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he American Chemical Society Board of Directors has approved 156 new or continuing ACS-Petroleum Research Fund (PRF) grants for fundamen tal research or scientific education. Also approved were 33 of 59 requests for sup plements to existing ACS-PRF Research Grants. The supplements will allow a fac ulty member from an undergraduate de partment to be added to the PRF-funded research project for the summer of 1997. These grants, committing $4,290,235 of the $13 million authorized for 1997, were recommended from the 411 proposals considered by the PRF Advisory Board in November 1996. In order to sustain the purchasing pow er of PRF grants, the board approved a $5,000 increase in the value of Type AC and Type Β grants. Type AC grant recipi ents may be given up to $30,000 per year. Type Β grant recipients may receive up to $30,000 for the two-year term of the grant. The increases will take effect with the 1998 PRF grants. Type G grants will re main at $20,000 over two years. The last meeting of the PRF Advisory Board to recommend 1997 grants is scheduled for May. Proposals will be ac cepted through June for the November PRF Advisory Board meeting for 1998 funding. For information and application materials, contact the Petroleum Re search Fund, American Chemical Society, 1155—16th St., N.W., Washington D.C. 20036; phone (202) 872-4481, e-mail:
[email protected].
ACS-PRF Grants for Fundamental Research in the Petroleum Field (Type AC) Estella Atekwana, William A. Sauck, West ern Michigan U. Geophysical Investigations of the Anomalous Conductivities Associat ed with Hydrocarbon Plumes. $50,000 James K. Bashkin, Washington U. Mecha nism and Charge Control of Metal-Catalyzed RNA Transesterification. $50,000 Lorenz T. Biegler, Carnegie Mellon U. Boundary Value Approaches for Parameter Estimation of Large-Scale Differential Alge braic Systems. $50,000
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Dennis K. Bird, Stanford U. Thermodynamic Properties and Parageneses of RockForming Zeolites. $49,820 Silas C. Blackstock, U of Alabama. Develop ment of Localized Donor-Acceptor Interac tions for Crystal Engineering. $50,000 Thierry A. Blanchet, Rensselaer Polytechnic Inst. Irradiated/Unirradiated Fluoropolymer Composites for Enhanced Wear Resis tance and Self-Lubrication. $50,000 David J. Bottjer, Mary L. Droser, U of Southern California. Lateral Heterogeneity of Bioturbation Structures in Reservoir Sandstones. $49,790 Milton W. Cole, Pennsylvania State U. Ad sorption on Unusual Forms of Carbon. $50,000 Robert V. Demicco, State U of New York, Binghamton. Cycopath 3-D: A ThreeDimensional, Forward-Model of Sedimenta tion on Carbonate Platforms. $40,500 Peter A. Dowben, Marjorie A. Langell, U of Nebraska, Lincoln. Decomposition Pathways of Metallocenes on Surfaces. $50,000 Randolph S. Duran, U of Florida. Sequenc ing and Structural Investigations of Copolymerization Reactions in Restricted Dimen sions. $50,000 Malcolm D. E. Forbes, U of North Carolina, Chapel Hill. Connecting Electron-Spin Ex change Interactions and Electron-Transfer Rates in Donor-Peptide-Acceptor Mole cules. $50,000 Joel R. Fried, U of Cincinnati. Atomistic Sim ulation of Gas Diffusion in Highly Perme able Amorphous Polymers in the Glassy State. $50,000 Gregory C. Fu, Massachusetts Inst, of Tech nology. Development of Organotin Re agents for Organic Synthesis. $50,000 Bruce C. Gates, U of California, Davis. Pro totype Supported Bimetallic Cluster Cata lysts. $50,000 William M. Gelbart, James R. Heath, U of California, Los Angeles. Controlling the Shapes and Sizes of Ordered Arrays of Nanoparticles in Wetting Thin Films. $50,000 Terry W. Gullion, Florida State U. Measuring 13 C- 1 7 0 and 13 C- 14 N Distances in Solids with Applications to Bound Water and Poly mers. $50,000 Masanori Hara, Rutgers, State U of New Jer sey. Small-Angle Neutron Scattering Study of Molecular Composites via Ionic Interac tions. $50,000 John F. Hartwig, Yale U. Directly Observed β-Hydrogen Elimination from Late Transi tion-Metal Alkoxides and Amides. $50,000 William W. Hay, U of Colorado. Salinity, Thermohaline Circulation, and Ocean An oxic Events on a Warm Earth. $50,000
