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ACS-PRF grants approved; amounts raised Acting on recommendations from the February meeting of the PRF Advisory Board, the ACS Board of Directors approved 89 new and continued ACS-PRF grants-in-aid. The board's action, taken at the 183rd ACS National Meeting in Las Vegas, adds $1,817,052 to PRF commitments for 1982. The new grants were selected from a total of 249 proposals. The board of directors also approved a $1.25 million increase in this year's Petroleum Research Fund grant budget to a new total of $8.45 million. Further, the maximum dollar value of PRF research grants was increased beginning in 1983. Type G (starter) grants will rise from $10,000 to $15,000 for two years, Type B grants (for undergraduate depart-
ments) from $13,000 to $15,000 for two years, and Type AC grants will move from $15,000 to $17,500 per year for up to three years, or a new maximum grant of $52,500. Revised application forms for all types of ACS-PRF grants will be available shortly. Investigators may submit proposals at any time during the remainder of the year for funding in 1983. The "26th Annual Report on Research Under Sponsorship of the Petroleum Research Fund" has been published. Interested parties who wish to receive a complimentary copy of the report, or any of the new application forms, should contact Petroleum Research Fund, ACS, 1155—16th St., N.W., Washington, D.C. 20036, telephone (202) 872-4481.
ACS-PRF Grants for Fundamental Research in the Petroleum Field (Type AC)
Kenneth J. Klabunde, Kansas State U. Metal Vapor Chemistry. Matrix Isolation Spectroscopy Studies of Alkanes and Alkyl Halides. $45,000
Robert A. Moss, Rutgers U. Functional Vesicles as Reagents in Organic Chemistry. $45,000 K. C. Nicolaou, U of Pennsylvania. Total Synthesis of Endiandric Acid and Related Natural Products. $45,000 N. John Cooper, Harvard U. Mechanism and Stereochemistry of the Insertion of a Methylidene Ligand into a Transition Metal-Alkyl Linkage. $30,000 Joseph C. Salamone, U of Lowell. Ampholytic lonomers from Ion-Pair Comonomers. $45,000 Philip H. Heckel, U of Iowa. Lithostratigraphy, Correlation, and Depositional-Diagenetic History of Middle and Upper Pennsylvanian Rocks, Midcontinent North America. $30,000 James A. Austin Jr., U of Texas, Austin, Institute for Geophysics. Structural and Seismic Stratigraphic Evolution of the Southeastern Gulf of Mexico/Straits of Florida/Western Bahamas. $29,972 R. David Dallmeyer, U of Georgia. 40 Ar/ 39 Ar Incremental-Release Dating of Selected Igneous and Metamorphic Lithologies Beneath the Southeastern Coastal Plain. $44,000 James R. Maxwell, U of Bristol, England. Origin and Significance of Sedimentary 4-Methyl Steroid Hydrocarbons. $22,489 Robert E. Garrison, U of California, Santa Cruz. Depositional Environments, Phosphatization, and Dolomitization in the Lower Part of the Monterey Formation, Central California Coast Ranges. $30,000 W. Lester S. Andrews, U of Virginia. Matrix Synthesis and Infrared Spectroscopy of Monomeric Lithiocarbon Species. $30,000 Derek J. Hodgson, U of North Carolina, Chapel Hill. Exchange Interactions in Magnetically Condensed Complexes. $45,000 John A. Morrison, U of Illinois, Chicago Circle. Electron Deficient, Uniquely Reactive Cluster Compounds—the Polyhedral Boron Halides. $30,000 William E. Geiger Jr., U of Vermont. Reduction and Oxidation Pathways in Small Metal Cluster Compounds and Dimetallacycles. $30,000 Thomas N. Sorrell, U of North Carolina, Chapel Hill. Binuclear Complexes of Copper. $30,000
