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ACS DIC NEWSLETTER 2016

DIVISION OF INORGANIC CHEMISTRY ! WWW.ACSDIC.ORG1

American Chemical Society Divis ion of Inorganic

ChemistryIn this Issue

Announcements General Announcements 2

Messages Chair Claudia Turro 6

Chair-elect John Protasiewicz 7

Past-Chair James Boncella 8

Treasurer Lisa Berreau 9

Program Chairs Nora Radu & Steve Koch 10

Membership Chair Jason D’Acchioli 12

News Coordination Subdivision 13

Nanoscience Subdivision 14

PUI Representative 15

Inorganic Stamp Corner 16

Information DIC Officer Contact Information 17

About the ACS DIC 21

from our Sponsor 22

OFFICERS Chair: Claudia Turro

Chair-Elect: John ProtasiewiczSecretary: Jeffrey RackTreasurer: Lisa Berreau

Membership: Jason D’Acchioli

At-Large MembersKim R. DunbarJoshua D. FigueroaLawrence Que

CouncilorsDebbie CransSilvia RoncoThomas R. CundariMarina A. Petrukhina

Alternate CouncilorsMichael D. JohnsonSheila SmithPaula DiaconescuHannah S.Shafaat

Program ChairsSteve KochNora Radu

Awards co-ChairsTim WarrenMichael Shatruk

SubdivisionsBioinorganic:

Serena DeBeer (Chair)Edith (Phoebe) Glazer (Chair-Elect)

OrganometallicChristopher C. Cummins (Chair)Milton R. Smith, III (Chair-Elect)

Solid State & Mat. Chem.Amy Prieto (Chair)Amanda J. Morris (Chair-Elect)

NanoscienceSara Skrabalak (Chair)Josh Goldberger (Chair-Elect)

CoordinationDaniel Rabinovich (Chair)Eric J. Schelter (Chair-Elect)

Prepared by Jeffrey Rack, Secretary, ACS-DIC

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Announcements

Student Travel Awards

The DIC is accepting applications for student travel awards for graduate and undergraduate students presenting research talks or posters at ACS National Meetings. The amount of the award is $450.00. The deadline for receipt of applications is January 15 for the Spring ACS National Meeting, and June 1 for the Fall ACS National Meeting. Winners will be notified by March 1 and August 1, respectively, for the Spring and Fall meetings.

Selection process: Applications submitted by undergraduate researchers, graduate students in the first two years of their PhD and graduate students in the final years of their PhD will be reviewed separately. Within each category, the selection process will be based on scientific merit. Preference will be given to applicants who have not been awarded a Student Travel Award previously.

Eligibility: 1. The student must be a member of the DIC and must present his/her paper in the DIC program. Students who are not making presentations are ineligible. 2. Only one nomination will be accepted per research group for each meeting. Exceptions may be granted for collaborative projects.

Application Procedure: Use the linked questionnaire (travelgrantappform.pdf or travelgrantappform.doc) as a cover page for your application package. Please make sure to complete it in its entirety. The following items should be submitted after the form in this order: 1) A proof of your current ACS and DIC membership status, such as a copy of your receipt or a printout of “My Account” from acs.org showing your active divisional membership in DIC (you must log on to access this). 2) An abstract of the work to be presented in the DIC program with authors and affiliations listed and presenting author underlined. 3) A resume or CV, including a list of publications and presentations. 4) A recommendation letter from your research advisor (if your advisor prefers this to remain confidential, please have him/her, or a third party, submit the application on your behalf)

The application must be saved as a SINGLE pdf file and emailed as an attachment to [email protected] . Please, use the applicant’s last name to name the pdf file. Please note that [email protected] email address is not consistently monitored. Accordingly, questions concerning the application process should be directed to the Award co-Chairs: http://acsdic.org/officers.htm (scroll to bottom of page for a link to full contact information).

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Announcements

ELECTION RESULTS

Congratulations to the newly elected 2017 officers of the Division of Inorganic Chemistry. And thanks to the all of the candidates for their willingness to serve our division!