D. Michael Heinekey, U of Washington. Hydrogenolysis of Carbon-Chlorine Bonds: New Routes to CFC Alternatives. $50,000 Douglas J. Henderson, Brigham Young U. Interfacial Chemistry and the Interactions between Colloidal Particles. $50,000 Jonathan D. Hirst, Scripps Research Inst. Ab Initio Calculations of the Electronic Ex cited States of Amides. $50,000 Michael F. Hochella Jr., Virginia Polytechnic Inst. & State U. Silicate Dissolution/Precipita tion in the Presence of Thin, Confined Films of Water: A New Experimental Approach of Chemical Weathering Phenomena. $50,000 John D. Humphrey, Colorado School of Mines. Sediment-Water Interaction in Holocene Carbonate Islands, San Bias Archi pelago, Panama. $49,225 Joseph T. Hupp, Northwestern U. Exploitation of Primitive Molecular Recognition Effects in Electron- and Energy-Transfer Reactions: Synthesis and Applications of Luminescent Squares, Rectangles, Cubes, and Columns. $50,000 Shiou-Jyh Hwu, Clemson U. Electrochemi cal Synthesis of Conducting TransitionMetal Chalcogenides. $50,000 Wayne E. Jones Jr., State U of New York, Binghamton. Electron-Transfer and Solva tion Dynamics in Odd-Electron TransitionMetal Complexes. $50,000 Larry L. Kesmodel, Indiana U. Surface-Sen sitive Vibrational Spectroscopy of Poly mers. $50,000 Tad H. Koch, U of Colorado. Redox-Active Building Blocks for Self-Assembly. $50,000 Lev N. Krasnoperov, New Jersey Inst, of Technology. Kinetics of Free-Radical Reac tions at High Pressures. $50,000 David M. Lemal, Dartmouth C. Tetraaminoethylenes. $50,000 Charles M. Lieber, Harvard U. Growth of One-Dimensional Carbide Nanomaterials. $50,000 Eric W. McFarland, U of California, Santa Barbara. Magnetically Controlled Catalysis: Magnetic-Fie Id-Dependent SurfaceStructure Modifications in Metallic Thin Films. $50,000 Michael J. McGlinchey, McMaster U. Organometallic Cations and Anions: Syntheses, Structures, and Dynamics. $50,000 Anthony J. McHugh, U of Illinois, UrbanaChampaign. Flow-Induced Conformations, Structuring, and Phase Stability of SemiFlexible Polymers. $50,000 David W. Mead, U of Michigan. Development and Evaluation of Mixing Rules for Polydisperse Systems of Rodlike Polymers Utiliz ing the Double Reptation Model. $50,000 Keith T. Mead, Mississippi State U. Studies in Spiroketal Synthesis. $50,000 Philip W. Morrison Jr., Case Western Re serve U. In Situ Diagnostics during the Growth of Diamond Films in an Enclosed Combustion Flame. $50,000 Aiichiro Nakano, Louisiana State U. Me chanical and Thermal Properties of Porous Ceramics: Enabling Simulation Technolo gies for Rational Design. $50,000
Amos M. Nur, Stanford U. Seismic Signatures of Geopressure in the Gulf of Mexico: The Rock Physics Basis. $50,000 Kyriakos D. Papadopoulos, Tulane U. Fluorescent Microscopy of W/O/W Globules for Studying Stability and the Release Mechanisms in Liquid Membranes. $50,000 Ronald J. Phillips, U of California, Davis. Properties of Viscoelastic Particulate Suspensions in Sedimentation and Shear Flows. $50,000 David W. Pratt, U of Pittsburgh. Laser Probing of Enzyme Mimics in the Gas Phase. $50,000 T. V. RajanBabu, Ohio State U. Asymmetric Catalysis of Carbon-Carbon Bond-Forming Reactions. $50,000 Thomas G. Richmond, U of Utah. Cobaltocene Mediated C-C, C-H, and C-F Bond Activations. $50,000 Lisa L. Robbins, U of South Florida, Tampa. Microbial Fingerprint: An Investigation of the Isotopic, Elemental, and Crystallography Signatures of Microbially Precipitated Carbonates. $50,000 John D. Roberts, California Inst, of Technology. Steric, Electrostatic, Hydrogen