Mr. Jim McKenzie reports

NOBEL LAUREATE DR. JEAN-MARIE LEHN JOINS UCORE ADVISORY BOARD

Dr. Jean-Marie Lehn has accepted an appointment to the Ucore Rare Metals Inc.'s advisory board.

Dr. Lehn is the recipient of the 1987 Nobel prize (NP) in chemistry, together with Charles Pederson and Donald Cram, for the "development and use of molecules with structure-specific interactions of high selectivity" (1). He has made seminal contributions to the field of macrocyclic host-guest chemistry and originated the term supramolecular chemistry (2), to broadly describe this flourishing chemical discipline that has impacted research and development in areas as diverse as resource processing, industrial and manufacturing sectors, and health sciences.

Dr. Lehn is a director of the Institut de Science et d'Ingenierie Supramoleculaires at the Universite de Strasbourg, France, and continues to innovate in the field of intermolecular interactions. His group has published over 900 peer-reviewed articles in the chemical literature. He obtained his PhD from the Universite de Strasbourg, France, and performed postdoctoral research at Harvard University in collaboration with Dr. Robert Woodward (NP chemistry, 1965). Along with his colleague on the Ucore advisory board, Dr. Reed M. Izatt, Dr. Lehn shares a passion for clean chemistry practices and the application of chemistry for the benefit of humanity. Dr. Lehn was an early contributor to the international symposium on macrocyclic and supramolecular chemistry, which was co-founded by Dr. Izatt and Dr. James J. Christensen, and has devoted his career to developing and broadly disseminating knowledge, inspiring generations of scientists and entrepreneurs.

"We're extremely pleased to welcome a candidate of such international renown as Dr. Lehn to the Ucore advisory board," said Jim McKenzie, president and chief executive officer of Ucore. "Dr. Lehn is a visionary and has been instrumental in the establishment of the field of supramolecular chemistry, contributing greatly to the world's understanding of this emerging and rapidly growing discipline. Ucore is most fortunate to have both Dr. Lehn and Dr. Izatt, towering figures, respectively, in the complementary areas of molecular recognition technology (MRT) (3) and supramolecular chemistry, on its advisory board. Dr. Lehn's guidance and support will be invaluable to Ucore as we advance in the application of clean chemistry to the field of resource development."

(1) The Nobel prize in chemistry 1987.

(2) Lehn, J-M., Supramolecular Chemistry towards Constitutional Dynamic Chemistry and Adaptive Chemistry, Chemical Society Reviews, 2007, 36, pages 151-160.

(3) Izatt, RM, How Molecular Recognition Developed into Molecular Recognition Technology.

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