EVANS 2-Diethylaminoethanethiol Hydrochloride HCI · (C!H«)2N-CH2-CH2-SH ANO f- PROPERTIES SPECIFICATIONS - tÉBf» Wt« JMttP»
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169.73 170°C Mim 96% Mlm 4%*Éax«
2-Diethylaminoethanethiol hydrochloride is expected to be of considerable interest in the pharmaceutical field since it facilitates the preparation of the thio analogue of many physiologically active diethylaminoethanol derivatives. Some work along this line has already been done in the fields of antispasmodics and local anesthetics. Increased activity and improved therapeutic index may also be obtained. It has also found use in pesticides and the free base is expected to be active as a polymerization promoter. Data Sheets and Samples available on request.
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C&EN April 4, 1977
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Deafness no bar to career in chemistry Research chemist Clifford Rowley, who works for Lonza Inc., in Fair Lawn, N.J., can't really disregard the fact that he's deaf, but he seems to be getting along fine anyway. The same is true of his wife, Nancy, who holds a public school teaching certificate. Cliff, who is 31, earned his bachelor's degree at Gallaudet College in Washington, D.C.; Nancy, 38, earned a bachelors in economics and a masters in education at Gallaudet, the world's only liberal arts college for the deaf. The two met in college, where he convinced her that marrying a younger man was a good idea. Cliff lost his hearing as a result of meningitis contracted when he was 11 months old. Nancy lost hers progressively between the ages of four and 11 as a result of German measles. Son John, seven, hears well, but daughter Amy, one and a half, is deaf for unexplained reasons. John was using sign language at the age of one and a typewriter at two. Amy and her parents speak intelligibly, and the Rowleys talk among themselves using a blend of sign language, normal speech, and gestures. When Rowley graduated from Gallaudet, he joined Barlow Chemical, which became part of Lonza through a series of acquisitions. His responsibilities include the development of specialty chemicals for the soap, detergent, cosmetic, and related industries. Also, he supervises new products and processes through the production of commercial batches. Cliff's coworkers need make very little extra effort to communicate with him in person. Business telephone calls are handled for him by a colleague, but Lonza has installed a teletypewriter that he uses to talk with home. He travels routinely on company business. Cliff Rowley is currently on the board of directors of Teletypewriters for the Deaf Inc., which coordinates a system for communication among the deaf by telephone. When a home telephone rings, it sets off flashing lights in other rooms. Whoever answers places the telephone on a device that starts a teletype machine, which the two deaf people then use to converse. (Deaf people also equip their doorbells with flashing lights.) Rowley, in addition, has been secretary of the American Professional Society of the Deaf, founded in 1967. APSD encourages deaf youngsters to consider professional careers, gives scholarships, and provides volunteer services for the deaf. Currently Cliff is chairman of Television for the Deaf Community of New York City. This group is trying to get the Federal Communications Commission to allot a nonvisual line on the TV picture for the dis-
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play of captions which would be processed by a decoder on the set. Nancy Rowley is as active as her hus band. In 1961, she swam in the Olympics for the Deaf, in Helsinki, and won a gold, a silver, and a bronze medal. Recently she completed a postgraduate lecture course in anthropology at Hunter College. More to the point, she's one of the founders of Westchester Community Services for the Hearing Impaired, in Westchester County, New York. Last fall the group and half a dozen cosponsors held a con ference whose goals included a permanent center for community education for deaf people. County executive Alfred DelBello, who proclaimed Deaf Awareness Week in connection with the conference, made a further announcement in February. For all public meetings put on by the county government, he said, the county would provide, on request, an interpreter for the deaf. Interpreters are people, usually with normal hearing, who are skilled in com municating with the deaf. Even in the best conditions, the Rowleys say, deaf people can't lip-read more than about a third of people's speech. Without an interpreter, the deaf person may be unable to follow the give-and-take of a meeting involving local government, for example, and thus may be, in effect, deprived of the right to participate. Interpreters are plentiful, apparently, in some locales, such as Washington, D.C., but not in the New York area. The educational effort sought by Nancy Rowley's organization would include a training program for interpret ers. This February Cliff Rowley went to Denver for the annual meeting of the American Association for the Advance ment of Science, which provided inter preters at each of 10 "public lectures" and for all other sessions on request. About 20 deaf people attended, and 12 interpreters were available and busy. Last year's an nual meeting was the first at which AAAS made special arrangements for handi capped people. Financial support was provided by Du Pont, Exxon, and the Rehabilitation Services Administration in the Department of Health, Education & Welfare. This year AAAS supported the effort itself. The association also has published a book ("Barrier-Free Meet ings," 1976) on the mechanics of arranging services for the handicapped.
Department of obscure information • Musk thistle infests more than 3 million acres in the U.S. • The Soviet Union has not allowed polar bears to be hunted since 1956. • The U.S. Geological Survey produced 10,000 maps during fiscal 1976.
