ACS NEWS
First Group of 1988 PRF Grants Approved At its December meeting the ACS Board of Directors approved 177 new or continuing ACS-PRF grants for fundamental research, plus 75 supplements to existing grants for Summer Research Fellowships to benefit faculty or students from four-year colleges. These grants, committing $4,913,897 of the $13 million authorized for 1988, were recommended from the 580 proposals considered by the PRF Advisory Board in November of 1987. The last meeting of the PRF Advisory Board to recommend 1988 grants is scheduled for May. Proposals for this meeting will be accepted at least through January. Information and application materials may be obtained from the Petroleum Research Fund, American Chemical Society, 1155—16th St., N.W., Washington, D.C. 20036, or by calling (202) 872-4481.
ACS-PRF Grants for Fundamental Research in the Petroleum Field (Type AC) Dlmttri A. Sverjensky, Johns Hopkins U. Theoretical Modeling of Trace Metals During Hydrothermal Processes. $39,140 Paul W. Bonn, U of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign. InSitu of Modified Organic Thin Films. $60,000 Robert W. Field, Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Intramolecular Dynamics and Spectroscopy of Vibrational^ Highly Excited States. $40,000 Paul G. Rasmussen, U of Michigan. New Anisotropically Conducting Materials. $40,000 Thomas A. Albright, U of Houston. Rearrangements In Organometallic Complexes. $40,000 John P. Oliver, Wayne State U. Synthesis, Structural, and NMR Studies on Organoaluminum Derivatives. $40,000 David M. Roundhill, Tuiane U. Synthesis of Bimetallic d8 Transition Metal Complexes for Selective Hydrocarbon Activation. $40,000 Joseph Chalken, Syracuse U. Study of the Relative Rates of Multiphoton Excitation, Intramolecular Energy Redistribution, and Photodissociation in Gas-Phase Transition Metal Containing Systems. $60,000 Francois N. Dlederlch, U of California, Los Angeles. Organic-Chemical Approach to Carbon: Novel Modifications and Models for Graphite. $40,000
Steven G. Drlese, U of Tennessee. Calibration of 3D-Facies-Pattern to Sedimentation Processes on Sandy Siliciclastic Shelves Using the Silurian of the Southern and Central Appalachians as a Natural Laboratory. $39,474 David J. McAdoo, U of Texas, Medical Branch. Reactions of Ions in the Gas Phase that Take Place by Bond Breaking Followed by Remaking. $40,000 Donald J. Kourl, U of Houston. Wavepacket Approach to Gas-Phase Reactive Scattering Processes. $40,000 Robert H. Crabtree, Yale U. Alkanes and Silanes as Ligands for Transition Metals. $40,000 G. Peter Bird, U of California, Los Angeles. Determination of the Solution Transfer Kinetics and Flow Law of Quartz. $40,000 Lawrence M. Cathles III, Cornell U. Determination of Fluid Circulation and Expulsion from a Rift Basin in Central Europe using Diagenetic Sulfide Cements. $40,000 Alfred M. Ziegler, U of Chicago. Predicting Petroleum Source Rocks and Coal Deposits Through Numerical Climate Modeling. $40,000 R. David Dallmeyer, U of Georgia. Evaluating the Thermal Conditions Required for Rejuvenation of Intracrystalline Argon Systems within Detrital IIlite/Muscovite. $40,000 William J. Leigh, McMaster U. Photochemical RingOpening of Simple Cyclobutenes. $40,000 Clifford E. Dykstra, U of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign. Molecular Electrical Properties and Electrical Response. $40,000
Ralph T. Yang, State U of New York, Buffalo. New Cyclic Adsorption Processes for Petroleum-Related Gas Separations. $40,000 W. Henry Weinberg, California Institute of Technology. Reactions of Saturated Hydrocarbons on Group VIII Transition Metal Surfaces: Spectroscopy, Kinetics, and Dynamics. $60,000 Warren J. Hehre, U of California, Irvine. Structures of Micelles and Associated Molecular Aggregates: an Application for a Next Generation Computer. $40,000 Paul M. Trelchel Jr., U of Wisconsin, Madison. Synthesis and Reactivity of a New Class of Organometallic Compounds with Terminal Sulfur Ligands. $40,000 Duane C. Hmcir, U of Texas, Dallas. Group IV Metallasiloxanes. $40,000 David M. Hoffman, Harvard U. Studies Concerning the Synthesis, Structure, and Reactivity of Rhenium Complexes. $40,000 Ken S. Feldman, Pennsylvania State U. Template Controlled Oligomerizations. $40,000 Robert D. Walkup, Texas Tech U. Silicon-Functionalized Sllyl Enol Ethers as Reagents for Selective Organic Transformations. $40,000 Michael D. Morse, U of Utah. Spectroscopic Studies of Unsaturated Metal-Ligand Complexes in the Gas Phase. $60,000 Nicholas Winograd, Pennsylvania State U. Surface Studies Using Shadow-Cone Enhanced Desorption. $60,000 Bruce J. Berne, Columbia U. Molecular Dynamics in Microheterogeneous Materials. $40,000
A. Ziya Akcasu, U of Michigan. Extensions of CahnHilliard-Cook Theory of Phase Separation in Polymer Blends. $40,000
Joseph L. Templeton, U of North Carolina, Chapel Hill. Chemistry of eta(n)-C(n)R(n + 1) Ligands (n = 2,3,4) with Metal-Carbon Multiple Bonds. $40,000
