EWSSCRIPTS SCRIPTS NEWS Isatoic Anhydride'
|A Sample Now] is Worth a Patent Later In the last three years 42 patents on chemical products derived from IA have been granted to leaders in the chemical industry. Isatoic anhydride is not n e w ; success stories are, as imaginative c h e m i s t s find interesting new uses. IA is a highly reactive i n t e r m e d i a t e w h i c h affords economical routes to a host of ortho substituted b e n z o i c acid d e r i v a t i v e s and a wide variety of heterocyclic systems — many of these have not heretofore been commercially feasible products. A sample will get you somewhere. Write for one, and Bulletin 62-8.
In the same vein, Sen. Mundt said later that, "I think we have a federal pill for almost any ill you can name. The trouble is, gentlemen, that our pills, like some of the ones that you make, don't always work. But we have the advantage of you—we don't have to indulge in honest advertising."
Butter-viscosity thermometer Among the letters to the Editor in the Feb. 11 issue of Chemistry and Industry (published by the Society of Chemical Industry, London) is one from A. N. Sharpe, who claims that he is "currently working on a butter-viscosity thermometer, which depends on the principle that, within the range 8° to 29° C , the number of rounds of bread which can be spread with half a pound of butter is equal to the temperature, in degrees centigrade."
Guilt by association
Growth industry "Whatever else may be said about antitrust, it is clearly a growth industry . . . ," Dr. Jesse W. Markham, professor of economics at Princeton University said at a recent National Industrial Conference Board meeting on antitrust.
Elegy for ESR? Associate professor David H. Geske of Cornell University delivered a chemistry seminar lecture at UCLA earlier this month. The title: "Oh, Dad, Poor Dad, Is ESR Spectroscopy Really Dead?"
Exclusive club
m ^-•*i Ç»'
Banquet speaker Karl Mundt, the Republican Senator from South Dakota, was in good form at the annual dinner of the Drug, Chemical and Allied Trades Association in New York's Americana Hotel. Starting with a greeting to "this wonderful group of American taxpayers," the Senator, who leans in the conservative direction, went on to remark that, "If the U.S. Senate is the most exclusive club in the world, then you are looking at a fellow who belongs to the most exclusive wing of the most exclusive club in the world."
COMING
MAUMEE Quality Organics 1310 Expressway Dr. · Toledo. Ohio 4 3 6 0 8 94 C&EN MARCH 13, 1967
Representative Thomas M. Pelly (R.Wash.) has introduced H. Con. Res. 242 to discourage use of the terms "Salmonella" and "salmonellosis." Rep. Pelly explains (Congressional Record, Feb. 2 7 ) : "Mr. Speaker, an increase in the disease sometimes called Salmonella causes some concern to the fishing industry lest some people think the term refers to fish. Unfortunately, it is not widely known that the genus of bacteria causing this disease was first identified by a scientist whose name was Salmon. As a consequence, the disease carries his name. "Obviously there is inherent danger of public confusion and that some people will get the idea that the source of the disease is related to the nutritious and wholesome anadromous fish called salmon. Any such impression of course has an adverse effect on many fishermen and the salmon industry. "To invite the coining any common use of some other scientific term, and to clear up confusion, Mr. Speaker, I am today introducing a concurrent resolution to express the sense of Congress that terms "Salmonella" and "salmonellosis" should not be used in reference to any genus of bacteria or bacterially caused disease. I am hopeful there will be ever widening recognition that not only are salmon a delicious delicacy, but likewise being rich in protein, are unsurpassed as an energy food and should be on every household diet regularly for pleasure in good eating and likewise for health and good living."
NEXT
WEEK
New analytical hardware, research C&EN's coverage in depth of the Pittsburgh Conference on Analytical Chemistry and Applied Spectroscopy. The science and the applications meet at this major event in analytical chemistry and instrumentation
