Guide to March local section meetings featuring ACS tour speakers

Guide to March local section meetings featuring ACS tour speakers persons, consult the alphabetical listing of cities and their corresponding local sections along with the topic/speaker key. For additional information, contact the local section or the ACS Speaker Service at (202) 872-4613,

As a service to society members and the public C&EN pub­ lishes from fall to spring monthly guides to ACS tour speak­ er appearances at upcoming meetings. For general informa­ tion about these events, which are open to all interested β/leetïng city local section

Date (March) j Meeting city Topic code Local section

Date (March) ι Meeting city Topic code Local section

Date (March) Topic code

Ada, Ohio 22/TBA Northwest Central Ohio R. Lamb, (419} 772-2343

Chattanooga 25/G Chattanooga T, Orofino, (706) 272-4200

Fresno, Calif. 17/0 San Joaquin Valley M. Kalchik, (209) 278-7732

Amana,lowa Iowa A, Ault, (319) 895-4305

18/P

Columbia, Mo. 4/TBA University of Missouri M, Harmata, (314) 882-1097

Honolulu 11/0 Murray, Ky. 23/G Hawaii Kentucky Lake P. Grothaus, (808) 486-5414 * S, Hoishouser, (502) 441-6455

Amariilo, Tex. 25/J Panhandle Plains 8. Richardson, (806) 477-3505

Columbia» S.C. 23/TBA South Carolina E. Spell, (803) 786-3730

Huntsvilie, Ala. 10/TBA North Alabama W. Stevenson, 205-883-0800

Norfolk, Va. 11/M Hampton Roads Ε Ceiarier, (804) 727-5276

Anchorage 4/TBA Alaska G- Trigiano, (907) 786-1351

Corpus Christi, Tex* 19/L South Texas J. McDonough, (512) 242-4088

Kansas City, Kan. 17/TBA Kansas City Ε Parente, (913) 966-5000

Odessa, Tex. 23/J Permian Basin J. Looney, (915) 263-3707

Athens, Ga. 24/TBA Northeast Georgia J. Stickney, (706) 542-1967

Davis, Calif. 16/0 Sacramento M. Nantz, (916) 752-6357

Kearney, Neb. 20/C Nebraska P, Dussauit, (402) 472-2732

Omaha 19/C Omaha M. Woster, (402) 444-4318

Atlanta 25/TBA Georgia T. Chamblee, (404) 676-4926

Dayton, Ohio 23/TBA Dayton S. Sinha, (513) 229-4020

Lake Jackson, Tex. 18/K Brazosport L Moreno, (409) 238-3872

Orlando, Fla. 19/TBA Orlando & Frazter, (407) 322-1678

Austin, Tex. Central Texas M. Hein, (512) 331-2421

16/L

Decatur, III. 6/TBA Decatur-Springfield A. Hoffman, (217) 421-2695

Lakeland, Fla. 18/TBA Lakeland Subsection E. Baldwin, (813) 293-4133

Oxford, Miss. 8/TBA Ole Miss J. Williamson, (801) 232-7101

Birmingham, Ala. 9/TBA Alabama W. Shaw, (205) 663-2494

Elkhart, Ind. 12/TBA St, Joseph Valley G, Mutch, (616) 471 -7771

Laramie, Wyo. 16/B Wyoming D. Roddick, (307) 766-2535

Peoria, UK 16/P Peoria T. Leathers, (309) 685-4011

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J Emporia, Kan. 15/TBA Wichita T. Chavez, (316) 688-5699

Logan, Utah 1B/B Salt Lake M, Wright, (801) 750-1606

Boca Baton, Fla. 16/TBA South Florida D. Baird, (407) 367-3396

Enfield» Conn. 15/TBA Connecticut Valley A. Dickinson, (413) 737-7000

Los Alamos, Ν,Μ. Central New Mexico K. Lee, (505) 667-7131

Boulder, Colo. 15/B Colorado C. Kovai, (303) 492-5564

Eugene, Ore. Oregon J. Long, (503) 346-2924

Louisville 8/TBA Louisville R, Porter, (502) 588-6798

Brookings, & D . 18/C Sioux Valley R, Utecht, (605) 688-4267

. Evansville, Ind, 9/TBA Indiana-Kentucky Border M. Hankins, (812)464-1716

Lubbock, Tex. 24/0 South Plains D. Casadonte, (806) 742-3085

Burlington, Vt 17/TBA Green Mountain J. Byers, (802)388-3711 ext 5207

Fairbanks 5/TBA Alaska G. Trigiano, (907) 786-1351

Manhattan, Kan. 18/TBA Kansas State University & Reeck, (913) 532-6117

Cape Girardeau, Mo. 3/TBA Southern Illinois B, Olesen, (314) 651-2162

Fargo, N,D. 17/C Red River Valley D. Jacobson, (701) 237-8811

Marietta, Ohio Upper Ohio Valley A. McMullen

Charleston, W.Va, 26/TBA Kanawha Valley J. Taylor, (304) 747-5996

Farmvllle, Va. 10/M Virginia P. Burks, (804) 383-4272

Memphis 22/E Memphis J> Ward, (902) 272-8208

Charlotte, N.C. Carolina-Piedmont

Florence, Ala. Wilson Dam

Monmouth, III. tiiinois-lowa

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Murfreesboro, Term. 24/E Nashville J. Howard, (615) 858-2079

