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New ACS-PRF grants approved The ACS Board of Directors approved 113 new ACS-PRF grants for a total commitment of $2,063,873 at its meeting on Dec. 3, 1978. These grants were selected by the PRF Advisory Board in November from a total of 320 research proposals and 18 proposals for ACS-PRF Special Educational Opportunities Grants. The ACS Board also authorized a record $6 million for commitment for grants in 1978-79. The P R F Advisory Board will recommend grants from this appropriation again in February and May 1979. Full information and application material for all ACS-PRF grant programs may be obtained from the Petroleum Research Fund, American Chemical Society, 1155—16th St., N.W., Washington, D.C. 20036; telephone (202) 872-4481. ACS-PRF Grants for Fundamental Research in the Petroleum Field (Type AC) Philip M. Johnson, State U of New York, Stony Brook. Multibeam Ionization Spectroscopy. $30,000 Frederick D. Lewis, Tobin J. Marks, Northwestern U. Transition-Metal-Initiated Cationic Photopolymerization. $30,000 Robert V. Hoffman, New Mexico State U. Chemistry of Sulfonyl Peroxides. $30,000 Paul W. Brumer, U of Toronto. Chemical Reactions: Statistical Behavior, Time Delay, and Collision Complex Dynamics. $29,000 Roy Jackson, U of Houston. Theory of Transport in Porous Catalysts. $24,785 Otto Vogl, U of Massachusetts. Head to Head Polymers. $30,000 J. Christopher Dalton, Bowling Green State U. Photochemistry of Acyl Silanes. $30,000 W. Nicholas Delgass, Purdue U. Chemical Reaction Kinetics by Dynamic Mass Analysis. $30,000 Paul J. Kropp, U of North Carolina, Chapel Hill. Photochemistry of Alkenes. $30,000 Donald H. Levy, U of Chicago. Laser Spectroscopy of Porphyrins in Supersonic Jets. $45,000 William J. Evans, U of Chicago. Interaction of Lanthanide Metals with Organic Derivatives of the Main Group V Elements. $30,000 Lewis J. Fetters, U of Akron. Synthesis and Dilute Solution and Rheological Behavior of Model Star Branched Polymers. $30,000 John K. Stille, Colorado State U. Palladium-Catalyzed Allyl Cross-Coupling Reactions. $30,000 Peter M. Sheehan, U of Wisconsin, Milwaukee. Brachiopod Synecology at the Ordovician-Silurian Boundary—Paleoecology of Faunas in Changing Environments. $28,898 Duward F. Shriver, Northwestern U. Low-Temperature Vibrational Spectroscopy of Ligand-Bridged Metal Complexes: Spin State Equilibria, Structures and Vibrational Damping. $30,000 David M. Mohilner, Colorado State U. Electrosorption of Organic Molecules at the Metal-Solution Interface. $30,000 Franklin A. Davis, Drexel U. Chemistry of Sulfenic Acids. $30,000
Sturges W. Bailey, U of Wisconsin, Madison. Cation Ordering in Layer Silicate Minerals. $30,000 Richard L. Lintvedt, Wayne State U. Continuing Study of the Reactivity of Polynuclear Metal Centers, Polynuclear Transition Metal Complexes as Homogeneous Catalysts. $30,000 Stephen R. Wilson, Indiana U. Synthetic Application of Alkoxide-lnduced (1,3)-Shifts. $30,000 Raymond Kapral, U of Toronto. Kinetic Theory of Chemical Reactions in Liquids. $29,000 Erich Weigold, Flinders U of South Australia. Electron Momentum Distributions and Binding Energies of Molecules Measured by Electron Coincidence Spectroscopy. $17,000 Robert A. Holwerda, Texas Tech U. Studies of Induced Electron Transfer Reactions. $30,000 W. Edward Billups, Rice U. Synthesis and Chemistry of Methylenecyclopropene. $40,000 Leon Mandell, Emory U. Applications of Electrochemistry to Organic Chemistry. $30,000 Malcolm H. Chisholm, Indiana U. Reaction Schemes for Dimolybdenum and Ditungsten Compounds (M=M). $30,000 Stanley Smith, U of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign. Kinetics and Mechanism of Fast Organic Reactions. $30,000 George