First Group of PRF Grants Approved At its November meeting the ACS Board of Directors approved 153 new or continuing ACS-PRF grants for fundamental research, plus 73 sup plements to existing grants for Summer Research Fellowships to benefit faculty members or students from four-year colleges. These grants, committing $4,075,742 of the $11 million authorized for 1985, were recommended from the 552 propos als considered by the PRF Advisory Board in November 1984. The last meeting of the PRF Advi sory Board to recommend 1985 grants is scheduled for May. Proposals for this meeting will be accepted at least through January. Information and application materials may be ob tained from the Petroleum Research Fund, American Chemical Society, 1155—16th St., N.W., Washington, D.C. 20036, or by calling (202) 8724481. ACS-PRF Grants for Fundamental Research in the Petroleum Field (Type AC) Richard C. Larock, Iowa State U. Preparation and Synthetic Applications of π-Allylpalladium Compounds. $35,000 Robert M. Williams, Colorado State U. C-C Bond Formation via Thioacetals: Asymmetric Synthe ses of Amino Acids, C-Nucleosides, and β-Lactams. $35,000 Robert D. Bach, Wayne State U. 1,2-Carbonyl Mi grations in Organic Synthesis. $35,000 Dwight A. Sweigart, Brown U. Mechanistic and Synthetic Studies of Nucleophilic Addition to Coordinated 7r-Hydrocarbons. $35,000 Alan H. Cowley, U of Texas, Austin. Carbocyclic 7T-Complexes of Some Main-Group Elements. $35,000 Paul W. Jennings, Montana State U. Cyclopropane Transformations Using Platinum(ll). $35,000 Tomas Hudlicky, Virginia Polytechnic Institute & State U. New Methods of Carbon-Carbon Bond Formation: Synthetic Utility of the Vinylogous Reformatsky Reaction. $52,500 Albert Padwa, Emory U. Heterocyclic Synthesis via the Chemistry of a-Aminonitriles. $35,000 Kung K. Wang, West Virginia U. Synthetic Appli cations of Trimethylsilyl-Substituted Propargylic Organoboraries. $35,000 Jack K. Crandall, Indiana U. Aliène Cyclizations. $35,000 Dennis P. Curran, U of Pittsburgh. Substituent Effects on the Claisen Rearrangement Synthetic, Mechanistic, and Theoretical Studies. $35,000 Stephen E. Calvert, U of British Columbia. Settling and Burial Fluxes of Organic Matter in Oxic and Anoxic Environments. $34,580 James C. Ingle Jr., Stanford U. Neogene History of the Humboldt Basin, California. $23,258
Seymour O. Schlanger, Northwestern U. Acoustic Stratigraphy of the Miocene Pelagic Carbonate Sequence on the Ontong-Java Plateau (Pacific Ocean) Related to Paleoceanography. $34,500 Helen Tappan Loeblich, Alfred R. Loeblich Jr., U of California, Los Angeles. Miocene to Recent Benthic Foraminiferal Taxonomy and Biostratigraphy. $52,500 Kevin P. Furlong, Pennsylvania State U. ThreeDimensional Thermal-Mechanical Evolution of Small Sedimentary Basins: Implications for Hydrocarbon Maturation. $52,500 Enrique Merino, Indiana U. Pétrographie, Analytical, and Kinetic Study of the Diagenesis of Mesozoic Arkoses, Connecticut. $51,980 Richard K. Olsson, Rutgers U. Paleoslope Study of Albian to Cenomanian Benthic Foraminifera in Western Atlantic Margin and Basin. $52,500 John W. Geissman, U of New Mexico. Paleomagnetic and Structural Investigation of the Tectonic History of Early Jurassic Humboldt Lopolith and Associated Units, Fencemaker Allochthon, West Central Nevada. $32,000 Frederick G. Prahl, Oregon State U. Search for the Precursor of a Tetracyclic Aromatic Hydrocarbon in Recent Sediments. $52,500 Jean'ne M. Shreeve, U of Idaho. Fluorinated Hypochlorites. $35,000 William Weltner Jr., U of Florida. Electronic and Magnetic Properties of Metal Molecules and Clusters. $35,000 Patrick E. Hoggard, North Dakota State U. Sharp Line Electronic Spectroscopy as a Probe of Molecular Geometry. $35,000 Richard C. Alkire, U of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign. Electrochemical Reaction Engineering of Mediated Processes. $52,500 R. D. Willett, Washington State U. Studies of Structural