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Bloomington, Ind. 1Ô/D Southern Indiana J, Wesemann, (812) 855-7393

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Date (March) I Meeting city Topic code Local section

Pittsburg, Kan. 16/TBA Southeast Kansas T. Potts, (918) 542-1801

26/Ι Pocatello, Idaho 19/B Idaho Ε Hohorst, (208) 526-4542 Potsdam, N X 18/TBA Northern New York A. Ward, (315) 268-3886 Provo, Utah 17/A Central Utah R. Shirts, (801) 378-4290 Pullman, Wash. 10/N Washington-Idaho Border R. Williams, (208) 885-6775

24/TBA

I R Rogers, (319) 264-4235

Quincy,til. 5/H Mark Twain W.Gasser, (217) 222-8020 Rio Piedras, P.R. Puerto Rico B. Weimer

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GuidetoMardi local section meetings featuring ACS tour speakers (continued) Meeting city Local section

Date (March) Topic code

Roanoke» Va. 9/M Virginia Blue Ridge α Karageorge, (703) 981-2406 or 2491 Rockford, M. 15/P Rock River 8. Pence, {815) 337-5273 Rolls, Mo. 2/TBA South Centrai Missouri P. Callahan, (314) 341-4950

Meeting city Local section

Date (March) Topic code

Meeting city Local section

Date (March) Topic code

Meeting city Local section

Date (March) Topic code

San Antonio 17/ΓΒΑ San Antonio LGrona, (210) 647-9439

Springfield, Mo. 1/F Ozark C, Thompson, (417) 836-5506

Waco, Tex. 15/L Heart O' Texas D. Watson, (817) 939-4542

San Diego 18/0 San Diego a Blackburn, (619) 272-8170

St. Petersburg, Fia. 17/TBA Tampa Bay Subsection S. Mitier, (813) 345-7773

Waterville, Me. 19/TBA Maine N. Rowan-Gordon, (207) 7804074

Seattle Puget Sound

Tehaehapi, Calif. 19/0 Mojave Desert D, Konowalow, (805) 275-5761

8/N

C. Bhat, (206) 546-4575

Worcester, Mass. 16/TBA Central Massachusetts R, Jarret, (506) 793-3462

Terra HauM. ind. tt/TM Wabash Valley M. Jacobs, (812) 232-0121

Topic/speaker key:. A.

Analogical Demonstrations and Pictures That Help Teach Chemical Concepts. J. Fortman, Wright State U

J.

NMR Spectrometry for the Investigations of Species at Surfac­ es, C. Dybowski

B.

Dazzling Demos and Videotaped Bloopers, J. Fortman

K.

Pandora's Sox—Revolution in Thought, J. F. Christman, Loy­ ola U (retired)

C.

Forensic Chemistry in the Private Sector C. Deak, Analytical Associates

L.

Serendipity—The Luck in Scientific Discovery. J. F. Christman

D.

From Archimedes to AIDS: The World of Polyoxometaiate An­ ions. M. Pope» Georgetown U

Μ. , Serendipity in Chemistry—Was the World Really Flat before Columbus. S» Bank, State U of New York

E.

Landfills as Chemical Systems: Problems with Current Ap­ proaches. G. F, Lee, G, Fred Lee & Associates

F.

Lignin Chemicals. J. Adams, consultant

G.

N,

Sex and the Single Gypsy Moth, Ε A. Cameron» Pennsylva­ nia State U

O.

Symmetry and its Importance in Art and Science. L. Dahl, U of Wisconsin

Management of Carcinogens in Municipal Water Supplies: Problems with Current Approaches. G. F. tee

P.

Visualization of Chemical Principles through Chemical Micros­ copy. P. Stoney, McCrone Research Institute

H,

Maple Syrup Mysteries. J. Adams

Q.

Xenon NMR Spectroscopic Investigations of Catalytic Materi­ als. C. Dybowski

I.

NMR Spectroscopic Investigations of How Polymers under Stress Cope. & Dybowski, U of Delaware

TBATo Be Announced

Other local section meetings in March For further information about any of the following events, call the local section contacts at the telephone numbers given. Meeting city Local section

Meeting site Date/time

Akron, Ohio Akron

Tangier Restaurant 18/5 PM

Overview of Polymer Development in Northeast Ohio: Panel Discussion on Polymer Valley, Frank Keiley, U of Akron; David Lawson, Bndgestone/Firestone

C. Wood (216) 794-6313

Center Valley, Pa. Lehiqh Valley

Ailentown C of St Francis de Sales 19/5:^0 PM

Chemistry Solutions to Toxicology Problems, Arthur Severn, Ailentown C

Κ Berg (215) 282-1100

Philadelphia Philadelphia

U of Pennsylvania 13/8 PM

A Comparison of the ADOCBL-Dependent and Dinuelear-tron Center Tyrosyl Radical Ribonuclease Reductases, JoAnm Stubbe, Massachu­ setts institute of Technology

E. Harper (215)382-1589

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Contact Telephone no»

