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1969 ACS-PRF fellowships for graduate education, fundamental research Graduate fellow
Last PRF fellowships awarded The last of the American Chemical Society-Petroleum Research Fund Fellowships for Graduate Education and Fundamental Research have been approved by the ACS Board Committee on Grants and Fellowships. A year ago the Board of Directors authorized a $1 million program of ACS-PRF graduate fellowships to assist ongoing research projects which meet PRF requirements but which are suffering from reductions in outside support due to recent changes in research funding patterns. The $1 million has provided one-year fellowships of $5000 each for 200 graduate students entering their terminal year of Ph.D. study. Last September 113 ACS-PRF graduate fellowships were authorized (C&EN, Oct. 14, 1968, page 60). The second and final round of 87 fellowships listed below was selected from about four times as many applicants on the basis of both the nature of the research under way and the special needs of the graduate student. During the two-year term of this special program, advanced graduate students in the several branches of chemistry, chemical engineering, and the earth sciences in nearly 100 graduate institutions have been assisted in completing their Ph.D. research programs.
Nominations for PresidentElect needed by July 15 The ACS Committee on Nominations and Elections is seeking the help of Society members in developing a slate of proposed nominees for the office of ACS President-Elect for 1971. At its meeting in September in New York City, the committee will select four nominees for ACS PresidentElect, and the Council will nominate two from this slate during its 1970 spring meeting. Election by the membership will occur at the usual time (fall 1970).
Principal investigator
Institution
Jerry H. Smith F. M. Menger Emory University A Study of Catalysis in Addition, Elimination, and Isomerization Reactions Robert J. Capwell Foil A. Miller U. of Pittsburgh Vibrational Spectra of Cyclobutane and its —F8, —C/8, and ~(OH)8 Derivatives Thomas J. Trey James J. Carberry U. of Notre Dame Mechanism of Oxidation Catalysis by Supported Transition Metals Raymond S. Knorr K. F. O'Driscoll SUNY at Buffalo Multicomponent Polymerization James Fargher John H. Hall Southern Illinois U. Spectral Properties of Triplet Nitrenes Show Y. Hsieh James W. Johnson U. of Missouri, Rolla Electrochemical Reduction of Maleic Acid Ronald S. Csuha John Happel New York U. Rate Expressions in Heterogeneous Catalysis Georgia Inst, of Tech. John L. Carden Robert A. Pierotti The Interaction of Gases with Metal Single Crystals David Telefus Fausto Ramirez SUNY at Stony Brook New Syntheses of Heterocyclic Compounds by means of the Oxyphosphorane Condensation James O. Currie, Jr. Arthur G. Anderson, Jr. U. of Washington /. Study of Azulylmethyltriphenylphosphonium Salts and Their Wittig Reagents. II. Studies on Synthesis of the lt2-Dihydro-lt2-diazete Structure. Elizabeth A. Williams Paul G. Gassman Ohio State U. The Participation of Neighboring Bent Bonds on Carbonium Ion Stability Salvatore J. Pace Daniel J. Macero Syracuse U. A.C. Polarograph'ic Study of Charge-Transfer Processes for Stable Transition Metal Complexes John Charkoudian Raymond E. Dessy Virginia Poly Infrared and Mossbauer Spectroscopy of Organometallic Radical Anions Guy W. Inman, Jr. William E. Hatfield U. of North Carolina Spectroscopy and Magnetism of Halo Complexes Joel B. Lantz Richard D. Gonzales U. of Rhode Island Differential Heats of Adsorption vs. Crystallite Size for Supported Metal Catalysts Sheng Y. Tang E. E. Muschlitz, Jr. U. of Florida Ionization of Hydrocarbon Gases on Impact of Metastable Atoms Brown U. Mayo Cabell, Jr. Joseph Ciabattoni Synthetic Approaches to Azacyclopropenyl Systems Yeh Mei Chow Doyle Britton U. of Minnesota Structural Studies of Donor-Acceptor Interactions Northwestern U, Donald Barry Robert L. Burwell, Jr. Hydrogénation of Free Radicals Northwestern U. David P. Keeton Fred Basolo Reactions of Manganese Nitrosyl Tetracarbonyl U. of California, Berkeley Bruce R. Howarth Edward A. Grens, II Modal Control of Chemical Processes with Restricted Observation and Manipulation H. H. Hsieh James G. Traynham Louisiana State U. cis, trans-l,5-Cyc/ocfecad/ene as a Probe of Addition Reaction Mechanisms S. Richard Turner George B. Butler U. of Florida Chemical Studies Related to Synthesis of Triple-Strand Polymers Seymour L. Ross Rane L. Curl U. of Michigan Breakage and Coalescence Processes in Stirred Dispersions Clide Hu Ronald R. Sauers Rutgers U. Photochemistry of Bridgehead Substituted Acetone Derivatives Anthony N. Fuex Donald R. Baker Rice U. Stable Carbon Isotopes in Igneous Rocks City U.f New York Richard V. Flor Leonard H. Schwartz UAiHt Reduction of Phenacyl Halides Wayne State U. Lewis J. Radonovich Milton D. Glick Structural Studies of Rare Earth Complexes St. Louis U. Robert G. Bischof Gerald R. Feistel Ring Flexibility in Phosphonitriles and the Importance of dw-ρπ Interaction in Conformational Stability
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The committee asks ACS members to send suggestions to Harry E. Whitmore, Secretary, 203 Oak St., Ridgewood, N.J. 07450. Your suggestions must be received no later than July 15. Your role in this program is to be certain that those genuinely qualified are suggested. Send your proposals now to Mr. Whitmore. No statement of reasons for your proposal is required—just names and addresses of competent members. Last spring the Council nominated Dr. Melvin Calvin and Dr. John C. Sheehan candidates for 1970 President-Elect (C&EN, April 28, page 53). The membership will elect one of them by mail ballot this fall.
