ACS News

Board decides on variety of ACS issues

The ACS Board of Directors, at its regular midyear meeting earlier this month in Washington, D.C., took on its usual variety of matters involving the society's business. Chaired by Mary L. Good, the board acted on issues as diverse as national meeting sites and scientific cooperation with Soviet scientists.

On national meeting sites, for ex­ample, the board approved those sites recommended by the ACS Council for 1986. Thus, the spring meeting will be in Atlantic City, N.J., and the fall meeting will be in Anaheim, Calif. The latter site had been in some dis­pute because of the possibility of holding a joint meeting with chemical societies of Pacific Basin countries at some more convenient location such as Honolulu.

On the Soviet cooperation matter, the board approved plans to include a question for ACS members as part of the fall dues mailing, seeking members' opinions on the proper ex­tent of ACS scientific cooperation with Soviet scientists. On a related issue, the board approved letters to be sent to various Soviet officials re­questing permission for Yuri Yarim-Agaev, a prominent polymer chemist, to emigrate to the U.S., if he wishes, to accept an appointment in Nobel Laureate Paul Flory's laboratory at Stanford University.

In other actions, the board con­

firmed all four bylaw amendments adopted by the council at its Houston meeting in March (C&EN, April 14, page 59) and specified that the over­sight responsibilities of its Executive Committee encompass all ACS em­ployee personnel policies and prac­tices administered by the Executive Director. Having up to now limited its studies almost entirely to salary matters, the committee henceforth will give direct attention also to em­ployee benefits, appraisal and career planning, and manpower projections and recruiting.

Among financial matters, the board voted to assure ACS divisions of continuing financial support in 1981 if such funding is not provided at the San Francisco meeting by pending council action on a petition aimed at allotting funds to divisions. The board also voted to establish a $5000 loan fund for providing temporary assistance to local sections.

In addition, the board adopted as society policy the position that Con­gress should enact severance pay legislation, and requested that im­plementation of this policy be carried forth with assistance of the ACS de­partments of Public Affairs and of Professional Relations & Manpower Studies. The board decided that at this time ACS should not support legislation in the area of compensa­tion for employed inventors. •

Board approves new ACS/PRF grants The ACS Board of Directors has ap­proved 97 new ACS-PRF grants for advanced scientific education and fundamental research in the petro­leum field. These grants, totaling $1,955,940, were recommended by the PRF Advisory Board at its May meeting, at which 284 proposals were considered. This completes commit­ment of PRF funds authorized for the 1979-80 year.

Proposals are now being received for ACS-PRF grants-in-aid for funding in 1981. Faculty investigators who wish to submit requests for re :

search support beginning in 1981 should communicate with the PRF office as far in advance of need as possible.

The 24th Annual Report of Re­search under Sponsorship of The Petroleum Research Fund is now

being distributed. It contains brief reports on PRF-assisted research projects for the year ending Aug. 31, 1979. Interested persons may receive a complimentary copy by contacting: 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)

Robert G. Salomon, Case Western Reserve U. Ho­mogeneous Transition Metal Catalysis of Organic Photochemical Reactions. $30,000

Louis D. Quin, Duke U. 7-Phosphabicyclo[2.2.1]-heptene System as a Source of Phosphinidenes for Heterocyclic Syntheses. $30,000

Eugene C. Ashby, Georgia Institute of Technology. New Reagents and New Reactions in Organome-tallic Chemistry. $30,000

Sheldon W. May, Georgia Institute of Technology. Evaluation of the Synthetic Potential of Enzymic Catalysts for Oxyfunctionalization and Oxidation of Organic Compounds. $30,000

Marvin D. Rausch, U of Massachusetts. Studies on New Functionally Substituted r75-Cyclopentadienyl and Metallo-Aromatic Systems. $30,000

Richard C. Larock, Iowa State U. Organomercurials in Organic Synthesis. $30,000

Sidney I. Miller, Illinois Institute of Technology. Novel Syntheses with Ethynylphosphonium Salts. $30,000