Topie/Speater/Affiliation

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ACS NEWS

First Group of 1993 ACS PRF Grants Approved A t its December meeting the AmerPL· ican Chemical Society Board of JL JLDirectors approved 150 new or continuing ACS-Petroleum Research Fund (PRF) grants for fundamental re­ search or scientific education, plus 32 supplements to existing grants for summer research fellowships to benefit faculty from four-year colleges. These grants, which commit $4,595,786 of the $13.95 million authorized for 1993, were recommended from the 574 pro­ posals considered by the PRF Advisory Board in November 1992. Continuing low interest rates have reduced income available for PRF grants. In order to reduce the PRF op­ erating deficit, the program of under-

graduate supplements to type-AC and G grants has been suspended for 1993. Furthermore, only 32 summer research fellowships for faculty will be awarded in 1993 (listed below), despite an in­ crease in requests for them. The final meeting of the PRF Adviso­ ry Board to recommend 1993 grants is scheduled for May. Proposals will be accepted at least through June for the November advisory board meeting to make recommendations for 1994 fund­ ing. Information and application mate­ rials may be obtained from the Petro­ leum Research Fund, American Chem­ ical Society, 1155—16th St., N.W., Washington, D.C. 20036; phone (202) 872-4481.

Frank J. Feher, U of California, Irvine. Rational Design of Supermolecular Si/O and Al/Si/O Frameworks. $75,000 George W. Flynn, Columbia U. Scanning Tun­ neling Microscopy of Surface Adsorbates. $50,000 Robert B. Gordon, Yale U. Development of Deformation-Induced Structures in Porous Sandstones. $49,661 Robert G. Greenler, U of Wisconsin, Milwau­ kee. Characterizing the Surface of a Highly Dispersed Metal Catalyst with the Infrared Spectrum of Adsorbed Carbon Monoxide. $50,000 Benjamin W. Gung, Miami U. Study of the Conformation, Reactions, and π-Facial Se­ lections of Cl-Oxygenated Chiral Alkenes and Allylmetals. $50,000 Robert A. Harris, U of California, Berkeley. Polarized Light Scattering from Large Quan­ tum Systems and Accelerated Reference Frames, Nonadiabaticity, Low-Frequency Responses, and Density Functionals. $50,000 Timothy D. Herbert, U of California, San Di­ ego. Compositional Controls on Porosity and Compaction in Fine-Grained Marine Sedi­ ments. $50,000 Joseph T. Hupp, Northwestern U. Fundamen­ tals of Redox Reactivity at Metal-Chalcogenide Cluster/Solution Interfaces. $50,000

Fredric R. Askham, U of Delaware. Synthesis and Applications of Anionic Transition-MetalAldehyde Complexes. $50,000

Mark A. Burns, U of Michigan. Stability of Magnetically Stabilized Mixed Beds with Ap­ plication to Continuous Solute Focusing. $50,000 H. J. Callot, Louis Pasteur U of Strasbourg. Porphyrin Geochemistry: Isolation of Higher Terms of the Natural Series and Model Stud­ ies of Porphyrin Diagenesis. $50,000 Tai-chang Chiang, U of Illinois, UrbanaChampaign. Structural, Chemical, and Elec­ tronic Properties of Surfaces, Adsorbates, and Overlayers. $50,000 Robert S. Coleman, U of South Carolina. Tri­ ply Convergent Syntheses of the Naphtho­ quinones Thysanone and Nanaomycin A. $50,000 James A. Cox, Miami U. Electrochemistry of Solids in the Absence of a Liquid Phase. $50,000 Laura J. Crossey, U of New Mexico. Early Ce­ mentation of Cyclic Coastal Clastic Se­ quences: Point Lookout Sandstone, San Juan Basin, Colo., and N.M. $50,000

Steven W. Baldwin, Duke U. Three-Level Ste­ reochemical Control in Epoxy Alcohol Ring Expansions. $50,000

T. Gregory Dewey, U of Denver, Colorado Seminary. Excitation Energy Transport as a Monitor of Polymer Collapse. $50,000

Ian Manners, U of Toronto. Ring-Tilted Metallocenophanes: Ring-Opening Polymerization and Strain-Structure Correlations. $50,000

Steven B. Dierker, U of Michigan. Studies of the Effects of Wetting, Randomness, and Confinement on Binary Fluids in Porous Me­ dia. $50,000 Robert H. Dott Jr., U of Wisconsin, Madison. Reservoir Characterization of Anastomosed Fluvial Deposits. $50,000 Barry L. Farmer, Ronald K. Eby, U of Virgin­ ia. Computational Modeling of Solid-State Transformations in Polytetrafluoroethylene and TFE-HFP Copolymers. $50,000 David Farrelly, Utah State U. Theoretical Studies of Dissociative Chemisorption. $49,966

Tony Maxworthy, U of Southern California. Dynamics of Miscible Interfaces. $50,000

ACS PRF Grants for Fundamental Research in the Petroleum Field (Type AC) Christopher M. Adams, Oklahoma State U. Novel Precursors to Linear Conjugated Ole­ fins. $50,000 A. Paul Alivisatos, U of California, Berkeley. Solid-Solid Phase Transitions in Semicon­ ductor Nanocrystals. $50,000 Ronald D. Archer, U of Massachusetts. Linear Eight-Coordinate Schiff-Base Metal-Contain­ ing Polymers. $50,000 John Arnold, U of California, Berkeley. Early Transition-Metal Porphyrin Chemistry. $50,000