Bonding, and Solvent Effects on Conformational Equilibria and Equilibrations. $40,000 William B. Russel, Princeton U. Film Formation from Dispersions of Polymer Lattices. $50,000 Franklin A. Schultz, Indiana U-Purdue U, Indianapolis. Single versus Multiple Electron Transfer and Electrocatalysis by LigandBridged Binuclear Complexes. $50,000 Bala Subramaniam, U of Kansas. Coking of Acidic Catalysts by Olefinic Oligomers: Role of Dissolved Oxygen and Feed Peroxides. $50,000 Martin T. Vala Jr., U of Florida. Spectroscopic Studies of Polycyclic Aromatic Hydrocarbon and Carbon Chain Ions. $50,000 Jan Veizer, U of Ottawa. Hydrothermal Venting in Coral Reef. $50,000 Robert M. Williams, Colorado State U. Studies on the Biosynthesis of Taxol. $25,000 B. Erik Ydstie, Carnegie Mellon U. Distillation Control Systems from Thermodynamics. $50,000 Jin Z. Zhang, U of California, Santa Cruz. Ultrafast Studies of Interfacial Electron Dynamics in Colloidal Metal Nanoparticles. $50,000
ACS-PRF Grants for Fundamental Research in the Petroleum Field
Philip J. Chenier, U of Wisconsin, Eau Claire. Synthesis and Chemistry of Chiral Tropocoronands. $25,000 John G. Cobley, U of San Francisco. Biochemical and Genetic Investigation of the Utilization of n-Alkanes by the Marine Filamentous Cyanobacterium Phormidium corium. $25,000 Ronald J. Duchovic, Indiana U-Purdue U, Fort Wayne. Kinetics and Dynamics of Bimolecular Combustion Reactions. $25,000 Timothy E. Elgren, Hamilton C. Neurocuprein: A Novel Type II Copper Protein. $25,000 Gabriel M. Filippelli, Indiana U-Purdue U, Indianapolis. Phosphorus and Carbon Sedimentation in the Southern Ocean on Glacial/lnterglacial Timescales. $25,000 Fred J. Grieman, Pomona C. Electronic Spectroscopy of Perdeuterodimethylzinc Cation and the Zinc Dihalide Cations. $25,000 Jeffry D. Grigsby, Ball State U. In Search of Chemical Fingerprints: Petrology, Clay Mineralogy, and Chemistry of Bentonite Beds Exposed Near the Eocene-Oligocene Boundary, Gulf Coastal Plain. $25,000 John M. Holbrook, Southeast Missouri State U. Investigation for Evidence and Criteria Indicating Impact on the Sedimentary Record by Subtle Tectonics: Examination of the Lake County Uplift. $25,000 Donald T. Jacobs, C of Wooster. Heat Capacity in Binary Fluid Mixtures and Universality Near the Critical Point. $25,000 John A. Maguire, Southern Methodist U. Structural and Theoretical Studies of Pentagonal Bipyramidal Metallacarboranes. $25,000 William H. Miles, Lafayette C. Chemistry of 3-Methylene-2,3-Dihydrofuran. $25,000 Daniel C. Robie, Barnard C. Cross Sections of Weak Absorptions by Cavity Ring-Down Spectroscopy. $23,400 June R. P. Ross, Western Washington U. Evolutionary Relations within Upper Ordovician and Lower Silurian Bryozoans in Midwestern States. $25,000 Charles D. Schaeffer Jr., Claude H. Yoder, Elizabethtown C. Stabilization of Silylenium Ions by Intramolecular Charge-Dipole Encapsulation. $25,000 Thomas T. Shawe, Bucknell U. Asymmetric Synthesis of Optically Active Cycloalkenones. $25,000 Elizabeth A. Stemmler, Bowdoin C. Controlling Neutral and Ionic Reactions in the Negative Chemical Ionization Source. $25,000 Marc Zimmer, Connecticut C. Molecular Mechanical and Cluster Analysis of the Factors Responsible for the Conformations Adopted by Tetraaza Macrocycles. $25,000
(Type B) Awarded to faculty in non-Ph.D.-granting departments Robert K. Boggess, Radford U. Use of Supercritical Carbon Dioxide to Infuse MetalContaining Additives into Polyimides. $25,000 Ronald Caple, U of Minnesota, Duluth. Utilization of the Concept of Stepwise Electrophilic Addition in the Construction of Carbon Skeletons. $25,000
ACS-PRF Grants for Fundamental Research in the Petroleum Field
