This is the catalogue podcast for CHEM351. It covers finding books on specific topics like curly arrow mechanisms, and actually finding the book in the library. It is about 4:45min long.
Link to file
Resources:
Link to Library Catalogue
Link to Call Numbers and List of Locations
Music:
Podsafe music network: http://music.podshow.com
Marchinha da Prejudicada, by Banheiro Feminino
Tuesday, September 26, 2006
CHEM351 Library Podcast - Intro
This is the intro library podcast for CHEM351. It introduces the podcasts and is about 1:30min long.
Link to file
If you have questions about this and following podcasts, or have topic suggestions, let me know: jennifer.lee at ucalgary.ca
Link to file
If you have questions about this and following podcasts, or have topic suggestions, let me know: jennifer.lee at ucalgary.ca
Wednesday, September 20, 2006
CINF Scholarship for Scientific Excellence Sponsored by Elsevier MDL
The scholarship program of the Division of Chemical Information (CINF) of the American Chemical Society (ACS) funded by Elsevier MDL is designed to reward graduate and postdoctoral students in chemical information and related sciences for scientific excellence and to foster their involvement in CINF.
Five scholarships valued at $1,000 each will be presented at the 233rd ACS National Meeting in Chicago, March 25 - March 29, 2007. Applicants must be enrolled at a certified college or university, and they will present a poster during the Sci-Mix session at the National Meeting. Abstracts for the poster must be submitted electronically through OASYS.
To apply, please inform the Chair of the selection committee, Guenter Grethe at ggrethe@comcast.net that you are applying for a scholarship. Submit your abstract at http://oasys.acs.org/acs/233nm/cinf/papers/index.cgi
by clicking on Sci-Mix Posters (at the lower part of the page). To enter your abstract, just follow the instructions. The deadline for submitting an abstract to OASYS is November 17, 2006. Additionally, please send a 2,000-word abstract describing the work to be presented in electronic form to the Chair of the selection committee by January 15, 2007. Any questions related to applying for one of the scholarships should be directed to the same e-mail address.
Winners will be chosen based on contents, presentation and relevance of the poster and they will be announced at the meeting. The contents shall reflect upon the student's work and describe research in the field of cheminformatics and related sciences. Winning posters will be marked "Winner of the CINF-Elsevier MDL Academic Scientific Excellence" at the poster session.
About Elsevier MDL
Elsevier MDL provides informatics, database and workflow solutions that accelerate successful life sciences R&D by improving the speed and quality of scientists' decision making. Researchers around the world depend on Elsevier MDL for innovative and reliable discovery informatics software solutions and services augmented by 400 Elsevier chemistry and life sciences journals and related products. For more information, visit www.mdl.com.
Five scholarships valued at $1,000 each will be presented at the 233rd ACS National Meeting in Chicago, March 25 - March 29, 2007. Applicants must be enrolled at a certified college or university, and they will present a poster during the Sci-Mix session at the National Meeting. Abstracts for the poster must be submitted electronically through OASYS.
To apply, please inform the Chair of the selection committee, Guenter Grethe at ggrethe@comcast.net that you are applying for a scholarship. Submit your abstract at http://oasys.acs.org/acs/233nm/cinf/papers/index.cgi
by clicking on Sci-Mix Posters (at the lower part of the page). To enter your abstract, just follow the instructions. The deadline for submitting an abstract to OASYS is November 17, 2006. Additionally, please send a 2,000-word abstract describing the work to be presented in electronic form to the Chair of the selection committee by January 15, 2007. Any questions related to applying for one of the scholarships should be directed to the same e-mail address.
Winners will be chosen based on contents, presentation and relevance of the poster and they will be announced at the meeting. The contents shall reflect upon the student's work and describe research in the field of cheminformatics and related sciences. Winning posters will be marked "Winner of the CINF-Elsevier MDL Academic Scientific Excellence" at the poster session.
