ACS tour speakers for January 1981 As a service to ACS members, C&EN publishes listings of speakers at upcoming local section meetings. The lists are published once a month from September through April. Each list gives the program of speakers for the following month,
speakers and their affiliations, topics, sections involved, and dates of the presentations. For additional information please contact the local section, or the ACS headquarters Speaker Service at (202) 872-4612.
Speaker/Topic(s)
Speaker/Topic(s)
Robert Baker, Clemson U Chemistry of textile flame retardancy Chemistry of cellulose flammability
Adrian H. Daane, U of Missouri Rare earths are now medium rare
Section/Date (in January)
Richard E. McDowell Northeast Oklahoma, Bartlesville(21) Oklahoma, Edmond (19); Tulsa ( 2 0 ) ; Wichita (22); North Central Oklahoma, Ponca City (23) Tampa ( 1 2 ) ; Lakeland, Lake Alfred (13); Miami (14); Tallahassee (15); Gainesville (16)
Richard E. McDowell, U of Pittsburgh New genetics and the future of man Baton Rouge ( 1 2 ) ; Southwest Louisiana, Lake Charles (13); Sabine-Neches, Beaumont ( 1 4 ) ;
New ACS/PRF grants approved Meeting in Cleveland on Dec. 7, the ACS Board of Directors approved 103 new or continued ACS-PRF grants for fundamental research, committing $2,052,151 of the $6,250,000 authorized for 1981. These grants were recommended from the 289 proposals considered by the PRF Advisory Board at its November meeting. The ACS-PRF grants program is funded by income from the Petroleum Research Fund, which must be used by ACS for " . . . advanced scientific education and fundamental research in the 'petroleum field/ which may include any field of pure science which . . . may afford a basis for subsequent research directly connected with the petroleum field." Investigators who wish to have proposals considered for funding in 1981 are urged to submit them as soon as possible. Proposals for the May 1981 meeting of the P R F Advisory Board will be accepted as long as possible, but past experience suggests submission by the end of February. For information or application material, write to: Petroleum Research Fund, American Chemical Society, 1155—16th St., N.W., Washington, D.C. 20036, telephone (202) 872-4481.
Section/Date (in January) continued
Southeastern Texas, Houston (15); Brazosport. Lake Jackson (16)
Carleton B. Moore, Arizona State U Meteorites—messengers from time Dayton ( 1 9 ) ; Northwest Central Ohio, Ada (20); and space Northeastern Indiana, Fort Wavne (21); Toledo (22); Midland ( 2 6 ) ; Detroit (27) Thomas C. O'Haver, U of Maryland U of Arkansas, Fayetteville Derivative spectroscopy (19); U of Kansas, Lawrence (21) Southeast Kansas, Pittsburg Simultaneous multielement atomic absorption spectrometry (20); Kansas State U, Manhattan (22)
Frank W. Fowler, State U of New York, Stony Brook. Azadienes: Their Preparation and Application to the Synthesis of Nitrogen Heterocycles. $45,000 M. L. H. Green, U of Oxford. High-Energy Transition Metal Compounds and Their Catalytic Reactivity Towards Hydrocarbons. $29,000 Harry M. Walborsky, Florida State U. Intramolecular Coupling of Nonvicinal Glycols by Titanium. $45,000 Timothy L. Macdonald, Vanderbilt U. Tin(IV)-Mediated Carbocyclizations and Intermolecular Reactions. $45,000 Richard C. Elder, U of Cincinnati. Structural Trans Effects in Octahedral Complexes. $45,000
Roy G. Miller Jr., U of North Dakota. Transition Metal-Catalyzed Reactions Involving Acylmetal Hydride Intermediates. $30,000 Robert L. Anstey, Michigan State U. Stratigraphie and Paleoecologic Analysis of Hierarchical Growth Rhythms in Paleozoic Bryozoans. $42,100 Donald J. DePaolo, U of California, Los Angeles. Application of Sm-Nd Isotope Geochemistry to Paleogeography, Stratigraphie Correlation, and the Structure and Evolution of Continents. $45,000 Joseph F. Bunnett, U of California, Santa Cruz. Chemical Occurrences on Mixing a Solution of a Reactive Species with a Solution of an Alkali Metal. $45,000
Joel Hildebrand feted by the ACS California Section ACS-PRF grants for fundamental research in the petroleum field (type AC) Barry B. Snider, Princeton U. Lewis Acid-Induced Reactions of Carbonyl Compounds with Alkenes. $30,000 Peter J. Stang, U of Utah. Cumulenes via Extended Unsaturated Carbenes. $30,000 Henry G. Kuivila, State U of New York, Albany. Chemistry of Organopolytins. $30,000
The ACS California Section recently presented Joel Hildebrand (right) a plaque commemorating his 50 years of service on the national council of ACS. Robert D. Ford (left) made the presentation on the occasion of Hildebrand's 99th birthday celebration at the Faculty Club of the University of California, Berkeley. Plans are now in the making for a fitting celebration of Hildebrand's 100th birthday during the week of Nov. 16, 1981. Those interested in attending are encouraged to contact the Hildebrand Committee, College of Chemistry, University of California, Berkeley, Calif. 94720.
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