Abstract
THE ACADEMIC chemistry community lost one of its own last month when Sheharbano (Sheri) Sangji, a 23-year-old research assistant in Patrick Harran’s lab at the University of California, Los Angeles, died on Jan. 16 from injuries sustained in a laboratory fire. UCLA officials declined to provide C&EN with specific details of the incident, pending an investigation. But according to a Dec. 30, 2008, e-mail to C&EN from department Chair Albert J. Courey, university investigators believe that on Dec. 29, Sangji was drawing tert -butyl lithium from a bottle into a syringe when the plunger came out of the syringe barrel ( C&EN Online Latest News, Jan. 22). The chemical, which ignites spontaneously in air, splashed onto Sangji’s clothes and set them on fire. Her hands, arms, and upper torso—about 40% of her body—suffered burns. Most chemists I know, when they hear about someone getting hurt in a lab, immediately want to know all the details: How ...
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