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ACS 1985 Award Winners Following are vignettes of the fourth Johnston was born in Woodstock, Sorbonne (1955) and McGill Unigroup of recipients of awards adminis- Ga., in 1920. He attended Emory versity (1956), and topped off his tered by ACS. All will receive their University for a B.A. degree in 1941, formal education with an M.B.A. awards on April 29, 1985, during the received his Ph.D. from California from Rutgers University in 1961. 189th ACS National Meeting in Miami Institute of Technology in 1948, and He worked as a research chemist Beach, except Donald ]. Cram, who will was awarded an honorary D.Sc. from with Celanese in 1957-59, then went receive the Roger Adams Award in Or- his alma mater, Emory, in 1965. He to Esso Research & Engineering ganic Chemistry during the 29th Nationalworked as an instructor and then where he rose to senior research Organic Symposium, to be held June associate professor at Stanford from associate. In 1970 Kennedy left in16-20, 1985, at the University of Dela- 1948 until 1956 before taking his dustry to become professor and in ware. The awards will be presented dur- present position at Berkeley. 1982 Distinguished Professor of ing an awards banquet, at which time This original and innovative re- Polymer Science and Chemistry at Henry Taube will give the Priestly Medal searcher has been a panel member the University of Akron's Institute Address. Vignettes of the remaining of the President's Science Advisory of Polymer Science. awardees will appear in successive Oc- Committee on Atmospheric Sciences Highlights of Kennedy's research tober issues ofC&EN {see Aug. 27, page (1963-67), a member of the Nation- include the discovery of isomeriza41, Oct. 1, page 32, Oct. 8, page 30, and al Academy of Sciences Committee tion polymerization involving the Oct. 15, page 28). on Motor Vehicle Emissions (1971- intramolecular hydride shift poly75), a member of the Federal Avia- merization of 3-methyl-l-butene, ACS Award in the Chemistry tion Administration's High Altitude producing the first crystalline aliPollution Program Scientific Advi- phatic polyolefin by a cationic of Contemporary sory Committee (1978-82), and has technique; development of a cationTechnological Problems authored and coauthored some 130 ic initiation system derived from a published papers. In 1983 he was combination of organoaluminum sponsored by Mobay Chemical Corp. awarded the Tyler Prize in Ecology compounds and alkyl halides that The world was alerted to the seri- and Energy. led to a versatile method of syntheous danger of global stratospheric sizing graft and block copolymers; pollution in 1971 with the publicaand preparation of high-moleculartion of HAROLD S. JOHNSTON'S ACS Award for Creative weight, highly unsaturated copolyarticle, "Reduction of Stratospheric mers of isobutylene with diolefins Advances in Environmental Ozone by Nitrogen Oxide Catalysts by a new solution process. from Supersonic Transport Exhaust," Science & Technology Kennedy's most recent work inin Science. volves synthesis of the first teleAlthough Johnston, professor of sponsored by Mobil Chemical Co. chelic alcohol polyisobutylene and chemistry at the University of JOSEPH P. KENNEDY is a distin- its extension with diisocyanates to California, Berkeley, won interna- guished polymer chemist who has new polyurethanes. He helped ortional renown with this article, a worked both in industry and acade- ganize Akron Cationic Polymer Decolleague notes, "His expertise and mia. He received the equivalent of velopment Co. to produce high-tech status as a scientist [was] recognized a B.Sc. from the University of Buda- materials resulting from this discovlong before his involvement in the pest in 1948, a Ph.D. in chemistry ery. He holds 40 patents and has ozone problem." He pioneered the from the University of Vienna in published more than 350 papers. field of modern atmospheric chem- 1954, was a research fellow at the The award winner is an active istry in the early 1950s with the first free-radical mechanism for Haagen-Smit's theory of photochemical smog and with research to determine reaction rates and mechanisms of nitrogen oxides. In addition, he has made important contributions to the theory of reaction kinetics, specifically as applied to unimolecular reactions, activated complex theory, quantum mechanical tunneling, and kinetic isotope effects. His 1966 book, "Gas Phase Reaction Rate Theory," is still Meyers Kennedy Johnston quoted widely. 58
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The Gas Research Institute Announces a Workshop on Methane Activation Chemistry: The Search for New Uses off Methane |
member of ACS and has served as chairman of the Division of Poly mer Chemistry. He received the Uni versity of Akron Outstanding Re search Award in 1979 and the ACS Cleveland Section's Morley Medal in 1982.