Chair-elect Bernadette Donovan-Merkert – University of North Carolina at Charlotte

Treasurer-elect Lisa Berreau – Utah State University

Members-at-large James Boncella – Los Alamos National Laboratory

Councilor Sylvia Ronco – Research Corporation Karen Golbert – University of Washington

Alternate Councilor Connie Lu – University of Minnesota Ann Valentine – Temple University

Bioinorganic Subdivision Chair-elect Jonathan Sessler – University of Texas at Austin

Organometallic Subdivision Chair-elect Elon Ison – North Carolina State University

Solid State Subdivision Chair-elect Bart Bartlett – University of Michigan

Nanoscience Subdivision Chair-elect Brandi Cossairt – University of Washington

Coordination Chemistry Subdivision Chair-elect Tong Ren – Purdue University

Sustainable Energy and Environment Subdivision Chair-elect Cliff Kubiak – University of California at San Diego




Announcements (continued)

The Nanoscience Subdivision is pleased to solicit nominations for the DIC Nanoscience Award, sponsored by the University of South Carolina NanoCenter. The intent of the award is to recognize sustained excellence, dedication, and perseverance in research in the area of inorganic nanoscience. Recipients are expected to be at the mid-career stage. Nominations and letters of support should be emailed as pdf attachments to Sara Skrabalak, Nanoscience Subdivision Chair, at [email protected]. Inquiries (but not nomination materials) can be addressed to Sarah Stoll at [email protected]. The winner will be selected from nominations submitted by January 20, 2016. The award winner will be announced on February 10, 2016.








Announcements (continued)

Fall 2016 DIC Travel Grant Awardees

Each recipient received $450 to a@end the Philadelphia MeeCng

Patrick Burns -‐ SUNY Buffalo

Charity Epley -‐ VA Tech

Erin Finley -‐ U. Houston

Nicole Gagnon -‐ U. Minnesota

Jeremy Hrudka -‐ Florida State

Sean McWilliams -‐ Yale

Sureshbabu Mummadi -‐ Texas Tech

Thuy-‐Ai Nguyen -‐ UC Santa Barbara

John Pa@erson -‐ UNC Charlo@e

Sudarsan VenkatRamani -‐ U. Florida

Jennifer Wacker -‐ Georgetown

Xiao Yu -‐ UC San Diego

Jan Paolo Zaragoza -‐ Johns Hopkins




Message from Chair, Claudia Turro

As Chair of the Division this year, I sought to continue the upward trajectory of the DIC with respect to increasing membership, gaining visibility within the ACS through award nominations, promoting our members and their topics of interest by funding numerous symposia at ACS meetings and other conferences, encouraging the DIC Executive Committee to obtain funds for various projects, and engaging journals for sponsorship of our activities.

This year, the DIC created a new subdivision, Sustainable Energy and Environment (SEE), to attract new members to the DIC from related, allied areas. The DIC subdivisions have been traditionally

defined by the type of work that researchers perform rather than the problems they aim to solve. In that format, it was difficult to use subdivisions to attract members from other areas of chemistry. I proposed to begin thinking about subdivisions in a broader sense to attract members who do research that includes inorganic systems via the problems they are interested in, but who would not think of themselves as traditional inorganic chemists. In this way, researchers in peripheral areas with interest in inorganic systems will find themselves presenting their work within the INOR programming, and once there will also listen to inorganic talks.

The topic of the new SEE subdivision was chosen because there is significant research on metal-based heterogeneous and homogeneous photocatalysts and electrocatalysts that focuses on the use of abundant sources and greenhouse gases to generate fuels and other useful industrial chemicals. The SEE subdivision aims to recruit individuals working in these areas for membership in the DIC. The SEE subdivision will kick off with symposium in the Spring 2018 National ACS Meeting in New Orleans, where highly visible researchers with varied backgrounds will be invited to speak in an effort to attract a broader audience from both within and outside traditional inorganic chemistry.

During the remainder of this year and next year, when I serve the DIC as immediate past chair, I plan to launch in initiative to engage inorganic chemists in Latin America, including Cuba. I have started contacting these individuals and there is great enthusiasm for the creation of a forum that will allow greater scientific exchange and promote collaborations.

I am looking forward to the upcoming Spring 2017 National ACS Meeting in San Francisco, which features extensive INOR programming. In addition to symposia on topics surrounding the research of ACS Award winners, there will be numerous symposia sponsored by the DIC. These include topics on catalysis, sustainability, solid state chemistry, nanomaterials, bioinorganic chemistry, and undergraduate research. In addition, the DIC will celebrate its 60th year with a symposium that will highlight the history and accomplishments of the DIC over the years, including the successes of programs spearheaded by our Division. Please look at the news of each subdivision and the upcoming technical program to find more detailed information.