Solitons in One-Dimensional Systems. $35,000 W. Kenneth Musker, U of California, Davis. Coordination Chemistry of Mesocyclic Ligands. $52,500 Jesse L. Beauchamp, California Institute of Technology. Fundamental Studies of the Reactions of Transition Metal Atoms with Hydrocarbons in the Gas Phase. $35,000 Elmer O. Schlemper, Fred K. Ross, U of Missouri, Columbia. Quantitative Charge Density Measurements in Sulfur-Oxygen Compounds. $35,000 Richard D. Adams, U of South Carolina. Coordination Behavior of Sulfonium Ions. $35,000 Michael D. Fryzuk, U of British Columbia. Synthesis and Reactivity of New Organo Lanthanide Complexes Containing Phosphorus Donors. $35,000 Joseph L. Templeton, U of North Carolina, Chapel Hill. Three Center d7r-Ligand7r Bonds as Reactive Sites. $35,000 Martyn Poliakoff, U of Nottingham. IR Spectroscopy and Kinetics of Catalytic Intermediates in Liquid Noble Gas Solution. $35,000 Edward L. Clennan, U of Wyoming. Singlet Oxygenation of Acyclic- 1,3-dienes. $35,000 Peter A. Beckman, Bryn Mawr C. Methyl Reorientation in Solid Phenanthrenes. $32,900 Peter J. Stang, U of Utah. Nucleophilic Unsaturated Carbenes. $35,000 Tad H. Koch, U of Colorado. Capto-Dative Diradicals: Dynamic Coronands and Oligomers. $35,000
Duane E. Bartak, Neil F. Woolsey, U of North Dakota. Mechanisms of Reductive Diaryl Ether Cleavage. $35,000 George R. Newkome, Louisiana State U. Unimolecular Micelles: the Leeuwenberg Model. $51,000 Peter Beak, U of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign. Mechanistic Studies of Organometallic Reaction. $35,000 Kenneth A. Connors, U of Wisconsin, Madison. Energetics of Cyclodextrin Complex Formation in Solution. $35,000 Joseph San Filippo Jr., Rutgers U. HydrogenAtom-Transfer Reactions as Probed by Temperature-Dependent Kinetic Isotope Effect Studies. $35,000 Terrance B. McMahon, U of Waterloo. Substrate and Solvent Deuterium Isotope Effects for Gas-Phase Ions. $35,000 Nathan Kornblum, Purdue U. Significance of Steric Effects in Electron Transfer Substitution Processes. $35,000 Donald R. Arnold, Dalhousie U. Radical Ions in Photochemistry. $35,000 William A. Goddard III, California Institute of Technology. Simulation of Catalytic Processes in Zeolites and Aluminophosphates. $52,500 Nabil M. Lawandy, Brown U. Laser-Induced Macroscopic Flows and Structures in Polyatomic Gas Mixtures. $52,000 Vladimir Hlavacek, State U of New York, Buffalo. Use of Exothermic Noncatalytic Reactions for Efficient Synthesis of Superconductive Materials. $52,500 Suphan Kovenklioglu, Stevens Institute of Technology. Effect of Heterogeneously Catalyzed Chemical Reactions on Particle to Gas Heat Transfer. $35,000 Patrick L. Jones, Ohio State U. State Specific Studies of Molecules Produced at Surfaces by Ion Bombardment. $52,500 Peter S. Fedkiw, North Carolina State U. Gas-Phase Electrochemical Hydrogenations/Dehydrogenations by Proton Pumping Through a Metallized Solid Polymer Electrolyte. $52,100 James M. Phillips, University of Missouri, Kansas City. Thermodynamic and Structural Properties of Monolayer, Bilayer, and Trilayer Systems. $51,593 Mark E. Davis, Virginia Polytechnic Institute & State U. Synthesis and Catalysis of Zeolite Entrapped Transition Metals. $52,500 Robert Greenler, U of Wisconsin, Milwaukee. Adsorption and Reactions of Gases on Solid Surfaces. $52,500 Jerome B. Keister, Melvyn R. Churchill, State U of New York, Buffalo. Reactions of Large Metal Carbonyl Clusters as Models for Metal SurfaceCatalyzed Processes. $35,000 James A. Dumesic, U of Wisconsin, Madison. Catalytic Properties of Supported Metal Particles Prepared via the Decomposition of Polynuclear Metal Clusters. $52,500 Mark A. Ratner, Northwestern U. Development and Application of a Generalized Rydberg-Klein-Rees Method for Obtaining Potential Surfaces from Vibrational Spectra. $35,000 Keith E. Gubbins, Cornell U. Adsorption and Monolayer Formation at the Fluid-Fluid Interface. $52,500 Nicholas C. Handy, U of Cambridge. Determination of Potential Energy Surfaces, Property Surfaces, and Transition Probabilities. $30,000 January 14, 1985 C&EN