Anne M. Baranger, Wesleyan U. Studies on the Contribution of Stacking Interactions to RNA-Protein Complexes. $20,000 Angel C. de Dios, Georgetown U. Chemical Shifts: Insight into Structure and Environment. $20,000 Francis D'Souza, Wichita State U. Molecular Recognition via Hydroquinone-Quinone Pairing in Porphyrin Covalently Attached Either to Hydroquinone or Quinone. $20,000 Elliot P. Douglas, U of Florida. Synthesis and Phase Behavior of Liquid Crystalline Thermosets. $20,000 Jeffrey E. Elbert, South Dakota State U. Triplet Energy Transfer Sensitization of Lanthanide-DOTA Complexes Studied by Flash Photolysis and Photoacoustic Calorimetry. $20,000 Patrick J. Farmer, U of California, Irvine. Myoglobin-Based Functional Models for Nitrite and Sulfite Reductases. $20,000 Cassandra L. Fraser, U of Virginia. Metal Core Macromolecules: Multifunctional Metal Complex Initiators and Terminating Agents for Living Polymerization Reactions. $20,000 David Y. Gin, U of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign. Enantiospecific Synthesis of Batzelladine A, a Potent Inhibitor of the HIV gp120-CD4 Interaction. $20,000 Rachel S. Goldman, U of Michigan. Nanometer-Scale Investigations of Interfacial Chemistry in Semiconductor Structures. $20,000 Daniel A. Higgins, Kansas State U. Polymer Dispersed Liquid Crystals Studied by Near Field Scanning Optical Microscopy. $20,000 Bo Hong, U of California, Irvine. Supramolecular Photochemistry and Surface Attachment of Light-Harvesting Dendritic Assemblies. $20,000 Laurens E. Howie, Duke U. Active Control of Convection in Porous Media. $20,000 Christopher A. Klug, Stanford U. Nuclear Magnetic Resonance Study of the Structures and Reactions of Simple Molecules on Supported Metal Catalysts. $20,000 Jeffrey L. Krause, U of Florida. Laser Control of Chemical and Material Processes. $20,000 Michael B. Kruger, U of Missouri-Kansas City. Structural Studies of PressureAmorphized Materials. $20,000 Tingyu Li, Vanderbilt U. Preorganized Short Oligopeptides for Chiral Chromatography. $20,000 Patrick A. Limbach, Louisiana State U. Structural Characterization of Conducting Polymers Using Mass Spectrometry. $20,000
(Type G) Awarded to faculty in Ph.D.-granting departments
David W. M. Marr, Colorado School of Mines. Influence of Interactions on Interfacial Properties in Binary Systems. $20,000
Eric Bakker, Auburn U. Novel Approaches to the Selectivity of Carrier-Based IonSelective Electrodes. $20,000
Stefan Matile, Georgetown U. Exploring Mechanisms and Specificities of Cell-Membrane-Related Processes by Means of Synthetic Rigid-Rod Molecules. $20,000
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acs n e w s Peggy A. O'Day, Arizona State U. Determination of Oxygen Isotope Ratios of Clay Minerals in Situ Using Secondary Ion Mass Spectrometry (SIMS). $20,000
Gina M. MacDonald, James Madison U. Fourier-Transform Infrared Investigation of Nucleotide Binding in the Recombination Protein, RecA. $20,000
Jonathan R. Parquette, Ohio State U. Catalytic Dendrimers: Design and Synthesis of Dendrimers for Asymmetric Catalysis in Aqueous Media. $20,000
David Y. Son, Southern Methodist U. New Halogenated Organosilicon Monomers and Polymers. $20,000 Sarah L Stoll, Oberlin C. Tuning of Size-Dependent Properties of Rare-Earth and Transition-Metal Chalcogenide Materials. $20,000 Feimeng Zhou, U of Wisconsin, Eau Claire. Kinetic Studies of Homogeneous Chemical Reactions of Species Electrogenerated from Fullerenes and Fullerene Derivatives. $20,000 Edward P. Zovinka, Saint Francis C. Multiply Functionalized Metallocenes. $20,000
Peter A. Petillo, U of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign. Polymerization Strategies for Carbohydrate Synthesis. $20,000 Robin L. B. Selinger, Catholic U of America. Theory of Polyisocyanates Designed for Optical Switching. $20,000 Panagiotis G. Smirniotis, U of Cincinnati. Selective Dealumination of Zeolite Supercages Leading to Minimum Coke Deposition: Catalyst Synthesis and Characterization. $20,000 Cinzia Spencer-Cervato, U of Maine, Orono. Evolution of the Thermocline during the Pliocene: Implications for Oceanic Productivity. $20,000 Richard E. Taylor, U of Notre Dame. Oligocyclopropanes from Homo-Allyl Cations. $20,000 Britt N. Thomas, U of Wyoming. Probes of Spatially Constrained Phospholipid Tubule Formation. $20,000 Trevor A. Tyson, New Jersey Inst, of Technology. Investigation of Electron-LatticeSpin Correlations in Transition-Metal Oxides: Doped LaMn0 3 Systems. $20,000