A. Eadon, State U of New York, Albany. Conformations of Fragmenting Ions. $30,000 Roger A Schmitz, U of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign. Gradientless Contactor for Gas-Liquid Reactions. $30,000 John S. Dahler, U of Minnesota. Theoretical Investigation of Interfacial Dynamics. $45,000 Linda J. Magid, U of Tennessee. Carbon-13 Nuclear Magnetic Relaxation in Microemulsions: Elucidation of Hydrocarbon Chain Dynamics. $30,000 Clifford C. Leznoff, York U. Synthesis of Unsymmetrical Porphyrins on Solid Phases. $26,000 Steven L. Bernasek, Princeton U. Internal State Effects in Heterogeneous Reaction Dynamics. $30,000 Richard Eisenberg, U of Rochester. Binuclear Complexes of the Platinum Metals. Synthesis, Chemistry, and Catalytic Properties. $30,000 Haskell Taub, U of Missouri, Columbia. Neutron Scattering Study of the Structure and Dynamics of Adsorbed Hydrocarbons. $30,000 Michael F. Rettig, Richard M. Wing, U of California, Riverside. Structural and Chemical Aspects of Halopalladation. $30,000 Peter P. Wegener, Yale U. Experimental and Theoretical Study of Heteromolecular Nucleation of Vapors in the Atmosphere. $30,000 John C. Bailar Jr., U of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign. Selective Reactions of Polyunsaturated Organic Molecules as Affected by Transition Metal Catalysts. $30,000 Allan Cox, Stanford U. Paleomagnetism and Tectonics of Basin Formation. $36,862 Géraldine A. Kenney-Wallace, U of Toronto. Picesecond Laser Spectroscopy of Molecular Dynamics in Liquids. $29,000 Martin T. Vala Jr., U of Florida. Triplet-Triplet Absorption Studies of Organic Molecules in the Infrared Region. $24,000 Harry D. Gafney, City U of New York, Queens Coll. Study of Excited-State Electron-Transfer Reaction Within Glass Matrices. $28,000 Thomas A. Spencer, Dartmouth Coll. Novel Annulation Methods. $30,000
ACS-PRF Grants for Fundamental Research in the Petroleum Field (Type B) John H. Forsberg, Vinzent Spaziano, St. Louis U. Lanthanide(lll) Ion Catalysts. $13,000 Mitsuru Kubota, Harvey Mudd Coll. Intermediates in Homogeneous Catalysts. $13,000 Manchery P. Menon, Savannah State Coll. Rare-Earth Fluoride Solubilities. $12,920 Herbert W. Jones, Florida A&M U. STO Molecular Integrals. $13,000 Patrick A. Wegner, California State U, Fullerton. Reactivity of Bimetallic Complexes of Linked Bis (cyclopentadiene) Ligands. $13,000 Markes E. Johnson, Williams Coll. Paleobathymetry of Mid-Continental Silurian Strata. $12,900 Howard D. Perlmutter, David S. Kristol, New Jersey Institute of Technology. Steric Effects in Bi- and Tricyclic Compounds. $13,000 Timothy B. Patrick, Southern Illinois U, Edwardsville. Natural Bithienyl Acetylenes. $13,000 Melvyn D. Schiavelli, Coll. of William and Mary. Nucleophilic Substitution and Nucleophilic Addition Reactions of Di- and Mono-Substituted Allenyl-X Compounds: Isotope Effects on Polarimetric and Titrimetric Rates of Substitution. $13,000 Lance Funderburk, Washington and Jefferson Coll. Mechanism of Alcohol Dehydration. $13,000 Kenneth M. Harmon, Oakland U. Strongly Hydrogen Bonded Complex Anions. $13,000 Richard F. Smith, State U of New York, Coll. at Geneseo. Amidrazone Ylide Studies—Continuation. $13,000 I. David Reingold, Haverford Coll. Synthesis of Longicycloaromatic Compounds. $13,000 Charles F. Beam Jr., Newberry Coll. Novel Syntheses with Reactive Polymetalated Intermediates. $13,000