Message from Chair-elect, John Protasiewicz

It is a distinct honor to have been elected Chair-elect for the division. During the past 5 years I have enjoyed serving the division as Secretary, and hope to use this experience to keep our operations running smoothly and to continue to provide service to our greater community of inorganic chemists. I look forward to continue working with the entire DIC executive committee, especially recent DIC chairs Claudia Turro, James Boncella, Debbie Crans, and treasurer Lisa Berreau. I am also pleased to work with our new Secretary Jeffrey

Rack, who has quickly picked up the reins after my change of duties.

Finally, I encourage you to consider you to submit a proposal to organize a symposium in the upcoming meetings. The guidelines for proposals can be found at http://acsdic.org/wordpress/symposia/, which are then approved at our DIC executive committee meetings held prior to each national ACS meeting, to determine the level of financial support. We now have streamlined the process with a fillable pdf form to help organizers to formulate successful proposals.




Message from Past-Chair, James ( Jim) Boncella

It has been a pleasure to able to serve the membership of the Division of Inorganic Chemistry as Chair-Elect, Chair and Past-Chair (2014-2016) I have enjoyed working with the other members of the executive committee as well as the general membership. It has been a bit of a wild ride through budget problems, a new strategic plan, falling, then stabilizing membership, new by-laws, a ChemLuminary award and the usual divisional business of symposia, awards and so on. Overall, I can say that I am proud to be a member of such vibrant and involved group of professionals. You are all passionate about the business of inorganic chemistry and are devoted to promoting the Field as it continues to evolve

and develop in the 21st century.

It is now clear that the budget issues have been dealt with and the budget that was developed by myself, Lisa Berreau, Debbie Crans, and Claudia Turro with the help of the rest of the executive committee actually works. We are especially indebted to our treasurer, Lisa Berreau, for her continuing efforts to understand our fiscal situation and to provide the accurate data that was and continues to be necessary for this exercise. I would also like to thank the newest DIC officers for their willingness to help to contribute to the goals of the division and to promote the enterprise of Inorganic Chemistry. Your volunteer work is always appreciated and valued. Claudia Turro has done a great job this year and I look forward to supporting John Protasiewicz next year.




Message from Treasurer, Lisa Berreau

The %iscal health of the ACS Division of Inorganic Chemistry (ACS DIC) continues to improve. Last year (2015) was the %irst in several years wherein the ACS DIC did not overspend its annual income. Part of the current %iscal approach has been a return to having the treasurer process all reimbursements related to ACS DIC funded symposia at ACS National Meetings. Symposium organizers are asked to determine reimbursement amounts and notify recipients of the amount that they are entitled to receive prior to the meeting. A process is then put in place so that reimbursement funds are dispersed quickly and accurately after the meeting.

It should be noted that ACS DIC funding for ACS National Meeting symposia and other meetings is only to be used to offset registration and travel costs. Funds to support coffee breaks, dinners, etc. need to be obtained from other sources. Symposium organizers are encouraged to work with the ACS DIC treasurer in their efforts to solicit external funding. Companies often require paperwork documenting the tax-‐exempt status of the ACS DIC, which is easy to provide. Please feel free to contact me with questions regarding the %inancial aspects of planning an ACS DIC-‐sponsored symposium or meeting.

As a reminder, interactive PDF %iles are now available on the Division’s website (see Funding Requests at: http://acsdic.org/wordpress/) to apply for ACS DIC funding for ACS National Meeting symposia and other meetings. Please feel free to suggest improvements to these documents to enhance ease of use.

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Message from Programs Chairs, Nora Radu & Steve Koch

The 2016 San Diego ACS meeting had more than 1200 presentations in the Inorganic Division. We wish to thank the program assistants who help arranged the contributed sessions: Ana de Bettencourt Dias (lanthanide and a c t i n i d e s ) , R y a n R i c h a r d s ( n a n o s c i e n c e ) , C l a u s L u gma i r

(chemistry of materials), Viktor Poltavets (solid state), Brett Lucht (electrochemistry) and Todd Hudnall (main group) and Codrina Popescu (Inorganic Spectroscopy)