ACS-PRF Grants for Fundamental Research in the Petroleum Field (Type G) Awarded to faculty in non-Ph.D.-granting departments Jay H. Baltisberger, Berea C. Studies of Distributional Effects in Alkaline Phosphate Glasses. $20,000 Kieron Burke, Rutgers, State U of New Jersey. Density Functional Theory of Response Properties: Ionization Thresholds. $20,000 Ronald B. Cole, Allegheny C. Deformation, Synorogenic Sedimentation, and Geochronology of the Early Eocene Upper Cantwell Formation: Refining the Accretionary to Strike-Slip Tectonic History of the Central Alaska Range. $20,000 Matthew J. Elrod, Hope C. Studies of the Atmospheric Fate of Halogenated Methylperoxy Radicals Using Turbulent Flow Chemical Ionization Mass Spectrometry. $20,000 Victoria J. Fabry, California State U, San Marcos. Quantitative Significance of the Effects of Coccolithophore Calcification on Oceanic C0 2 Chemistry. $20,000 Rebecca C. Hoye, Macalester C. Scope of the Aryl-Alkyne Zipper Reaction and Mechanism of an Unusual Carbanionic Cleavage Reaction. $20,000 W. Bryan Lynch, U of Evansville. High-Field Electron Paramagnetic Resonance Study of the Metal-Binding Site in Manganese(ll)Substituted Carboxypeptidase A. $20,000
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ACS-PRF Grants for Scientific Education (Type SE) Steven M. Bachrach, on behalf of Northern Illinois U. Cubanes, Homocubanes, and Heterocubanes (X=P, As, N): Synthesis and Chemistry at the 5th Chemical Congress of North America, Cancun, Mexico, November 1997. $2,000 Richard A. Bartsch, on behalf of ACS Division of Industrial & Engineering Chemistry Inc., Subdivision of Separation Science & Technology. Recognition with Imprinted Polymers at the 213th ACS national meeting, San Francisco, April 1997. $2,000 Thomas W. Bell, on behalf of ACS Division of Organic Chemistry. Synthetic Receptors for Optical Chemosensors at the 213th ACS national meeting, San Francisco, April 1997. $2,000 William J. Brittain, on behalf of ACS Division of Polymer Chemistry Inc. Acrylate Polymerization: New Mechanisms and Polymers at the 213th ACS national meeting, San Francisco, April 1997. $2,000 Patrick E. Cassidy, on behalf of ACS Division of Polymer Chemistry Inc. Fluoropolymers at the 216th ACS national meeting, Boston, August 1998. $2,000 H. N. Cheng, on behalf of ACS Division of Polymer Chemistry Inc. NMR Spectroscopy of Synthetic Macromolecules at the 213th ACS national meeting, San Francisco, April 1997. $2,000 Christopher J. Cramer, on behalf of ACS Division of Computers in Chemistry. The Role of Electrostatics in Chemistry at the 214th ACS national meeting, Las Vegas, September 1997. $2,000 Paul L. Dubin, on behalf of ACS Division of Colloid & Surface Chemistry. Polymer-Surfactant Interactions at the 213th ACS national meeting, San Francisco, April 1997. $2,000 William E. Geiger Jr., on behalf of ACS Division of Inorganic Chemistry. Electrochemistry in the Characterization of Inorganic, Organometallic, and Biological Systems at the 214th ACS national meeting, Las Vegas, September 1997. $2,000