About Elsevier MDL
Elsevier MDL provides informatics, database and workflow solutions that accelerate successful life sciences R&D by improving the speed and quality of scientists' decision making. Researchers around the world depend on Elsevier MDL for innovative and reliable discovery informatics software solutions and services augmented by 400 Elsevier chemistry and life sciences journals and related products. For more information, visit www.mdl.com.
Friday, September 15, 2006
Historical Royal Society Journals Available Free till December
Full Royal Society journals archives back to 1665 are free until December:
http://www.pubs.royalsoc.ac.uk/index.cfm?page=1373
Access individual journals along the left-hand side.
You can read The Register's news story here:
http://www.theregister.co.uk/2006/09/14/
royalsoc_archive_open/
Historically interesting papers include:
Benjamin Franklin's legendary kite experiment, drawing down lightning and showing its electrical nature (1752)
http://www.journals.royalsoc.ac.uk/openurl.asp?genre=
article&issn=0260-7085&volume=47&spage=202
The Complementary Structure of Deoxyribonucleic Acid F.H.C Crick and J.D Watson - 1954
http://www.journals.royalsoc.ac.uk/openurl.asp?genre=
article&issn=0080-4630&volume=223&issue=1152&spage=80
Alexander Fleming (Paper describing early stages of penicillin discoveries) - 1922
http://www.journals.royalsoc.ac.uk/openurl.asp?genre=
article&issn=0950-1193&volume=93&issue=653&spage=306
Edmund Stone Willow bark - Aspirin - 1763
http://www.journals.royalsoc.ac.uk/openurl.asp?genre=
article&issn=0260-7085&volume=53&spage=195
http://www.pubs.royalsoc.ac.uk/index.cfm?page=1373
Access individual journals along the left-hand side.
You can read The Register's news story here:
http://www.theregister.co.uk/2006/09/14/
royalsoc_archive_open/
Historically interesting papers include:
Benjamin Franklin's legendary kite experiment, drawing down lightning and showing its electrical nature (1752)
http://www.journals.royalsoc.ac.uk/openurl.asp?genre=
article&issn=0260-7085&volume=47&spage=202
The Complementary Structure of Deoxyribonucleic Acid F.H.C Crick and J.D Watson - 1954
http://www.journals.royalsoc.ac.uk/openurl.asp?genre=
article&issn=0080-4630&volume=223&issue=1152&spage=80
Alexander Fleming (Paper describing early stages of penicillin discoveries) - 1922
http://www.journals.royalsoc.ac.uk/openurl.asp?genre=
article&issn=0950-1193&volume=93&issue=653&spage=306
Edmund Stone Willow bark - Aspirin - 1763
http://www.journals.royalsoc.ac.uk/openurl.asp?genre=
article&issn=0260-7085&volume=53&spage=195
Tuesday, September 12, 2006
Access to Several RSC Databases Now Available through Catalogue
The following RSC databases (available to us as a member of CRKN, Canadian Research Knowledge Network) have been added to the catalogue:
* Analytical WebBase (aka: Analytical abstracts online)
* Catalysts & catalysed reactions online
* Chemical hazards in industry online
* Laboratory hazards bulletin online
* Methods in organic synthesis online
* Natural products update online
* Analytical WebBase (aka: Analytical abstracts online)
* Catalysts & catalysed reactions online
* Chemical hazards in industry online
* Laboratory hazards bulletin online
* Methods in organic synthesis online
* Natural products update online
Friday, September 08, 2006
Mullen Public Lectures - Dyes & Pigments, and Nano*
The Chem dept's Distinguished Visiting Speaker 2006 is Dr. Klaus Mullen. He will be lecturing on the University of Calgary campus Sep 20-22. His bio and lecture descriptions are below, but you can contact the dept for more info: info@chem.ucalgary.ca, 220-5341.