Kenneth G. Caulton, Indiana U. Reduction of Oxo-carbons with Reduced Titanium Complexes. $30,000

David M. Walba, U of Colorado, Boulder. Synthesis of Large Molecular Cages Consisting of Crown Ether Rings Fused by the Tetrahydroxymethylethylene Unit. $30,000

Robert E. Garrison, U of California, Santa Cruz. Sedimentology and Origin of Upper Cretaceous Phosphorites in Southern Israel. $25,000

William A. Clemens, U of California, Berkeley. Studies of the Geology and Vertebrate Paleontology of the Hell Creek and Tullock Formations, Eastern Mon­tana. $42,340

Robert C. Speed, Northwestern U. Structure and Tectonic History of Barbados. $45,000

Earl L. Muetterties, U of California, Berkeley. Coor­dination Chemistry of Real Metal Surfaces. $30,000

M. David Curtis, U of Michigan. Chemistry of Metal-Metal Multiple Bonds. $30,000

M. Y. Darensbourg, D. J. Darensbourg, Tulane U. Reactions of Binuclear Bridging Hydride Complexes. $30,000

George C. Levy, Florida State U. 15N NMR Spin La­beling and Application to AMP and ATP-Metal Binding. $30,000

Neil E. Schore, U of California, Davis. Metal Com­plexes of Heterodifunctional Ligands: Preparation, Properties, and Chemistry. $30,000

Edwin S. Gould, Kent State U. Catalysis of Electron Transfer Reactions. $30,000

J. Kerry Thomas, U of Notre Dame. Photochemistry in Colloidal Semiconductors. $30,000

Lawrence A. Singer, U of Southern California. Studies on Donor-Acceptor Excited-State Complexes. $30,000

Xavier Creary, U of Notre Dame. Generation of Highly Destabilized Carbocationic Intermediates. $30,000

Richard Fuchs, U of Houston. Thermochemical and Theoretical Studies of Nonplanar Pi Electron Sys­tems. $30,000

Craig L. Hill, U of California, Berkeley. Alkane C-H Bond Activation and Functionalization of Mn(lll) Porphyrin-Based Catalysts. $30,000

Robert B. Bates, U of Arizona. Preparation and Re­actions of Delocalized Carbanions. $30,000

Walter H. Waddell, Carnegie-Mellon U. Photochem­istry of Linear Polyenes Related to the Visual Chromophore. $30,000

Barry K. Carpenter, Cornell U. Structure and Reac­tions of Cyclobutadiene. $30,000

David A. Lightner, Thomas D. Bouman, U of Nevada, Reno; Southern Illinois U, Edwardsville. Cyclopropyl Conjugation in Chiral Molecules. $30,000

Douglas C. Neckers, Bowling Green State U. Solid Phase Synthesis. $30,000

Ben S. Freiser, Purdue U. Reactions of Metal Ions and Their Clusters in the Gas Phase Using Laser lon-ization-ICR. $30,000

Robert H. Crabtree, Yale U. Transition Metals in Ca­talysis. $30,000

John H. Weare, U of California, San Diego. Theory of the Evolution of Evaporite Minerals. $30,000

Arthur T. Hubbard, U of California, Santa Barbara. Electrochemistry of Well-Defined Surfaces. $30,000

Gary L. Haller, Yale U. Characterization of Supported Rh Bimetallic Catalysts by Infrared Spectroscopy. $45,000

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Graham R. Fleming, U of Chicago. Dynamics of En­ergy Transfer in Photosynthesis. $30,000

Shih-I Chu, U of Kansas. Dynamics of Predissociation and Multiphoton Processes. $30,000

Thomas J. Herbert, U of Miami. Dielectric Properties of the Contractile Proteins Actin and Myosin. $30,000

Robert Silbey, Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Dynamics of Excited Electronic States in Low-Temperature Crystals. $30,000