David W. Grainger, on behalf of ACS Division of Polymer Chemistry Inc. Polyethylene Glycol: Chemistry and Biological Applications at the 213th ACS national meeting, San Francisco, April 1997. $2,000 Timothy J. Grundl, on behalf of ACS Division of Geochemistry Inc. Kinetics and Mechanisms of Reactions at the Mineral-Water Interface at the 213th ACS national meeting, San Francisco, April 1997. $2,000 Bruce A. Harrington, on behalf of ACS Division of Polymeric Materials: Science & Engineering Inc. Engineering Polyolefins at the 213th ACS national meeting, San Francisco, April 1997. $2,000 Patrick G. Hatcher, on behalf of ACS Division of Geochemistry Inc. Biogeochemistry of Algae at the 213th ACS national meeting, San Francisco, April 1997. $2,000 Bing R. Hsieh, on behalf of ACS Divisions of Polymer Chemistry Inc. and Polymeric Materials: Science & Engineering Inc. Organic Materials and Devices for Display Technology at the 213th ACS national meeting, San Francisco, April 1997. $2,000 Jerry E. Hunt, on behalf of ACS Division of Fuel Chemistry. Asphaltene and Resid Characterization at the 213th ACS national meeting, San Francisco, April 1997. $2,000 Hannes Jonsson, John T. Yates Jr., on behalf of ACS Divisions of Physical Chemistry and Colloid & Surface Chemistry. New Concepts in Surface Chemistry: Diffusive Motion of Atoms and Molecules on Surfaces at the 213th ACS national meeting, San Francisco, April 1997. $2,000 Clifford P. Kubiak, on behalf of Interamerican Photochemical Society. 9th Interamerican Photochemical Society Winter Conference, Clearwater Beach, Fla., January 1997. $2,000 Hilary S. Lackritz, on behalf of ACS Divisions of Polymer Chemistry Inc. and Polymeric Materials: Science & Engineering and the Optical Society of America. Organic Thin Films for Photonic Applications, Long Beach, Calif., September 1997. $2,000 Brian B. Laird, on behalf of American Physical Society Division of Chemical Physics. Dynamics of Glasses and Supercooled Liquids at the American Physical Society Meeting, Kansas City, Mo., March 1997. $2,000 Neocles B. Leontis, on behalf of ACS Division of Computers in Chemistry. Molecular Modeling and Structural Determination of Nucleic Acids at the 213th ACS national meeting, San Francisco, April 1997. $2,000 Thomas E. Mallouk, on behalf of ACS Division of Inorganic Chemistry. Solid-State Chemistry and Materials Science at the 213th ACS national meeting, San Francisco, April 1997. $2,000 Todd B. Marder, on behalf of U of Waterloo. Transition-Metal Group 13 Compounds Including Their Roles in Catalytic Processes at the 5th Chemical Congress of North America, Cancun, Mexico, November 1997. $2,000 Michael J. Maroney, on behalf of ACS Division of Inorganic Chemistry. Role of Nickel in Biology and Catalysis at the 5th Chemical Congress of North America, Cancun, Mexico, November 1997. $2,000
David H. McConville, on behalf of Canadian Society for Chemistry. Non-Cp Ligand Envi ronments: Activation of Small Molecules at the Canadian Society for Chemistry Confer ence, Windsor, Ontario, June 1997. $2,000 Roger E. Miller, Peter M. Felker, on behalf of ACS Division of Physical Chemistry. Ori entation and Alignment in Chemical Pro cesses at the 213th ACS national meeting, San Francisco, April 1997. $2,000 Buddy D. Ratner, on behalf of ACS Division of Polymer Chemistry Inc. Plasmas and Poly mers at the 213th ACS national meeting, San Francisco, April 1997. $2,000 Eisa Reichmanis, on behalf of ACS Division of Polymeric Materials: Science & Engi neering Inc. Polymers for Micro- and Nanopatterning Science and Technology at the 214th ACS national meeting, Las Vegas, September 1997. $2,000 June R. P. Ross, on behalf of PaleoForams '97 Organizing Committee/Western Wash ington U. PaleoForams '97: An Internation al Conference on Paleozoic Foraminifera, Bellingham, Wash., August 1997. $2,000 Richard B. Ross, on behalf of ACS Division of Computers in Chemistry. Industrial Appli cations of Computational Chemistry at the 213th ACS national meeting, San Fran cisco, April 1997. $2,000 Daniel J. Sandman, Takeshi Ogawa, on be half of ACS Division of Polymer Chemistry Inc. Polymers from Acetylenes at the 5th Chemical Congress of North America, Cancun, Mexico, November 1997. $2,000 Daniel A. Scarpiello, on behalf of the Catal ysis Society, Chicago Section. 