ACS NEWS

Board authorizes $1 million in PRF grants American Chemical Society-Petroleum Research Fund research grants total­ing more than $1 million were author­ized for 73 research scientists by the ACS Board of Directors at its quarterly meeting in December. This action commits approximately one third of the grant and award funds authorized for 1968. Additional grants to be made during 1968 will include up to 100 ACS-PRF type G starter grants, $5000 each over a two-year period, for young faculty members of colleges and universities throughout the United States.

Included in the December Board ac­tion are three ACS-PRF type C grants of $40,000 each. The recipients of these grants are Dr. Kazuo Nakamoto

of Illinois Institute of Technology, Dr. G. K. Fraenkel of Columbia Univer­sity, and Dr. O. J. Kleppa of the Uni­versity of Chicago.

The unrestricted type C grant per­mits each recipient to investigate any area of pure science which may pro­vide a basis for subsequent research in the petroleum field. The grants are for a four-year period but may be used at any desired rate.

Dr. Nakamoto, professor of chemis­try at IIT, will use his grant to conduct IR studies of sigma-bonded metal-car­bon compounds and metal sandwich compounds.

Dr. Fraenkel has been professor of chemistry at Columbia since 1961 and chairman of the department since

1966. He intends to use his grant to continue investigations of electron spin resonance in free radicals.

Dr. Kleppa, professor in the James Franck Institute and in the chemistry department at the University of Chi­cago since 1962, plans to use his grant to study the thermodynamic proper­ties and stability of silicates and min­erals.

The accompanying tables list all the new ACS-PRF grant and award recip­ients. Requests for application forms, directions on the preparation of pro­posals, and questions about the ACS-PRF grant program may be addressed to Petroleum Research Fund, Ameri­can Chemical Society, 1155-16th St., N.W., Washington, D.C. 20036.

Table 1. ACS-PRF grants for fundamental research in the petroleum field (type A)

Institution Subject Amount

Investigator Institution Subject 1968 1969 1970 Total

J . J . Eisch Catholic U Chemistry of Unsaturated Organoaluminum Compounds

8,000 8,000

W. A. Van Hook U of Tennessee Condensed-Phase Isotope Effects

7,792 7,980 7,980 23,752

E. T. Degens Woods Hole Océanographie Institution

Biogeochemistry of Carbon Isotopes

8,976 7,024 16,000

M. M. El-Wakil U of Wisconsin The Self-Ignition Characteristics of Hydrocarbon Mixtures

11,432 (19 months)

11,432

C. N. Caughlan Montana State The Structures of Organic Compounds of Vanadium

6,664 (14 months)

6,664 6,664 19,992

W. D.Johns Washington U, St. Louis

Geochemistry of CI, F, B, and Organic Carbon in Marine and Nonmarine Ar­gillaceous Sediments

8,000 8,000

E. F. Cruft U of New Mexico Gypsum-Anhydrite Nucleation Kinetics

13,087 (19 months)

13,087

P. J. Wagner Michigan State Inefficient Triplet Energy Transfer in Solution

8,112 8,112 8,112 24,336

J. 1. Legg Washington State Stereochemistry of Chelated Trifunctional Amino Acids

6,408 (15 months)

8,947 5,945 21,300

D. R. Baker Wm. Marsh Rice Influence of Metamorphism on Organic Matter in Sed­imentary Rocks

8,040 8,016 16,056

R. G. Miller, Jr. U of North Dakota Chemistry of Alkenyltransition Metal Compounds

8,292 8,400 7,200 23,892

C. Ainsworth Colorado State Spiro Compounds 10,920 8,520 4,560 24,000

H. H. Bauer U of Kentucky Adsorption at Electrodes 9,360 7,320 7,320 24,000

G. Eglinton U of Glasgow Study of Geolipids 5,249 4,830 4,830 14,909

A. Eisenberg McGill Ionic Forces in Organic Polymers

7,200 4,700 4,700 16,600

S. Fujita State U of N.Y., Buffalo

Theory of Polymer Relax­ation

12,303 (14 months)

3,915 16,218

P. K. Ghosh Indian Inst, of Technology

Optical Spectroscopy of Gaseous Ions

6,000 6,000

F. W. Lampe Pen η State Reactions and Properties of Nitroso-molecules Formed in the Addition of Free Radicals to Nitric Oxide

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7,980 8,040 7,980 24,000

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Amount Investigator Institution Subject 1968 1969 1970 Total