Prof. Dr. Klaus Müllen
Prof. Dr. Klaus Müllen was born in Cologne in 1947 and obtained his Diplomchemiker-Degree in 1969 at the University of Cologne under the direction of Prof. E. Vogel. He then went on to Ph.D. studies at the University of Basel, obtaining his doctorate under the direction of Prof. F. Gerson in 1971. His postdoctoral work, including Habilitation, was done at the ETH Zürich from 1972-1978, under the mentorship of Prof. J. F. M. Oth. After a brief tenure at ETH Zürich as a Privatdozent, he became a Professor of Chemistry at the University of Cologne in 1979. From 1983-1989, he held a Professorship at the University of Mainz, after which he became a member of the Max Planck Society and took up his current position as Director of the Max Planck Institute for Polymer Research.
Prof. Müllen is a world leader in nanotechnology and functional polymer research; current interests include new polymer-forming reactions including methods of organometallic chemistry; initiators and additives for radical or anionic polymerization; multi-dimensional polymers with complex shape-persistent architectures; functional polymeric networks, in particular for catalytic purposes; dyes and laser writing into polymers; chemistry and physics of single molecules; molecular materials with liquid crystalline properties for electronic and optoelectronic devices; materials for lithium or hydrogen storage; nanocomposites.
Prof. Müllen’s influence internationally is manifest in his many Journal Editorships, Advisory Board and Evaluation Committee appointments, both nationally in Germany and abroad, and several Visiting Professorships in Japan, China, France and the United States.
Prof. Müllen’s work has been honored with several awards, including the Max-Planck Research Prize, the Philip-Morris-Research-Prize, the NOZOE-Award (San Diego), the Kyoto University Foundation Award, the Science Award of the "Stifterverband", and the International Award of the Belgian Polymer Group. In addition, he has delivered many named lectures in Europe, the Middle East and America, to which he now adds the University of Calgary’s ICI Distinguished Lecture series.
Research Lectures
“Dyes and Pigments - The Fascination and Function of Color”
Wednesday Lecture September 20th, 4:00 p.m. Administration Bldg. Room 142
Dyes and pigments are fascinating functional colorants. Their applications range from biolabelling and optoelectronics to laser welding of polymers and probing of polymer morphologies. Dye labelled biosynthetic hybrid structures are introduced with potential in sensing, transfection and drug delivery. A particularly important aspect for dye-stuff chemistry is single molecule spectroscopy, which allows the monitoring of complex chemical and physical processes without ensemble averaging.
“Nanographenes - From Benzene to Optoelectronics and Single Molecule Devices”
Friday Lecture September 22nd, 4:00 p.m. Administration Bldg. Room 142
Nanographenes are novel, structurally perfect and processable graphite materials that can be assembled to columnar superstructures. The latter serve as powerful transport channels in solar cells and field-effect transistors. Nanographenes are useful objects for scanning tunnelling microscopy allowing their direct visualization and manipulation in real space. The synthesis of single polymers or fabrication of single molecule field-effect transistors are exiting examples of their potential. Further, mild pyrolysis of carbon-rich graphene molecules affords unprecedented carbon nanoparticles. A new method of deposition of nanographenes from the gas phase (soft-landing) provides highly ordered thin layer structures for electronic devices.
Public Lecture
"Nano – Hype or Hope?"
Thursday Night Lecture September 21st, 7:30 p.m. Tom Oliver Lecture Theatre
Earth Sciences, Room 162
Nanoscience is regarded as a fascinating, but somewhat fashionable field of research. Today’s nanotechnology is of immense economic significance, but mainly utilizes “old” nanoparticles such as lattices made by emulsion polymerization and pigments.
A “new” nanoscience requires the design of new molecules such as shape-persistent dendrimers, giant graphene molecules, carbon micro- and nanoparticles or complex latex particles. These materials allow for light harvesting or single photon emission for cryptography and can be applied for single-molecule field effect transistors or as smart supports for metallocene catalysts in polyolefin synthesis. In combination with new physical methods such as scanning probe and confocal optical microscopies the chemist becomes able to detect and to manipulate even single molecules.