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ACS News Bernard Shizgal, U of British Columbia. Kinetic Theory of Electron Swarms with Application to Gas Discharges and Plasma Chemistry. $35,000 George A. Petersson, Wesleyan U. Ab-initio De termination of Rate Constants and Dissociation Energies with Complete Basis Set Correlation Energies. $52,500 Ronald M. Levy, Rutgers U. Quantum Computer Simulations of Large Molecules. $52,500 Peter G. Wolynes, U of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign. Quantum Theory of the Electronic Structure of Liquids and Other Disordered Systems. $35,000 James T. Hynes, U of Colorado. Molecular Dy namics Simulations of Atom Transfers and SN2 Reactions in Solution. $52,500 Donald G. Baird, Virginia Polytechnic Institute & State U. Application of Flow Birefringence to the Analysis of the Hole and Exit Pressures for Poly mer Melts. $35,000 Gary Drobny, U of Washington. Proton Multiple Quantum NMR Studies of Liquid Crystal End Chains. $52,500 E. James Davis, U of Washington. Studies of Rate Processes by Optical Resonance Measurements. $52,500 Shaw-Horng Chen, U of Rochester. Tracer Diffusion in Dense Fluids Under Supercritical Separation Conditions. $35,000 Henry K. Hall Jr., U of Arizona. Addition-Elimination Mechanism for the Initiation of Cationic Poly merization: Novel Route to Macromonomers. $52,500
ACS-PRF Grants for Fundamental Research in the Petroleum Field (Type B) Robert J. Olsen, Wabash C. Fragmentation Reac tions of Trimethylene Sulfites. $15,000 Donald C. Berndt, Western Michigan U. Surfactant Catalysis and Mechanism. $15,000 Robert M. Carlson, U of Minnesota, Duluth. Lactone Synthesis via S-Stabilized " Y " Polyanions. $15,000 David W. Boykin, Georgia State U. 1 7 0 NMR Spec troscopy of Heterocyclic Systems. $15,000 Joseph R. Gandler, California State U, Fresno. Electronic Effects in Alkene-Forming Syn Elimi nations. $15,000 Lucjan Strekowski, Georgia State U. Investigations into the C/ne-Arylation of 5-Bromopyrimidines by Aryllithiums. $15,000 Michael E. Kurz, Illinois State U. Photolytic Aromatic Substitution Involving Electron Transfer. $15,000 Owen A. Moe Jr., Lebanon Valley C. Preparation and Evaluation of an Immobilized ATP Regeneration System Based on Polyphosphate Kinase. $15,000 Dale F. Shellhamer, Point Loma Nazarene C. Re action of Xenon Difluoride (XeF2) and lodobenzene Difluoride (C6H5IF2) with Unsaturated Hy drocarbons. $15,000 James E. Johnson, Texas Woman's U. Stereoelectronic Effects in the Reactions of Compounds Containing the Carbon-Nitrogen Double Bond. $15,000 Vladimir Katovic, Wright State U. Electrochemical Studies of Niobium and Tantalum Halides and Their Complexes in Nonaqueous Solvents. $15,000 Dev Raj Chopra, East Texas State U. Hydrogen Absorption in Rare Earth-Transition Metal Intermetallics. $15,000 Leonard J. SoHzberg, Simmons C. Phase Behavior and Ferroelectricity in Malononitrile. $15,000 76
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ACS-PRF Grants for Fundamental Research in the Petroleum Field (Type G) Eugene A. Mash Jr., U of Arizona. Protecting Groups in Asymmetric Synthesis: Uses for Chiral, Nonracemic Ketals. $15,000 Stephen L. Buchwald, Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Synthesis and Reactions of Transi tion-Metal Formaldehyde and Related Com pounds. $15,000 David Wenkert, North Texas State U. a-Acylazomethine Ylid Formation via 4-Oxazoline Valence Isomerization. $15,000 Robert D. Walkup, Texas Tech U. Novel Strategies for Heterocycle Syntheses Using Substituted Al iènes. $15,000 Craig E. Barnes, U of Tennessee. New Metallocyclobutane Complexes, Olefin Metathesis Modeling. $15,000 Ruth I. Kalamarides, Northern Illinois U. Hydrothermal and Heat Transport Study of the Kiglapait Intrusion by Use of Oxygen and Hydrogen Isotopes. $15,000 