F. Fleming Crim, U of Wisconsin, Madison. Vibrational and Rotational Energy Transfer in Highly Excited Molecules. $30,000

Joe G. Norman Jr., U of Washington. Electronic Structure of Transition Metal Compounds. $30,000

Michael Barfield, U of Arizona. Experimental and Theoretical Studies of Nuclear Spin-Spin Coupling in Peptides. $42,000

Kenneth D. Jordan, U of Pittsburgh. Theoretical Studies of Gas Phase and Solution Phase Positron and Positronium Chemistry. $30,000

James W. Dufty, U of Florida. Temperature Depen­dence of Transport Coefficients for a Moderately Dense Gas. $30,000

John P. Simons, U of Utah. Unsaturated Carbenes: a Theoretical Study. $30,000

Paul F. Barbara, U of Minnesota. Experimental Study of Large-Amplitude Torsional Dynamics in Photo­chemical Isomerizations. $20,000

Bernhard Wunderlich, Rensselaer Polytechnic Insti­tute. Crystallization During Polymerization of Or-ganosilicon Polymers. $30,000

Jerry A. Hirsch, Paul Ander, Seton Hall U. Synthesis and Preliminary Solution Studies of Novel lonene Polysoaps. $28,000

George H. Nancollas, State University of New York, Buffalo. Kinetic Study of the Crystal Growth and Dissolution of Oilfield Sealants. Development of Effective Scale Inhibitors. $30,000

ACS-PRF grants for fundamental research in the petroleum field (Type B) William E. Krueger, State University of New York,

Plattsburgh. Reactions of Imines. $13,000 John T. Shaw, Grove City Coll. Aza Analogs of 9b-

Azaphenalene. $13,000 Bennett R. Willeford, Bucknell U. Arene Metal Car-

bonyls. $13,000 Gene G. Wubbels, Grinnell Coll. Catalysis of Photo­

chemical Reactions. $13,000 George B. Trimitsis, University of Pittsburgh, Johns­

town. Reactions of Unusual Ketone Dianions. $13,000

Claude C. Frazier III, U of Minnesota, Duluth. Carbon Disulfide-Metal Complexes. $13,000

Stanley H. Pine, California State U, Los Angeles. Methylenation by a Carbenoid Complex. $13,000

Alfons L. Baumstark, Georgia State U. Thermolysis of 1,2-Dioxetanes. $13,000

Richard P. Nickelsen, Bucknell U. Attributes of Pen­etrative Strain, Central Appalachians. $13,000

Rabindra N. Roy, Drury Coll. Thermodynamic Study of Aqueous Solutions. $13,000

R. E. Blankenship, Amherst Coll. Photosynthetic Quantum Yields. $13,000

Donald T. Jacobs, Coll. of Wooster. Heat Capacity of Fluid Mixtures. $13,000

Richard A. Pacer, Indiana U-Purdue U, Fort Wayne. Substoichiometric Isotope Dilution Analysis. $13,000

Robert C. Cook, Lafayette Coll. Structure and Struc­tural Changes. $13,000

Trina J. Valencich, California State U, Los Angeles. Electronic Surface Hopping Dynamics. $13,000

Edward Rosenberg, California State U, Northridge. Studies in Metal Cluster Chemistry. $13,000

David E. Henderson, Trinity Coll. Metal Complex HPLC. $13,000

Continued on page 70

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1983 Meeting Dates Not Con­firmed:

15th Central Regional Meeting. Cincinnati Section. J. R. Gunwell III, Dept. of Chemistry, Miami U, Oxford, Ohio 45056, (513) 529-2813

19th Midwest Regional Meeting. U of Kansas Section

19th Western Regional Meeting. Southern California. H. Recht, Atomics International, P.O. Box 309, Canoga Park, Calif. 91304

Middle Atlantic Regional Meeting. Lehigh Valley Section. N. D. Heindel, Dept. of Chemistry, Le­high U, Seeley G. Mudd Bldg. 6, Bethlehem, Pa. 18015 (215) 861-3470