After this talk, a reception will be held at the University Club, to which all members of the audience are invited.
You are cordially invited to share in this outstanding lecture series. The Thursday evening lecture will be suitable for non-scientists, and the occasion will provide an opportunity for members of the community to meet Dr. Müllen and members of the Department of Chemistry, University of Calgary.
Sponsored by ICI CANADA INC. in association with the Department of Chemistry
in the Faculty of Science at the University of Calgary.
Prof. Dr. Klaus Müllen
Prof. Dr. Klaus Müllen was born in Cologne in 1947 and obtained his Diplomchemiker-Degree in 1969 at the University of Cologne under the direction of Prof. E. Vogel. He then went on to Ph.D. studies at the University of Basel, obtaining his doctorate under the direction of Prof. F. Gerson in 1971. His postdoctoral work, including Habilitation, was done at the ETH Zürich from 1972-1978, under the mentorship of Prof. J. F. M. Oth. After a brief tenure at ETH Zürich as a Privatdozent, he became a Professor of Chemistry at the University of Cologne in 1979. From 1983-1989, he held a Professorship at the University of Mainz, after which he became a member of the Max Planck Society and took up his current position as Director of the Max Planck Institute for Polymer Research.
Prof. Müllen is a world leader in nanotechnology and functional polymer research; current interests include new polymer-forming reactions including methods of organometallic chemistry; initiators and additives for radical or anionic polymerization; multi-dimensional polymers with complex shape-persistent architectures; functional polymeric networks, in particular for catalytic purposes; dyes and laser writing into polymers; chemistry and physics of single molecules; molecular materials with liquid crystalline properties for electronic and optoelectronic devices; materials for lithium or hydrogen storage; nanocomposites.
Prof. Müllen’s influence internationally is manifest in his many Journal Editorships, Advisory Board and Evaluation Committee appointments, both nationally in Germany and abroad, and several Visiting Professorships in Japan, China, France and the United States.
Prof. Müllen’s work has been honored with several awards, including the Max-Planck Research Prize, the Philip-Morris-Research-Prize, the NOZOE-Award (San Diego), the Kyoto University Foundation Award, the Science Award of the "Stifterverband", and the International Award of the Belgian Polymer Group. In addition, he has delivered many named lectures in Europe, the Middle East and America, to which he now adds the University of Calgary’s ICI Distinguished Lecture series.
Research Lectures
“Dyes and Pigments - The Fascination and Function of Color”
Wednesday Lecture September 20th, 4:00 p.m. Administration Bldg. Room 142
Dyes and pigments are fascinating functional colorants. Their applications range from biolabelling and optoelectronics to laser welding of polymers and probing of polymer morphologies. Dye labelled biosynthetic hybrid structures are introduced with potential in sensing, transfection and drug delivery. A particularly important aspect for dye-stuff chemistry is single molecule spectroscopy, which allows the monitoring of complex chemical and physical processes without ensemble averaging.
“Nanographenes - From Benzene to Optoelectronics and Single Molecule Devices”
Friday Lecture September 22nd, 4:00 p.m. Administration Bldg. Room 142
Nanographenes are novel, structurally perfect and processable graphite materials that can be assembled to columnar superstructures. The latter serve as powerful transport channels in solar cells and field-effect transistors. Nanographenes are useful objects for scanning tunnelling microscopy allowing their direct visualization and manipulation in real space. The synthesis of single polymers or fabrication of single molecule field-effect transistors are exiting examples of their potential. Further, mild pyrolysis of carbon-rich graphene molecules affords unprecedented carbon nanoparticles. A new method of deposition of nanographenes from the gas phase (soft-landing) provides highly ordered thin layer structures for electronic devices.
Public Lecture
"Nano – Hype or Hope?"
Thursday Night Lecture September 21st, 7:30 p.m. Tom Oliver Lecture Theatre
Earth Sciences, Room 162
Nanoscience is regarded as a fascinating, but somewhat fashionable field of research. Today’s nanotechnology is of immense economic significance, but mainly utilizes “old” nanoparticles such as lattices made by emulsion polymerization and pigments.