We would also like to thank the division members who have served as session chairs: Pius Adelani, Jennifer Aitken, Simon Aldridge, Mary Anderson, Zerihun Assefa, Rachel Austin, Suzanne Bart, Remi Beaulac, Alex Beecher, John Bercaw, James Blakemore, Jeffrey Bodwin, Eszter Borbas, Daniel Bowen, Timothy Boyle, David Brook, Seth Brown, Michael Campos, Thibault Cantat, Felix Castellano, Julia Chan, Perumalreddy Chandrasekaran, Peng Chen, Lionel Cheruzel, Kyoung-‐Shin Choi, Amitava Choudhury, David Clark, Timothy Clark, Jacqueline Cloud, Jorge Colon, Christopher Daley, Victoria DeRose, Patrick Desrochers, Gary Diamond, Vicky Doan-‐Nguyen, Bernadette Donovan-‐Merkert, Guodong Du, Daniel Ess, Charles Machan, Michael Findlater, Paul Fischer, Justyna Florek, Boniface P. T. Fokwa, Stephen Foley, Lisa Fredin, Danna Freedman, Samuel Gage, Philip Gale, Daniel Gamelin, Isaac Garcia-‐Bosch, Abhik Ghosh, Brian Gibney, Phoebe Glazer, Sarah Goforth, Alan Goldman, Christopher Graves, Kayla Green, Douglas Grotjahn, Timothy Hanusa, Mark Harmer, David Harris, Bradley Holliday, Stephanie Hurst, Timothy Jackson, Ilan Jen-‐La Plante, Darren Johnson, William Jones, Pierre Kennepohl, Matthew Kieber-‐Emmons, Kirill Kovnir, Stosh Kozimor, Catharine Larsen, Susan Latturner, Keith Lawler, John Lee, Mark Lee, Brian Leonard, Christina Li, Stephen Liddle, Leslie Lyons, Timothy Machonkin, Smaranda Marinescu, Manolis Matzapetakis, Andreas Mavrandonakis, James Mayer, Brent Melot, Tara Meyer, Gellert Mezei, Sarah Michel, Ognjen Miljanic, Alexander Miller, Liviu Mirica, Matthew Mongelli, Jorge Monteiro, Joseph O Connor, Aaron Odom, Thomas O'Halloran, Jun Okuda, Simon Pang, Anna Peacock, Deborah Penchoff, Dmitry Peryshkov, Warren Piers, Codrina Popescu, Pierre Poudeu Poudeu, Nora Radu, Seth Rasmussen, Barbara Reisner, Ryan Richards, Mark Richter, Jeffrey Rinehart, Jerome Robinson, Michael Rose, Lisa Rosenberg, Bryce Sadtler, Melanie Sanford, Caroline Saouma, Rajesh Sardar, Oracio Serrano, Ram Seshadri, Nisha Shukla, Natalia Shustova, Valeriy Smirnov, Alexander Spokoyny, Joanne Stewart, Steven Suib, Roxy Swails, Kalman Szabo, Robert Thomson, Neil Tomson, Ryan Trovitch, Claudia Turro, Casey Wade, Justin Walensky, Huadong Wang, Eric Werner, Jessica White, Dean Wilcox, Ursula Williams, Mahendra Yadav, Jenny Yang, Curtis Zaleski.

If you wish to volunteer to be a session chair for a future ACS meeting, please email Nora, Steve or one of the program assistants. The best time for an email message is right after the abstract submission deadline. San Francisco ACS Meeting - April 2-6, 2017




Message from Programs Chairs, Nora Radu & Steve Koch (continued)

San Francisco ACS Meeting - April 2-6, 2017

There will be many symposia honoring winners of ACS national awards and the following special symposiums:

“Switchable Catalysts” Organizers: Paula Diaconescu ([email protected]), Jeffery A. Byers ([email protected])

“Sustainability in Electrocatalytic Fuel and Chemical Production” Organizers: Jillian Dempsey ([email protected]), Louise A. Berben ([email protected])

“Inorganic Nanomaterials: Structure and function in 0, 1, and 2 dimensions” Organizers: Emily McLaurin ([email protected]), Kevin Kittilstved ([email protected])

“Undergraduate Research at the Frontiers of Inorganic Chemistry” Organizers: Chip Nataro ([email protected]), Sheila Smith ([email protected])

“Deposition and Etching of Nanostructures” Organizers: Lisa McElwee-White ([email protected]). Howard Fairbrother ([email protected]), Amy Walker ([email protected])

“Spectroscopic Elucidation of Metalloenzyme Mechanism: Current Successes and Future Challenges” Organizers: Joshua Telser ([email protected]), Victoria J. DeRose ([email protected])

“Celebrating 60 years of the Division of Inorganic Chemistry” Organizer: Debbie Crans ([email protected])

“Chemistry is Central to Applied Materials” Organizers: Carolyn Bertozzi ([email protected]), Christopher J. Chang ([email protected]), Miranda Paley ([email protected])

“Emergent Phenomena in the Solid State” Organizers: Brent C. Melot ([email protected]), Efrain Rodriguez ([email protected])