13th Northeast Regional Meeting. Connecticut Valley Section (Tentative)

39th Southwest Regional Meeting. Tulsa, Okla. Tulsa Section

1984 April 8-13. 187th ACS National

Meeting. St. Louis. A. T. Win-stead, ACS, 1155—16th St., N.W., Washington, D.C. 20036, (202) 872-4397

May 1-4. 125th Rubber Division Inc. Meeting. Hyatt Regency, Indianapolis. Mrs. M. E. Bauer, Rubber Division Inc., U of Akron, Akron, Ohio 44325, (216) 375-7814

May 23-25. Joint Great Lakes— Central Regional Meeting. Kalamazoo, Mich. L. E. Mo-issides-Hines, Upjohn Co., 301 Henrietta St., Kalamazoo, Mich. 49001,(616)385-7818

June. 19th Medicinal Chemistry Symposium. Tucson, Division of Medicinal Chemistry

Aug. 19-24.19th Intersociety En­ergy Conversion Engineering

Conference. Divisions of Fuel Chemistry and Petroleum Chemistry Inc. et al. San Fran­cisco.

Oct. 16-19.126th Rubber Division Inc. Meeting. Maria Isabel, Mexico City, Mexico. Mrs. M. E. Bauer, Rubber Division Inc., U of Akron, Akron, Ohio 44325, (216) 375-7814

1984 Meeting Dates Not Con­firmed:

36th Southeastern Regional Meeting. North Carolina Section. Raleigh, N.C. P. Smith, Dept. of Chemistry, Duke U, Durham, N.C. 27706

20th Western Regional Meeting 40th Southwest Regional Meeting.

Lubbock, Tex. South Plains Section

19th Midwest Regional Meeting. U of Kansas (Tentative)

1985 April 23-26.127th Rubber Division

Inc. Meeting. Century Plaza, Los Angeles. Mrs. M. E. Bauer, Rub­ber Division inc., U of Akron, Akron, Ohio 44325, (216) 375-7814

Aug. 18-23. 20th Intersociety En­ergy Conversion Engineering Conference. Fontainebleau Hil­ton, Miami Beach, Fla. Divisions of Fuel Chemistry and Petroleum Chemistry Inc. et al. G. P. Town-send, United Technologies Corp., Windsor Locks, Conn. 06096, (203) 623-1621, Ext. 8723

1985 Meeting Dates Not Con­firmed:

15th Northeast Regional Meeting. Mid-Hudson Section (Tentative)

17th Central Regional Meeting. Akron Section

Joint Southeast-Southwest Re­gional Meeting. Memphis

ACS News Continued from page 57

ACS-PRF grants for fundamental research in the petroleum field (Type G)

David K. Erwin, Memphis State U. Metal Atom Syn­thesis of Early Transition Metal Organometallic Compounds. $10,000

William E. Fristad, U of Minnesota. Manganese(lll) in Organic Synthesis. $10,000

Marcus A. Tius, University of Hawaii, Manoa. Syn­thesis of Isonitriles and Carbonimidic Dichlorides. $10,000

Scott E. Denmark, U of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign. Five Ring Annelation with Silicon. $10,000

Charles S. Swindell, Bryn Mawr Coll. Amine Oxide Stabilized Carbanions. $10,000

David W. Houseknecht, U of Missouri, Columbia. In­fluence of "Thermal Diagenesis" on the Porosity and Permeability of Sandstones of the Hartshorne Formation, Arkoma Basin. $10,000

David J. Bottjer, U of Southern California. Paleo-ecology and Depositional Environments of Upper Cretaceous Active Continental Margin Marine De­posits, Southern California. $10,000

Sharon Mosher, U of Texas, Austin. Narragansett Basin of Rhode Island: Structure, Stratigraphy, and Sedimentary Environments. $10,000

Richard J. Reeder, State University of New York, Stony Brook. Microstructures in Ferroan Dolomites as Imaged by Transmission Electron Microscopy. $10,000