Kurt H. Becker, City U of New York, City C. Electron Collisions with Plasma Radicals. $50,000 Wolfgang H. Berger, U of California, San Di­ ego. Pleistocene Productivity Record in Deep-Sea Sediments. $49,983 Claude F. Bernasconi, U of California, Santa Cruz. Detection and Characterization of the Intermediate in Nucleophilic Vinylic Substitu­ tion. $50,000 W. Edward Billups, Rice U. Studies on the Synthesis, Chemistry, and Physical Proper­ ties of New Molecular Systems. $50,000 36

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Mark Keil, U of Oklahoma. Energy Transfer and Incipient Reactions of Hydrogen Fluo­ ride as Studied by Crossed Molecular Beam and Laser Techniques. $50,000 Joseph L. Knee, Wesleyan U. Pulsed-Field Ionization of van der Waals Complexes: New Techniques and Applications. $50,000 Pierre LeBreton, U of Illinois, Chicago. Elec­ tronic Influences on DNA-Catalyzed Reac­ tions of Carcinogenic Hydrocarbon Metabo­ lites and Cyctocidal Anthracyclines. $50,000 Juliette T. J. Lecomte, Pennsylvania State U. Structure of Apomyoglobin in Solution. $50,000 Elana L. Leithold, North Carolina State U. Sedimentary Fabric and Oceanic Carbon Preservation along a Cretaceous Gradient of Sediment Accumulation Rate. $49,176 David A. Lightner, U of Nevada, Reno. New Chromophores and Orientations for Exciton Chirality. $50,000

Keith F. McDaniel, Ohio U. Sequential Nu­ cleophilic and Electrophilic Attack on Manga­ nese π-Complexes. $50,000 Roger E. Miller, U of North Carolina, Chapel Hill. State-to-State and Real-Time Dynamics of Weakly Bound Complexes from CW Infra­ red Laser Double Resonance Spectroscopy. $50,000 George R. Newkome, U of South Florida. Metallospheres and Superclusters: Preparation of Cascade Mediomolecules Possessing In­ terior Metal Centers. $40,000

Gerard Parkin, Columbia U. Synthesis and Reactivity of Transition-Metal Complexes with Terminal Multiple Bonds to the Heavier Chalcogenides. $50,000 Jack Passmore, U of New Brunswick. Synthesis and Characterization of Simple Selenium-Nitrogen and Tellurium-Nitrogen Compounds. $50,000 Philip W. Phillips, Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Electron Correlations in Granular and Polymeric Systems. $50,000 John M. Prausnitz, U of California, Berkeley. Molecular Thermodynamics of Polymer/ Solvent and Polymer/Polymer Systems: Vapor-Liquid and Liquid-Liquid Equilibria. $50,000 Martin A. A. Schoonen, State U of New York, Stony Brook. Determination of Sodium, Chloride, and Sulfate in Dolomite: A New Technique To Constrain the Composition of Dolomitizing Fluids. $50,000 Yonathan Shapir, U of Rochester. Crossover from Percolation to Vulcanization in Polymer Gelation. $50,000 Kevin G. Stewart, U of North Carolina, Chapel Hill. Controls on Carbonate Platform Evolution: Northern Apennines, Italy. $50,000 Lisa Tauxe, U of California, San Diego. Chemical Remanent Magnetization: Tracer of Ancient Fluid Migration. $50,000 William A. Thomas, U of Kentucky. Causes of Reactivation of Intracratonic Basement Faults. $50,000

ACS PRF Grants for Fundamental Research in the Petroleum Field (TypeB) Ruth F. Beeston, Davidson C. Synthesis and Characterization of Hemicage Tris(bipyridine) Complexes. $25,000 Carol A. Deakyne, Eastern Illinois U. Molecular Orbital Study of Protonated AmmoniaWater Clusters. $25,000 David K. Geiger, State U of New York, C, Geneseo. Soluble Hemiporphyrazine Analogs. $25,000 Steven A. Hardinger, California State U, Fullerton. Bis(sulfonyl)ketones in Oxyallyl Cation-Olefin Cycloadditions. $25,000 Kerry K. Karukstis, Harvey Mudd C. Characterization of Cation-Membrane Interactions Using Trilinear Analysis of Probe Fluorescence. $25,000 James A. Larrabee, Middlebury C. Magnetic Circular Dichroism as a Probe of Metal-Metal Interactions in Co(ll) Dimer Complexes and Co(ll)-Substituted Hemocyanin. $25,000 Gary W. Morrow, U of Dayton. Synthesis and Transformations of Oxygenated Phenanthrenes. $25,000 Ernest G. Nolen, Colgate U. Synthesis of Triply Hydrogen-Bonded Complexes: Strength and Orientation. $25,000 Donald L. Reed, San Jose State U. Study of the Reflection Characteristics of Thrust Faults in the Offshore Taiwan Accretionary Wedge. $25,000

