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For Your Information Environmental Technology Division of Lear Siegler, Inc., is offering customer training programs for the division's oxygen analyzer, gas analyzers, opacity monitors, and D P 30 data processing system. For further information, contact: Al Becker, Lear Siegler, Inc., Environmental Technology Division, 74 Inverness Drive East, Englewood, Colo. 80112. 303-770-3300 P e r k i n - E l m e r Corp. has changed the names of two of its divisions serving the data processing market. Computer Systems Division is the new name for the Interdata Division, and Memory Products Division is the new name for the Wangco Division. Reprints of the reports, Standard Reference Materials for Trace Analysis and Contamination in Trace Analysis, are available from IUPAC journal Pure and Applied Chemistry, Vol. 50, Nos. 11/12 (1978). T h e reports were prepared by t h e IUPAC Commission on microchemical techniques and trace analysis. T h e complete line of nearly 400 h i g h purity materials specifically made for spectroscopic analysis by Johnson Matthey Chemicals Ltd., of Royston, England, is now available in the U.S. through Ultra Carbon Corp., Bay City, Mich.
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ANSI's ABC's of International S t a n dardization, a booklet t h a t lists the major international organizations concerned with standardization, has been updated and reissued. For more information, contact: American National Standards Institute, 1430 Broadway, New York, N.Y. 10018.
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T h e editors of the journal Progress in Analytical Atomic Spectroscopy will commission papers in the following areas: AA, optical emission with excitation by arc, spark, and other sources, atomic fluorescence, and X-ray and electron beam techniques. For more information, contact: C. L. Chakrabarti, Editor-in-Chief, Dept. of Chemistry, Carleton University, Ottawa, Ont., Canada K l S 5B6.
ComputerAssisted Structure Elucidation A C S S y m p o s i u m Series No. 54 Dennis H. Smith, Editor Stanford University School of Medicine A s y m p o s i u m sponsored by the Division of Chemical information of the A m e r i c a n Chemical Society. An up-to-date report on the growing use of computers to assist in the identification of complex u n k n o w n molecular structures in the laboratory. The collection covers such diverse methodologies as library search techniques, pattern recognition, artificial intelligence programs, a u t o m a t e d interpretation of chemical data, structure generation, and ranking of candidate structures based on prediction of chemical or spectroscopic behavior. CONTENTS Structure Identification of U n k n o w n Mass Spectra · C o m p o n e n t s of Complex Mixtures by GC-MS · NIH-EPA Chemical Information System · Determination of the Secondary Structure of Globular Proteins · Automatically Acquired n C NMR Rules · Computerized Structural Predictions from 13C NMR Spectra · Interactive Structure Elucidation · CHEMICS: A Computer Program System for Structure Elucidation of Organic C o m p o u n d s · Computer Assistance for the Structural Chemist
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A contract for development of a master analytical scheme has been awarded to Research Triangle Institute, Research Triangle Park, N.C., with a subcontract to Gulf South Research Institute, New Orleans. T h e object of the contract is to develop an analytical scheme that, when coupled with G C - M S identification techniques, will serve as a general protocol for analytical surveys in which all volatile organic compounds above a specified level in water are searched for and quantified.
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