Robert D. Bereman, North Carolina State U. Resonance-Induced Properties in New Dithiolene, Dithiolate, Dithio- and Monothiocarbamate Complexes. $30,000 J. Christopher Dalton, Bowling Green State U. Photochemistry of Acylsilanes and Reactions of Siloxycarbenes. $30,000 Martin Newcomb, Texas A&M U. Mechanistic Probes for Electron-Transfer Processes in Reactions of Hindered Lithium Dialkylamide Bases. $30,000 Matthew S. Platz, Ohio State U. m-Xylylene and Related Compounds. $30,000 Donald C. DKtmer, Syracuse U. Significant Structures Derived from Thietes. $45,000 Richard P. Johnson, Iowa State U. Orbital Interaction by Design: Theory, Synthesis, and Chemical Properties of Columnar Conjugated Molecules. $45,000 Carl R. Johnson, Wayne State U. Remote Substituent Effects on the Stereochemistry of Additions to Cyclohexanones and Methylenecyclohexanes. $30,000 Harry G. Brrttaln, Seton Hall U. Luminescence Studies of Europium Oxide Catalysts. $42,000 Sherril D. Christian, U of Oklahoma. Vapor Pressure Studies of Dilute Aqueous Solutions of Alcohols. $45,000 Donald W. Setser, Kansas State U. Flowing Afterglow Studies of Electronically Excited-State Chemistry. $45,000 Jean H. Futrell, U of Utah. Reaction Dynamics Study of Collision-Induced Dissociation Reactions of Organic Ions. $45,000 Sow-Hsin Chen, Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Study of Intra- and Intermicellar Structures by Small Angle Neutron Scattering. $45,000 Katharine L. Clarke Hunt, Michigan State U. Ab Initio and Approximate Calculations of Collision-Induced Dipoles and Polarizabilities. $30,000 David M. Hanson, State U of New York, Stony Brook. Charge Distributions in the Excited Vibronic States of Molecules. $45,000 Robert L. Powell, Washington U. Acoustic Streaming in Non-Newtonian Fluids. $45,000
William C. Conner Jr., U of Massachusetts. Rate of Hydrogen Surface Mobility and the Effect on Hydrogenation and Dehydrogenation. $45,000 Donald R. Paul, Joel W. Barlow, U of Texas, Austin. Thermodynamics of Polymer Blends. $45,000 Liang-Shih Fan, Ohio State U. Fundamental Characteristics of the Gas-Liquid-Solid Fluidized-Bed Reactor for Hydrocarbon Processings. $44,887
ACS-PRF grants for fundamental research in the petroleum field (Type B) Stanley H. Pine, California State U, Los Angeles. Titanium-Aluminum Carbenoid Complex. $13,000 Kenneth R. Fountain, Northeast Missouri State U. Friedel-Crafts Reactions with Heterocummulene Complexes. $13,000 Suzanne W. Slayden, George Mason U. Electrophile-lnduced Organoborate Rearrangements. $13,000 Alfons L. Baumstark, Georgia State U. Thermal Decomposition of 1,2-Dioxetanes. $13,000 Claude H. Yoder, Franklin and Marshall C. Reactions of Ambident Substrates Containing Elements of Group IV. $13,000 Harold W. Heine, Bucknell U. Chemistry of Nitrones and Quinone Imides. $13,000 Samuel P. McManus, U of Alabama, Huntsville. Nucleophilic Displacement Reactions. $13,000 Thomas E. Goodwin, Hendrix C. Chiral Induction via rt-Chloronitrones. $13,000 Stephen K. Taylor, Olivet Nazarene C. Epoxide Friedel-Crafts Reactions. $13,000 Harold R. Pestana, Colby C. Carbonate Production by Sargassum Epibionts. $6894 Rodney F. Boyer, Hope C. Chelation in Iron Metabolism. $13,000 Wolfgang Christian, Earlham C. Energy Transfer in Gases. $13,000 Donald G. Kubler, Furman U. Does the Energy of Activation Change with Temperature for Sucrose Hydrolysis? $13,000 James E. Conkin, U of Louisville. Devonian Uranium-Oil Shales. $13,000 Gerald F. Kokoszka, State U of New York, Pittsburgh. Multifrequency EPR Studies. $13,000 Allan M. Nishimura, Westmont C. Coherence in Localized States. $13,000 Bruce M. Simonson, Oberlin C. Costa Rican Carbonate Turbidites. $13,000
ACS-PRF grants for fundamental research in the petroleum field (Type G) David J. Morgans Jr., U of California, Santa Cruz. General Cyclopropane-Based Methodology for the Introduction of Asymmetric Centers into Organic Substrates. $10,000 David A. Yuen, Arizona State U. Crustal Fluid Dynamics. $10,000 James E. Barrick, Texas Tech U. Conodont Biostratigraphy of Middle and Late Paleozoic Strata of the Quachita Facies, Marathon Region, Southwest Texas. $10,000 Dimitri A. Sverjensky, State U of New York, Stony Brook. Solutions and Rections That Formed Mississippi Valley-Type Lead-Zinc Deposits. $10,000 May 10, 1982C&EN