H. Holden Thorp, North Carolina State U. Excited-State Proton Transfer in Transdioxorhenium(V). $50,000 Salvatore Torquato, Princeton U. Nuclear Magnetic Relaxation in Porous Media. $50,000 John M. Vohs, U of Pennsylvania. HREELS Studies of the Reactivity of Model-Supported Metal Catalysts: Pt/Zr02 (100) and Rh/Zr02 (100). $50,000 Zhen-Gang Wang, California Institute of Technology. Interfacial Properties and SelfAssembly of Diblock Copolymers. $50,000 David E. Wigley, U of Arizona. Fundamental Aspects of Hydrodenitrogenation Chemistry. $50,000 Scott A. Wood, U of Idaho. Experimental Investigation of the Thermodynamics and Structure of Aqueous La3+ and Nd3+ Complexes with Carboxylic Acid Anions at Elevated Temperatures. $50,000 Michael E. Wright, Utah State U. Novel Polymeric Nonlinear Optical Materials Based on Heterocyclic Polymer Backbones. $50,000 Xiao-lun Wu, U of Pittsburgh. Wetting and Dewetting Dynamics of Thin Oil Film on a Water/Vapor Interface. $50,000 Jon A. Zubieta, Syracuse U. Complexes of Molybdenum with Sterically Hindered Thiolate Ligands. $50,000

Daniel A. Straus, San Jose State U. Reactions of Zirconium Alkoxides. $25,000 Douglas X. West, Illinois State U. Chemical and Biological Studies of Thiosemicarbazone Complexes. $25,000 Julio C. de Paula, Haverford C. Energy Transfer in Plant Photosynthesis. $25,000

ACS-PRF Grants for Fundamental Research in the Petroleum Field (TypeG) Jeffrey B. Arterburn, New Mexico State U. Transition-Metal Imido Complexes for the Synthesis of Amines. $20,000 Guillermo C. Bazan, U of Rochester. New Synthetic Methods for the Preparation of Macromolecules, in Particular Polymers with Stereoregularity of Specific Electronic Properties. $20,000 Michael D. Blum, Southern Illinois U, Carbondale. Pleistocene Alluvial Plain Deposition in Response to Interacting Base-Level and Climatic Controls, Texas Gulf Coastal Plain. $20,000 Andrew S. Borovik, Kansas State U. Triamidate-Supported Metallocavities. $20,000 John J. Breen, Indiana U-Purdue U, Indianapolis. Scanning Tunneling Microscopy in Electrochemical Environments: A Molecular View of Chemistry. $20,000 Robert M. Briber, U of Maryland. Effect of Cross-Linking on Polymer Blend Phase Separation. $20,000

Keith R. Buszek, Kansas State U. Intramolecular Benzyne Diels-Alder Chemistry: Total Synthesis of the Pseudopterosins. $20,000 David G. Cahill, U of Illinois, UrbanaChampaign. Microscopic Mechanisms of Molecular Beam Epitaxy Assisted by LowEnergy Ions and Modifications of Surface Chemistry. $20,000 Walter G. Chapman, Rice U. Theory and Simulation of Hydrogen Bonding Fluids in the Interfacial Region. $20,000 Robert E. Continetti, U of California, San Diego. Energetics and Dissociation Dynamics of Reactive Intermediates. $20,000 Shelley D. Copley, U of Colorado. Search for the Cofactor Required by Tetrachloro-1,4hydroquinone Dehalogenase. $20,000 Prodromos Daoutidis, U of Minnesota. Nonlinear Multivariate Control Methods for Chemical Processes. $20,000 Robert C. Davenport Jr., Boston U. Crystallography Studies of 4-Oxalocrotonate Tautomerase. $20,000 Thomas A. Dewers, U of Oklahoma. StressInduced Water-Rock Interaction and Associated Mass Redistribution during Diagenesis. $20,000 Gregory S. Ferguson, Lehigh U. Contact Adhesion between Thin Gold Films on CarbonBased, Elastomeric Supports. $20,000 Lucio Frydman, U of Illinois, Chicago. NMR Studies of Structure and Dynamics in Polymers and Biopolymers. $20,000 XiaoLian Gao, U of Houston. Characterization of Novel Nucleotide Analogs in Antisense Oligonucleotide Duplexes: Synthesis and NMR Studies. $20,000 Brenda K. George, U of Texas, Austin. Sequence of Marine Cementation in the Capitan Formation, Guadalupe Mountains, Tex. $20,000 David S. Glueck, Dartmouth C. Synthesis and Reactivity of Terminal Transition-Metal Phosphinidene Complexes. $20,000 Hua Guo, U of Toledo. Quantum/Classical Hybrid Theory of Photoinduced Reaction Dynamics on Surfaces. $20,000 Robert P. Hammer, Louisiana State U. New Methods for the Preparation of Methylene Phosphonate Oligonucleotides. $20,000 James E. Hanson, Seton Hall U. Photochemical Conversion of Arylmethyl Sulfones to Sulfinic Acids. $20,000 John F. Hartwig, Yale U. Preparation of Compounds with a Metal-Boron Double Bond: Potential for Functionalization of Hydrocarbons and Novel Reactivity with Alkenes. $20,000 B. J. Hinch, Rutgers, State U of New Jersey. In-situ Investigation of Silicon Surface Etching Using Surface X-Ray Diffraction Techniques. $20,000 Steven M. Holland, U of Georgia. Sequence Stratigraphy of the Middle and Upper Ordovician of the Nashville Dome, Tenn. $20,000 Daniel J. Klingenberg, U of Wisconsin, Madison. Investigation of the Influence of Surfactants on the Electrorheological Response. $20,000 Jonathan M. Lees, Yale U. High-Resolution Tomographic Imaging in Southern California. $20,000 FEBRUARY 15,1993 C&EN 37