Veronica Vaida, U of Colorado. Spectroscopy of Dissociative Molecules via Fourier-Transform Techniques. $60,000
Allstair J. Lees, State U of New York, Binghamton. Photochemical Studies of Intermolecular C-H Bond Activation Reactions. $40,000
Pierre A. Albrecht, Louis Pasteur U of Strasbourg. Structural Elucidation of Petroporphyrins from Different Types of Environment. $40,000
Kenneth B. Elsenthal, Columbia U. Laser Studies of Liquid Interfaces. $40,000
Jeffrey A. Relmer, Alexis T. Bell, U of California, Berkeley. NMR Investigations of Catalyst Deactivation. $60,000
Manfred Morari, California Institute of Technology. Measurement Selection Techniques for Process Control. $40,000
Bruce Ganem, Cornell U. Studies on the Mechanism and Inhibition of Cellulase. $40,000
Masanori Hara, Rutgers, the State U of New Jersey. Deformation and Fracture Behavior of lonomers. $40,000
Richard D. Gonzalez, U of Illinois, Chicago. In-Situ Technique for the Simultaneous Measurement of Metal, Support, and Gas-Phase Temperatures. $40,000
Rudolph A. Marcus, California Institute of Technology. Inverse Photoemission and Solvent Dynamics Studies in Electron Transfers. $60,000
William E. Seyfrled Jr., U of Minnesota. Hydrothermal Reactivity of Calcite and Plagioclase at Elevated Temperatures and Pressures: Reaction Rates, Distribution Coefficients, and Effect on Porosity During Deep Burial Diagenesis. $40,000 Kevin L. Shelton, U of Missouri, Columbia. Chemical Reconstruction of Basinal Fluid Pathways Using Epigenetic Dolomite. $40,000 Harmon Craig, U of California, San Diego. Helium, Neon, Argon, and Methane in Natural Gases: Isotopic Studies of Sources and Migration Patterns. $22,000
Kenneth L. Verosub, U of California, Davis. Magnetostratigraphy of Mio-Pliocene Sediments from Central Coastal California. $40,000 James E. Mark, U of Cincinnati. Electrical Conductivity and Nonlinear Optical Properties of Polymers. $40,000 Colin F. Poole, Wayne State U. Thermodynamic Approach to the Characterization of Gas Chromatographic Phases. $40,000 Robert A. McClelland, U of Toronto. Lifetimes and Electrophilic Reactivities of Carbocations Generated by Nanosecond Flash Photolysis. $40,000 January 11, 1988 CAEN
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ACS News Christopher K. Ober, Cornell U. Synthesis and Char acterization of Model LC Polymers. $40,000 Tullls C. Onstott, Princeton U. 40AR/39AR Investiga tion of the Thermal History of an Accretionary Wedge in Taiwan. $40,000 Nicholas Chrlstie-Blick, Columbia U. SequenceStratigraphic Concepts Applied to Upper Proterozoic and Cambrian Sedimentary Rocks in the Western U.S. $35,000 William R. Muehlberger, U of Texas, Austin. StrikeSlip Tectonics and Basin Formation at the Guayape Fault-Valle de Catacamas Intersection, Honduras. $35,000 Thomas T. Tidwell, U of Toronto, Scarborough Cam pus. (1) Fluoronium Ions by β-Decay. (2) Triply Destabilized Decarbocations. $40,000 Peter R. Ogilby, U of New Mexico; Roger L. Clough, Sandia National Laboratories. Photosensitized Production of Singlet Molecular Oxygen (1-delta-g 02) in Solid Organic Polymer Matrices: a Direct Time-Resolved Spectroscopic Study. $40,000 Mark G. Stelnmetz, Marquette U. Photochemistry of Unsaturated Organosilanes. $40,000 Julio M. Ottino, U of Massachusetts. Structure For mation in Two-Dimensional Chaotic Flows. $40,000 Hal-Lung Dal, U of Pennsylvania. Time-Resolved Studies of Surface Reaction Kinetics by IR Laser Transient Reflection-Absorption. $40,000 D. Michael Helnekey, Yale U. Sigma Bond Complex es of Transition Metals. $40,000 Geoffrey Davles, Northeastern U. Catalytic Products of Transmetalation. $40,000 William B. Euler, U of Rhode Island. Preparation and Characterization of Conducting Polyazines. $40,000 L. Nell Frazer, U of Hawaii, Manoa. Direct Inversion of Multi-Offset VSPs. $40,000 Warren P. Giering, Alfred Prock, Klaas Erlks, Bos ton U. Development of the Quantitative Analysis of Ligand Effects. $40,000 Irving R. Epstein, Brandeis U. Stochastic Approach to Inhomogeneous Dynamical Phenomena. $40,000 Suzanne T. Purrlngton, North Carolina State U. Diphenylthioacetal of Trifluoroacetaldehyde as a Precursor to Selectively Fluorinated Organic Compounds. $40,000 Mark D. Barton, U of California, Los Angeles. Geo logical and Geochemical Investigation of HighPressure Metasomatism in a Subduction Complex: Santa Catalina Island, Southern California. $40,000 Joseph P. Kennedy, U of Akron. New Amphiphilic Graft Copolymers and Networks from Polyisobutylene Based Macromonomers and Telechelic Macromonomers. $40,000 Bruce A. Finlayson, U of Washington. Computation al/Experimental Testing of Rheological Models for Polyethylene. $40,000 Martin F. J. Flower, U of Illinois, Chicago. Geochem istry and Geochronology of Intrusives from the Beibu Gulf Petroliferous Basin, South China. $40,000 John M. Hayes, Indiana U. Carbon-lsotopic Studies of Organic Diagenesis. $40,000 Michael L. Klein, U of Pennsylvania. Substrate In duced Ordering in Physisorbed Molecular Overlayers. $60,000 Carol D. Frost, U of Wyoming. Neodymium Isotopes: a Potential Geochemical Tracer for Petroleum Ex ploration. $40,000 Lawrence T. Scott, U of Nevada, Reno. Thermal Rearrangements of Aromatic Compounds. $40,000 Grant Garven, Johns Hopkins U. Transient Models for Oil and Brine Migration in the Rhine Graben. $40,000 Eric A. Erslev, Colorado State U. Basement-Cover Kinematics of Foreland Uplifts. $37,868 28