A “new” nanoscience requires the design of new molecules such as shape-persistent dendrimers, giant graphene molecules, carbon micro- and nanoparticles or complex latex particles. These materials allow for light harvesting or single photon emission for cryptography and can be applied for single-molecule field effect transistors or as smart supports for metallocene catalysts in polyolefin synthesis. In combination with new physical methods such as scanning probe and confocal optical microscopies the chemist becomes able to detect and to manipulate even single molecules.
After this talk, a reception will be held at the University Club, to which all members of the audience are invited.
You are cordially invited to share in this outstanding lecture series. The Thursday evening lecture will be suitable for non-scientists, and the occasion will provide an opportunity for members of the community to meet Dr. Müllen and members of the Department of Chemistry, University of Calgary.
Sponsored by ICI CANADA INC. in association with the Department of Chemistry
in the Faculty of Science at the University of Calgary.
Thursday, September 07, 2006
IUPAC Provisional Recommendation: Standard Definitions of Terms Relating to Mass Spectrometry
The following Provisional Recommendation is now available on the IUPAC web site:
Standard Definitions of Terms Relating to Mass Spectrometry
http://www.iupac.org/reports/provisional/
abstract06/murray_310107.html
The summary will be printed in the November/December 2006 issue of Chemistry International, and the public comment period will end 31 January 2007.
(From the CHMINF-L list)
Standard Definitions of Terms Relating to Mass Spectrometry
http://www.iupac.org/reports/provisional/
abstract06/murray_310107.html
The summary will be printed in the November/December 2006 issue of Chemistry International, and the public comment period will end 31 January 2007.
(From the CHMINF-L list)
Tuesday, September 05, 2006
Metablog
...or, a blog about blogs.
The CHEMINF-L list was recently discussing chemistry blogs, so I thought I'd list them here. Let me know if they should go on the library subject pages too (http://library.ucalgary.ca/subjectpages/
science&engineering/chemistry/index.php):
http://blog.tenderbutton.com/
- miscellaneous discussions, many related to chemistry
- from the mailing list: "This is impressive, both in the material and presentation. He must work extremely hard. There is much in here about the future of social chemistry."
http://www.chemblogs.org/
- many chemistry-related blogs are housed here. You can start your own here as well.
http://totallysynthetic.com/blog/
- natural product synthesis - this looks more like an abstracting service than a blog! Again, from the mailing list: "This blog must be among the first effective communal peer-reviews in synthetic chemistry. The discussion includes critical comments and references."
http://wiki.cubic.uni-koeln.de/pg/
Cb, Chemical blogspace
- From the Cb site: "Chemical blogspace collates posts from chemistry blogs and then does useful and interesting things with that data. ... It's sort of like a hot papers meeting with the entire chemistry blogging community. Sort of. "
The CHEMINF-L list was recently discussing chemistry blogs, so I thought I'd list them here. Let me know if they should go on the library subject pages too (http://library.ucalgary.ca/subjectpages/
science&engineering/chemistry/index.php):
http://blog.tenderbutton.com/
- miscellaneous discussions, many related to chemistry
- from the mailing list: "This is impressive, both in the material and presentation. He must work extremely hard. There is much in here about the future of social chemistry."
http://www.chemblogs.org/
- many chemistry-related blogs are housed here. You can start your own here as well.
http://totallysynthetic.com/blog/
- natural product synthesis - this looks more like an abstracting service than a blog! Again, from the mailing list: "This blog must be among the first effective communal peer-reviews in synthetic chemistry. The discussion includes critical comments and references."
http://wiki.cubic.uni-koeln.de/pg/
Cb, Chemical blogspace
- From the Cb site: "Chemical blogspace collates posts from chemistry blogs and then does useful and interesting things with that data. ... It's sort of like a hot papers meeting with the entire chemistry blogging community. Sort of. "
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