ACS NEWS Shankar Mahalingham, U of Colorado. Investigation of the Structure of Turbulent Nonpremixed Flames by Direct Numerical Simulation. $20,000 Frank E. McDonald, Northwestern U. New Methodology for Synthesis of 1,2-Fused Polycyclic Ethers. $20,000 Gareth H. McKinley, Harvard U. Digital Particle Imaging System for Viscoelastic Flows. $20,000 Thomas J. Meade, California Institute of Technology. Electron-Transfer Mechanisms of Site-Specific Transition-Metal Modified Duplex DNA. $20,000 Li-June Ming, U of South Florida. Two-Dimensional NMR Studies of Paramagnetic Lanthanide-Substituted Calcium-Binding Proteins of the Helix-Loop-Helix (EF-Hand) Family. $20,000 Jun Nogami, U of Wisconsin, Milwaukee. Electromigration of Metals on the Silicon Surface. $20,000 Jun Okuda, State U of New York, Albany. Synthesis of Group-4 Metal Complexes with a Linked Cyclopentadienyl-Alkoxo Ligand. $20,000 John S. Oliver, Brown U. Investigation of the Mechanism of Serine Proteases by Incorporation of Nonnatural Amino Acids. $20,000 Johathan P. Pelz, Ohio State U. Atomic-Scale Nucleation of Si2 Films and Alkane Crystals. $20,000 Coleen Pugh, U of Michigan. New Architectures for Side-Chain Liquid-Crystalline Polymers with Smectic C Mesophases. $20,000 Thomas P. Quinn, U of Missouri, Columbia. De-novo Design, Synthesis, Structural Characterization of Model Betasheet Proteins. $20,000 M. V. Ramakrishna, New York U. Photochemistry of Semiconductor Clusters. $20,000 Maureen E. Raymo, Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Determination of Global Organic Carbon Burial Rates in the Late Neogene Based on the Carbon Isotopic Composition of Marine Carbonates. $20,000 Norbert F. Scherer, U of Pennsylvania. PhaseLocked Nonlinear Spectroscopy of Chemical Reactions in Solution. $20,000 Kevin E. Smith, Boston U. Low-Dimensional Electronic Structure of Novel Metal Oxides. $20,000 Kathleen J. Stebe, Johns Hopkins U. Kinetics of ln-situ Foam Formation and Surfactant-Induced Marangoni Stresses: Theory and Experiment. $20,000 Susan C. Tucker, U of California, Davis. Hydrolysis of Methanol and Anisole in Supercritical Water: A Study of Supercritical-Fluid Solvent Effects on Chemical Reactions. $20,000 Robert M. Berger, Indiana U-Purdue U, Fort Wayne. Synthesis and Characterization of Ligand-Bridged Polynuclear Transition-Metal Coordination Complexes. $20,000 Mary T. Berry, U of South Dakota. Lanthanideto-Ligand Energy Transfer in a Molecular Beam. $20,000 Rebecca J. Dorsey, Northern Arizona U. Miocene Basin Evolution, Upper Plate of the Whipple-Buckskin Detachment Fault, Southeastern California and Western Arizona. $20,000 38

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James R. Doyle, Macalester C. Mass Spectrometry Studies of Methane Glow Discharge Reaction Kinetics. $20,000 Gary M. Edvenson, Moorhead State U. Boron-Based Polymers and Ceramic Precursors via the Coupling of Borane Clusters with Diborylalkanes. $20,000 Monty L. Fetterolf, U of South Carolina, Aiken. Surface Studies of Methylene Blue on Ti 2 Particulates by ATR-FTIR. $20,000 Ronald S. Friedman, Indiana U-Purdue U, Fort Wayne. Vibrational^ Nonadiabatic Effects in Chemical Reactivity: The Role of Resonances. $20,000 Scott A. Miller, Dickinson C. New Oxidations Leading to Enantiomerically Pure Products. $20,000 Cheryl L. Muller, U of Wisconsin, Eau Claire. New Heterocycles for Transfer of Stereochemistry in Photocycloaddition. $20,000 Leah C. O'Brien, Southern Illinois U, Edwardsville. Spectroscopy of Diatomic Radicals in the Near-IR. $20,000 Robert D. Pike, C of William & Mary. Electrophilic Activation of Transition-Metal Enolate Complexes. $20,000 Ana C. Ravelo, U of California, Santa Cruz. Paleo-Upwelling in the Eastern Equatorial Pacific: A Combined Organic and Inorganic Isotope Approach. $20,000 Paul M. Saulnier, Carroll C. Optical Model of Wave Propagation in Stratified and Porous Media. $20,000 Daniel R. Spiegel, Trinity U. High-Precision Transient Grating Studies. $20,000 Wilson A. Taylor, U of Wisconsin, Eau Claire. Comparative Fine Structural Analysis of Modern Bryophyte and Early Land Plant Remains. $20,000