J. H. Lunsford Texas A&M Active Sites in Heterogeneous Catalysis

10,971 7,467 4,953 23,391

W. C. Purdy U of Maryland Separation of Isomeric Compounds

15,170 (20 months)

15,170

J. Saltiel Florida State Photochemical Investigations Concerning Triplet Excitation Transfer

8,248 8,248 7,611 24,107

G. E. Maciel U of California, Davis

Some Studies of Weak Interac­tions with 13C Magnetic Resonance Spectroscopy

7,993 8,024 7,964 23,981

R. L. Mauger U of Utah Isotopic Study of Uinta Basin Hydrocarbons

7,660 5,340 13,000

L. Kaplan U of Chicago Free Radical Displacements and Fragmentations

8,616 8,316 7,116 24,048

W. E. Barnett U of Georgia Total Synthesis of Longicyclene 7,970 7,970 15,940 R. H. Herber Rutgers Mossbauer Spectroscopy of

Organometallics 11,775

(19 months) 7,528 19,303

D. W. Slocum Southern Illinois 2-Metalation of Ferrocene Derivatives

8,332 8,476 16,808

L. M. Jackman Penn State Magnetic Shielding in Hydrocarbons

9,240 8,492 6,842 24,574

L. J. Altman Stanford Synthesis of Cyclopenta-(def)fluorene

7,933 7,933 7,933 23,799

R. C. Reid MIT High-Temperature Liquid Heat Capacities

14,156 (19 months)

6,648 20,804

R. F. Cane U of Tasmania Origin of Earth Hydrocarbons 10,460 (19 months)

8,000

6,440 16,900

Ε. Τ. Kaiser U of Chicago Detection of Reactive Intermediates

10,460 (19 months)

8,000 8,000 8,000 24,000

M. D. Rausch U of Massachusetts New Aromatic and Cationic Organometallic Compounds

10,430 (15 months)

7,848 5,568 23,846

W. L. Luyben Lehigh Autorefrigerated Reactor Kinetics

7,896 8,160 8,090 24,146

W. H. Okamura U of California, Riverside

Synthesis of Polycyclic Compounds

14,652 (19 months)

6,367 21,019

J. R. Sams U of British Columbia

Mossbauer Spectroscopy of Zeolites

8,569 (18 months)

5,709 14,278

T. T. Tidwell U of South Carolina Highly Hindered Olefins 13,713 (19 months)

6,886 20,599

R. D. Rieke U of North Carolina Preparation and Study of New Radical Anions

8,614 7,473 7,539 23,626

R. A. D. Wentworth Indiana U Hindered Ligand Systems 7,440 7,620 15,060 J. M. Douglas U of Rochester Approximate Solutions of

Optimization Problems Using Perturbation Theory

12,640 (19 months)

8,000 20,640

J. W. Hightower Wm. Marsh Rice Reactions over Silica-Magnesia Catalysts

10,560 (19 months)

10,320 20,880

D. J. Bertelli U of California, Santa Barbara

Study of the Decomposition of N-Nitrosoamides Derived from Geranylamine, Nerylamine, and Their Derivatives

6,033 6,243 6,467 18,743

T. R. Oakes Cleveland State Small Ring Systems from Isocyanides

11,160 (14 months)

11,160

G. Poehlein Lehigh Continuous Emulsion Poly­merization

10,872 (14 months)

6,380 17,252

J. P. Freeman U of Notre Dame The Stereochemistry of Azetidine Deamination

7,682 8,533 16,215

C. H. Byers U of Rochester Surfactant Adsorption on Bubbles

13,000 (19 months)

7,980 20,980

J. S. Vincent U of California, Davis

ENDOR of Triplet State Molecules

8,376 7,147 7,267 22,790

A. P. Krapcho U of Vermont Small Ring Studies 10,058 (14 months)

7,142 17,200

T. Teng use Seismic Wave Propagation 11,474 11,474 22,948 R. E. Lyle U of New

Hampshire The Inhibition of Nitrogen Inversion

7,956 7,956 15,912

A. W. Johnson U of North Dakota Chemistry of Arsonium Ylids 14,808 (20 months)

14,808

Total type A, by years: $486,272 $322,588 Total for all

$150,641 years:

Total type A, by years: $486,272 $322,588 Total for all

$150,641 years: $959,501

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Table II. ACS-PRF grants for fundamental research in the petroleum field at the undergraduate level (type B)