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Message from Membership Chair, Jason D’Acchioli

Hello DIC members! I’m Jason D’Acchioli, your new Membership Chair. The San Diego Meeting in March 2016 was my %irst time in this role, so I’m still learning the ins-‐and-‐outs of the Division’s operations (with lots of help from our current Chair, Claudia Turro, and our Past Chair, Debbie Crans). I’m happy to say that our past Membership Chair, Zi-‐Ling (Ben) Xue, did a most excellent job (along with Past Chair Debbie Crans) of establishing an active recruiting drive supported by an ACS Division Innovative Project Grant. We had success gaining new members in Denver and San Diego, and I will continue my efforts at the fall meeting in Philadelphia. Make sure to stop by the recruiting table and say hi!

We have lots of things to think about with respect to Division recruitment. I think the biggest challenge I face as a membership coordinator is reaching out to younger members (many of whom are undergraduate and graduate students), while %inding better ways of listening to, and supporting, our established members. There are many great ways of staying in touch with Division activities, including our website (http://acsdic.org/wordpress/), Facebook page (https://www.facebook.com/ACS-‐Division-‐of-‐Inorganic-‐Chemistry-‐193412197343213), and our new Twitter feed (@ACSINORDivision). Share these links and check them often!

While social media is a great way to keep in touch and learn about Division activities, it’s only one part of what’s necessary to build and maintain our vibrant constituency. I’m looking for new ideas and new ways of demonstrating the bene%its of being a DIC member (including free DIC membership the %irst year, access to meeting abstracts, eligibility for Division awards, participation in DIC elections, and opportunities to join %ive DIC subdivisions at no additional cost) and engaging our members, and I want to do those things with you! Please don’t hesitate to drop me a line at [email protected] with any thoughts and suggestions. As always, thank you for being a member, and make sure to recommend the ACS DIC to your chemistry friends!






News from the Coordination Chemistry Subdivision Chair, Daniel Rabinovich

The spring national ACS meeting in San Diego was quite active for the Coordination Chemistry Subdivision in particular and the DIC in general, with a total of 1413 abstracts submitted for oral and poster presentations spread over %ive full days of programming. For example, there were three “Coordination Chemistry: Synthesis and Characterization” and two “Coordination Chemistry: Characterization and Applications” oral sessions organized by Prof. Steve Koch, and the moving Memorial Symposium honoring Prof. Karen J. Brewer took place over four half-‐day sessions.

Multiple poster sessions featured lively discussions, and 25 posters represented the Division as a whole at Sci-‐Mix on Monday evening. In a similar vein, the Coordination Chemistry section of the Undergraduate Research at the Frontiers of Inorganic Chemistry poster session on Sunday evening included 22 presentations. A shout-‐out to the good people from the Interactive Online Network of Inorganic Chemists (IONiC) for their sustained support of inorganic chemistry programming at the spring national ACS meetings for several years in a row! The organizers, session leaders, and all the presenters are gratefully acknowledged for such an excellent meeting and the well-‐attended sessions.

Among the recipients of national ACS awards, it is worth noting that Prof. Jonathan Owen (Columbia U.) was honored with the 2016 ACS Award in Pure Chemistry and delivered a lecture entitled “Synthesis and coordination chemistry of colloidal quantum dots”. And Prof. Eric Schelter (U. of Pennsylvania), who happens to be the next Chair of the DIC Coordination Chemistry Subdivision, received the Harry Gray Award for Creative Work in Inorganic Chemistry by a Young Investigator. Congratulations to Jon and Eric, as well as to the other recipients of national ACS awards in inorganic chemistry!

Last but not least, I would like to thank all the subdivision members for the opportunity I had to serve as the Subdivision Chair in calendar year 2016. I wish next year’s Chair and all the Subdivision and Division members a successful and productive 2017.




News from the Nanoscience Subdivision Chair, Sara Skrabalak

Professor Raymond Schaak, the DuPont Professor of Materials Chemistry at the Pennsylvania State University, was the 2016 recipient of the Inorganic Nanoscience Award, which is sponsored by the NanoCenter at the University of South Carolina. An award symposium was held by the Division of Inorganic Chemistry at the fall 2016 National ACS Conference in Philadelphia to recognize Professor Schaak’s creative work in the area of synthetic inorganic nanochemistry. The symposium began with a presentation by the awardee which outlined the role of

synthesis in advancing the %ield of nanoscience. Additional speakers included Professors Thomas Mallouk (Pennsylvania State University), Paul Weiss (University of California – Los Angeles), Song Jin (University of Wisconsin), Christopher Murray (University of Pennsylvania), Jill Millstone (University of Pittsburgh), and Sara Skrabalak (Indiana University). Speakers shared both their research and stories about Professor Schaak and his research contributions, making for an excellent event. Check the Division of Inorganic Chemistry website for information about the 2017 award program.