ACS PRF Grants for Fundamental Research in the Petroleum Field (Type SE) Francis J. DiSalvo Jr., on behalf of the ACS Division of Inorganic Chemistry. New Directions in Solid-State Synthesis, ACS National Meeting, Denver, spring 1993. $2000 William R. Dolbier Jr., on behalf of the ACS Division of Fluorine Chemistry. 11th Winter Fluorine Conference, St. Petersburg, Fla., January 1993. $2000 Paul L. Dubin, on behalf of the ACS Division of Polymer Chemistry. Polyelectrolytes, ACS national meeting, Denver, spring 1993. $2000 John J. Fitzgerald, on behalf of the ACS Division of Polymeric Materials: Science & Engineering. Elastomers, ACS national meeting, Denver, spring 1993. $2000 William R. Heineman, H. Brian Halsall, on behalf of the ACS Division of Colloid Surface Chemistry. Immobilization of Biomolecules at Surfaces, ACS national meeting, Denver, spring 1993. $2000 Gerald P. Huffman, on behalf of the ACS Division of Fuel Chemistry/CFFLS. Iron-Based Catalysts for Direct and Indirect Coal Conversion, ACS national meeting, Denver, spring 1993. $2000

Alan A. Jones, on behalf of the ACS Division of Polymer Chemistry. Solid-State NMR Spectroscopy of Polymers, Keystone, Colo., February-March 1993. $2000 A. Grant Mauk, on behalf of the ACS Division of Inorganic Chemistry. Electron-Transfer Reactions of Metalloproteins, ACS national meeting, Denver, spring 1993. $2000 G. David Mendenhall, on behalf of the ACS Division of Polymer Chemistry. Polymer Chemiluminescence, ACS national meeting, Chicago, fall 1993. $2000 Shaul Mukamel, on behalf of the ACS Division of Physical Chemistry. Physical Chemistry in Restricted Geometries, ACS national meeting, Denver, spring 1993. $2000 Ei-ichi Negishi, Ian P. Rothwell, on behalf of the ACS Division of Organic Chemistry. Recent Advances in the Organometallic Chemistry of Titanium, Zirconium, and Hafnium, ACS national meeting, Denver, spring 1993. $2000 Gerard Parkin, on behalf of the ACS Division of Inorganic Chemistry. Main-Group Organometallic Compounds: Novel Structures and Reactivity, ACS national meeting, Chicago, fall 1993. $2000 Virgil Percec, David A. Tirrell, on behalf of the ACS Division of Polymer Chemistry. New Macromolecular Architectures and Supramolecular Polymers, ACS national meeting, Denver, spring 1993. $2000 Charles L. Perrin, Jay S. Siegel, on behalf of the ACS Division of Organic Chemistry. Noncovalent Interactions, ACS national meeting, San Diego, spring 1994. $2000 Mark A. Ratner, on behalf of Northwestern U. Computational Methods in Inorganic Chemistry, ACS national meeting, Chicago, fall 1993. $2000 Hans-Werner Schmidt, on behalf of the ACS Division of Polymer Chemistry. Creation of Macroscopic Order in Polymeric Systems, ACS national meeting, Denver, spring 1993. $2000 Henry P. Schreiber, on behalf of the ACS Division of Colloid & Surface Chemistry. Fundamentals of Adhesion in Nonbiological Systems, 67th Annual Colloid & Surface Science Symposium, Toronto, June 1993. $2000 Robert Tycko, on behalf of the ACS Division of Physical Chemistry. Chemistry and Physics of Fullerenes, ACS national meeting, Denver, spring 1993. $2000 Jeffry G. Weers, on behalf of the ACS Division of Colloid & Surface Chemistry. Colloid and Surface Chemistry of Fluorocarbons and Highly Fluorinated Amphiphiles, ACS national meeting, Denver, spring, 1993. $2000 David R. Yarkony, Russell M. Pitzer, on behalf of the ACS Division of Physical Chemistry. Electron Spin Effects in Chemistry, ACS national meeting, Denver, spring 1993. $2000 Joseph A. N. Zasadzinski, on behalf of the ACS Division of Colloid & Surface Chemistry. Langmuir-Blodgett and Self-Assembled Films, ACS national meeting, Denver, spring 1993. $2000