ACS-PRF Grants for Fundamental Research in the Petroleum Field (Type G) Thomas B. Rauchfuss, U of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign. Design and Synthesis of Ligands for Homogeneous Catalysts. $10,000 J. Richard Jones, Boston State Coll. Geomorphic Reconstruction of Early Holocene Coastal Environments Through the Use of Pollen Analysis. $10,000 James V. Staros, Vanderbilt U. Photoaffinity Probes of Noncatalytic Peptide Receptors in Escherichia coli Membranes. $10,000 Matthew S. Platz, Ohio State U. Rearrangements of Triplet States. $10,000 Myung-Hwan Whangbo, North Carolina State U. Theoretical Study of Structure, Bonding, and Reactivity of Crystalline Polymers. $10,000 Kelsey D. Cook, U of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign. Sensitivity Enhancement in Photometric Determination of Micellar Systems. $10,000 Charles A. Langhoff, Illinois Institute of Technology. Picoseond Study of a Simple Chemical Reaction in Liquids. $10,000 Allan S. Myerson, U of Dayton. Diffusion in Supersaturated Solutions. $10,000 Donald J. DePaolo, U of California, Los Angeles. Applications of Nd Isotope Geochemistry to Paleogeography and the Study of Continental Growth. $10,000
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Tohru Fukuyama, Rice U. Synthetic Approach to an Antibiotic 593A. $10,000 David J. Hart, Ohio State U. Rapid Three-Carbon An nexions. $10,000 James P. Avery, U of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign. Development of Advanced Techniques for Reac tion-Rate Data Acquisition and Analysis. $10,000 David R. Williams, Case Western Reserve U. Inves tigations of Transition-Metal Catalysis for Intramo lecular Co-Oligomerizations. $10,000 James D. Satterlee, Northern Illinois U. Spectroscopic Investigations of Metal Complexes with Biological Relevance. $10,000 Kenneth S. Suslick, U of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign. Ultrasonic Initiation of Homogeneous Catalysis. $10,000 Alexander J. Bridges, Northern Illinois U. Use of Allenic Dienophiles in the Stereocontrolled Total Synthesis of Natural Products. $10,000 James A. McCammon, U of Houston. Structure and Dynamics of Biopolymers. $10,000 Mary J. Wirth, U of Wisconsin, Madison. Analytical Capabilities of Vibrational Relaxation Spectroscopy. $10,000 Leverett R. Smith, Oberlin Coll. Hydride-Transfer Redox Reactions Involving Aldimines and Ketimines. $10,000 Thomas C. Strekas, City U of New York, Queens Coll. Relation of Axial Ligation to Redox Properties of Cytochromes. $10,000 Shaul Mukamel, Rice U. Molecular Dynamics in the Presence of Strong Laser Fields. $10,000 Gerald J. Diebold, Brown U. Experimental Study of Translational Energy and Orientation Effects in Vi bration to Electronic Energy. $10,000 William G. Madden, Dartmouth Coll. Water-Water Potentials in Condensed Phases. $10,000 Paul C. Engelking, U of Oregon. Laser Spectroscopy of Radicals in Flowing Afterglow. $10,000 Steward E. Novick, Wesleyan U. Study of the Inter action Between Small Molecules and Metal Clus ters: a Model for Catalysis. $10,000 Syed M. Taher, Wichita State U. Magnetic and Shottky Effects in Rare-Earth Sesquisulfides. $10,000 Gerald D. Holder, Columbia U. Dissociative Heat Transfer in Clathrate Hydrates. $10,000
A. A. Ponaras, U of Maryland, Baltimore County, aAllyloxyenone Claisen Rearrangement and Its Ap plication to the Synthesis of Aphidicolin. $10,000 Kent R. Mann, U of Minnesota. Photochemical Gen eration of Species with Multiple Open Coordination Sites. $10,000 Lawrence R. Pratt, U of California, Berkeley. Theory of Molecular Liquids, Nonuniform Liquids, and Phase Transitions. $10,000 Joseph A. Topich, Virginia Commonwealth U. New Molybdenum Coordination Complexes and Their Role in "Oxidase" Type Reactions. $10,000 William R. Cherry, West Virginia U. Photochemistry of Electron Donor-Acceptor Complexes. $10,000 Kenneth C. Janda, California Institute of Technology. Spectroscopic Study of Metastable Species. $10,000 Kevin Peters, Harvard U. Dynamics of Trimethylenemethane Determined by Picosecond Raman Spectroscopy. $10,000 Harold E. Van Wart, Florida State