Photo: Professor Schaak delivering his address on synthetic inorganic nanochemistry.




Message from PUI Representative, Barbara Reisner

There are many items that are of interest to those of us who work with undergraduates including award recognitions, award nomination deadlines, and teaching.

I'm pleased to announce that 251 students were recognized with the 2016 ACS Division of Inorganic Chemistry Undergraduate Award in Inorganic Chemistry. This award recognizes achievements by undergraduate students in inorganic chemistry and is designed to encourage these students to pursue further study in the %ield. A list of this year's recipients can be found on the division's website. If you would like to be informed when nominations are being accepted for the 2017 award, contact me to be added to the inorganic chemistry undergraduate award list.

Do you know an outstanding undergraduate research student/preceptor team? If so, look at the guidlines for the DIC Undergraduate Award in Undergraduate Research. This award recognizes the collaborative research of an outstanding undergraduate student/preceptor team in the %ield of inorganic chemistry. Nominations are due annually on September 15. Questions can be addressed to the division's award chairs.

Since 1949, the inorganic community has held symposia on teaching inorganic chemistry and the undergraduate curriculum. This year, division members have organized a number of events to discuss undergraduate teaching. At the National Meeting in San Diego, Joanne Stewart of Hope College and I organized a symposium on Undergraduate Teaching at the Frontiers of Inorganic Chemistry. At the Biennial Conference on Chemical Education help in August, David Heroux of Saint Michael's College organized a session on Modern experiments for inorganic chemistry and Lori Watson of Earlham College organized a session on Teaching inorganic and general chemistry with VIPEr learning objects. At the upcoming National Meeting in Philadelphia, John Miecznikowski of Fair%ield University has organized a symposium on Advances in Teaching Inorganic Chemistry Lecture & Laboratory.

The division has also been a leader in highlighting undergraduate research in inorganic chemistry. At the National Meeting in San Francisco, Chip Nataro of Lafayette College and Sheila Smith of the University of Michigan Dearborn are organizing the 10th symposium on Undergraduate Research at the Frontiers of Inorganic Chemistry. I encourage everyone who works with undergraduates to submit abstracts and present at this meeting. Please encourage your undergraduate students to submit posters to this session.

I would like to bring your attention to two new exams offered by the ACS Exams Institute -‐ the 2014 Inorganic Chemistry exam (IN14) and the 2016 Foundations of Inorganic Chemistry exam (IN16). The more traditional exam (IN14) is geared towards a year long or advanced inorganic chemistry course. The foundations exam (IN16) is designed for a one semester course that is offered earlier in the curriculum. This is a new exam!. You can purchase single copies of each exam from the Exams Institute if you are interested.




Inorganic Stamp Corner

by Daniel Rabinovich

The Most Beautiful Molecule

The traditional description of the allotropes of carbon was limited for a long time to the solid-state structures, physical properties, and various applications of graphite and diamond. That changed dramatically in 1985 with the discovery of buckminsterfullerene (C60), a highly symmetric cage-like molecule with 60 carbon atoms as the vertices of a truncated icosahedron. Its 20 hexagonal and 12 pentagonal faces resembled a soccer ball and, tellingly, the original communication describing the generation and detection of C60 (Kroto, H.W. et al. Nature 1985, 318, 162-163) included an actual picture of one!

Even though macroscopic quantities of C60 would not be available for another five years (Krätschmer, W. et al. Nature 1990, 347, 354-358), the new allotropic form of carbon captured the imagination of chemists and many other scientists, who envisioned a vast array of potential applications for it. Six years later, the 1996 Nobel Prize in Chemistry was awarded to Robert Curl, Harold Kroto, and Richard Smalley “for their discovery of fullerenes”. Incidentally, The Most Beautiful Molecule is also the title of an insightful and lively book about the discovery of the buckyball, written by Hugh Aldersey-Williams (John Wiley & Sons, Inc., 1995). The postage stamp that illustrates this note was issued in Great Britain in 2001 to commemorate the centennial of the Nobel Prizes. Interestingly, the stamp was printed with a special thermochromic ink that changes color when warmed. The image on the right shows a scan of the same stamp after holding it between two fingers for 5-10 seconds, a simple procedure that reveals the presence of a black sphere inside the molecule of C60. This is presumably an atom of a noble gas or a metallic element and was meant to represent an endohedral fullerene, a remarkable bit of science displayed on a postage stamp!




