Chemistry in New Zealand

Chemistry in New Zealand (CiNZ) is the professional journal of the NZIC. It is a quarterly publication that is distributed to members, libraries, and other subscribers with a circulation of approximately 1000. It is published in April, July, September and early December.

1. Scientific Articles

2. Patent Proze

3. Obituaries

Volume 71, No.3, October 2007

Climate Change Mythconceptions: Some Incorrect, Irrelevant and Misleading Arguments Made by Climate Change Denialists
Doug S. Mackie and Keith A. Hunter
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The 3-His Motif: A New Subset of Non-Heme Mono-Iron Enzymes
Seino A. K. Jongkees and Guy N. L. Jameson
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Australian Dust: From Uplift to Uptake
Doug S. Mackie and Keith A. Hunter
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Ocean Acidification and the Changing Carbonate Speciation in Seawater – Should We be Worried?
K I Currie and K A Hunter
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So Who Was Nobel Anyway?
Brian Halton
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Volume 71, No.2, July 2007

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Volume 71, No.1, April 2007

Chemical Research in the MacDiarmid Institute for Advanced Materials and Nanotechnology
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Soft Matter in the MacDiarmid Institute
Kathryn M. McGrath
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Recent Chemistry of Advanced Inorganic and Hybrid Materials at the MacDiarmid Institute
Kenneth J. D. MacKenzie
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The Chemical History of Anaesthesia
Joanna Wojnar
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Volume 70. No.3, October 2006

Structure Determination of New Algal Toxins using NMR Methods
Alistair L. Wilkins and Christopher O. Miles
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Faecal Sterols and Fluorescent Whiteners as Indicators of the Source of Faecal Contamination
Megan Devane, Darren Saunders and Brent Gilpin
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The Curious Case of Phosphate Solubility
Andrew J. Pratt
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Water Oxidation by Ruthenium Dimers
Matthew I. J. Polson
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Fluorinated Analogues of Biological Molecules: Accessing New Chemical, Physical and Biological Properties
Michael Edmonds and Victoria Peddie
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Drug Discovery in the New Millennium
Steven G. Aitken
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Volume 70, No.2, July 2006

Investigating Scientific Literacy: Scientists Habits of Mind as Evidenced by Their Rationale of Science and Religious Beliefs^†
Richard K. Coll, Mark C. Lay, and Neil Taylor
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^† a publication from the NZIC Chemical Education Special Interest Group

Optical Biosensors: Making Sense of Interactions
Harvey E. Indyk
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Nanotechnology - Does It Have a Sporting Chance?
Dr. Alan Smith
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The MacDiarmid Institute for Advanced Materials and Nanotechnology
Brian Halton
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The International Union of Pure and Applied Chemistry: New Zealand Contributions
Patrick Holland
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Volume 70, No.1, April 2006

The Use and Limits of Compositional Analysis for Discrimination and Classification of Samples
Michelle M. Barton and Gordon M. Miskelly
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Transfer RNA as a Potential Building Block for Nanotechnology
Harold S. Bernhardt and Warren P. Tate
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Are Nanoparticles Safe?
Victoria Argyle and Brian Robinson
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Overtone Spectroscopy: A Sensitive Probe of Hydrogen Bonding
Henrik G. Kjaergaard and Daryl L. Howard
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¹⁴CO₂ in the Southern Hemisphere Atmosphere — the Rise and the Fall
K. Currie, G. Brailsford, S. Nichol, A. Gomez, K. Riedel, R. Sparks, and K. Lassey
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Volume 69, No.4, December 2005

Seeing Things in a New Light: Synchrotron Science and the Australian Synchrotron Project
J.B.Metson
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Cheminanotechnology: Nanotechnology for Chemistry and Chemical Engineering
Richard G. Haverkamp
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Chemistry and Chemical Ecology of some of the Common Opisthobranch Molluscs Found on the Shores of NE New Zealand
Tanja Grkovic, David R. Appleton, and Brent R. Copp
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Virtual Institute for Metrology in Chemistry: Cost Effective Traceability in Chemical and Biological Measurement
John Love and Laly Samuel
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The 2005 Nobel Prize in Chemistry
Brian Halton
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Volume 69, No.3, September 2005

The Chemistry of Post-bottling Sulfides in Wine
Dr. Alan Limmer
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What do Green Tea, Grapes Seeds, and Docks have in Common?
Lucy P. Meagher, Paul Spencer, Geoffrey A. Lane, Suba Sivakumaran, Karl Fraser
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Building Innovation through Geopolymer Technology
Catherine Nicholson, Ross Fletcher, Neville Miller, Clive Stirling, Jon Morris, Steve Hodges, Kenneth MacKenzie, and Martin Schmücker.
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The Halton Retirement Symposium
Brendan Burkett and Joanne Harvey
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Patent Proze

The Move Towards Electronic Notebooks (pdf 179kb)
Changes Afoot for US Patent Law (pdf 154kb)
The Squeeze on US Applicants (pdf 168kb)
Can You Patent an Old Dog New Tricks? (pdf 162kb)
Patent Ownership: Why you need to get it right the first time (pdf 139kb)
Entering the Dragon - Intellectual Propery Rights in China (pdf 141kb)
Yes, No, Maybe: Is My Granted Patent Valid? (pdf 136kb)
European Patent Law Update (pdf 175kb)

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Obituaries

Norman Trevor Clare
Jack Austin
Edwin (Ted) Percy White
Peter P Williams
Denis Hogan
Robert Sinclair

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