Paul McMillan, Arizona State U. Sulfur in Amphibiles? $15,000 Neil M. Ribe, Yale U. Experimental Study of Magma Segregation. $15,000 Kenneth R. Applin, U of Missouri, Columbia. Geochemical Investigation and Mineral Identification of Gain Coatings Observed in Quartzose Sandstones. $15,000 Larry F. Boyer, U of Wisconsin, Milwaukee. Porosity and Permeability of Sands by Remote Optical Fourier Transforms of Packing Geometry and Grain Size: Feasibility Studies. $15,000 Brad K. Smith, Arizona State U. Experimental Analysis of Pressure Solution in Quartz-Clay Sediments. $15,000 Karen R. Cercone, State U of New York, Stony Brook. Comparative Thermometry of Sedimentary Rocks Based on Organic Maturity, Fluid Inclusions, and Burial Analysis. $15,000 Michael J. Chetcuti, U of Notre Dame. Synthesis and Reactivity Studies of Alkyne Rich Mixed-Metal Complexes. $15,000 Daniel G. Nocera, Michigan State U. Photochemical Investigations of Rhodium and Iridium Fluorophosphine Hydride Complexes. $15,000 Koop Lammertsma, U of Alabama, Birmingham. σ-,π-Delocalization in Carbodications. $15,000
Jonathan L. Sessler, U of Texas, Austin. Models for Nonheme Proteins Containing Binuclear Diiron Centers: a Macrocyclic Approach. $15,000 David E. Richardson, U of Florida. Comparison of Thermal and Optical Intramolecular Electron Transfer in Mixed-Valence Complexes. $15,000 Joseph J. Grabowski, Harvard U. Gas-Phase IonMolecule Chemistry of Vinylidene Radical Anions. $15,000 Kenneth L. Busch, Indiana U. Chemical Enhance ment Procedures in Fast Atom Bombardment Mass Spectrometry. $15,000 Edwin F. Hilinski, Florida State U. Picosecond Spectroscopic Studies on Oxirane Photochem istry and the Mechanism of 1,3-Dipolar Cycload dition Reactions. $15,000 Michael Trenary, U of Illinois, Chicago. Spectro scopic Investigation of Chemisorbed Freely Ro tating Symmetric Top Molecules. $15,000 Steven M. George, Stanford U. Diffusion of Adsorbates on Single Crystal Surfaces Measured Using Laser-Induced Desorption. $15,000 Philip R. Watson, Oregon State U. Surface Chem istry of Olefin Polymerization Catalysts: New In sights into Ziegler-Natta Chemistry. $15,000 Otto J. Gregory, U of Rhode Island. Corrosion of Sputter-Coated Ceramics by Sodium- and Vana dium-Containing Fuels. $15,000 James F. Haw, Texas A&M U. Solid-State NMR In vestigation of the Structure and Reactivity of Phosphate Catalysts. $15,000 Stratis V. Sotirchos, U of Rochester. Experimental and Theoretical Studies on Mass Transport in Porous Solids. $15,000 Richard P. Rava, State U of New York, Binghamton. Probing Chemical Interactions at Surfaces Using Surface-Enhanced Raman Spectroscopy. $15,000 David Farrelly, U of California, Los Angeles. Theory of Few Body Problems in Chemical Physics. $15,000 R. J. Dwayne Miller, U of Rochester. Picosecond Studies of Electron Transfer at Semiconductor Liquid Junctions. $15,000 David J. Nesbitt, U of Colorado. State-Resolved Infrared Vibrational Dynamics of Supersonic Expansion Cooled Molecules. $15,000 Marc L. Mansfield, U of Maryland. Soliton Model of the Alpha Relaxation in Polymer Crystals. $15,000 John W. Zondlo, West Virginia U. Investigation of Supersolvent/Supercritical Antisolvent Interac tion. $15,000 Anthony D. J. Haymet, U of California, Berkeley. First-Order Phase Transitions in Liquid Crystals. $15,000 Philip S. Beauchamp II, California State Polytechnic U, Pomona. Synthesis of Cyclophanes Using the Intramolecular Diels-Alder Reaction. $15,000 Albert R. Matlin, Oberlin C. Synthesis and Study of Non-Kekulé Compounds. $15,000 Dave G. Seapy, Florida Institute of Technology. Investigation of Photochemical Mechanisms in Rigid Bridged Ring Systems: Intramolecular Excitation Transfer. $15,000 John W. Kenney III, Eastern New Mexico U. Spectroscopic and Chemical Probes of Superexchange Coupling in Binuclear Chromium(lll) Clusters. $15,000 Dale D. Swanson, Northern Arizona U. Electrical Field Flow Fractionation of High-Molecular-Weight Ionic Polymers. $15,000 Paul J. Gemperline, East Carolina U. Development of Factor Analysis with Linear Inequality and Its Application to Chromatographic Data. $15,000 Jane V. Zeile Krevor, San Francisco State U. Synthesis and Reactions of Pt2dppm2: a Model for Heterogeneous Catalysis. $15,000
