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ACS Board authorizes PRF grants of $928,574 Grants are first to be awarded from the 1972 authorization of grant funds; were selected from total of 286 proposals
The ACS Board of Directors, meeting in Washington on Dec. 10, 1971, authorized 51 new ACS-PRF grants for fundamental research totaling $928,574. The grants are the first to be awarded from the 1972 authorization of grant funds, and were selected from a total of 286 proposals by the PRF Advisory Board. The grants are all ACS-PRF Type AC or Β grants, which, besides the Type G (Starter) grant program, are the only currently authorized grant programs.
Requests for application forms or further information on the ACS-PRF program should be addressed to Dr. Justin W. Collât, Program Administrator, Petroleum Research Fund, American Chemical Society, 1155—16th St., N.W., Washington, D.C. 20036
ACS-PRF grants for fundamental research in the petroleum field (Type AC)
J. Smid, State U Coll. of Forestry, Syracuse, Binding of Ions and Ion Pairs to Macromolecules, $20,000 E. C. Ashby, Georgia Inst, of Technology, Simple and Complex Metal Hydrides, $20,000 K. B. Wiberg, Yale U, Experimental and Theoretical Study of the Origin of NMR Chemical Shifts, $20,000 W. A. Pryor, U of Cincinnati, Deltaic Reservoir Model Based on Detailed Analysis of Post-Pleistocene Rio Grande Delta, $17,800 J. A. Kittrick, Washington State U, Determination of Chlorite Stability, $20,000 V. A. Bloomfield, U of Minnesota, St. Paul, Molecular Hydrodynamics, $17,000 J. M. McBride, Yale U, Solvent Steric Effects on Free Radical Reactions in Viscous and Glassy Media, $17,000 W. B. Hammond, Jr., Yale U, Substituent and Conformational Effects on Type I Reactions of Cyclohexanones, $20,000 E. C. Lim, Wayne State U, Spin-Forbidden Electronic Transitions in Polyatomic Molecules, Parts I, II, III, and IV, $21,667 M. Raban, Wayne State U, D-Orbital Resonance in Sulfur-Nitrogen Compounds, $20,000 R. F. Blanks, Michigan State U, Solution Rheology and Thermodynamics, $22,500 D. B. Brown, U of Vermont, Interaction of Small Ring Hydrocarbons with Transition-Metal Complexes, $24,000 G. A. Somorjai, U of California, Berkeley, Studies of the Relationship Between the Surface Structure of Platinum and Chemi-sorbed Gases and Their Reactivity, $20,-000 H. T. Davis, U of Minnesota, Minneapolis, Electron Transport and Electronic States in Hydrocarbon Liquids and Solids, $19,-480 J. H. Hildebrand, U of California, Berkeley, Equilibrium and Transport, Properties of Nonpolar Liquids, $16,667 C. D. Ritchie, SUNY, Buffalo, Nucleophi-licities and Ion Pairs, $20,000
D. J. Pasto, U of Notre Dame, Cycloaddition Reactions of Alkenylidenecyclopro-panes and Related Compounds, $20,000 C. W. Deutsche, U of California, Los Angeles, Quantum Mechanical Studies of Surfaces in Partially Ionic Crystals, $17,-000 B. P. Mundy, Montana State U, Heterocyclic Chemistry—Effects of Heteroatoms, $25,440 W. J. MacKnight, U of Massachusetts, Amherst, Correlations Between Steric Configurations and Bulk Properties in Vinyl and Vinylidene Polymers, $16,800 L. J. Boucher, Carnegie-Mellon U, Model Compound Studies with Manganese Complexes, $18,000 C. H. VanDyke, Carnegie-Mellon U, Titanium-Hydrogen Compounds, $20,000 W. R. Schowalter, Princeton U, Unsteady Flows of Viscoelastic Liquids, $29,920 J. H. Krueger, Oregon State U, Kinetics of Nucleophilic Substitutions at Nitrogen Centers, $9959 C. W. Allen, U of Vermont, Cycloaddition Reactions of Inorganic Heterocyclic Systems, $16,000 D. R. Davis, U of California, Irvine, Mass Spectrometry and Kinetics of Carboranes, $16,000 D. Chandler, U of Illinois, Urbana, Statistical Mechanical Studies of Molecular Liquids and Solutions, $22,000 S. I. Sandler, U of Delaware, Determination of the Surface Permeability of Porous Media from Thermal Transpiration Measurements, $26,667 D. J. Goldsmith, Emory U, Some Investigations into the Chemistry of Oximes. Nucleophilic and Electrophilic Alkylation at Carbon, $30,000 R. L. Scott, U of California, Los Angeles, Thermodynamic Properties of Hydrocarbon Mixtures, $16,000 S. D. Christian, U of Oklahoma, Effect of Solvents on Molecular Complex Formation Equilibria, $16,000 P. M. Johnson, SUNY, Stony Brook, Emission Spectra of Dissociative Molecules, $16,667 J. R. Steidtmann, U of Wyoming, Preliminary Studies Concerning the Equivalence of Light and Heavy Minerals Deposited from Traction Transport, $8000