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ACS-PRF Grants for Fundamental Research in the Petroleum Field (TypeB)
ACS-PRF Grants for Fundamental Research In the Petroleum Field (TypeG)
W. David Llddell, Utah State U. Distribution of Living Foraminifera in Fringing Reef Environments (1 60m), North Jamaica: Implications for the Forma tion of Foraminifera Thanatocoeneses. $20,000 Richard H. Judge, U of Wisconsin, Parkside. Elec tronic Absorption Spectroscopy of Selenoformaldehyde and Selenoacetaldehyde. $20,000 Vladimir Katovlc, Wright State U. Electrochemical Studies of Niobium and Tantalum Complexes in Nonaqueous Solvents. $20,000 Jeffrey D. Zubkowskl, Jackson State U. Synthesis and Reactivity of Hydrogen-Rich Heterobimetallic Compounds. $20,000 Timothy B. Patrick, Southern Illinois U, Edwardsville. Fluoro-Demetallation with Fluoropositive Re agents. $20,000 Edward Rosenberg, California State U, Northridge. Radical Promoted, Photochemical, and Electro chemical Activation of Transition Metal Clusters. $20,000 Gregory J. Grant. U of Tennessee, Chattanooga. Transition Meal Complexes with Mesocyclic Thioethers. $20,000 Douglas X. West, Illinois State U. Metal Ion Complex es of Thiosemicarbazones Derived from 2-Substituted Pyridines and Pyridine N-oxides. $20,000 David J. Malik, Indiana U-Purdue U, Indianapolis. Effects of Applied Static Electric Fields on Mole cules and Weakly Bound Systems. $20,000 Rodney M. Watklns, California State U, Chico. Carbonate Depositional Faciès in a Late Paleozoic Island Arc Sequence, Eastern Klamath Mountains, California. $19,985 Richard A. Kjonaas, Indiana State U. Organic Synthesis with Triorganozincate Reagents. $20,000
Charles M. Lieber, Columbia U. Synthesis and Characterization of New Linear-Chain Mixed-Valence Coordination Complexes. $18,000 Laura A. Philips, Cornell U. Infrared Studies of the Chemistry and Structure of Molecules and Clusters in a Supersonic Expansion. $18,000 Peter S.-Y. Chen, Harvard U. Strong Vibronic Interactions in Singlet Biradicals: a Spectroscopic Study of Cyclobutadiene. $18,000 Kieran D. O'Hara, U of Kentucky. Role of Fluids in Mylonites from the Western Blue Ridge Province, Southern Appalachians. $18,000 James M. Tanko, Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State U. Radical Anion Rearrangements. $18,000 Steven M. Cramer, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute. Multicomponent Adsorption Behavior of Biopolymers on Chromatographic Surfaces. $18,000 William H. Miles, Seton Hall U. Asymmetric Organometallic Reagents. $18,000 Catherine J. Page, U of Oregon. Sol-Gel Synthetic Routes to Multicomponent Oxides: the Synthesis of Quaternary Alkaline Earth-Rare Earth-Transition Metal Oxides. $18,000 Johna Leddy, City U of New York, Queens C. Effect of Microstructure on the Transport and Selectivity Properties of Nafion. $18,000 James E. Beget, U of Alaska, Fairbanks. Tephrochronologic Dating of Cenozoic and Mesozoic Sediments in the Arctic: a Feasibility Study. $18,000 Rob D. Coalson, U of Pittsburgh. Computational Quantum Molecular Dynamics. $18,000 Kenneth A. Goldsby, Florida State U. Preparation and Properties of Modified Electrodes Derived from Nickel(ll) Salicylaldimine Complexes. $18,000 Manfred M. Kappes, Northwestern U. Catalyst Deposition from Neutral Cluster Beams. $18,000 Mark Maroncelli, Pennsylvania State U. Experimental and Calculational Studies of Solvation in Polar Liquids. $18,000 Steven M. Bachrach, Northern Illinois U. Theoretical Study of Phosphaalkenes and Phosphaalkynes. $18,000 Victoria Buch, U of Illinois, Chicago. Calculations of Quantum-Mechanical Sticking on Solid Surfaces. $18,000 Ching-Shlh Chen, U of Rhode Island. Development and Use of Biocatalysts in Chiral Synthesis. $18,000 Gary A. Smith, U of New Mexico. Volcaniclastic Sedimentation Related to Intracontinental Volcanic Fields and Rift Basins. $18,000
Glenn S. Lewandos, Central Michigan U. Unsymmetrical Dinuclear Transition Metal Complexes. $20,000 John J. McMahon, Fordham U. Charge Transfer Excitations for Adsorbates at Metal Electrode Surfaces: Model and Experiment. $20,000 David K. Lewis, Colgate U. Mechanism(s) of the Acid Catalyzed Structural and Geometric Isomerizations of Gaseous Cyclopropanes. $20,000 Francis J. Timmers, U of Wisconsin, Oshkosh. Transition-Metal Mediated Allyl Ligand Coupling Reactions. $19,000 Christopher A. Baumann, U of Scranton. Surface Photochemistry on Alkali Halide Films. $20,000 James O. Farlow, Indiana U-Purdue U, Fort Wayne. Morphological and Systematic Analysis of Bipedal Dinosaur Footprints from Texas: Experimental and Field Studies. $20,000 Richard F. Holm, Northern Arizona U. Late Cenozoic Volcanic and Tectonic Development of the Southern Colorado Plateau in North-Central Arizona. $19,805 Richard E. Casey, U of San Diego. Further Development and Testing of Radiolarian Environmental Indices for the Monterey Formation and Related Rocks. $20,000 Ronald L. Blankespoor, Calvin C. Reductive Cleavage of Substituted Anthraquinones in Protic and Aprotic Media. $20,000 Stuart M. Rosenfield, Smith C. Synthesis of [2.2.2.n]Paddlanes. $20,000 Gabor Patonay, Georgia State U. Study of the Microenvironmental Effects on Near Infrared Fluorescence Labels. $20,000 Patty Wisian-Neilson, Southern Methodist U. Reactivity of Low-Coordinate Phosphorus Compounds: New Phosphorus-Bridged Diiron Complexes. $20.000