Joseph F. McNutt, Northern Kentucky U. Collinear Quantum Mechanical Study of the O + CS2 Reaction. $15,000 Judith A. Halstead, Williams C. Investigation of the Effect of Heterogeneous Catalysis on the Oxidation of Sulfur Dioxide. $15,000 Mark T. Swanson, U of Southern Maine. Structure and Petrography of Mesozoic Dike Intrusions in Southern Coastal Maine. $15,000 Collette D. Burke, Wichita State U. Classification of Ostracoda and Paleoenvironments via Shape Analysis. $15,000 Brady P. Rhodes, Lafayette C. Comparison of Structural Styles and Metamorphism Across the Purcell Trench, Northern Idaho. $15,000
ACS-PRF Scientific Education Grants (SE) Darryl R. Fahey, on behalf of the ACS Division of Petroleum Chemistry. Symposium on Chemicals from Syngas and Methanol, ACS national meeting, Atlantic City, April 1986. $2550 James D. Navratil, on behalf of the Subdivision of Separations Science & Technology of the ACS Division of Industrial & Engineering Chemistry. First International Conference on Separations Science and Technology, ACS national meeting, Atlantic City, April 1986. $3400 Robert G. Laughiin, on behalf of the ACS Division of Colloid & Surface Chemistry. Symposium on Heterogeneous Equilibria in Surfactant Systems, ACS national meeting, Chicago, September 1985. $3400 John A. Gladysz, on behalf of the ACS Division of Inorganic Chemistry. Symposium on Stereoselective and Stereospecific Organometallic Reactions, ACS national meeting, Miami Beach, spring 1985. $3400 David R. McMillin, on behalf of the ACS Division of Chemical Education. State of the Art Symposium on Bioinorganic Chemistry, ACS national meeting, Miami Beach, spring 1985. $1700 J. Milton Harris, Samuel P. McManus, on behalf of the ACS Division of Organic Chemistry. Symposium on Nucleophilicity, ACS national meeting, Chicago, September 1985. $3400 John T. Groves, on behalf of the ACS Division of Inorganic Chemistry. Symposium on Oxygen Activation in Inorganic and Bioinorganic Systems, ACS national meeting, Miami Beach, spring 1985. $1696 Sow-Hsin Chen, on behalf of the ACS divisions of Colloid & Surface Chemistry and Physical Chemistry. Symposium on Statistical Thermodynamics of Micellar and Microemulsion Systems, ACS national meeting, Miami Beach, spring 1985. $3400 Cal Y. Meyers, on behalf of the ACS Midwest Regional Meeting. Symposium on Electron-Transfer Chemistry—an Interdisciplinary Review and Survey of Current Trends at Southern Illinois U, Carbondale, November 1985. $1700 M. Albert Vannice, on behalf of the ACS Division of Industrial & Engineering Chemistry. E. V. Murphree Award Symposium in Honor of Michel Boudart, ACS national meeting, Miami Beach, spring 1985. $1700 A. B. P. Lever, on behalf of the ACS Division of Inorganic Chemistry and Chemical Institute of Canada. Biennial Inorganic Chemical Symposium on the Chemistry of Excited States and Reactive Intermediates, York U, June 1985. $1700 Paul L. Dubin, on behalf of the ACS Division of Polymer Chemistry. Symposium on Polymeric Surfactants, ACS national meeting, Miami Beach, spring 1985. $3400 James P. Shoffner, on behalf of the Committee on Project SEED. Project SEED—Supplementary Program. $15,000