15th North American Meeting of the Catalysis Society, Chicago, May 1997. $2,000 Donald N. Schulz, on behalf of ACS Division of Polymeric Materials: Science & Engi neering Inc. Functional Polymers at the 213th ACS national meeting, San Fran cisco, April 1997. $2,000 Vladimir M. Shalaev, on behalf of ACS Divi sion of Physical Chemistry. Nanostructured Materials: Clusters, Composites, and Thin Films at the 213th ACS national meeting, San Francisco, April 1997. $2,000 Martin R. Tant, on behalf of ACS Division of Polymeric Materials: Science & Engineering Inc. Structure and Properties of Glassy Poly mers at the 213th ACS national meeting, San Francisco, April 1997. $2,000 Thomas T. Tidwell, on behalf of Canadian So ciety for Chemistry, Organic Division. Toward the Second Century of Carbocation Chemistry at the 5th Chemical Congress of North Ameri ca, Cancun, Mexico, November 1997. $2,000 John C. Van Houten, on behalf of Saint Michael's C. 12th International Symposium on Photochemistry and Photophysics of Coordination Compounds, Colchester, Vt., June and July 1997. $2,000 John T. Welch, on behalf of ACS Division of Fluorine Chemistry. 13th Winter Fluorine Conference, St. Petersburg Beach, Fla., January 1997. $2,000 Richard V. Williams, on behalf of 5th Chem ical Congress of North America. Theoreti cally Interesting Molecules at the 5th Chemical Congress of North America, Can cun, Mexico, November 1997. $2,000
Xiaoliang Sunney Xie, William E. Moerner, on behalf of ACS Division of Physical Chemistry. Single Molecules at the 213th ACS national meeting, San Francisco, April 1997. $2,000 Weitao Yang, on behalf of Duke U. Density Functional Theory and Applications—A Satellite Symposium of the 9th Internation al Congress of Quantum Chemistry, Dur ham, N.C., June 1997. $2,000
ACS-PRF Summer Research Supplements to Type AC Grants Rex E. Crick, Brooks B. Ellwood, U of Tex as, Arlington. Evaluating the Magnetosusceptibility Stratigraphy Method: Key to High-Resolution Correlation and Cyclostratigraphy. $5,000 Thomas R. Cundari, U of Memphis. Methane Activation by Mercury(ll) Complexes. $5,000 Ronald I. Dorn, Arizona State U. Temperature Dependency of Calcium- and MagnesiumSilicate Weathering in Nature: Implications for the Global Carbon Cycle. $5,000 Erik J. Fernandez, U of Virginia. Magnetic Resonance Imaging Analysis of Viscous Fingering. $5,000 Robert E. Gawley, U of Miami. Properties and Synthetic Applications of α-Amino and α-Alkoxy Organolithiums. $5,000 Harry W. Gibson, Virginia Polytechnic Inst. & State U. Novel Dendrimers Formed from Macrocyclic and Cryptand Units. $5,000 Gordon W. Gribble, Dartmouth C. Fused Heterocycles in Natural Products Synthe sis. $5,000 David C. Johnson, U of Oregon. Synthesis of Crystalline Superlattices by Controlled Crys tallization of Modulated Reactants. $5,000 James M. Mayer, U of Washington. Oxida tion of Alkanes and Arylalkanes by Transi tion-Metal Oxo Complexes. $5,000 Gordon J. Miller, Iowa State U. At the Boundary of Metal-Insulator Transitions, Superconductivity, and Relativistic Effects: New Bismuthides and Antimonides. $5,000 George A. Petersson, G. Barney Ellison, Wesleyan U. Energetics of Organic Diradicals. $5,000 Suzanne T. Purrington, North Carolina State U. New Approach to the Synthesis of β-Lactams. $5,000 Paul G. Rasmussen, U of Michigan. Synthe sis of High Nitrogen, Low Hydrogen, Mate rials from Λ/,Λ/',ΛΓ-Tricyanoguanidinate, C 4 N 6 2_ , Dianion. $5,000 John R. Scheffer, U of British Columbia. Control of Reaction Multiplicity in SolidState Organic Photochemistry: Energy Transfer and Heavy Atom Effects. $5,000 Paul W. Schmidt, U of Missouri, Columbia. Two-Length-Scale Structure in Porous Sol ids. $5,000 Bakthan Singaram, U of California, Santa Cruz. Asymmetric Hydroboration of Functionalized Alkenes. $5,000