Samuel H. Gellman, U of Wisconsin, Madison. Phase-Transfer Conformational Amphiphiles. $18,000 Kinam Park, Purdue U. Application of Video-Enhanced Interference Reflection Microscopy to the Study of Platelet-Polymer Interactions. $18,000 Michael Harmata, U of Missouri, Columbia. Synthetic Applications of Sulfoximidoyl Halides. $18,000 Eric J. Enholm, U of Florida. Mechanistic Studies of the Intramolecular Ene Reaction. $18,000 Gilbert K. Yang, U of Southern California. Study of the Energetics of Transition Metal Mediated C-H and Si-Η Activation Processes. $18,000 Annette D. Shine, Colorado School of Mines. FiberFiber Interactions in Concentrated Suspensions. $18,000 Kim R. Dunbar, Michigan State U. New Organometallic Chemistry of Low-Valent Early Transition Metal Complexes Without Cyclopentadienyl or Carbonyl Ligands. $18,000
Jody G. Redepenning, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute. Investigation of Ion Exchange Equilibria Associated with Polymer Modified Electrodes. $18,000 Yen Wei, Drexel U. Stereochemistry in Group-Transfer Polymerization. $18,000 Robert M. Enick, U of Pittsburgh. Direct Viscosity Enhancement of Supercritical Carbon Dioxide by the Formation of Reverse Micelles or Gels. $18,000 David A. Budd, U of Colorado. Mineralogical Stabilization and Early Cementation of Metastable Carbonates with Burial in Sea water. $18,000 David A. Cleary, Washington State U. Application of ESR Spectroscopy for Probing the Redox Nature of Transition Metal Phosphorus Chalcogenide Intercalation Reactions. $18,000 Rey T. Chern, North Carolina State U. Packing Density, Sub-Repeat Unit Torsional Mobility, Polarity, and the Permeability of Rigid-Chain Glassy Polymers. $18,000 Michael E. Wright, Utah State U. Synthesis of Novel Polymers Containing Chromium-Arene Units. $18,000 Albert J. Post, U of Pittsburgh. Stability and Dynamics of Concentrated Suspensions of Polymer Coated Colloidal Particles. $18,000 Michael L. Machesky, Pennsylvania State U. Proton and Cu(ll) Complexation Thermodynamics of Humic Substances. $18,000 Walter E. Cleland Jr., U of Mississippi. Synthetic Approaches to Novel Iron Sulfur Centers. $18,000 William H. Armstrong, U of California, Berkeley. Nitrogen Fixation at Low-Valent Vanadium Centers. $18,000 Joyce A. Guest, U of Cincinnati, Photofragmentation Studies of s-Tetrazine. $18,000 Richard P. Polniaszek, Duke U. Asymmetric Synthesis of Chiral Phosphorus Reagents. $18,000 Jeffrey W. Nelson, Louisiana State U. Contributions of alpha-Helix and Disulfide Bonds to the Stability of Apamin. $18,000 Andrew R. Barron, Harvard U. Cages and Clusters of Group 13 and 15 Elements. $18,000 John D. Humphrey, U of Texas, Dallas. Carbonate Diagenetic Micropore Response to Changing Aquifer Chemistry. $18,000 William J. Ullman, U of Delaware. Determination of Iodine Concentrations and Speciation in Estuarine Waters. $18,000 Eric F. Matthys, U of California, Santa Barbara. Investigation of Viscoelastic Polymer Solutions and Melts by Laser-Induced Photochromic Flow Visualization. $18,000 Sherwln J. Singer, Ohio State U. Freezing of Diatomic Molecules. $18,000
ACS-PRF Grants for Fundamental Research in the Petroleum Field (TypeGB) Mark Schell, Southern Methodist U. Nonlinear Behavior in Electrochemical Reactions and Ionic Transport Systems. $18,000 Charles G. Oviatt, Kansas State U. Faciès Analysis of Lake Bonneville Deposits in the Sevier Desert Basin, Utah. $18,000 Mark D. Marshall, Amherst C. Diode Laser Spectroscopy of Ammonia-Containing Van der Waals Molecules. $18,000 Timothy J. Bralower, Florida International. Jurassic and Lower Cretaceous Calcareous Nannofossil Stratigraphy of the Pacific Ocean Basin. $18,000 Aldo D. Migone, Southern Illinois U, Carbondale. Heat Capacity Study of Alkane Films Adsorbed on Graphite. $18,000
Richard S. Moog, Franklin and Marshall C. Steady State and Time-Resolved Studies of the Solution Photochemistry of 7-Azaindole. $18,000 Gregory L. Powell, Abilene Christian U. TransitionMetal Thiolate Complexes with Multiple MetalMetal Bonds. $18,000 Brian L. Groh, U of Minnesota, Duluth. Preparation and Reaction of Organosilver Compounds. $18,000 Frank W. Kutzler, Tennessee Technological U. Calculation of H1 and C13 Hyperfine Tensors in Trans-Polyacetylene. $18,000