Investigator Institution Subject 1968 Amoi

1969 jnt

1970 Total

A. L. Beïlby Pomona College Electroanalytical Carbon Electrodes

9,720 (15 months)

4,320 14,040

L. W. Clark Western Carolina Decarboxylation Kinetics 4,980 4,380 4,680 14,040 E. P. Dudek Wellesley Coordination Chemistry of

Dimedone Derivatives 6,050 4,740 10,790

E.J. Geels Dordt Electron Transfer Reactions of Radical Anions

10,218 (15 months)

6,449 16,667

J. A. Bell Simmons Intramolecular Energy Degradation and Migration

9,860 (19 months)

4,920 14,780

G. Brieger Oakland (Mich.) U The Intramolecular Diels-Alder Reaction

4,740 4,020 8,760

R. F. Smith State U College at Geneseo

Reactions of Hydrazine Derivatives

10,500 (16 months)

10,500

R. L. Amey Occidental Dielectric Behavior of Aprotic Solvents

12,519 (15 months)

12,519

S. K. Dhar De Paul Chelates of Nontransition Elements

5,418 5,418 10,836

R. W. Griffin, Jr. New College Meta-Bridged Aromatic Compounds

10,800 (15 months)

10,800

R. S. Pyron Furman Spiropentene 10,560 (15 months)

10,560

M. M. de Maine Trinity (Washington, D.C.)

Iron-Phenanthroline Complexes

2,952 ( 6 months)

2,952

M. M. Muir U of Puerto Rico Photochemistry of Coordination Compounds

11,200 (15 months)

4,860 16,060

C. R. Gatz Portland State O-Atom Chemistry 11,610 (14 months)

5,446 17,056

J. E. Van Vert h Canisius Anionic Rearrangements 11,040 (15 months)

11,040

Total type B, by years: $132,167 $44,553 $4,680 Total, for all years: ~$Ï8M00

Table III. ACS-PRF unrestricted grants for established scientists conducting fundamental research in the petroleum field (type C) Investigator Institution Area of research* Amount

K. Nakamoto Illinois Institute of Technology Infrared Spectroscopy $40,000 G. K. Fraenkel Columbia Electron Spin Resonance $40,000 O. J. Kleppa U of Chicago Chemical Thermodynamics $40,000

Total, type C: $120,000

α The awards in the form of unrestricted research grants were based on the accomplishments in this area of fundamental research in the petroleum field. The recipients are encouraged to pursue any investigation in the petroleum field of interest to them.

Table IV. ACS-PRF international awards in the petroleum field (type D)

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1968 Investigator Institution Title Amount

A. D. Crowell U of Vermont Study of the Mechanism of Interaction $2,000 Between Molecules and Solid Surfaces

N. C. Li Duquesne Coordination Chemistry in Nonaqueous $2,700 Media

Total, type D $47700

Table V. ACS-PRF faculty awards for advanced scientific study in the petroleum field (type E) 1968

Investigator Institution Title Amount L.Harris Knox College A Reaction Rate-Mechanistic Research $8,650

Program Utilizing NMR Spectroscopy; Course Work Pertaining to Physical Organic Chemistry _

Total, type Ε $8,650

Table VI. Special proposal

Investigator A. G. Fischer

Institution Princeton

Purpose Contribution Toward Publication of "Cretaceous (Santonian-Campanian) Nannofossils of Texas"

Total, type X

1968 Amount

$3,750

$3,750

ACS research journal debuts this month The first issue of Accounts of Chemical Research has gone to press. It will be mailed on Jan. 17 to all ACS members free of charge (nonmembers may sub­scribe at $10 a year). The new monthly journal is designed to fill the need in the chemical community for short, concise reviews of current chemical research. These reviews are intended to place recent research de­velopments in perspective, relate them to earlier work, and project their probable future significance.

Appearing in the first issue of Ac-counts of Chemical Research are arti­cles by Dr. William S. Johnson of Stan­ford University on cyclization of ole­fins, by Dr. M. A. El-Sayed of the Uni­versity of California, Los Angeles, on the radiative and nonradiative proper­ties of the triplet state, by Dr. Roald Hoffmann of Cornell and Dr. R. B. Woodward of Harvard on orbital sym­metry, and by Dr. Theodore L. Brown of the University of Illinois on Ν MR studies of organometalHc exchange processes.

Subjects of articles in process for future publication in Accounts of Chemical Research include cyclopro-panols, electronic states of simple liq­uids, organocobalt chemistry of vita­min B12 model compounds, and chem­ical ionization mass spectrometry. Al­though the journal will focus on recent developments in the chemical field, it occasionally will publish review arti­cles dealing with pertinent research in other scientific disciplines that relate to chemistry.