Members named for ad hoc program review committee Jack A. Carr, a councilor for the Division of Rubber Chemistry, has been appointed by ACS President Wallace R. Brode as chairman of the ad hoc Council Committee on Program Review. Other members of the committee, which will evaluate various duessupported activiCarr ties of the Society on a continuing basis, are: Dr. W. A. Baker, Jr., Syracuse Section; Dr. Paul N. Craig, Philadelphia Section; Dr. John T. Funkhouser, Division of Analytical Chemistry; Dr. Herbert S. Gutowsky, University of Illinois Section; Dr. Eugene V. Kleber, Southern California Section; Dr. William A. Mosher, Board of Directors; Dr. Elliot S. Pierce, Division of Nuclear Chemistry and Technology; Dr. Robert I. Stirton, Division of Chemical Marketing and Economics and chairman of the Divisional Officers Group; Dr. Donald L. Swanson, Western Connecticut Section; Dr. A. G. Whitney, Division of Chemical Marketing and Economics; and Dr. Gary A. Zimmerman, Puget Sound Section. Boris E. Cherney, ACS Controller, is staff liaison to the committee. The new ad hoc committee will study, analyze, and make recommendations to the Council on Society policy and staff implementation of policy in programs supported by membership dues, including the cost, effectiveness, and termination of programs. Establishment of a mechanism for continuing review of dues-supported Society programs was recommended to the Council at its April meeting in Minneapolis by the Joint Board62 C&EN JUNE 23, 1969
Graduate fellow
Principal Investigator
Institution
William Dowd V. J. Shiner, Jr. Indiana U. So/vo/ys/s of Propargyl Derivatives William J. Trotter Anthony C. Testa St. John's U. Photochemical Processes in Aromatic Nitro Compounds SUNY at Stony Brook Daniel J. Ehntholt Robert C. Kerber Transition Metal Complexes of Heptafulvene U. of Massachusetts Charles J. Hora Robert R. Holmes Spectroscopy of Metal and Nonmetal Fluoride-Hydrogen Fluoride Systems William Kwalwasser Myron Rosenblum Brandeis U. The Chemistry of l,3t4-Oxadiazine-2-ones Donald L. Johnston William DeW. Horrocks, Pennsylvania State U. Jr. Nuclear Magnetic Resonance of Paramagnetic Complexes Charles W. Weston Hans B. Jonassen Tulane U. The Reaction of Transition Metal Phosphine-Phosphide Complexes with Organohalides John Y. Morimoto Morton Z. Hoffman Boston U. Mercury Photosensitization of Liquid Water, Methanol, and Water-Methanol Mixtures Raymond C. Roy Richard A. Palmer Duke U. ir-Bonding in Trigonal Copper Complexes Gene Wampfler O. L. Chapman Iowa State U. Mechanistic Photochemistry of Unsaturated Ketones Vincent D. McGinnis Lee B. Jones U. of Arizona Electronic Effects of Cyclopropyl Substituents in Excited Electronic States Wah-Hun Wong Y. Pocker U. of Washington Electrophilic Catalysis: Reactions of Alkyl Halides with Silver Salts John Berschied K. F. Pureed Kansas State U. The Structure and Reactivity of Trihydrocyanoborate Ion John G. Kunesh Howard Brenner Carnegie-Mellon U. Hydrodynamic Drag Measurement of Nonspherical Particles Gary J. Calton R. D. Stipanovic Texas A&M U. Synthetic Applications of Some Internal Michael Condensations Robert J. Dinerstein John F. W. Keana U. of Oregon New Stable Nitroxide Chemistry E. P. Wesseler Earl T. McBee Purdue U. Investigation of the Ortho-Haloalkylation of Substituted Nitrobenzenes Gerald A. Marano Alan G. MacDiarmid U. of Pennsylvania The Role of Compounds Containing a Silicon-Mercury Bond in Producing Silicon Analogs of Dichlorocarbene Terence E. Needham Russell S. Drago U. of Illinois Hydrogen Bonding Studies of Acid-Base Adducts David A. Matthews Galen Stucky U. of Illinois Electron Distributions and Thermal Motions in Tetracyano-ethylene Oxide Lawrence H. Marcus Charles H. Van Dyke Carnegie-Mellon U. New Reactions of Alkali Metal Derivatives of the Lower Group IV Hydrides Harold D. Spriggs, Jr. John L. Gainer U. of Virginia Factors Affecting Membrane Separation Shivaji Sircar Alan L. Myers U. of Pennsylvania The Adsorption of Liquid Mixtures of Hydrocarbons on Solids Howard J. Weinstein William A. Klemperer Harvard U. Optical Double Resonance Studies of Diatomic Molecules U. of Minnesota Richard M. Minday Lanny D. Schmidt Free Electrons in Liquid Hydrocarbons California Inst, of Joseph F. Karnicky Cornelius J. Pings Technology Experimental Study of Intermoiecular Forces Between Simple Molecules by X-Ray Diffraction U. of Wisconsin W. T. Vyn J. Ray Bowen Cylindrically Expanding Ignition Zones Patrick D. McDonald Gordon A. Hamilton On the Mechanism of Oxidative Coupling Reactions James A. Kaufman Stephen J. Weininger
Pennsylvania State U.
Worcester Polytechnic Institute Photolysis of Diethyl Diazomalonate-Thiobenzophenone Mixtures Table continues on page 64