ACS-PRF Grants for Fundamental Research in the Petroleum Field (Type SE) Anthony S. Serianni, U of Notre Dame. Symposium on Recent Developments in the NMR Spectroscopy of Carbohydrates at the 3rd Chemical Congress of the North American Continent, Toronto, June 1988. $1500 Richard W. Thomas, Ciba-Geigy. Symposium on Environmental Degradation of Polymers at the 3rd Chemical Congress of the North American Continent, Toronto, June 1988. $3400 Rudolph A. Abramovitch, Clemson U. Symposium on Electron-Deficient Reactive Intermediates at the 3rd Chemical Congress of the North American Continent, Toronto, June 1988. $3400 Robert A. Weiss, U of Connecticut. Symposium on Multiphase Polymeric Materials: Blends, lonomers, and Interpenetrating Networks at the 3rd Chemical Congress of the North American Continent in Toronto, June, 1988. $3400 Lon J. Mathias, U of Southern Mississippi. Tutorial and Symposium on Solid State NMR of Polymers at the 3rd Chemical Congress of the North American Continent, Toronto, June 1988. $3400 Jerome B. Keister, State U of New York, Buffalo. Symposium on Organometallic Clusters at the 3rd Chemical Congress of the North American Continent, Toronto, June 1988. $3400 Michael M. J. Treacy, Exxon Research & Engineering. Symposium on Microstructure and Properties of Catalysts in Boston, Nov. 30-Dec. 3, 1987. $2775 Teh F. Yen, U of Southern California. Symposium on Advances in Oil Field Chemistry at the 3rd Chemical Congress of the North American Continent, Toronto, June 1988. $3400 Michael C Zerner, U of Florida; Dennis R. Salahub, U of Montreal. Subsymposium on the Challenge of d and f Electrons at the 3rd Chemical Congress of the North American Continent, Toronto, June 1988. $3400 Eric WeKz, Northwestern U. Symposium on Dynamical Processes in Condensed Phases at the 196th ACS National Meeting, Los Angeles, September 1988. $3400 Donald G. Fleming, U of British Columbia. Symposium on Nuclear Decay Probes of Chemical Structure and Reactivity at the 3rd Chemical Congress of the North American Continent, Toronto, June 1988. $2550 Roderic P. Quirk, Symposium on Synthesis of Controlled Polymeric Structures Through Living Polymerizations at the 196th ACS National Meeting, Los Angeles, September 1988. $3400 Alan P. Marchand, North Texas State U. Symposium on Pyramidalized Alkenes at the 196th ACS National Meeting, Los Angeles, September 1988. $1700 M. Stanley Whittingham, Schlumberger-Doll Research Center; Steven L. Bernasek, Princeton U. 11th International Symposium on the Reactivity of Solids at Princeton U, June 1988. $3400 Mary V. Orna, National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences. Symposium on the History of
Electrochemistry at the 3rd Chemical Congress of the North American Continent, Toronto, June 1988. $1700 Bernd R. T. Simoneit, Oregon State U. Symposium on Organic Matter in Hydrothermal Systems— Maturation, Migration, and Biogeochemistry at the 3rd Chemical Congress of North American Continent, Toronto, June 1988. $3400 Thomas D. Tullius, Johns Hopkins U. Symposium on Transition Metal Nucleic Acid Chemistry at the 3rd Chemical Congress of the North American Continent, Toronto, June 1988. $2550 David A. Kurtz, Pennsylvania State U. Symposium on the Long-Range Transport of Pesticides at the 3rd Chemical Congress of the North American Continent, Toronto, June 1988. $3400 Charles F. Zukoski, U of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign; Bruce J. Marlow, Pen Kern Inc. Symposium on the Rheology of Concentrated Dispersion at the 3rd Chemical Congress of the North American Continent, Toronto, June 1988. $3400 Stewart McLean, U of Toronto. Symposium on Natural Products Chemistry at the 3rd Chemical Congress of the North American Continent, Toronto, June 1988. $3400 Lelia M. Coyne, NASA-Ames Research Center. Symposium on Spectroscopic Methods for Mineral and Mineral Surface Characterization at the 196th ACS National Meeting, Los Angeles, fall 1988. $3400 Jeffrey L. Petersen, West Virginia U. Symposium on Olefin Polymerization by Highly Electrophilic Organometallic Compounds at the 20th ACS Central Regional Meeting, Morgantown, W.V., June 1988. $850 Jeannette E. Brown, ACS Project SEED. Committee on Project SEED. $20,000 Norman G. Lewis, Virginia Polytechnic Institute & State U. Symposium on Biosynthesis and Biodégradation of Plant Cell Wall Polymers at the 3rd Chemical Congress of the North American Continent, Toronto, June 1988. $3400 John A. Katzenellenbogen, Gary B. Schuster, U of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign. Symposium on Site Specific Photolabeling of Biomolecules at the 196th ACS National Meeting, Los Angeles, fall 1988. $1700 William H. Flank, Union Carbide. Symposium on Perspectives in Molecular Sieve Science at the 3rd Chemical Congress of the North American Continent, Toronto, June 1988. $3400