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ACS News Kevin P. Furlong, U of Wyoming. Time-Dependent Thermal Modeling of Forearc Basins During Evolution of Subduction Zones: Applications to Hydrocarbon Maturation. $10,000 Kevin D. Crowley, U of Oklahoma. Investigation of Magnitude and Frequency of Depositional Events in the Sedimentary Record. $10,000 Allen F. Glazner, U of North Carolina, Chapel Hill. Geologic Effects of Tertiary Subduction of the Mendocino Fracture Zone Under the Southwestern U.S. $10,000 Robert J. Stern, U of Texas, Dallas. Evolution of Precambrian Basement in the Gulf of Suez Region, Egypt. $10,000 William M. Dunne, West Virginia U. Mesostructural Suites in Lithotectonic Units Within the Central Appalachians. $10,000 David W. Mohr, Texas A&M U. Role of Carbon and Sulfur in Regional Metamorphism of Shales, Southwestern North Carolina and Adjacent Portions of Tennessee. $10,000 Thomas C. Pinkerton, Purdue U. Reduction of Pertechnetate in Aqueous Complexing Media. $10,000 George G. Stanley, Washington U. Ligand-Constrained Metal Clusters. $10,000 Douglas E. Johnson, North Dakota State U. Homogeneous Model for Hydrodesulfurization. $10,000 Nathan S. Lewis, Stanford U. Reactivity of Homopolyatomic Metal Clusters. $10,000 Lawrence C. Thomas, Oregon State U. Development of Methods for Comparing Multivariate Chemical Data That Show Relatively Large Irreproducibilities. $10,000 James Terner, Virginia Commonwealth U. Mixing Resonance Raman Spectroscopy of Peroxidase and Catalase Intermediates. $10,000 Michael T. Crimmlns, U of North Carolina, Chapel Hill. Studies in Intramolecular Photocycloadditions: an Approach to Pentalenic Acid. $10,000 Robert R. Squires, Purdue U. Rearrangements of Gas Phase Organic Anions as Studied by the Flowing Afterglow Technique. $10,000 Ronald W. Woodard, U of Michigan. Stereochemistry of ACC Deaminase. $10,000 Hector D. Abruna, U of Puerto Rico, Rio Piedras. Studies on Mesophases and Their Potential Role as Host Matrices in Electrochemical Processes. $10,000 Richard H. Guy, U of California, San Francisco. Capillary Diffusion and Interfacial Transfer Kinetics. $10,000 Ken A. Dill, U of Florida. Molecular Theory for Solutes in Interphases. $10,000 David H. Parker, U of California, Santa Cruz. Multiphoton Ionization Spectroscopy. $10,000 John E. Adams, U of Missouri, Columbia. Adsorbate Sticking and Energy Transfer at Solid Surfaces. $10,000 Mark Sulkes, Tulane U. Low-Energy Collision-Induced Vibrational Relaxation in Polyatomic Molecules. $10,000 Gregory A. Parker, U of Oklahoma. Theoretical Determination of the Ar + CO Vibrational and Rotational Relaxation Rate Constants. $10,000 James L. Skinner, Columbia U. Theory of Time-Dependent Phenomena in Condensed Phases. $10,000 John F. Scamehorn, U of Oklahoma. Study of Interactions Between Ionic and Nonionic Surfactants. $10,000 Shaw-Horng Chen, U of Rochester. Tracer Diffusion in Supercritical Hydrocarbons. $10,000 John W. Hanneken, Memphis State U. Hydrogen Electrotransport in Metals. $10,000 Joseph L. Graf Jr., Kansas State U. Use of REE to Trace the Paths of the Solutions Which Deposited Pb-Zn Ores in Carbonate Rocks, Virburnum Trend, Missouri. $10,000 54
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Paul A. Baker, Duke U. Experimental Formation and Surface Chemistry of Dolomite. $10,000 Stephen J. Culver, Oklahoma State U. Gulf of Mexico Foraminiferal Morphology and Environment: Applications to Paleodepth Estimates for Petroleum Exploration. $10,000 Stanley C. Finney, Oklahoma State U. Ordovician Graptolite Biostratigraphy of Arbuckle and Ouachita Mountains, Oklahoma-Arkansas. $10,000
ACS-PRF scientific education grants (SE) Kamil Klier, on behalf of Lehigh U. Symposium on Advanced Methods of Catalyst Characterization, Materials Research Society Meeting in Boston, Nov. 1-4, 1982. $2550 Joseph B. Lambert, on behalf of the ACS Subdivision of Archaeological Chemistry. 7th American Symposium on Archaeological Chemistry at the ACS national meeting in Kansas City, September 1982. $2550 John M. Sharp Jr., on behalf of the U of Missouri for the Geological Society of America. Penrose Conference on Hydrodynamics and Geochemical Controls on Ore Generation in Sedimentary Environments at Lake of the Ozarks, Mo., May 1982. $3310 Patricia L. M. Plummer, on behalf of the ACS Division of Colloid & Surface Chemistry. Vlth International Symposium on the Physics and Chemistry of Ice at the U of Missouri, Rolla, in August 1982. $2000 Kashmiri L. Mittal, on behalf of the ACS Division of Organic Coatings & Plastics Chemistry. International Symposium on Adhesive Joints: Their Formation, Characteristics, and Testing at the ACS national meeting in Kansas City, September 1982. $3400