J. K. Beattie, U of Illinois, Urbana, Inter-systems Crossings in Complexes in Spin Equilibrium, $29,000 J. H. Perlstein, Johns Hopkins U, Electron Transport in Mixed Valence Complexes: Models for High-Temperature Superconductors, $28,500 N. N. Lichtin, Boston U, Nondegradative Incorporation of Nitrogen into Organic Compound by Reaction with Atomic Nitrogen in Solution in Water and Other Unreactive Polar Solvents, $20,000 D. H. Gibson, U of Louisville, Ion Car-bonyl Carbonium Ion Complexes, $15,000 J. L. Schrag, U of Wisconsin, Madison, Oscillatory Flow Birefringence and the Conformational Properties of Polymer Molecules in Solution, $15,833 R. E. Kallio, U of Illinois, Urbana, En-zymic Oxidation of Aromatic Hydrocarbons, $19,000 W. C. Stwalley, U of Iowa, Long-Range Forces and Diatomic Spectra Near Dissociation, $18,000 D. M. Lemal, Dartmouth Coll., Tetrakis-(perfluoroalkyl) Tetrahedranes, $29,880 W. T. Holser, U of Oregon, Studies on the Optical and Dielectric Properties of Minerals, $22,500
ACS-PRF grants for fundamental research in the petroleum field at the undergraduate level (Type B)
Hans Veening, Bucknell U, Liquid Chromatography of Metal Complexes, $12,000 E. J. O'Connell, Fairfield U, Mechanisms of Deactivation of Excited States, $12,000 J. Wilson Mills, Drew U, Benzene Fluorescence Polarization and Level Crossing, $9500 Sister M. Jeanmarie DeChant, Notre Dame Coll., Asymmetric Induction in Redox Reactions, $11,938 Monte Scheinbaum, East Tennessee State U, Chemistry of Nitrogen Oxides and Nitrosonium Ions, $6000 Richard F. Smith, State U Coll. at Geneseo, Thermolysis and Photolysis of Carbamoyl-Substituted Amine-Imides and Azo Compound, $9000 Kenneth M. Harmon, Oakland U, Carbonium Ions: Generation and Polymerization, $12,000 Paul D. Henson, Roanoke Coll., Stereo-mutation-Reduction of Phosphine Oxides, $8880 John A. Weyh, Western Washington State Coll., Oxalate Anation of Chromium (III) Complexes, $8976
For other news of special interest to ACS members, see:
Reports from AAAS 27, 33
Gasification processes 36
JAN. 10, 1972 C&EN 41
ACS News
Change in election procedures requested Three petitions for amendment of the ACS Bylaws to provide for mail balloting in certain elections have been received by Dr. Frederick T. Wall, ACS Executive Director. The election procedures concerned would replace voting at the Council meeting. The petitions pertain to elections to the Council Policy Committee, the Committee on Nominations and Elections, and for selection of nominees for President-Elect. They have been signed by the required number of councilors and will be included in the spring Council agenda.
Committee chairmen have been requested to call the attention of their respective groups to the petitions, and the Committees on Constitution and Bylaws and on Nominations and Elections requested to include the petitions on their open meeting agenda for Boston.
Dr. Wall has invited recommendations on the petitions before May 15, earlier if possible, so they can be considered before the fall Council meeting.
Election of Councilors to the Committee on Nominations and
Elections by Mail Ballot
Bylaw III, Sec. 3(b)(3)
Present Provisions
Election of Councilors to the Committee shall be arranged so as to provide rotation. Each year the Council Policy Committee shall propose the names of not fewer than twice as many voting Councilors for membership on the Committee on Nominations and Elections as there are members whose terms are expiring. Not later than October 1 the Council shall elect from the list of nominees a number of members corresponding to the number of vacancies on the Committee on Nominations and Elections for a term of three years beginning with the first day of January following, provided, however, that nominations for membership on the Committee on Nominations and Elections also may be made on petition of twenty-five Councilors.