U. Resonance Raman Probes of Enzyme Active Sites. $10,000 Maurice R. Eftink, U of Mississippi. Effect of Cosolutes on the Thermodynamics of Micelle Formation. $10,000 Daniel W. Armstrong, Bowdoin Coll. Phase Transfer Catalysis. $10,000 Arthur E. Johnson, U of Oklahoma. Coupling of Macromolecular Conformational Changes with Exergonic Chemical Reactions. $10,000 Arthur T. Poulos, Rutgers U. Search for Photo-Induced Hydrogen Transfer Reactions of Organometallic Compounds. $10,000 Larry M. Wier, Union Coll. Electrochemical Investi gation of Catecholamines Covalently Bound to Metal Oxide Electrodes. $10,000 Stephen A. Godleski, U of Rochester. General Syn thesis of Spirocyclics, and Study of Metal-Stabilized Anti-Bredt Olefins. $10,000 Bruce A. Garetz, Polytechnic Institute of New York. Investigation of Nonlinear-Optical Phenomena and Their Applications to Molecular Spectroscopy: Circular Differential CARS. $10,000 Linda N. Domelsmith, U of Nebraska, Omaha. Pho tochemical Reactivities of Substituted β-Alkylstyrenes and Related π Molecular Systems. $10,000
People Industry Dr. Miron Abramovici appointed technical manager, ChemCatalysts department of En gelhard Industries, Newark, N . J . . . . Ishwar D. Aggarwal named communications fiberoptics R&D director, Valtec Corp., West Boylston, Mass Dr. Robert R. Allen promoted to principal scientist, W. L. Clayton Research Center, Anderson Clayton Foods, Richardson, Tex Dieter H. Ambros will head fiber in termediates division of BASF A.G., Ludwigshafen, West Germany, effective Aug. 1. Dr. Nikolaus K. Balint joins ARCO Poly mers, Monaca, Pa., as senior research scientist . . . Gary Balsam named technical sales rep resentative, additives department, Ciba-Geigy's plastics and additives division, Ardsley, N.Y W. G. Bares elected v.p., Lubrizol Corp., Wickliffe, Ohio . . . Paula Barone pro moted to sales representative, specialty chemicals department, Diamond Shamrock Corp., Morristown, N . J . . . . Dr. James K. Barr appointed v.p., research, Pfizer minerals, pig ments, and metals division, New York City . . . Edward L. Beeler appointed facility manager, B. F. Goodrich chemical division, Louisville plant . . . Raymond F. Bentele elected presi dent and a board director, Mallinckrodt, St. Louis . . . Bruce K. Benton promoted to man ager, feedstock supply and exchange, Chemplex, Rolling Meadows, 111. Robert D. Bishop named president, Amoco
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Container Co., Chicago . . . Nicholas J. Brindak promoted to v.p., Drew Chemical, Boonton, N . J . . . . Joseph V. Bucciaglia ap pointed operations manager, chemicals, Uniroyal Chemical, Naugatuck, Conn Gordon L. Bundy named senior scientist, Upjohn, Kalamazoo, Mich.. . . Richard A. Burns named senior v.p., industrial sales, Dayco Rubber Products Co., Dayton . . . Dr. M. Boyd Burton Jr. named general manager, Du Pont's biochemicals department, Wilmington. Joseph T. Callaghan Jr. appointed business manager, chemicals, Uniroyal Chemical, Naugatuck, Conn Dr. Richard N. Castonguay joins Ciba-Geigy's resins department, plastics & additives division, Ardsley, N . Y . . . . Kenneth Charboneau promoted to sales manager, Mazer Chemicals, Gurnee, 111.... Ananda M. Chatterjee promoted to senior development engineer, plastics R&D center, Celanese Plastics Co., Summit, N . J . . . . Dr. J. Peter Clark III joins I T T Continental Baking, Rye, N.Y., as director, process development & engineering. Jack Cohen named director, quality control, Syntex Laboratories, Palo Alto, Calif. . . . James J. Compass named manager, supply, for the supply, distribution, and administration group, Vistron Corp., Cleveland . . . James L. Conner appointed senior v.p., manufacturing, Farmland Industries, Kansas City, M o . . . .