ACS-PRF Summer Research Fellowship Supplements for Faculty Henry K. Hall Jr., U of Arizona. Addition-Elimination Mechanism for the Initiation of Cationic Polymerization: Novel Route to Macromonomers. $4500 Albert Padwa, Emory U. Heterocyclic Synthesis via the Chemistry of a-Aminonitriles. $4500 Kenneth C. Janda, U of Pittsburgh. Structural Studies of Molecular Complexes: Halogens and Interhalogens. $4500 Duy H. Hua, Kansas State U. Studies in the Regioselectivity of the Addition Reaction of Chiral Sulfinylallyl Anions with Ambident Electrophiles: Reversibility, Mechanism, and Synthetic Utility. $4500 Pradip K. Mascharak, U of California, Santa Cruz. Closer Look at the Iron Center in Fe-Bleomycin Complex. $4500 Arnold L. Rheingold, U of Delaware. Incorporation of Arsenic and Antimony in Transition-Metal Clusters. $4500 Robert F. Hicks, U of California, Los Angeles. Mechanism of Hexane Dehydrocyclization over Platinum Alkali/Alkaline Earth-Exchanged Zeolites. $4500 Allstair J. Lees, State U of New York, Binghamton. Photophysical Properties of Transition Metal Carbonyl Complexes. $4500 January 11, 1988 C&EN
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ACS News Jim D. Atwood, State U of New York, Buffalo. Oxy gen Transfer Reactions from Iridium Complexes. $4500 Grenfell N. Patey, U of British Columbia. Theoretical Study of Water, Aqueous Electrolytes, and Other Polar Liquids. $4500 Robert R. Holmes, U of Massachusetts. Polymeric Organotin Compounds. $4500 Russell H. Schmehl, Tulane U. Photochemistry of Covalently Linked, Bichromophoric Transition Metal Complexes. $4500 Robert A. Gastaldo, Auburn U. Taphonomy of Plant Accumulating Crevasse Splay Sediments, Chacaloochee Bay, Mobile Delta, Alabama. $4500 James M. Cook, U of Wisconsin, Milwaukee. Syn thetic Approach Toward Planar Four Coordinate Carbon. $4500 Alexander J. Kresge, U of Toronto. Enols and Other Reactive Intermediates. $4500 Robert F. Butler, U of Arizona. Paleomagnetic Study of Canadian Cordillera Terrane Displacements. $4500 Gordon W. Gribble, Dartmouth C. Metalated Heterocycles in Natural Product Synthesis. $4500 Lynn M. Walter, Washington U. Integrated Isotopic and Trace Element Study of Carbonate and SulfurBearing Phases in the Smackover Fm. (Gulf Coast). $4500 Rakesh K. Gupta, State U of New York, Buffalo. Phase Separation in Stretching Polymer Solutions. $4500 Thomas G. Richmond, U of Utah. Transition Metal Coordination Chemistry of "Nonclassical" Ligands. $4500 Lee A. Flippin, San Francisco State U. Proton Cata lyzed Cis-Trans Stereomutation of 1,2-Diarylcycloalkanes. $4500 William A. Donaldson, Marquette U. Synthetic Meth odology: Palladium Mediated Ring HomologationFunctionalization. $4500 James T. Spencer, Syracuse U. Syntheses, Struc tures, and Organometallic Chemistry of Small Heteroborane and Metallaheteroborane Cluster Sys tems. $4500 M. Darby Dyar, U of Oregon. Cation Ordering in Synthetic Trioctahedral Micas. $4500 Pierre LeBreton, U of Illinois, Chicago. DNA Struc tural and Environmental Influences on the Binding of Proximate and Ultimate Genotoxic Hydrocarbon Metabolites. $4500 Theodore Axenrod, City U of New York, City C. Spin Coupling Between Directly Bonded 15N-15N and 13C-15N Nuclei: a Test of Theoretical Predictions. $4500 Wen-Yang Wen, Paul T. Inglefield, Alan A. Jones, Clark U. Molecular Level Characterization of Sorbed Gas Mobility in Polymers. $4500 R. Krishnamoorthi, Kansas State U. Determination of Solution Structures of Hormones by 2D NMR Spectroscopy. $4500 James L. Fry, U of Toledo. Directed Chemical Frag mentations. $4500 Mark M. Green, Polytechnic U. Macromolecular Stereochemistry. $4500 Peter Pfelfer, U of Missouri, Columbia; Milton W. Cole, Pennsylvania State U. Thermodynamics and Kinetics on Fractal Surfaces. $4500 C. Page Chamberlain, Dartmouth C. Fluid-Flow and Carbon Mobility in Deep-Seated Metamorphic Belts. $4500 John G. Gaudiello, Michigan State U. Electrochemi cal Studies of Multiple Interactive Redox Centers. Model Systems for the Investigation of the Charge-Transfer Properties of Low-Dimensional "Molecular Metals." $4500 Roswltha B. Grannel, California State U, Long Beach. Detailed Gravity and Magnetic Survey of the Wind River-Bighorn Basin, Wyoming. $4500 30
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James P. Evans, Utah State U. Development of Faults in Granitic Rocks in the Brittle and SemiBrittle Regime, with an Emphasis on the Deforma tion and Alteration of Feldspars. $4500 Harry W. Gibson, Virginia Polytechnic Institute & State U. Development of New Syntheses of Het erocyclic Polymers. $4500