Each article will be only a few pages long. Most of the reviews will be written by scientists who are active in research in the area covered, but the article will not necessarily report only their own work. Planned to be short and concise, the reviews never­theless will be comprehensive enough to encompass relevant work by other investigators.

For the first year of publication Ac­counts of Chemical Research will be sent to all ACS members as part of their dues. During the year, member reaction to the journal will be assessed and a permanent distribution policy developed. To help in this evaluation, readers are urged to make their ideas

known to the editor. Comments and suggestions should be sent to Dr. Jo­seph F. Bunnett, Editor, Accounts of Chemical Research, University of Cali­fornia, Santa Cruz, Calif. 95060.

Although most of the reviews in the journal will be written in response to invitations issued by the editor, un­solicited articles will be considered. Manuscripts for publication and nomi­nations of prospective authors should be sent to Dr. Bunnett.

New local section officers LEHIGH VALLEY. Dr. Robert J. Fred­ericks, new chairman of the Lehigh Val­

ley Section, is re­search supervisor at Allied Chemical's corporate research laboratory, Morris-town, N.J. The other officers are Dr. Stuart S. Kulp, chairman-elect; Dr. Mary H. Perry, 2123 Kemmerer St.,

Bethlehem, Pa. 18017, secretary; and Dr. Malcolm L. White, treasurer.

RED RIVER VALLEY. Dr. Gustav P. Dinga, professor of chemistry at Con­

cordia College, Moorhead, Minn., is the new chair­man of the Red River Valley Sec­tion. Serving with Dr. Dinga are Dr. James A. Stewart, chairman-elect; Dr. Sol Schulman, 1033 Fourth St. N.,

Fargo, N.D. 58102, secretary; and Dr. Dennis R. Nelson, treasurer.

WASHINGTON. Dr. Robert B. Fox, head of the organic polymers section, chemis­

try division, U.S. Naval Research Laboratory, Wash­ington, D.C., is the 1968 chairman of the Washington Section. Serving with Dr. Fox are Dr. Edward O. Haenni, chairman-elect; Dr. Mary H.

Aldridge, 2390-45& St., N.W., Wash­ington, D.C. 20016, secretary; and Dr. Joseph C. Dacons, treasurer.

VIRGINIA BLUE RIDGE. Dr. John H. Wise, professor of chemistry and chair­

man of the com­puter center at Washington and Lee University, is the new chairman of the Virginia Blue Ridge Section. Serving with Dr. Wise are Martin H. Gurley, Jr., vice-chairman; Dr.

James P. Wightman, Department of Chemistry, Virginia Polytechnic Institute, Blacksburg, Va. 24061, secretary; and Dr. Roberta Stewart, treasurer.

SOUTHERN ILLINOIS. Dr. Albert L. Caskey, associate professor of chemistry • • Μ Η Η Η Η Η at Southern Illinois ^ ^ ^ H ^ B ^ ^ H University, the ^ ^M 1968 head of the ^ ^ ^ ^ L ^ ^ ^ H Southern Illinois ^ ^ H ^ ^ p H r Section. The other ^ ^ ^ ^ ^ B j T | " officers are Dr. H | R K £ ^ J Russell F. Trimble, • P r ^ ^ ^ ^ M ^ ^ chairman-elect; Dr. ^ ^ H M ^ George E. Brown, ^ H ^ ^ ^ ^ H Glenview ^ B A i ^ ^ H Drive, Carhondale, 111. 62901, secretary; and Dr. J. Herbert Hall, treasurer.

SUSQUEHANNA VALLEY. Dr. Jay A. Young, professor at King's College, is the

1968 chairman of the Susquehanna Valley Section. Serving with Dr. Young are Dr. James K. Hummer, chairman-elect; Dr. Gynith Giffin, Department of Chemistry, Susque­hanna University,

Selinsgrove, Pa. 17870, secretary; and Dr. James J. Bohning, treasurer.

MARYLAND. F. Timothy Parr, senior project engineer at Westinghouse Aero­

space division, is the 1968 chairman of the Maryland Section. The other officers are Dr. Harold Delaney, chairman-elect; Dr. Richard J. Kokes, Department of Chemistry, Johns Hopkins Univer­

sity, Baltimore, Md. 21218, secretary; and Dr. Thomas C. Simmons, treasurer.

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