February 4-6, 1985
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Objective: Identify Most Promising Areas For Funding Basic Research To Find New Uses For Methane
ACS Award for Creative Work in Synthetic Organic Chemistry
Sessions: · Organometallic Chemistry • Heterogeneous Catalysis • Super Acid Chemistry
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sponsored by Aldrich Chemical Co. Inc. ALBERT I. MEYERS, a professor of chemistry at Colorado State Uni versity, is considered a pioneer and leader in the field of asymmetric synthesis. He ranks in front on the international scene of synthetic or ganic chemists. For a long time, there has been a need in organic synthesis for versa tile aryl-to-aryl coupling reactions of nonsymmetrical species. There also has been a need for masked carboxyl groups that withstand Grignard or alkyl-lithium reagents. In one stroke, Meyers invented the hindered oxazoline, which at the same time provides a masked car boxyl resistant to organometallics, activates aryl or vinyl halides or ethers toward nucleophilic substitu tion by organometallics, and pro vides a means of aryl-aryl coupling. "This invention is perhaps the great est advance in the designed synthe sis of aromatic compounds made in the last 30 years," says one of Meyers' colleagues. Another problem in organic syn thesis was the design of configura tions of asymmetric centers. Meyers was one of the first to find solu tions to this problem through the use of chiral auxiliary units, some of which were the chiral oxazoline unit, the chiral formamidine moiety, and chiral bicyclic lactams. He was the first to show that, in general, very high selectivity in favor of the desired chirality could be achieved by modifying naturally occurring, optically active substances to form rigid templates from which a vari ety of highly optically pure com p o u n d s can be routinely synthe sized. For the past 10 years Meyers also has been engaged in the total syn thesis of very complex antibiotics
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J. H. Lunsford-Texas A&M - Formation of Gas Phase Methyl Radicals over Un· promoted and Lithium-Promoted Magnesium Oxide
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W. A. G. Graham-University of Alberta Homogeneous Activation of Carbon· Hydrogen Bonds A Survey and Some Re· cent Developments
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R. G. Bergman-University of California. Berkeley—Oxidative Addition of Transition Metal Complexes to Carbon-Hydrogen Bonds m Methane and Other Organic Molecules
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J. L. Jezl-Amoco Chemicals—An Overview of Methane Utilization
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P. C. Walkup-Battelle-Northwest-Direct Utilization of Methane for Chemical Production
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R. C. Baetzold-Eastman KodakComputational Treatment of the Interaction of Saturated Hydrocarbons with Transition Metal Surfaces
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and antitumor agents such as maytansine, griseoviridin, aklavinone, steganone, and podophyllotoxin. In 1979 he announced the total syn thesis of (±)-N-methylmaysenine and (±)-maysine, and in 1980 the total synthesis of (±)-maytansinol He has published more than 200 research papers, seven reviews, and a monograph. He has directed the Ph.D. theses of 43 students and post doctoral research for more than 100 Ph.D.s. He was born in New York City, and received his B.S. (1954) and Ph.D. (1957) degrees from New York University.
ALAN S. MICHAELS' contributions to the field of separations science and technology are virtually un matched by anyone. A chemical engineer, who received his formal training in that field at Massachu setts Institute of Technology (S.B. 1946, S.M. 1947, and Sc.D. 1948), Michaels was a faculty member at MIT from 1948 to 1966. During that time he played a major role in the development of an intensive teach ing and research program in the fields of surface, colloid, and poly mer chemistry. He and his students developed a class of "permselective membranes" for separating and pu rifying gaseous and liquid mixtures. In order to transfer this technology to industrial and commercial sectors, Michaels formed Amicon Corp. in 1962. Today, Amicon's products are found in almost every research lab in the world. In 1970, Michaels founded Pharmetrics Inc., which in 1972 was ac quired by and became the research and development arm of ALZA Corp. Here he applied the princi ples of separations technology to medicine: He led a team of scien tists and engineers to develop a clas sic class of targeted drug release systems that use membrane-based devices. In 1977, Michaels returned to the academic setting, this time at Stan ford, as an adjunct professor of chemical engineering and medicine. At Stanford, he made major contri
butions to several important prob lems in artificial kidney therapy; established an active graduate re search program in membrane trans port fundamentals; helped initiate an interdisciplinary research pro gram in bioreactor development and genetic engineering; and codirected a piezoelectric polymers program. In 1982, Michaels resigned his fac ulty post at Stanford to devote most of his time to industrial consultation, while maintaining adjunct profes sorships in chemical engineering at MIT and Lehigh University. Later this year, he plans to return to MIT as a part-time adjunct professor in nutrition and food science to teach and direct research in biomedicine and biotechnology. Michaels' advisory service to industry, government, and the sci entific and academic community has been extensive and varied. He has organized a number of important conferences addressing the role of membranes in separations tech nology; he will chair the 1986 Gordon Conference on Synthetic Membranes. And he has published more than 120 research papers and is named on 48 patents, most of which contribute to the field of separations technology.
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RALPH MILKOVICH, manager, new venture research, PPG Indus tries, invented styrene block poly mers—a discovery critical to the de velopment of thermoplastic elasto mers both in the U.S. and worldwide. One admiring colleague comments: ' O n that invention alone he could well be nominated for this award." However, Milkovich has made many contributions to fundamental and applied rubber science and tech nology over the extent of his very productive career. He has pioneered the field of macromonomer chemis try, which is having far-reaching effects in providing unique materials for adhesives and coatings and many other elastomeric-type materials. A prolific inventor, Milkovich has his name on more than 30 patents. Graduating from Duquesne Uni-
111., to become assistant director of organic and polymer research. While there, he invented and developed a novel polymer technology. In 1974 he became a manager at Arco Chem ical, where he proposed and imple mented exploratory research pro grams in polymers and developed them to the semicommercialization stage. Very recently he assumed his present position at PPG in Allison Park., Pa. Michaels
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versity, Pittsburgh, with a B.S. in chemistry in 1951, he went on to an M.S. in polymer chemistry in 1957 at the State University of New York, Syracuse, and a Ph.D. in polymer chemistry in 1959 at the University of Akron. While at SUNY he made his initial discovery of the living anionic polymerizations. Milkovich began his professional career in 1951 at Koppers Co., Verona, Pa., where he carried out research programs in emulsion and
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