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RSC NEWS 27 February 2006 |
Vol 37 : Issue No. 2 |
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Editors -- Marilyn Holloway and Sue Riches
As some of our avid readers will no doubt be aware, the RSC News will be published monthly from now on. We apologise for this, but time contraints in the Asec office, and the lack of contributions and interesting items from staff have necessitated this step.
In this issue we make a special welcome to Ms Kerryn Jackson, who is the new RSC Business Manager. Kerryn will be responsible for the management of administrative matters within the School. We wish her well in her new job and look forward to a restructured and re-energised administration. For the first fortnight, Kerryn will be located in Room E109, ext. 53773, where she will hold talks with all administrative staff and outline her plans for the future. Other staff members who would like to talk to her, either technical or academic, are invited to make an appointment through Michelle Baker on ext. 53767.
CONGRATULATIONS
To the following completing PhD scholars:
Mr Daniel Antony Speedie Beck BSc RMIT
Stereoselective intramolecular Michael
additions of pyrrole and their application to natural product syntheses
Supervisor: Professor M G Banwell
Submitted 9 February 2006
Ms Ching-Yeh Lin App Chem
National Chiao Tung, Taiwan
Computational Methods in Vibrational Spectroscopy
Supervisor: Professor P M W Gill
Submitted 23 February 2006
Mr Zachary Ivan Watts BApplSc RMIT
Studies into Hydrogen Atom Abstraction from Amino Acids and Peptides
Supervisor: Professor C J Easton
Submitted 27 January 2006
Congratulations also go to
Jennifer Hodgson
who was awarded the CRC Prize for polymers at the recent Australasian
Polymer Symposium, which was held in Rotorua, New Zealand. The prize is
sponsored by the CRC for Polymers and awarded by the RACI Polymer Division
to the undergraduate student submitting the best honours thesis in an area
of polymer science. Jennifer's honours work, entitled Radical
Ring-Opening Polymerisation of Small Phosphorus Heterocycles was
carried out in the RSC last year in the Coote group, where she is now
doing a PhD.
http://www.polymer.org.au/crc_prize.html
RECENT ARRIVALS
A sincere welcome is extended to the following people who have joined us recently:
Dr Paul Low has joined Professor Hill's research group as a Visiting Fellow until mid-April (room 111, ext. 53640).
Professor Ellak von Nagy-Felsobuki is here until July as a Visiting Fellow with Professor Easton's group (room 132A, extension 54091).
Mr Zvonko (Zac) Lazarov has commenced as a janitor with the School.
Dr Christian Bluchel has taken up a postdoctoral position with Professor Martin Banwell's research group (room 239, extension 58340).
Mr James Hennessy has returned to the School to commence his PhD studies with Professor Easton's research group (room 109, extension 54207).
Mr Raymond Chan has commenced honours with Professor Dixon's research group (room E205, extension 54181).
Miss Marta Cieslinski has taken up a postdoctoral position with Professor Chris Easton's research group following completion of her PhD degree (room 105, extension 550170).
Ms Tanya Bradford has commenced a PhD Scholarship with Associate Professor Sherburn's research group (room 1.47, extension 53762).
Mr Roger Coulston has commenced a PhD Scholarship with Professor Easton's research group (room 114, extension 53713).
Dr Ignace Louis has recently arrived from University of Sydney to take up a postdoctoral position with Associate Professor Sherburn's research group (room 233, extension 53645).
Mr Thomas Fallon, has commenced Honours with Associate Professor Sherburn's research group (room 1.47, extension 53762).
Mr Joseph Brock, has commenced Honours with Dr Oakley's research group (room E207, extension 55061).
Miss Ching Yeh Lin (Leaf) >continues her association with the School as a Postdoctoral Fellow with Dr Coote's research group (room E117, extension 53573).
Ms Michelle Weir has taken up a PhD Scholarship with Professor Wild's research group (room 129, extension 54334).
Dr Thomas Proffen has arrived this week to take up a Visiting Fellowship with Professor Welberry's group (room 45, ext. 54122).
Ms Jennifer Hodgson has commenced PhD studies with Dr Coote's group (room E105, ext. 55411).
Mr Jose Basutto has commenced Honours with Professor Banwell's group (room 239, ext. 58340).
Ms Kerryn Jackson has taken up the senior administrative position in the School as from 27 February 2006 (see editorial above).
DEPARTURES
Farewell and best wishes to the following who have left the School since our last issue:Dr David Sinclair who left the School at the end of his contract on 26 January.
Dr Ian Crossley has left RSC to take up a position at Monash University.
Monash's gain is also RSC's loss as Dr Ekaterina Izgorodina also leaves to commence a position at Monash.
Once again, Lee Welling has provided us with these "gems":
(On September 17, 1994, Alabama's Heather Whitestone was selected as Miss America 1995.)
Question: If you could live forever, would you and why?
Answer: "I would not live
forever, because we should not live forever, because if we were supposed
to live forever, then we would live forever, but we cannot live forever,
which is why I would not live forever,"
Miss Alabama in the 1994 Miss USA contest.
"Whenever I watch TV and see those poor starving kids all over the world, I can't help but cry. I mean I'd love to be skinny like that, but not with all those flies and death and stuff." -Maria Carey
"Smoking kills. If you're killed, you've lost a very important part of your life." Brooke Shields, during an interview to become Spokesperson for federal anti-smoking campaign.
"I've never had major knee surgery on any other part of my body." Winston Bennett, University of Kentucky basketball forward.
"Outside of the killings, Washington has one of the lowest crime rates in the country." Mayor Marion Barry, Washington, DC.