Petition
We, the undersigned Councilors of the American Chemical Society, respectfully petition that the Bylaws of the Society be amended as follows:
Bylaw III, Sec. 3(b)(3)
Delete the words "not later than October 1 " and insert after the words "the Council shall" the following words: "by ballot mailed by the Executive Director to the Councilors not later than November 1 . "
We further petition that the above amendment to the Bylaws, Bylaw III, Sec. 3(b)(3) be effective January 1, 1973.
Explanation
In line with the present policy of carrying out as much of the business as possible by mail, it appears desirable to carry out the election of the Councilors to the Committee on Nominations and Elections by a mail ballot. This procedure has the additional advantage of not disenfranchising Councilors who are unable to attend the Council meeting at the national meeting and thus would permit all Councilors to take part in the important business of election of the members of the Committee on Nominations and Elections. By changing the date of the election to not later than November 1, the nominees can be announced in the agenda of the fall meeting and still permit adequate time for possible nomination of additional members by petition. This change in date would also make possible the combining of the mailing of this mail ballot with that for the election of the Directors-at-Large.
Signed: Allen L. Alexander William J. Bailey Roger G. Bates Robert C. Brasted D. S. Breslow Robert B. Carlin Robert B. Fox
Herbert S. Gutowsky J. W. LeMaistre Robert E. Lyle William E. McEwen Harry S. Mosher Harry E. Whitmore
Election to the Council Policy Committee by Mail Ballot
Bylaw III, Sec. 3(a)(3)
Present Provisions
Election of Councilors to the Committee shall be arranged so as to provide rotation. Each year the Committee on Nominations and Elections shall propose not fewer than eight voting Councilors for membership on the Council Policy Committee, four of whom shall be elected by the Council not later than October 1 for a term of three years beginning with the first day of January following, provided, however, that nominations for membership on the Council Policy Committee also may be made on petition of twenty-five Councilors.
Petition
We, the undersigned Councilors of the American Chemical Society, respectfully petition that the Bylaws of the Society be amended as follows:
Bylaw III, Sec. 3(a)(3)
Substitute for the words "not later than October 1 for a term of" the words "by ballot mailed by the Executive Director to Councilors not later than December 1 . "
We further petition that the above amendment to the Bylaws, Bylaw III, Sec. 3(a)(3) be effective January 1, 1973.
Explanation
In order to carry out as much of the business of the Council by mail and to allow greater participation of Councilors in the selection of the members of the Council Policy Committee, it appears de
sirable to have the election of the members of the Council Policy Committee carried out by mail ballot. By changing the date for the election to not later than December 1, the nominees can be announced in the agenda of the fall meeting and still permit adequate time for the possible nomination of additional members by petition. This change in date would also make possible the combining of the mailing of this mail ballot with that for the election of the Directors-at-Large.
Signed: Allen L. Alexander William J. Bailey Roger G. Bates Robert C. Brasted D. S. Breslow Robert B. Carlin Robert B. Fox
Herbert S. Gutowsky J. W. LeMaistre Robert E. Lyle William E. McEwen Harry S. Mosher Harry E. Whitmore
Selection of Nominees for President-Elect by Mail Ballot
Bylaw V, Sec. 1 (b)
Present Provisions
The Council, at a meeting to be held not later than October 1, shall nominate for President-Elect two of the proposed nominees presented under the provisions of Sec. 1 (a) and Sec. 4 of this Bylaw.
Petition
We, the undersigned Councilors of the American Chemical Society, respectfully petition that the Bylaws of the Society be amended as follows:
Bylaw V, Sec. 1 (b)
Substitute for the present provision, the following words:
On or before August 1, the Executive Director shall mail to each voting Councilor a ballot containing the names of the proposed nominees for President-Elect presented under the provision of Sec. 1(a). The two members receiving the greatest number of votes shall be declared to be nominees for President-Elect.
We further petition that the above amendment to the Bylaws, Bylaw V, Sec. 1(b) be effective January 1, '1973.
Explanation
In line with the trend to eliminate all activities at the Council meeting that can be carried on by mail, we propose to change the selection of nominees for President-Elect from the present procedure on the Council floor to a mail ballot. This has the additional advantage of not disenfranchising Councilors who are unable to attend the Council meeting. It will also permit a greater number of Councilors to take part in the selection of nominees for President-Elect.
Signed: Allen L. Alexander William J. Bailey Roger G. Bates Robert C. Brasted D. S. Breslow Robert B. Carlin Robert B. Fox
Herbert S. Gutowsky J. W. LeMaistre Robert E. Lyle William E. McEwen Harry S. Mosher Harry E. Whitmore
42 C&EN JAN. 10, 1972