Dwight A. Sweigart, Brown U. Bimetallic Arene Complexes and Their Application as Models for Hydrodesulfurization and Hydrodenitrogenation. $5,000 Paul G. Tratnyek, Oregon Graduate Inst, of Science & Technology. Organic Reduction Reactions at the Metal-Water Interface. $5,000 Kenneth B. Wiberg, Yale U. Toward an Un derstanding of 13C Chemical Shifts. $5,000 Scott A. Wood, U of Idaho. Thermodynamics of REE Complexes with Simple Carboxylic Acid Anions at Elevated Temperatures. $5,000 Xiao-lun Wu, U of Pittsburgh. Hydrodynam ics in Driven Soap Films. $5,000
ACS-PRF Summer Research Supplements to Type Β Grants Ernest H. Gilmour, Eastern Washington U. Permian Bryozoa of the Productus Creek Group, Brook Street Terrane, South Island, New Zealand. $5,000 Lawrence D. Margerum, U of San Francisco. Metal Ion Binding Sites in a Series of Polyamine Dendrimers: Thermodynamics and Lewis Acid Catalytic Sites. $5,000 Allan M. Nishimura, Westmont C. TripletTriplet Energy Transfer of Adsorbed Organ ic Species. $5,000
ACS-PRF Summer Research Supplements to Type G Grants Gregory V. Hartland, U of Notre Dame. Ultrafast IR Spectroscopy of NanometerSized Semiconductor Clusters. $5,000 Michael Manga, U of Oregon. Drops and Bubbles in Low Reynolds Number Mul tiphase Flows. $5,000 Philip J. Reid, U of Washington. Resonance Raman Spectroscopic Investigations of Ultrafast Radical Chemistry in the Condensed Phase. $5,000 Shawn C. Sendlinger, North Carolina Cen tral U. New Synthetic Routes to Inorganic Oligomers and Polymers. $5,000 Greg M. Swain, Utah State U. Electrochemical and Spectroscopic Characterization of Elec trochemical Interfaces Found at Conductive Diamond Thin-Film Surfaces. $2,500 John P. Toscano, Johns Hopkins U. TimeResolved Infrared Spectroscopic Studies of Triplet Ketones and Enones. $5,000 Dionisios G. Vlachos, U of Massachusetts. Microscopic Approach to Oxidation Reac tions and Reactors. $5,000 Michael T. Whalen, U of Alaska, Fairbanks. Regional Sequence and Chronostratigraphy of Upper Devonian Platform and Basin Sequences, Alberta, Canada. $5,000 John B. Wiley, U of New Orleans. New Strat egies for the Preparation of New Layered Copper Oxides. $5,000^
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ACS Delaware Section special symposium The ACS Delaware Section held a special symposium titled "The Chemical Industry Today & Tomorrow," featuring technology officers from three Delaware chemical companies. ACS President Paul S. Anderson opened the symposium. Speaking at the Jan. 9 symposium were Joseph A. Miller, senior vice president and chief technology officer at DuPont; David A. Simpson, director of new technology research at Hercules; and Alvin K. Willard, vice president of biomedical research at Zeneca Pharmaceuticals. The speakers addressed the challenges and opportunities facing their respective companies, focusing on four current common threads: the globally competitive chemical market, innovative developments in industry and academe, objectives of R&D, and outsourcing.^
Clinical chemistry volunteers sought The National Registry in Clinical Chemistry (NRCQ seeks health and safety chemists to participate in a sample test for a chemical hygiene officer certification program. The guidelines and questions for the examination were developed in line with the Occupational Safety & Health Administration's laboratory standard for chemical hygiene officers. At the request of ACS, NRCC has assumed the task of developing, implementing, and administering the examination. The sample examination will be held in conjunction with the ACS national meeting in San Francisco. The exam will consist of approximately 70 questions and will be held from 3 to 5 PM on April 12. To volunteer or for more information, contact NRCC, 815—15th St., N.W., Suite 630, Washington, D.C. 20005; phone (202) 393-7140, fax (202) 3934059, e-mail:
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