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A.	People & Positions

Graduations: Dr. Yongqiang "John" Sui successfully defended his Doctoral Thesis on November 29, 2007. Congratulations! John has been working on a diverse portfolio that included information technology education, organic synthesis and materials research, and lots of structural studies by experimental and computational means. Mr. Shuo Yang successfully defended his Master's Thesis in July 2007. Congratulations! Shuo contributed to the "Ammonia" paper and he also has been working on some deamination chemistry. Dr. Papiya Majumdar successfully defended her Doctoral Thesis on May 1, 2007. Congratulations! Papiya authored and co-authored three full papers and several more papers are being readied for submission. The Future Scientists Project: Two former graduate students gave birth (again) in 2007! Congratulations!! Ms. Kathleen Carson (MU M.A. 2005) and husband Ben Niesen (MU Engineering 2005) welcomed their second child, Jack, on January 7, 2007, in St. Louis. Now a Texan, Dr. Hong Wu (MU Ph.D. 2005) and her husband Sam (MU M.S. 2002) are blessed with their first child, Eric, born December 8, 2007. Awards: Ms. Kathleen Carson wins the MU Distinguished Thesis Award for her M.A. thesis "Chemistry Is in the News: Assessing Intra-Group Peer Review". Alumni in Academia (6-1): Dr. Grace Chen (Ph.D. MU 1996, PD ETH Zuerich 1997, Humboldt PD Heidelberg 1998) was promoted to Associate Professor at Providence University, Shalu, Taiwan. Dr. Michael Lewis (Ph.D. MU 2001, PD Harvard 2001-4) wins Assistant Professorship at St. Louis University! Dr. Mitchell Anthamatten (B.S. MU 1996, Ph.D. MIT 2001, PD LLNL 2001-3) wins Assistant Professorship at the University of Rochester! Dr. Sundeep Rayat (Ph.D. MU 2002, PD OSU 2004-5) wins Assistant Professorship at Kansas State University. Dr. Jonathan Rhoad (Ph.D. OSU 2004, LS-PD MU 2005) wins Assistant Professorship at Missouri Western State University. Dr. Zhengyu "Martin" Wu (Ph.D. MU 2004) held a Full Professorship at Shenyang Ligong University, Shenyang City, China, 2005-6, before starting his own Telecommunications Company and joining Intellectual Ventures.

B.	Fresh From The Press!

Stabilities and Spin Density Distributions of Benzannulated Benzyl Radicals Yongqiang Sui, Rainer Glaser, Ujjal Sarkar, and Kent Gates Article, J. Chem. Theory Comput. 2007, 3, 1091-1099.

Helically Annelated and Cross-Conjugated β-Oligothiophenes: An FT-Raman Spectroscopic and Quantum Chemical DFT Study Reyes Malavé Osuna, Rocío Ponce Ortiz, Victor Hernández, Juan Teodomiro López Navarrete,* Makoto Miyasaka, Suchada Rajca, Andrzej Rajca,* and Rainer Glaser Article, J. Phys. Chem. C 2007, 1, 4854-4860. PDF. (Web Release: January 18, 2007; Publication in Print: March 29, 2007.) Online Visualization: Strong Raman Modes of beta-Oligothiophenes

Polar Order By Rational Design: Crystal Engineering With Parallel Beloamphiphile Monolayers Rainer Glaser Invited Review, Acc. Chem. Res. 2007, 40, 9-17. PDF. (Web Release: October 21, 2006). Electronic Reprints. DOI.

Teaching Dissent and Persuasion Kathleen M. Carson, Brian Hodgen, and Rainer E. Glaser Review, Educ. Res. Rev. 2006, 1, 115-120. PDF.

Chemical Carcinogens in Non-Enzymatic Cytosine Deamination: 3-Isocyanatoacrylonitrile Rainer Glaser, Hong Wu, and Francisca von Saint Paul Article, J. Mol. Model. 2006, 12, 731-737. PDF. (Web Release Date: January 13, 2006.)

