Kemisk... 

In all three societies, there were important differences between the occupations of the coxmcils and of the ordinary members. The careers of council members were rather more varied than those of ordinary members, with the overwhelming majority working in more than one of the sectors defined in Table 7.5. Furthermore, in each society the council had characteristics which set them apart from the wider membership. In the CS, academia was dominant, with almost 90% of coxmcil members spending at least part of their careers in education. In the IC, academics were also over-represented in the council compared to the broader membership, and so too were chemists working in government. In the SCI, industrial employment was more common than in the other councils, but here too academics and consultants were over-represented. If the councils can be seen as the elite of the chemical community, it was drawn disproportionately from chemists working in the universities, government or as consultants. 

We have presented a wide variety of zeolite-like materials which can be obtained by various synthetic techniques. Many of the resulting solids are not porous so far because the guest species included in these structures have not been removed. For other materials it is not known, whether they have structural porosity, since sorption analysis, which belongs to the standard tools of zeolite scientists, is not routinely being used by solid-state chemists working on the non-conven-tional zeolite-like compounds. If contacts between the different communities intensified, much progress could certainly be made in the future. 

In particular, this book represents a significant tool for chemists working in this research area. In addition, the increasing necessity and interest on efficient, versatile, and potential synthetic procedures to achieve complex molecules and libraries, quickly and economically, makes this book an important reference instrument in organic synthesis. This wide-ranging collection can inspire both the academics and industrialists and can help in their future developments. We hope to fulfill the expectations of a great part of the scientific community, as well as organic chemistry faculties and students. 

Now that we are in the 21st century, the time is ripe to build on the lessons learnt over the last few decades, and the increased efforts of polymer chemists working in multidisciplinary teams will surely lead to the design of improved second-generation polymer therapeutics. The polymer community s interest in synthetic and supramolecular chemistry applied to biomedical applications has never been greater. This has in part been due to the rise in interest... 

It was reahzed quite some decades ago that the amount of information accumulated by chemists can, in the long run, be made accessible to the scientific community only in electronic form in other words, it has to be stored in databases. This new field, which deals with the storage, the manipulation, and the processing of chemical information, was emerging without a proper name. In most cases, the scientists active in the field said they were working in "Chemical Information . However, as this term did not make a distinction between librarianship and the development of computer methods, some scientists said they were working in "Computer Chemistry to stress the importance they attributed to the use of the computer for processing chemical information. However, the latter term could easily be confused with Computational Chemistry, which is perceived by others to be more limited to theoretical quantum mechanical calculations. 

The commercial availability of ionic liquids is thus a key factor for the actual success of ionic liquid methodology. Apart from the matter of lowering the activation barrier for those synthetic chemists interested in entering the field, it allows access to ionic liquids for those communities that do not traditionally focus on synthetic work. Physical chemists, engineers, electrochemists, and scientists interested in developing new analytical tools are among those who have already developed many new exciting applications by use of ionic liquids [11]. 

Chemists communicate in a highly elaborated alfabetic [sic] and symbolic language. The chemical nomenclature is a predominant literary language. Only short names are spoken, the official, sometimes very long terms are replaced by trivial names or are uncanonically abbreviated for oral communication. The chemical nomenclature works with a distinct syntax and semantic, but is not suited for textual sentences. Structures are drawn according to specific rules. 

Frequent contacts with the manufacturer of verapamil, the Knoll company in Ludwigshafen, enabled an intense communication with Hugo Kubinyi, working at that time as a medicinal chemist for Knoll. As a consequence of frequent fruitful discussions with Hugo I included quantitative structure-activity relationship (QSAR) studies on verapamil congeners in my PhD work and continued working in the QSAR field till the present. 

In this chapter, our goal is to provide a working knowledge of HTS with enough detail to enable and enrich the communication between chemists or biologists and their HTS colleagues. The discussions of concepts, processes, and technical details are interspersed with some of our approaches at Wyeth used only as examples. 

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