Chair Claudia Turro (15) Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry 100 W. 18th Ave. Columbus, OH 43210 Ph: 614-‐292-‐6708 Email: [email protected]

Chair Elect John D. Protasiewicz (16) Department of Chemistry Case Western Reserve University 10900 Euclid Ave Cleveland, OH 44106 Ph: 216-‐368-‐5060 Email: [email protected]

Secretary Jeffrey J. Rack (16, 17, 18, 19) Department of Chemistry and Chemical Biology MSC03 2060 1 University of New Mexico Albuquerque, NM87131-‐0001 Ph: 505-‐277-‐5200 Email: [email protected]

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Treasurer Lisa M. Berreau (15,16,17) Department of Chemistry & Biochemistry Utah State University 0300 Old Main Hill Logan, UT 84322-‐0300 Ph: 435-‐797-‐3509 Email: [email protected]

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Joshua S. Figueroa (15, 16, 17) Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry University of California, San Diego La Jolla, CA 92093-‐0358 Phone: 858-‐822-‐7478 E-‐mail: js%[email protected]

Kim R. Dunbar (16,17,18) Department of Chemistry Texas A&M University P.O. Box 30012 College Station, TX 77842 Ph: 979-845-5235 Email: [email protected]

Lawrence Que (14, 15, 16)Department of ChemistryUniversity of Minnesota207 Pleasant St. SEMinneapolis, MN 55455Ph: 612-625-0389E-mail: [email protected]

Past-Chair James M. Boncella (16) Materials Physics and Applciations Division Los Alamos National Laboratory P.O. Box 1663 Mail Stop J514 Ph: 505-‐665-‐0795 Email: [email protected]

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ACS DIC OFFICERS

Subdivisions

Chair Chair-ElectBioinorganic Subdivision Serena DeBeer (16)

Max Planck Institute for Chemical Energy Conversion Stiftstr. 34-‐36 D-‐45470 Mülheim an der Ruhr Germany Ph: +49 208 306 3605 Email: [email protected]

Edith (Phoebe) Glazer (16) Department of Chemistry University of Kentucky 505 Rose St. Lexington, KY 40506 Ph: 859-‐257-‐2198 Email: [email protected]

Organometallic Subdivision Christopher C. Cummins (16) Department of Chemistry Massachusetts Institute of Technology 77 Massachusetts Ave. Cambridge, MA 02139 Ph: 617-‐253-‐5332 Email: [email protected]

Milton R. Smith, III (16) Department of Chemistry Michigan State University 578 South Shaw Lane East Lansing, MI 48824 Ph: 517-‐355-‐9715 x 166 Email: [email protected]

Solid State Subdivision Amy Prieto (16) Department of Chemistry Colorado State University Campus Delivery 1872 Fort Collins, CO 80523 Ph: 970-‐491-‐1592 Email: [email protected]

Amanda J. Morris (16) Department of Chemistry Virginia Tech University 3109 Hahn Hall South 800 W. Campus Dr. Blacksburg, VA 24060 Ph: 540-‐231-‐5585 Email: [email protected]

Nanoscience Subdivision Sara Skrabalak (16) Department of Chemistry Indiana University 800 E. Kirkwood Ave. Bloomington, IN 47405 Ph: 812-‐856-‐1892 Email: [email protected]

Josh Goldberger (16) Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry The Ohio State University 100 W. 18th Ave. Columbus, OH 43210 Ph: 614-‐247-‐7438 Email: [email protected]

Coordination Subdivision Daniel Rabinovich (16) Department of Chemistry The University of North Carolina at Charlotte 9201 University City Boulevard Charlotte, NC 28223 Ph: 704-‐687-‐5105 Email: [email protected]

Eric J. Schelter (16) Department of Chemistry University of Pennsylvania 231 South 34th St. Philadelphia, PA 19104 Ph: 215-‐898-‐8633 Email: [email protected]













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Councilors

Alternate Councilors

Tom Cundari (15, 16, 17) Dept. of Chemistry Univ. of North Texas Denton, TX 76203-‐5070 Ph: (940) 369-‐7753 Email: [email protected]