Sakharov scholarship fund established At its recent meeting in Las Vegas, the ACS Board of Directors adopted a recommendation by the Committee on International Activities to invite ACS members to make voluntary contributions to the Sakharov Scholarship Fund. Recently initiated by the Sakharov International Committee Inc., the fund is to honor and promote the ideals of academician Andrei Sakharov, member of the Academy of Sciences of the U.S.S.R., Nobel Peace Laureate, and an advocate of human rights. According to the letter to the ACS executive director Raymond P. Mariella from the president of the Sakharov International Committee Sheldon Glashow, the fund is to be used to "award scholarships to qualified students dedicated to the pursuit of Sakharov's scientific or humanistic goals, and prizes to scientists who, in addition to outstanding achievements in their fields, also are deeply devoted to the cause of human liberty. It also will offer direct material assistance to scientists persecuted for their advocacy of human
rights. All individuals or organizations who join the Sakharov Fund could participate in the nominations of these awards." The board also approved the committee's recommendation that ACS serve as a focal point for any contributions that members may wish to make to the Sakharov Scholarship Committee. Checks should be made out to Sakharov International Committee and sent to Gordon Bixler, Office of International Activities, ACS, 1155—16th St., N.W., Washington, D.C. 20036. D
Letters Continued from page 4 This correspondence contains several misleading statements and suggests widely held misconceptions concerning SI. In particular, there appears to be a perception of undue rigidity about SI that should be dispelled. The following salient points may be distilled from the full description in Special Publication 330: 1. SI is a single system consisting of base units, derived units, supplementary units, and units formed by attachment of the approved SI prefixes to any of the above. All these subclasses have fully acceptable status. In addition, certain other units outside SI are recognized for use with SI, such as the minute, hour, bar, angstrom, and others. 2. The subset of SI consisting of base, derived, and supplementary units forms a " c o herent set of units." While coherent units have obvious advantages in certain circumstances, nothing in Special Publication 330 can be construed as suggesting that units formed with SI prefixes (and therefore "noncoherent") are forbidden or discouraged. This should be a personal choice of teachers or authors, based on the convenience in doing calculations. It would appear unwise for organizations or journals to adopt a rigid policy in this regard. 3. Units formed with SI prefixes can be used in any desired combination. Thus, expressions such as g / c m 3 and j i m o l / L are perfectly acceptable. One may find that use of the equivalent forms M g / m 3 and m m o l / m 3 , respectively, simplifies certain calculations, but nothing in the SI rules requires this form. In summary, SI has been designed to provide a system of units that is flexible enough to accommodate the needs of all fields of science and technology, thereby making it unncessary to introduce specialized units that impede scientific communication. Excessively rigid interpretations of SI tend to defeat its purpose. Chemists are urged to consult Special Publication 330 or the IUPAC Manual of Symbols and Terminology for Physiochemical Quantities and Units for the authoritative information on SI. David R. Lide Jr. Chief, Office of Standard Reference Data, National Bureau of Standards; Former Chairman, IUPAC Commission on Symbols, Terminology & Units