Rodney D. Farlee, on behalf of the Federation of Analytical Chemistry & Spectroscopy Society and the ACS Division of Analytical Chemistry. NMR Symposia, 12th FACSS Meeting, Philadelphia, fall 1985.$3400 James A. Davis, on behalf of the ACS Division of Geochemistry. Symposium on Chemical Reactions at the Mineral/Water Interface, ACS national meeting, Chicago, September 1985. $3400 Victor A. Snieckus, on behalf of the Heterocyclic Society and the U of Waterloo. Tenth International Congress of Heterocyclic Chemistry, U of Waterloo, August 1985. $3400 Brian H. Andreen, on behalf of the Council on Undergraduate Research. Research in Chemistry at Undergraduate Institutions—a Directory of Research by Faculty in Undergraduate Departments. $5000 Samuel J. Tauster, on behalf of the ACS divisions of Petroleum Chemistry and Industrial & Engineering Chemistry. Symposium on Metal-Support Interactions, ACS national meeting, Miami Beach, spring 1985. $3400 Albert F. Yee, on behalf of the ACS divisions of Polymer Chemistry and Polymeric Materials Science & Engineering. Symposium on Nonlinear Deformation, Fracture, and Fatigue of Polymeric Materials, ACS national meeting, Chicago, September 1985.$2550
ACS-PRF Supplemental Grants for Summer Faculty Research Fellowships William M. Jones, U of Florida. Transitional Metal Analogs of Novel Cyclic Conjugated Organic Molecules. $4000 Grant A. Krafft, Syracuse U. Cleavable Thianes in Acyclic Control and Macrocycle Formation. $4000 Gary H. Posner, Johns Hopkins U. Novel Carbocycle Syntheses. $4000 Philip M. Keehn, Brandeis U. Substituent Modification in Tri-o-thymotide and Its Effect on Host Geometry and Guest Enclathration. Synthesis, Host-Guest Complexation, and Crystal and Molecular Structural Studies. $4000 Russell P. Hughes, Dartmouth C. Organometallic Compounds with Perfluorinated Ligands. $4000 John E. McMurry, Cornell U. Synthesis and Study of an in.out-Bicycloalkane. $4000 Donna J. Nelson, U of Oklahoma. Systematic Study of Steric and Electronic Effects upon Some Reactions of Organoboranes. $4000 Kenneth B. Lipkowitz, Indiana U-Purdue U, Indianapolis. Parameterization of the AHinger Force Field To Study Carbanions and DNA. $4000 Ronald L. Christensen, Bowdoin C. Optical Studies of Simple, Linear Polyenes. $4000 Richard A. Bunce, Oklahoma State U. Synthesis and Physical Properties of [3.3.3] 1,3,5-Heterocyclophanes. $4000 Richard F. Jordan, Washington State U. Electrophilic Addition Reactions of Transition Metal Hydride Complexes. $4000 Alfons L. Baumstark, Georgia State U. Conformational and Steric Effects on the Activation Parameters of the Thermolysis of Alkyl 1,2-Dioxetanes. $4000 Gregory M. Williams, U of California, Irvine. Oxidation State Control of Organonickel Coupling Reactions. $4000 Harry M. Walborsky, Florida State U. Reaction of Low-Valent Titanium with Nonvicinal Glycols. $4000 William E. Fristad, U of Minnesota. Metal-Mediated Difunctionalization of Alkenes. $4000
Jack Saltiel, Florida State U. Triplet-Triplet Annihilation Pathway to Arene Photocycloaddition. $4000 Robert A. Holton, Virginia Polytechnic Institute & State U. Synthesis of Salutaridine and Galanthamine. $4000 Gary J. Long, U of Missouri, Rolla. Mossbauer Effect Study of Organometallic Clusters and Derived Catalysts. $4000 Anselm C. Griffin III, U of Southern Mississippi. Structure-Property Relations in Liquid Crystalline Polymers. $4000 John P. Oliver, Wayne State U. X-Ray Structural and 13 C NMR Study of Aluminum Derivatives. $4000 Alfred B. Anderson, Case Western Reserve U. Trends and Variations in Bonding at Transition Metal Surfaces. $4000 Julian A. Davies, U of Toledo. Electrochemically Generated Electrophilic and Nucleophilic Transition Metal Complexes. $4000 Kenton H. Whitmire, Rice U. Investigation of Metal Cluster Alkyl, Alkylidene, and Alkylidyne Complexes. $4000 Karen E. Wetterhahn, Dartmouth C. Chromium-Thiol Interaction. $4000 Shashi B. Lalvani, Southern Illinois U. Anodic Depolarization of Pyrite Slurries. $4000 John H. Nelson, U of Nevada, Reno. Coordination Chemistry of Unusual Phosphines—Towards Homogeneous Catalysis. $4000 Ellen D. Williams, U of Maryland. Study of Adsorbate Interactions Using a Scanning Tunneling Microscope. $4000 John C. Bailar Jr., U of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign. "Classical" Walden Inversion in a Reaction of an Inorganic Complex. $4000 Mark Keil, U of Alberta. Energy Disposal in the Photodissociation