ACS-PRF Summer Research Supplements to Type-AC Grants Steven R. Angle, U of California, Riverside. Enantioselective Synthesis of Pipecolic Acids. $5000 R. Mark Bradley, Colorado State U. Effect of Grain Asphericity on the Properties of Sandstones. $5000 Renée D. Diehl, Pennsylvania State U. Defects on Metal Surfaces and Their Effects on Adsorbed Phases. $5000 James P. Evans, Utah State U. Field and Microstructural Analyses of Deformation in Footwalls of Thrust Faults: Significance for Geometry, Kinematics, and Mechanics of Thrust Fault Evolution. $5000 John F. Garst, U of Georgia. Radical Exchange in Grignard Reagent Formation. $5000 Lionel Goodman, Rutgers, State U of New Jersey. Two-Photon Rydberg Transition Jet Spectroscopy Involving Torsional Modes. $5000 Gordon W. Gribble, Dartmouth C. Novel Syntheses of Highly Strained Organic Molecules. $5000 Paul L. Heller, U of Wyoming. Stratigraphie Record of Alluvial Response to Base-Level Changes: Eocene Fan-Delta Sequences of Southeastern Ebro Basin, Spain. $5000 Mercouri G. Kanatzidis, Michigan State U. Soluble Polychalcogenide Chemistry of LateTransition and Main-Group Metals. $5000 Edward C. Lim, U of Akron. Theoretical Studies of Molecular Dimers. $5000 Katja Lindenberg, U of California, San Diego. Soliton Models of Proton/Energy-Transport Mechanisms in Cyclodextrin. $5000 Kenneth B. Lipkowitz, Indiana U-Purdue U, Indianapolis. Enantiodiscrimination on Chiral Polymers. $5000 Ana L. Moore, Arizona State U. Synthesis, Spectroscopic Studies, Electrochemical Characterization of Photoconducting Carotenoids. $5000 John H. Nelson, U of Nevada, Reno. Transition-Metal-Promoted Reactions of Coordinated Phosphines. $5000 H. Daniel Ou-Yang, Lehigh U. Light-Scattering Studies of Polymer Adsorption on Colloidal Surfaces: Phase Transition and Kinetics. $5000 Yeshayau Pocker, U of Washington. Liquid Salts as Solvent Systems. $5000 Arnold L. Rheingold, U of Delaware. Diphosphenes and Diarsenes in Cluster Synthesis: Preparation of Metal/Main-Group Multiple Bonds. $5000 Dean M. Roddick, U of Wyoming. Heterolytic Activation of H-H and C-H Bonds. $5000 Paul W. Schmidt, U of Missouri-Columbia. Small-Angle X-Ray Scattering Studies of Processes on Pore Surfaces. $5000 Kenneth Showalter, West Virginia U. Spatiotemporal Behavior in Chemical Systems. $5000

Paul E. Sokol, Pennsylvania State U. Structure and Dynamics of Adsorbed Systems in Porous Media. $5000 Mark E. Welker, Wake Forest U. Synthesis and Reaction Chemistry of 2-Transition-Metal Substituted 1,3-Diene Complexes. $5000

Stephen E. Creager, Indiana U. ScanningTunneling Microscopy of Chemically Modified Gold Electrodes. $5000 David Deming, U of Oklahoma. Thermal History of Sedimentary Basins. $5000 Erik J. Fernandez, U of Virginia. Magnetic Resonance Imaging Analysis of Miscible Viscous Fingering in Porous Media. $5000

ACS-PRF Summer Research Supplements to Type-G Grants Michael T. Ashby, U of Oklahoma. Lamellar Solid-State Organization with Amphiphilic Metal-Organic Compounds. $5000 Vince Cammarata, Auburn U. Synthesis, Spectroscopy, and Electrochemistry of Aromatic and Inorganic Langmuir-Blodgett Films. $5000 Joseph I. Cline, U of Nevada, Reno. Laser Spectroscopic Studies of Reaction Mechanism and Dynamics in Large Molecules. $5000

Jiali Gao, State U of New York, Buffalo. Polarizable Intermolecular Potential Functions for Simulations of Interfacial Systems. $5000 Piotr Piotrowiak, U of New Orleans. Intramolecular Excitation Transfer Bands. $5000 Pamela J. Shapiro, U of Idaho. Investigation of the Synthesis and Reactivity of Bent Chromocene Complexes Having Linked Cyclopentadienyl Ligands. $5000 Samuel A. Abrash, U of Richmond. Wavelength Dependence and Polarization Studies of Hydrogen-Bonded Complexes in Inert Gas Matrices. $5000

AWARDS

Chromatography award nominations The Chromatography Forum of the Delaware Valley is soliciting nominations for the 1994 Stephen Dal Nogare Award for excellence and significant contributions in the field of chromatography. Send one or more nominating letters and a biographical sketch listing experience and significant contributions to Mary Ellen McNally, Du Pont Agricultural Products, Experimental Station, Wilmington, Del. 19880-0402. The deadline is March 31. Previous years' nominations can be renewed or appended with an updated letter of nomination. •

Startup grants for new faculty established The Camille & Henry Dreyfus Foundation has announced the establishment of a new awards program directed toward non-Ph.D.-granting academic institutions. Called the Camille & Henry Dreyfus Startup Grants for Undergraduate Institutions, the program aims to provide funding for new faculty members to begin the teaching-research

interplay as early as possible in their careers. Although most new faculty apply for external funding to support their research, in many cases, support is not available before the end of the first year of appointment. A key feature of this new award is an unrestricted research grant of $10,000 made in September of the year the new faculty member begins his or her first-year appointment. Normally, 10 awards will be made each year. Institutions that grant a bachelor's or master's degree in chemistry, chemical engineering, or biochemistry may each submit one nomination. Nominees will be expected to begin the first year of their full-time tenure-track academic appointment at the time of the award. Recommendations for awards will be made on the basis of the nominee's potential for making significant contributions to the overall educational enterprise in the chemical sciences, including scholarship of outstanding quality with undergraduate participation. Funds may be used for any research- or curriculum-related purpose considered appropriate for the awardee's professional activities. Detailed program information is available from the Camille & Henry Dreyfus Foundation Inc., 555 Madison Ave., New York, N.Y. 10022; phone (212) 753-1760. Nominations are due May 15. • FEBRUARY 15,1993 C&EN 39