ACS-PRF Summer Research Fellowship Supplements for Students Stephen A. Macko, Memorial U of Newfoundland. Nitrogen Isotopic Composition and Chemical Na ture of Petroleum. $2500 Robert J. Angelici, Iowa State U. Transition-Metal Carbamoyl Complexes as Intermediates in Cata lytic Reactions. $2500 Kevin P. Furlong, Pennsylvania State U. Three-Dimensional Thermal Mechanical Evolution of Small Sedimentary Basins: Implications for Hydrocarbon Maturation. $2500 Peter F. Bernath, U of Arizona. Laser and Fourier Transform Spectroscopy of Free Radicals. $2500 Richard S. Givens, U of Kansas. Photochemistry of Phosphate Esters. $2500 Gregory L. Hillhouse, U of Chicago. Insertion Reac tions of Carbon Suboxide with Organometallic Complexes. $2500 Karen W. Morse, Utah State U. Organocyanohydroborates: a New Class of Hydroborates and Their Derivatives. $2500 Alison Butler, U of California, Santa Barbara. Biolog ical Role of Vanadium: Elucidation of the Redox Properties and Chemical Reactivities of Vanadium Proteins. $2500 Thomas A. Engler, U of Kansas. Lewis Acid Cata lyzed Reactions of Alkenes with Quinones: Direct, Regioselective Synthesis of Dihydrobenzofurans. $2500 William N. Setzer, U of Alabama, Huntsville. Confor mational Analysis of Phosphate Esters and Relat ed Compounds. $2500 Charles S. Feigerle, U of Tennessee. Effect of Coadsorbates on Kinetic Processes Involving Surface Reaction Intermediates. $2500 Thomas M. Fyles, U of Victoria. Biomimetic Ion Transport: Synthetic Mimics of Pore Forming Anti biotics. $2500 Drury S. Caine III, U of Alabama. Retroaldol-Wittig Reactions of Monocyclic β-Hydroxy-a-Phenylsulfenyl Ketones. $2500 Edward J. Miller, State U of New York, C at Pitts burgh. Semiconducting Polymers Containing Man ganese in a Five-Membered Metallacyclic Ring. Preparation and Characterization. $2500 Marlin D. Harmony, U of Kansas. Improved Method of Structure Determination from Spectroscopic Data. $2500 Nancy M. Doherty, U of Washington. Synthesis and Chemistry of Transition Metal Complexes with Bridging Nitride Ligands. $2500 John R. Peterson, Northern Illinois U. Oxidative Intra molecular Radical Tandem Cyclization in the Syn thesis of Linear and Angular Triquinanes. $2500 Kenneth M. Nicholas, U of Oklahoma. Reactivity and Synthetic Utility of Electrophilic Cobalt-Diene Complexes. $2500 John B. Grutzner, Purdue U. Chemical Streak Cam era. $2500 Carey K. Johnson, U of Kansas. Conformation and Relaxation of Excited States and Transient Inter mediates in Photoisomerization. $2500 Anne B. Myers, U of Rochester. Ultraviolet Reso nance Raman Cross Section and Polarization Studies of Solution Phase Dynamics. $2500 Amy E. Stevens Miller, U of Oklahoma. Gas-Phase Acidities of Transition Metal Hydrides. $2500
Maureen J. Kendrlck, U of Alabama. Alkylperoxy Cobalt (III) Porphyrins: Models for the Mechanistic Study of the Oxidation of Hydrocarbons. $2500 Paul Siders, U of Minnesota, Duluth. Effect of Medi um Orientational Order on Energy and Electron Transfer. $2500 Stanley C. Finney, California State U, Long Beach. Lithostratigraphy and Graptolite Biostratigraphy of Ordovician Vinini Formation, Roberts Mountains, Nevada. $2500 Bryant E. Rossiter, Brigham Young U. Investigation of Chiral Cuprate Reagents for Enantioselective Conjugate Addition to α,/3-Unsaturated Carbonyl Compounds. $2500 Paul G. Gassman, U of Minnesota. Perfluoroalkylated Cyclopentadienides as Ligands for Transition Metals. $2500 James A. O'Brien, Yale U. Studies of the Contribu tions of Diffusive and Reactive Growth Processes to the Structure of Fractal Aggregates. $2500 Leonidas G. Bâchas, U of Kentucky. Potentiometric Sensors Based on lonophore Modulation by Antibodies or Binding Proteins. $2500 Robin D. Rogers, Northern Illinois U. Study of Crown Ethers as a Basis for Eventual Development of fElement Separations Agents. $2500 David F. Wiemer, U of Iowa. Applications of Silicon and Phosphorus Migrations. $2500 William W. Hay, U of Colorado. Development of Lithosphere-Surface Process Models for Mesozoic Cenozoic History of Africa. $2500 David W. Pratt, U of Pittsburgh. Triplet States in Supersonic Jets. $2500 Laura J. Crossey, U of New Mexico. Examination of the Stability of Water-Soluble Organic Compounds in Diagenetic Systems. $2500 Ruth E. Baltus, Clarkson U. Diffusion of Residua. $2500 Edward L. Clennan, U of Wyoming. Mechanistic Singlet Oxygen Chemistry. $2500 Anna C. Balazs, U of Pittsburgh. Computer Simulation for the Aggregation of lonomers in Solution. $2500 John D. Buynak, Southern Methodist U. Thermal Rearrangement of α-Substituted Si lanes: Stereo chemistry and Synthetic Utility. $2500 Steven H. Strauss, Colorado State U. Chemical Properties of Iron Hydroporphyrins. $2500
Special election for director-at-large A special election will be held soon among ACS councilors to fill the re mainder of the 1987-89 term of di rector-at-large Joe A. Adamcik, who has resigned, effective May 1. The ACS Committee on Nominations & Elections has nominated Carlos M. Bowman, project director for technical information services for Dow Chemical Co., and Stanley Kirschner, professor of chemistry at Wayne State University, as candi dates. The committee also has an nounced that candidates may be nominated by petition. The dead line for receipt of petitions is Feb. 12. Nominating petitions, which
should be sent to the ACS executive director, must be signed by at least 300 members, with no more than 50 from a single local section, or more than 200 from any one electoral region of the society. Ballots will be mailed to councilors on March 18 in conjunction with the mailing to councilors to select the nominees for 1989 presidentelect. Deadline for receipt of ballots at ACS headquarters in Washington, D.C., is April 28. G