of van der Waals Molecules. $4000 Peter Pulay, U of Arkansas. Techniques for the Determination of Molecular Potential Surfaces. $4000 Bruce E. Koel, U of Colorado. Vibrational Studies of Hydrocarbons Adsorbed on Bimetallic Single Crystal Surfaces. $4000 Richard L. Lintvedt, Wayne State U. Polynuclear Metal Complexes as Redox Catalysts for Small Molecules. $4000 Kenneth J. Takeuchi, State U of New York, Buffalo. Study of Ruthenium-oxo Macrocyclic Complexes as Oxidation Catalysts Towards Organic Substrates. $4000 Harry O. Finklea, Virginia Polytechnic Institute & State U. Electrodes Coated with Oriented Monolayers. $4000 Rabindra N. Roy, Drury C. Thermodynamic Study of Aqueous Solutions. $4000 Gary L. Gard, Portland State U. Chemistry of Oxidizing Chromium Compounds—Chromyl Compounds and Their Derivatives. $4000 Laurence A. Belfiore, Colorado State U. Mixing Effects and Thermodynamic Interactions in Multicomponent Polymer Systems. $4000 James P. Cowin, U of California, Santa Barbara. Fischer-Tropsch Catalysis: Mechanistic Studies Through Production of Proposed Intermediates. $4000 Philip W. Signor III, U of California, Davis. Evolutionary and Biostratigraphic Implications of the Pretrilobite Shelly Fauna of the Southern Great Basin. $4000 Emanuel G. Bombolakis, Boston C. Analysis of Tectonic Ramps. $4000 James A. Kittrick, Philip E. Rosenberg, Washington State U. Illite: Composition, Stability, and Relationship to Muscovite and Phengite. $4000 January 14, 1985 C&EN
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ACS-PRF Supplemental Grants for Summer Student Research Fellowships Frederick J. Heldrich, C of Charleston. Investigation into the 1,3-Diaza [3,3] Sigmatropic Rear rangement. $2000 Drury S. Caine III, U of Alabama. Retroaldol Reac tions of Monocyclic β-Hydroxy-a-Phenylsulfenyl (and cx-Phenylsulfinyl) Ketones. $2000 Stuart M. Rosenfeld, Smith C. Synthesis and Study of [n](9,10) Anthracenophanes. $2000 Madeleine M. Joullié, U of Pennsylvania. Investigations of Naturally Occurring Peptides Containing Proline and Hydroxy proline Derivatives. $2000 Paul B. Hopkins, U of Washington. Synthesis of Acyclic Stereocenters Through Carbanion-Promoted Epoxide Scission. $2000 Thomas H. Morton, U of California, Riverside. Neutral Products from Reactions of Ions in the Gas Phase. $2000 James M. Takacs, U of Utah. Transition Metal-Catalyzed [4 + 2] Cycloadditions. $2000 John R. Bleeke, Washington U. Synthesis and Reactivity of Transition Metal-Phosphine Complexes Possessing Multihapto Acyclic Hydrocarbon Ligands. $2000 Neil T. Allison, U of Arkansas. Synthesis and Chemistry of Six-Membered Carbene-Alkyl Transition Metallacycles. $2000 David W. Macomber, Kansas State U. Formation of Five-Membered Ring Systems Using Transition Metal Carbene Complexes. $2000 Bruce P. Branchaud, U of Oregon. Free Radical Approaches to Cyclopentannulation. $2000 Mark A. Arnold, U of Iowa. Optical Fiber-Biosensors. $2000 Paul G. Gassman, U of Minnesota. Reaction of Strained Heterocyclics with Trimethylsilyl Cyanide. $2000 John P. Selegue, U of Kentucky. Heteronuclear Transition Metal Clusters. $2000 MHsuru Kubota, Harvey Mudd C. Bimetallic Mediated Organometallic Reactions. $2000 Joseph A. Gardella Jr., State U of New York, Buffalo. Characterization of the Surface Molecular Structure of Ordered Macromolecules by Static Secondary Ion Mass Spectrometry. $2000 Richard R. Durand Jr., U of Rhode Island. Mechanistic Aspects of the Electrocatalytic Reduction of Carbon Dioxide. $2000 Charles D. Schaeffer Jr., Elizabethtown C. Dimethylphosphaneborane Chemistry. $2000