Multifurcated halogen bonding involving Ph-Cl---H-CPh=N-R' interactions and its relation to idioteloamphiphile layer architecture Rainer Glaser, Richard F. Murphy, Yongqiang Sui, Charles L. Barnes, and Sung Hoon Kim Communication, CrystEngComm 2006, 8, 372-376. PDF. (Web Release Date: April 26, 2006.)

Perfect polar stacking of parallel beloamphiphile layers. Synthesis, structure, and solid-state optical properties of the unsymmetrical acetophenone azine DCA Rainer Glaser, Nathan Knotts, Ping Yu, Linghui Li, Meera Chandrasekhar, Christopher Martin, and Charles L. Barnes Invited Article, Dalton Trans. 2006, 2891-2899. PDF. Special issue: Dalton Discussion 9: Functional Molecular Assemblies

Embedding 1,6-Diphenyl-1,2-Dihydronaphthalene (DHN) in 1,4-Distyrylbenzene (DSB): Arene-Arene Interactions in a "Crossed Bis-Diarene" Yongqiang Sui and Rainer Glaser Article, Cryst. Growth Des. 2006, 6, 1014-1021. PDF. (Web Release Date: March 21, 2006.) Online Visualization: Molecules, Pairs, Layers and Crystals.

Chemistry Is in the News. Assessment of Student Attitudes toward Authentic News Media Based Learning Activities Deborah L. Hume, Kathleen M. Carson, Brian Hodgen, and Rainer E. Glaser Article, J. Chem. Educ. 2006, 83, 662-667. PDF. (Web Release: March 10, 2006.)

1-Methyl-1,3,6-triphenyl-7-(2-phenylpropenyl)-1,2-dihydronaphthalene Yongqiang Sui, Charles L. Barnes, and Rainer Glaser Structure Communication, Acta Cryst. C 2006, 62, 98-100. PDF.

Coordinate Covalent Ph-to-B Bonding in Phenylborates and Latent Formation of Phenyl Anions from Phenylboronic Acid Rainer Glaser and Nathan Knotts Article, J. Phys. Chem. A 2006, 110, 1295-1304. PDF. (Web Release Date: September 15, 2005.)

Dipole Parallel-Alignment in the Crystal Structure of a Polar Biphenyl: 4'-Acetyl-4-Methoxybiphenyl (AMB) Rainer Glaser, Nathan Knotts, Zhengyu Wu, and Charles Barnes Article, Cryst. Growth Des. 2006, 6, 235-240. PDF. (Web Release Date: September 17, 2005.) Online Visualization: Molecular and Crystal Structures.

C	Group@Conferences

232nd National ACS Meeting, San Francisco, California, Sept. 10 - 14, 2006.

1.	Chemistry Is in the News: Collaboration, Peer Review, and Science Communication. Rainer Glaser, Kathleen Carson, and Yongqiang Sui Invited Lecture, Presidential Symposium on "Science Communication - Essential Skill for All" in the Division of Chemical Education.

2.	Fasicularin-derived aziridinium ion: Theoretical study of the formation of the putative reactive nitrogen species Papiya Majumdar, Sanjay Dutta, Rainer Glaser and Kent S. Gates Poster, Division of Chemical Toxicology.

Dalton Discussion 9: Functional Molecular Materials, Manchester, U.K., April 19 - 21, 2006.

1.	Polar Organic Functional Materials Rainer Glaser, Nathan Knotts, Yongqiang Sui, Ping Yu, Linghui Li, Meera Chandrasekhar, and Christopher Martin

231th ACS National Meeting, Atlanta, GA, April 26 - 30, 2006.

1.	Synergistic integration of science with ICT education Rainer Glaser and Yongqiang Sui Invited Lecture, Symposium on "Instructional Technology in Inorganic and General Chemistry Education: A Symposium Honoring Jack Kotz," March 29, 2006.

2.	Solid state electronic structures of organic semiconductors based on 1,4-diphenylbutadienes and their 2,3-diaza derivatives Yongqiang Sui and Rainer Glaser Contributed Lecture, Division of Organic Chemistry, March 30, 2006.