Health, safety award nominations sought The ACS Division of Chemical Health & Safety is seeking nominations for its 1988 Chemical Health & Safety Award. This award was established to recognize outstanding contributions to the science, technology, education, or communication of chemical health and safety. The award consists of $500, travel expenses to an ACS national meeting, and a certificate. Whenever possible, the awardee will be the speaker at the divisional banquet held during the fall meeting. Nominations must be accompanied by a letter, no more than five pages long, of the nominee's accomplishments, the work to be recognized, a biographical sketch, and a list of publications. Reprints or preprints of no more than five publications may be included. Books or tapes may not be included. Abstracts or reviews may be used in place of publications. Send five copies of all items used for nominations to Jay A. Young, 12916 Allerton La., Silver Spring, Md. 20904 by March 15. G
1988 dues bill If you have not received your 1988 dues bill or have questions about your bill, please call (614) 421-3776. To charge your payment by phone, call toll free (800) 227-5558, or in the Washington, D.C., area call (202) 872-8070. Questions on the ACS credit policy should be directed to Earl Klinefelter, head of the Membership Activities Department, at (202) 872-4372.
Applications for polymer science award The ACS Division of Polymeric Materials: Science & Engineering is seeking applications for the 1988 Sherwin-Williams Student Award in Applied Polymer Science. Graduate students either currently in graduate school or not more than one year beyond graduation are invited to submit a research paper for presentation at the 1988 ACS fall national meeting. The paper should conform to the preprint format of the PMSE Division and be commensurate with the regulations and customs of papers presented at PMSE/ ACS programs. Up to six finalists will be selected based on scientific merit of the submitted papers. Out-of-pocket expenses up to $350 will be paid to each finalist to attend the ACS meeting and present their paper at a special award symposium in the PMSE program. The paper must be given by the student, not by the coauthor/ thesis adviser. The award consists of $500 and a plaque. Instructions regarding application procedures are available from Murrae J. Bowden, Bell Communications Research, Room 3Z-225, 331
Newman Springs Rd., Red Bank, N.J. 07701-7020. Applications and preprints must be submitted by March 1. D
Summer research in analytical chemistry Procter & Gamble is sponsoring a summer analytical research program for graduating college seniors majoring in chemistry. Students who enter this program will spend 10 to 12 weeks during the summer working in full-time analytical research at one of Procter & Gamble's four Cincinnati corporate technical centers. Applications will be accepted only from those students presently in their senior year of undergraduate study who intend to enter graduate school and work toward a Ph.D. in analytical chemistry. In addition, the applicant must be a U.S. citizen or hold a permanent resident visa. The deadline for applications is March 1. For applications and further information, write: Coordinator, Summer Analytical Research Program, Procter & Gamble, Miami Valley Laboratories, Room 1D42, Cincinnati, Ohio 45247. D
AWARDS The first two recipients of awards for excellence in research by young scientists given by the ACS Agrochemicals Division are Kenneth Racke and Cathleen Somich. Racke, at the entomology department, Iowa State University, is being cited for his predoctoral studies on enhanced microbial degradation of carbamate insecticides in soils. Somich, at USDA's Pesticide Degradation Laboratory, Bethesda, Md., is being recognized for her postdoctoral work on photolytic and ozonolysis mechanisms of the herbicide alachlor. The ACS Division of Chemical Health & Safety has given its 1987 award to Dana W. Mayo, Samuel S. Butcher, and Ronald M. Pike for their development of the microscale organic laboratory. This approach virtually eliminates the need to
retrofit labs with ventilation systems. The scale of experiments is reduced by a factor of 100 to 1000, resulting in a reduction in the level of toxic emissions and the amount of chemicals purchased, stored, and disposed. Mayo and Butcher, professors of chemistry, Bowdoin College, and Pike, professor of chemistry, Merrimack College, have jointly authored four books on the microscale organic laboratory. David R. Lide Jr. is the 1988 recipient of the ACS Division of Chemical Information's Herman Skolnik Award for outstanding contributions to and achievements in the theory and practice of chemical information science. Lide is the director of the standard reference data program at the National Bureau of Standards. Also president of CODATA, he is January 11, 1988 C&EN
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