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1979 ACS National Meeting
April 1-6, 1979
Honolulu, Hawaii
Honolulu, "sheltered harbor" and the crossroads for trade and travel between East and West, will extend its warm alohas to the ACS/CSJ Chemical Congress, and stage possibly the largest chemical conference ever organized—attracting up to 8000 participants. Chemical societies from Australia, New Zealand, and Canada will join with the 177th ACS National Meeting and the 38th National Meeting of the Chemical Society of Japan to present 675 technical sessions consisting of nearly 5000 papers of which 1500 will be from the Japanese. As many as 74 technical sessions will be running concurrently. It appears at press time tha t most of the technical sessions will be presented in English. Twenty-nine of the 31 divisions of the ACS will meet as well as five committees. In addition to the technical sessions, professional and social activities are scheduled as usual. Two additional activities to note are the ACS/CSJ awards dinner on Monday evening, April 2, and the meeting of the ACS Council on Wednesday morning, April 4.
The Analytical Chemistry Division will hold 34 half-day sessions a t which close to 268 papers will be presented; 104 of these papers will be Japanese. These sessions are composed of eight symposia of 14 sessions and 20 general sessions. The symposia topics are: the ACS award in analytical chemistry, ACS award in chromatography, Divisional instrumentation award, new developments in voltammetry and cou-lometry, microprobe techniques for elemental analysis, electrochemistry and spectroscopy in melts, new developments in thin-layer chromatography, and inorganic separations in analytical chemistry. Of these, the ACS
award symposium in analytical chemistry and the symposium on new developments in voltammetry and cou-lometry seem to dominate the technical program of the Division with 32 and 18 presentations at four and three sessions, respectively. The general sessions will cover areas of spectroscopy, electroanalytical chemistry, atomic absorption and emission, liquid chromatography, GC-MS, and chelating agents.
The Division program will be highlighted by the presentation of the two ACS awards and the Divisional instrumentation award. The ACS Analytical Chemistry Award will be presented to Velmer A. Fassel of Iowa State University. His award address on simultaneous multielement determinations at
all concentration levels will be delivered on Wednesday morning at the symposium dedicated to the award. The ACS Chromatography Award will be presented to Evan C. Horning of Baylor College of Medicine. Dr. Homing's award address will be presented on Monday morning a t the symposium on bioanalytical systems based on chromatography and mass spectrometry. Finally, the Chemical Instrumentation Award, cosponsored by the Division of Analytical Chemistry and the Instrumentation Specialties Co., will be presented to John P. Walters of the University of Wisconsin-Madison. The award consists of a $2000 honorarium and a wall plaque. For more information on the award, see page 375 A. At the symposium dedicated to the
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award on Tuesday morning, Dr. Walters will speak on instrumentation for innovation in experimental atomic spectroscopy.
In addition to these programs, which are sponsored primarily by the Division of Analytical Chemistry, the Division will participate in two other symposia. A four-session symposium on recent advances in nuclear analytical methods is cosponsored by the Division of Nuclear Chemistry and Technology of ACS, the American Nuclear Society, and Isotopes and Radiation Division and Analytical Chemistry. The other symposium, two sessions on trace elements and hazardous compounds in fossil fuels, is sponsored primarily by the Division of Fuel Chemistry.
Other topics that are not necessarily related to the analytical chemistry discipline itself, but rather relevant to the entire chemical profession can also be found. A few of the symposia offered by other divisions include: analysis of food and beverages—liquid chromatographic techniques, by the Division of Agricultural & Food Chemistry; the monitoring of chemicals in the atmospheres of laboratories, by the Division of Chemical Health & Safety; developments in teaching energy-related problems— nonsolar conversions, by the Division of Chemical Education; computer-assisted data acquisition, control and interpretation, by the Division of Computers in Chemistry; contaminants and sediments—sampling and analytical, analysis of polar and high molecular weight compounds in water, and trace element analysis in hydrosphere, by the Division of Environmental Chemistry; international activities in professional relations, by the Division of Professional Relations; and concerns of consulting chemists and chemical engineers, by the Division of Small Chemical Businesses.
All sessions sponsored by the Analytical Division will be held in the Hilton Hawaiian Village (Ocean Tower). The symposia sponsored jointly with the Division of Nuclear Chemistry and Technology and the Division of Fuel Chemistry will be held in the Ilikai, Imperial Suite, and the Miramar, Kuhio Suite, respectively.