"I'm not going to have some reporters pawing through our papers. We are the president." Hillary Clinton commenting on the release of subpoenaed documents.
"That low-down scoundrel deserves to be kicked to death by a jackass, and I'm just the one to do it." A congressional candidate in Texas.
"Half this game is ninety percent mental." Philadelphia Phillies manager, Danny Ozark
"It isn't pollution that's harming the environment. It's the impurities in our air and water that are doing it." Al Gore, Vice President
Ah Toy A, Chaffey-Millar H, Davis T P, Stenzel M H, Izgorodina E I, Coote M L, Barner-Kowollik C Thioketone spin traps as mediating agents for free radical polymerization processes. Chem. Commun. (2006), (8), 835-837. http://dx.doi.org/10.1039/b515561d
Banwell M G, Lupton D W Tandem radical cyclization reactions, initiated at nitrogen, as an approach to the CDE-tricyclic cores of certain post-secodine alkaloids. Heterocycles (2006), 68(1), 71-92. https://www2.heterocycles.jp/FMPro?-db=journalred.fp5&-format=/w2/JournalDetail.html&-lay=data&-Token.0=&-Token.3=COM-05-10575&-recid=45661&-Script=citation&-find
Brink F J, Withers R L, Cordier S, Poulain M An electron diffraction and bond valence sum investigation of oxygen/fluorine ordering in NbnO2n-1Fn+2, n=3. J. Solid State Chem. (2006), 179(2), 341-348. http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.jssc.2005.10.014
Habermehl N C, Angus P M, Kilah N L, Norén L, Rae A D, Willis A C, Wild S B Asymmetric transformation of a double-stranded, dicopper(I) helicate containing achiral bis(bidentate) Schiff bases. Inorg. Chem. (2006), 45(4), 1445-1462. http://dx.doi.org/10.1021/ic051478c
Izgorodina E I, Coote M L Reliable low-cost theoretical procedures for studying addition-fragmentation in RAFT polymerization. J. Phys. Chem. A (2006), 110(7) 2486-2492. http://dx.doi.org/10.1021/jp055158q
James V J Reply to the letter of Rogers et al. entitled "Reproducibility of cancer diagnosis using hair". Int. J. Cancer (2006), 118(4), 1061-1062. http://dx.doi.org/10.1002/ijc.21457
Kaur R, MacLeod J, Foley W, Nayudu M Gluconic acid: an antifungal agent produced by Pseudomonas species in biological control of take-all. Phytochemistry (2006), 67(6), 595-604. http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.phytochem.2005.12.011
Kuan S L, Leong W K, Goh L Y, Webster R D HMB and Cp* ruthenium(II) complexes containing bis- and tris-(mercaptomethimazolyl)borate ligands: synthetic, X-ray structural and electrochemical studies (HMB = η6-C6Me6, Cp* = η5-C5Me5) J. Organomet. Chem. (2006), 691(5), 907-915. http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.jorganchem.2005.10.043
Morrall J P L, Cifuentes M P, Humphrey M G, Kellens R, Robijns E, Asselberghs I, Clays K, Persoons A, Samoc M, Willis A C Organometallic complexes for nonlinear optics. Part 36. Quadratic and cubic optical nonlinearities of 4-fluorophenylethynyl- and 4-nitro-(E)-stilbenylethynylruthenium complexes. Inorg. Chim. Acta (2006), 359(3), 998-1005. http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.ica.2005.09.012
Namazian M, Kalantary-Fotooh F, Noorbala M R, Searles D J, Coote M L Møller-Plesset perturbation theory calculations of the pKa values for a range of carboxylic acids. J. Mol. Struct.: THEOCHEM (2006), 758(2-3), 275-278. http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.theochem.2005.10.024
Namazian M, Siahrostami S, Noorbala M R, Coote M L Calculation of two-electron reduction potentials for some quinone derivatives in aqueous solution using Møller-Plesset perturbation theory. J. Mol. Struct.: THEOCHEM (2006), 759(1-3), 245-247. http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.theochem.2005.11.011
Norén L, Withers R L, Schmid S, Brink F J, Ting V Old friends in a new light: "SnSb" revisited. J. Solid State Chem. (2006), 179(2), 404-412. http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.jssc.2005.10.031
Ting V, Liu Y, Withers R L, Norén L, James M, Fitz Gerald J D A structure and phase analysis investigation of the "1:1" ordered A2InNbO6 perovskites (A = Ca2+, Sr2+, Ba2+). J. Solid State Chem. (2006), 179(2), 551-562. http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.jssc.2005.11.012
Williams S R, Evans D J Linear response domain in glassy systems. Phys. Rev. Lett. (2006), 96(1), 015701/1-4. http://dx.doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevLett.96.015701
Wolf R, Finger M, Limburg C, Willis A C, Wild S B, Hey-Hawkins E Reactivity of cyclooligophosphanes: synthesis and structural characterisation of cyclo-1,4-(BH3)2(P4Ph4CH2) and cyclo-1,2-(BH3)2(P5Ph5). Dalton Trans. (2006), (6), 831-837. http://dx.doi.org/10.1039/b511833f
Zhu Y, Nomura T, Xu Y, Zhang Y, Peng Y, Mao B, Hanada A,
Zhou H, Wang R, Li P, Zhu X, Mander L N, Kamiya Y, Yamaguchi S, He Z
ELONGATED UPPERMOST INTERNODE encodes a cytochrome P450
monooxygenase that epoxidizes gibberellins in a novel deactivation
reaction in rice. Plant Cell (2006), 18(2), 442-456.
http://dx.doi.org/10.1105/tpc.105.038455
