Abstract
IT'S NOT OFTEN ONE FINDS SOLID proof of this magazine's impact on the outside world. Here's one: A story on chiral drugs (C&EN, Oct. 9, 1995, page 44) helped bring vibrational circular dichroism (VCD) spectrometers to the market, says Rina K. Dukor, cofounder and president of the company that first offered these instruments off the shelf, in 1997. How VCD was commercialized, however, is mostly a story about a dream and the single-mindedness to make it come true. The dream came to Dukor in 1994. While at a conference listening to lectures on VCD, she realized that the few people who had devoted their research to this technique were close to retiring and that the science VCD embodies could disappear because no commercial instrument existed. On the plane going home, she formulated the dream: to commercialize VCD. The vehicle would be the company she would form: Bio Tools. VCD is a type of vibrational spectroscopy ...
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