The Analytical Chemistry Division social hour and dinner will be held Tuesday, April 3 at 6 and 7 p.m., respectively, at the House of Hong (260A Lewers St.), and will not be subsidized by the Division. Tickets for the dinner can be purchased in advance (see Chem. Eng. News, Jan. 15, page 112) or at the meeting for $15.
The chemical exposition, held in the
Mid-Pacific Convention Center of the Hilton Hawaiian Village, will be sponsored by ACS and the Hawaii Section. A special feature of this exposition will be the Japanese firms' participation.
Several ACS courses given in conjunction with and before the meeting will be of interest to analytical chemists. For more information, see page 376 A.
Preregistration forms and housing information are contained in Chem. Eng. News, Nov. 27,1978, and Jan. 15, 1979. The complete technical program for the meeting appears in the Jan. 15 issue. The detailed technical program given below includes all the Analytical Division sessions and those cospon-sored by the Division. Smoking and nonsmoking sections will be separated.
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MONDAY MORNING SECTION A
Hilton Hawaiian Village (Ocean Tower), Gold Room (2nd Floor) ACS Award in Chromatography Symposium: Bioanalytical Systems Based on Chromatography and Mass Spectrometry. W. J. A. VandenHeuvel, N. Ikekawa, Presiding 9:00—Introductory Remarks. 9:05—1. Award Address. (ACS Award
in Chromatography sponsored by SUPELCO, INC.) Contemporary Problems in Quantitative Analysis of Biologic Samples by Methods Based on Gas or Liquid Chromatography and Mass Spectrometry. E. C. Horning.
9:45—2. Profile Analysis of Vitamin D3 Metabolites in Plasma by Gas Chromatography-Mass Spectrometry. N. Ikekawa, M. Morisaki, S. Kidooka, Y. Tanaka, H. F. DeLu-ca.
10:05—3. Cyclic Boronates as Derivatives of Unrivaled Versatility for GC-MS of Bifunctional Substrates. C. J. W. Brooks.
10:25—4. Separation and Determination of Unsulfated and Sulfated Bile Acids in Biological Fluids by High-Performance Liquid Chromatography. T. Nambara, J. Goto, H. Kato.
10:45—Intermission. 11:00—5. Therapeutic Drug Monitor
ing in the Clinical Laboratory. A. Karmen, N. S. Longo.
11:20—6. Microanalysis of Prostaglandins and Thromboxanes by Gas Chromatography-Mass Spectrometry. H. Miyazaki, M. Ishibashi, K. Yamashita, Y. Nishikawa, M. Ka-tori.
11:40—7. Identification and Assay of Biologically Important Compounds by GLC-Related Methods. W. J. A. VandenHeuvel.
SECTION Β Hilton Hawaiian Village (Ocean Tower), Empire I (2nd Floor) Symposium on New Development in Thin-Layer Chromatography N. Suzuki, J. A. Vinson, Presiding
8:30—Introductory Remarks. 8:35—8. The Use of Mini-Thin Layer
Chromatography for the Rapid Development of Solvent Systems for High Performance Liquid Chromatography. Separations of P o l y e t h ylene Terephthalate) Oligomers. W. R. Hudgins, Kurt Theurer.
8:55—9. Preadsorbent Thin-Layer Chromatography—A New Era in TLC. J. A. Vinson.
9:15—10. Sintered Thin-Layer Chromatography. T. Okumura.
9:55—Intermission. 10:15—11. Fluorescence Enhancement
in Thin-Layer Chromatography by Spraying Viscous Organic Solvents. S. Uchiyama.
10:35—12. The Search for Performance in TLC: Effect of Non-Conventional Development Methods. T. Jupille.
10:55—13. In Situ Determination of Drugs and Metabolites Using HPTLC-Plates with Concentrating Zones. S. Ebel, E. Geitz, B. Mis-sler.
11:15—14. Separations Utilizing High Performance Radial Chromatography. R. K. Vitek, D. M. Kent.
11:35—15. Precision and Accuracy in Today's Instrumentalized TLC in Quantitative and Qualitative Analysis. R. E. Kaiser.
SECTION C Hilton Hawaiian Village (Ocean Tower), Empire II (2nd Floor) General: Electroanalytical Chemistry A. R. Branfman, H. Kamada, Presiding 9:00—16. Immobilized Alcohol Oxi
dase in the Continuous Flow Determination of Blood Alcohol Using an Oxygen Electrode. E. L. Gulberg, G. D. Christian.
9:20—17. Redox Titration of Perchlo-rate in Nonaqueous Solutions. C. Yoshimura.
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