Coordinated Universal Time Coordination chemistry

In 1930 the Department of Chemistry was established in Osaka University, and Ryutaro Tsuchida( 1903-1962) was appointed the professor of inorganic chemistry. Also Taku Uemura(l893-1980) began the research on coordination chemistry at the Tokyo Institute of Technology at nearly the same time. Both men were former co-workers of Yuji Shibata s. Thus young coordination chemists graduated from these newly established laboratories, and the numbers of published research papers gradually increased. 

The term Pfeiffer effect was first applied to these systems during discussions with the late Prof. F. P. Dwyer and one of us (RCB) at the time of a symposium on coordination chemistry at the Indiana University in 1954. 

University of Florence and then the Laboratory CNR (National Research Council) Institute for the Study of Energy and Stereochemistry of Coordination Compounds, whose scientific development coincided with development of coordination chemistry to which Sacconi greatly contributed by S3mthesizing a large class of new compounds with unusual geometries [16, 17] and new electronic properties [18]. He was before his time in his use of physical methods in the study of modem chemistry and pursued this track in particular in magnetochemistry [19], in X-ray diffractometry [20], in calorimetry, in visible and IR spectroscopy [21] and nuclear magnetic resonance [22, 23] techniques. 

Some philosophic systems (e.g., Aristotle s) consider objects that retain their identity through time substances ) as fundamental, others (e.g., Whitehead s) deny that such coherences are so basic but stUl consider them important The Universe achieves its values by reason of its coordination into societies of societies, and societies of societies of societies (Whitehead 1967, 206). Recent progress in physical chemistry has identified new modes of dynamic coherence (which occur in far-from equilibrium open systems) that are critically important in many areas of science—and have shown how those integrations exemplify and extend current theory (Kondepudi and Prigogine 1998). This major advance is not yet appreciated by philosophers—in part at least because such coherences do not easily fit into prevailing categorial schemes. 

The author thanks the Educational Activities Department of the American Chemical Society for permisaon to reproduce material from his audiotape and book Coordination Chentistty Its History Through tiie Time of Werner, ACS Audio Courses, History of Chemistry Series, Schubert, L. Kauffman, G. B., Eds., Washington, DC, 1977. He also thanks Professor Michael Laing of the University of Natal for his kind invitation to present this paper as a plenary lecture at the 7Sth Anniversary of the Sooth African Chemical Institute, University of Natal, Durban, South Africa, July 7,1987. This article is reprinted with permission from Spectrum October 1987,25(4), S-14. 

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