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Michael A. Duncan, U of Georgia. Chemical Reactions of Transition Metal Clusters. $2000 Cynthia J. Burrows, State U of New York, Stony Brook. Regioselective Oxidation of MacrocycleBound Substrates. $2000 Brenda R. Shaw, U of Connecticut. Electrocatalytic Hydrogénation of Ethylene Using Polymer-Attached Metal-Phosphine Catalysts. $2000 James N. Demas, U of Virginia. Structure of Transition Metal Complexes in Organized Media. $2000 Michael W. Babich, Florida Institute of Technology. Mechanistic Study of Solid-Phase Deaquation Reactions. $2000 Luther E. Erickson, Grinnell C. Structural, Equilibrium, and Kinetic Studies of Platinum Complexes. $2000 Jack R. Pladziewicz, U of Wisconsin, Eau Claire. Rates of Electron-Transfer Reactions of Superoxide Anion in Aprotic Solvents. $2000 George D. Blyholder, U of Arkansas. Modeling Catalytic Reactions. $2000 Frederick W. King, U of Wisconsin, Eau Claire. Constrained Variational Calculations. $2000 Gregory Lynn Geoffroy, Pennsylvania State U. Photochemistry of Carbene, Carbyne, and Vinylidene Complexes. $2000 William M. Shirley, Wichita State U. Characterization of Supported Transition Metal Carbonyls. $2000 Stephen A. Macko, Memorial U of Newfoundland. Nitrogen Isotopic Composition and Chemical Nature of Petroleum. $2000
Directory of small chemical businesses A trade directory of small chemical businesses is now available, featuring descriptions of 270 of them and a compendium of the products and services they offer. The directory is limited to companies related to the ACS Division of Small Chemical Businesses, which has just completed its fourth year as a permanent division of ACS and which has nearly 1000 members and affiliates. Besides company descriptions, the directory lists 169 categories of services and products, indicating the providers of each. It also has a divisional roster with 870 names and addresses. Copies may be ordered from: DSChB Directory, Box 14373, Columbus, Ohio 43214. Price is $4.00 to ACS members and $10 to nonmembers (including affiliates), postpaid. D
Schools subscribing to CA eligible for grants Colleges and universities that subscribe to Chemical Abstracts are now eligible for ACS grants covering 90% of the cost of searching Chemical Abstracts Service's CAS Online service during off-peak hours. The 90% grant program, which became effective Jan. 1, applies to all hourly charges, search fees, on-line display costs, and telecommunications charges for searches performed weekdays between 5 PM and 8 AM U.S. eastern time, and Saturdays between 8 AM and 1 PM U.S. eastern time. To participate, colleges and universities must establish a deposit account of at least $200 with CAS. CAS Online usage fees will be calculated at the standard CA subscriber rates, but an ACS grant will be applied to 90% of the fees, and only 10% of the calculated charges will be deducted from the deposit account. The new academic grants replace a program that had been in effect since 1983, under which colleges and universities were allowed unlimited searching of CAS Online outside of peak hours for a fixed monthly fee of $500. This plan proved unworkable when searching by a relatively few
participants overloaded the system and degraded service during certain hours. Smaller schools also had complained that the $500 monthly fee was either more than they could afford or too much for the amount of service they wished to use. "Our intention is to encourage the use of CAS Online for educational purposes by providing very-low-cost service to colleges and universities from the system's surplus capacity outside of peak usage hours," CAS marketing director Ronald G. Dunn says. "It became obvious that we could not possibly accommodate all of the colleges and universities that wanted to participate under the fixed monthly fee program. We hope that charging according to use, even at a small fraction of the normal rates, will induce the larger institutions to place some reasonable limits on their searching and use the system efficiently while also enabling smaller institutions to participate." Colleges and universities who already have contracted for CAS Online use under the $500-per-month plan may choose to continue under that plan until their contract expires or change to the new program. D