John H. Dawson, U of South Carolina. Intramolecular Electron Transfer in Binuclear Metal Complexes. $10,000 Michael D. Seymour, Hope Coll. Identification and Quantitative Determination of the Acidic Compo nents in Rain Water as a Function of Time During a Single Rainfall. $10,000 David M. Dooley, Amherst Coll. Mn(ll) Emission as a Probe of Metal Sites in Proteins. $10,000 Kenneth Showalter, West Virginia U. Spatial SelfOrganization in Chemical Systems. $10,000 John W. Bevan, Texas A&M U. Spectroscopic Inves tigations of Molecular Complexes Using Color Center Lasers. $10.000
ACS-PRF Grant for New Directions in Fundamental Research Jerry Goodisman, Syracuse U. Fundamental Molecular Basis for Electrochemistry Using Statistical Me chanics. $68,508
ACS-PRF Special Educational Opportunities Grants (SEO) David Dolphin, on behalf of the University of British Columbia. ACS/CSJ Chemical Congress: Sympo sium on Biomimetic Chemistry. $1000 Arthur W. Sleight, on behalf of the ACS Division of Inorganic Chemistry. ACS/CSJ Chemical Congress: Symposium on the Solid State Chemistry of Mixed Metal Oxides. $2000 John B. Gruber, on behalf of the North Dakota State U 14th Rare Earth Research Conference. $2000 Norbert Platzer, on behalf of the ACS Division of In dustrial & Engineering Chemistry. ACS/CSJ Chemical Congress: Symposium oh Worldwide Progress of the Petrochemical, Organic, and Poly mer Industries. $2000 Leon M. Dormant, on behalf of the ACS Division of Colloid & Surface Chemistry. ACS/CSJ Chemical Congress: 1979 Kendall Award Symposium. $2000 William A. Lester Jr., on behalf of the ACS Division of Physical Chemistry. ACS/CSJ Chemical Con gress: Physical Chemistry Symposia. $2000 Kenneth M. Chapman, on behalf of the ACS Sub committee for the Education and Employment of the Disadvantaged. Project SEED Supplementary Grant Program. $20,000 Herbert Conrad elected assistant v.p., Hoff mann-La Roche, Nutley, N.J Thomas E. Cooley joins Weatherby Engineering, Hous ton, as manager of process engineering... Allen R. Crawford, senior engineering associate, government research labs at Exxon Research Center, Linden, N.J., retiring after 22 years with the company . . . George E. Cremeans named manager, organic and polymer chem istry section, Battelle, Columbus, Ohio . . . Spencer D. Curtis promoted to v.p., market ing, Drew Chemical, Boonton, N.J. Dr. Gerd H. Dahl appointed associate manager, Pennwalt, King of Prussia, P a . . . . Edward C. Dalglish appointed v.p., Lord Corp., Erie, P a Alton E. Daniell named senior technical service representative, Ashland Chemical's carbon black division, Columbus, O h i o . . . John Davey appointed assistant to the president, Mazer Chemicals, Gurnee, 111.... Judith A. Decker joins J. T. Baker Chemical, New York City, as assistant product manager, Continued on page 51
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