Robert I. Haines, U of Rhode Island. Preparation, Characterization, and Reaction Mechanisms of Highly Oxidizing Nickel(lll) Complexes in Non­aqueous Solvents. $10,000

Robert G. Michel, U of Connecticut. Light Sources and Background Correction for Flame Atomic Fluores­cence Determinations of Trace Metals in Clinical Samples. $10,000

Philip W. Payne, U of Hawaii, Manoa. Electronic Control of Stereoselectivity in Carbonyl Group Re­duction. $10,000

Therese M. Cotton, Illinois Institute of Technology. Spectroelectrochemical Studies of Electron Transfer Reactions in Photosynthetic Bacteria. $10,000

Henrik Pedersen, Rutgers U. Biological Oxidation of Polycyclic Aromatic Hydrocarbons. $10,000

Barbara A. Baird, Cornell U. Structural Studies on the Receptor for Immunoglobulin E with Chemical Modification and Fluorescence Spectroscopic Methods. $10,000

Robert N. Rosenfeld, U of California, Davis. Energy Disposal in Cheletropic Reactions. A High-Reso­lution Mechanistic Probe. $10,000

Chris M. Ireland, U of Connecticut. Photochemistry of Photosynthetic Mollusks. $10,000

Sohail Murad, U of Illinois, Chicago Circle. Thermo­dynamic and Transport Properties of Molecular Fluids. $10,000

James W. Jorgenson, U of North Carolina, Chapel Hill.

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Stephen G. Weber, U of Pittsburgh. Electronically Coupled Electrode Modifications. $10,000

Edmond I. Ko, Carnegie-Mellon U. Effects of Metal-Support Interactions on Chemisorption and Catalytic Properties. $10,000

Robert A. Donnelly, Auburn U. Complex Scaling of the One-Electron Propagator. $10,000

Paul M. Hunt, Michigan State U. Theoretical Studies in Chemical Dynamics. $10,000

Geraldine Richmond, Bryn Mawr Coll. Laser Opto-acoustic Spectroscopy of Gases and Liquids. $10,000

Mark T. Spitler, Mount Holyoke Coll. Studies of the Photoelectrochemistry of Organic Dyes at Semi­conductor Electrodes. $10,000

John A. Soderquist, U of San Francisco. Silylalkyl-boranes: Highly Versatile Intermediates for Organic Syntheses. $10,000

Daniel J. Bradley, Montana Coll. of Mineral Science & Technology. Determination of the Apparent Molal Volumes of Some Aqueous Electrolytes at High Temperatures and Pressures. $10,000

N. H. Whitehead III, U of Louisville. Stratigraphy and Depositional Environments of the Latest Osagean and Earliest Meramecian (Mississippian) Rocks in the Illinois Basin. $10,000

ACS-PRF special educational opportunities grants (SEO)

Benjamin Widom, on behalf of the ACS Division of Physical Chemistry. Symposium on Structure and Thermodynamics of Fluid Interfaces at ACS national meeting, August 1980. $1000

Petr Zuman, on behalf of the ACS Northern New York Section. 10th Northeast Regional ACS Meeting Symposia at Clarkson College of Technology, June 30-July 3, 1980. $2000

Marguerite L. Leng, on behalf of the ACS Division of Pesticide Chemistry. Symposium on Sulfur Chem­istry and Biochemistry in Relation to Pesticide Me­tabolism and Action, ACS national meeting in San Francisco, August 1980. $600

William Spindel, on behalf of the National Academy of Sciences. Partial Travel Support for U.S. Par­ticipation in the Xllth International Union of Crys­tallography Congress in Ottawa, Aug. 16-25, 1981. $2500

Karl M. Kadish, on behalf of the ACS Division of An­alytical Chemistry. Symposium on Electrochemical and Spectrochemical Studies of Biological Redox Components at the ACS national meeting in Atlanta, March 1981. $1500

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