Debbie Crans (16, 17, 18) Department of Chemistry Colorado State University 1301 Center Ave Fort Collins, CO 80513 Ph: 970-491-7635 E-mail: [email protected]

Silvia Ronco (14, 15, 16) Program Officer Research Corporation for Science Advancement Tucson, AZ 85712 Ph: 520-571-1111 E-mail: [email protected]

Marina A. Petrukhina (14, 15, 16) Department of Chemistry University at Albany 1400 Washington Avenue Albany, NY 12222 Ph: 518-442-4406 E-mail: [email protected]

Paula Diaconescu (15, 16, 17) Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry University of California, Los Angeles 607 Charles E. Young Drive East Los Angeles, CA 90095 Ph: 310-‐794-‐4809 Email: [email protected]

Hannah Shafaat (16, 17, 18) Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry The Ohio State University 100 W. 18th Ave. Columbus, OH 43210 Ph: 614-688-1982 Email: [email protected]

Michael D. Johnson (14, 15,16) Department of Chemistry & Biochemistry New Mexico State University Las Cruces, NM 88003-8001 Ph: 575-646-3627 Email: [email protected]

Sheila Smith (14, 15, 16) Department of Natural Sciences University of Michigan-‐ Dearborn Dearborn, MI 48128 Ph: 313-‐583-‐6399 E-‐mail: [email protected]











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Awards Committee Co-Chairs

Program Chairs

Membership Committee Chair

PUI Representative

Michael Shatruk Department of Chemistry Florida State University 95 Chieftain Way Tallahassee, FL32306 Ph: 850-‐417-‐8417 Email: [email protected]

Tim Warren Department of Chemistry Georgetown University Box 571227 Washington, DC 20057-‐1227 Ph: 202-‐687-‐6362 Email: [email protected]

(Fall Meetings)

Nora S. Radu DuPont OLED Displays Experimental Station P.O. Box 328 Wilmington, DE 19880 Ph: 302-695-3363 E-mail: [email protected]

(Spring Meetings)

Stephen Koch Chemistry Department SUNY Stony Brook Stony Brook, NY 11794-3400 Ph: 631-632-7944 Email: [email protected]

Jason D’Acchioli Department of Chemistry 2001 Fourth Avenue University of Wisconsin-‐Stevens Point Stevens Point, WI 54481 Ph: 715-‐346-‐2297 Email: [email protected]

Barbara Reisner Department of Chemistry & Biochemistry James Madison University 901 Carrier Dr., MSC 4501 Harrisonburg, VA 22807 Ph: 540-568-3460 Email: [email protected]







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ABOUT THE ACS DIC

The Division of Inorganic Chemistry represents a diverse body of scientists who come together to understand and promote the richness of the chemistry of the elements. Molecular biologists, materials scientists, and many types of chemists are members of this division. Due to the diversity of interests among our members, four subdivisions are available for membership in addition to the general membership in the Division.

The Division has several responsibilities: the development and coordination of programming of interest to our members at national meetings; continuing improvement in the education of current and future chemists in the beauty of inorganic chemistry and the value of chemistry in general; representation of our members' interests to the ACS through the election of Councilors and other positions; and maintaining the fiscal health of the Division to support all other activities. The Division usually has one of the largest technical programs at the national meetings.

The goals of the ACS Division of Inorganic Chemistry:1. To advance the science of Inorganic Chemistry.2. To provide an organization within which close contact among chemists interested in Inorganic Chemistry can

be maintained.3. To arrange programs dealing with Inorganic Chemistry for the National Meetings of the ACS.4. To organize and conduct symposia on special topics in Inorganic Chemistry at times and places designated by

the Executive Committee of the DIC.5. To promote the teaching of Inorganic Chemistry at both the undergraduate and graduate levels.

Selected areas of chemistry in which the Division's activities are focused:

Organometallic Chemistry. Includes the synthesis, characterization, and reactivity of main group, transition metal, and rare earth organometallic compounds, and the applications of such compounds in organic synthesis, inorganic synthesis, and catalysis.Bioinorganic Chemistry. Includes all aspects of the chemistry of the metallic elements and small inorganic molecules in biological systems.Solid-State and Materials Chemistry. Includes the synthesis, characterization, and physical and chemical properties of solids that contain metallic and/or main group elements.Coordination Chemistry. Includes the synthesis, characterization, and physical and chemical properties of classical coordination compounds.Nanoscience. Includes the synthesis, characterization, and physical and chemical properties of nanostructured materials (inorganic nanocrystals, inorganic-organic hybrid materials etc.).

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