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acs news First Group Of 1997 PRF Grants T he American Chemical Society Board of Directors has approved 156 new or continuing ACS-Petroleum Research Fund (PRF) grants for fundamen- tal research or scientific education. Also approved were 33 of 59 requests for sup- plements to existing ACS-PRF Research Grants. The supplements will allow a fac- ulty member from an undergraduate de- partment to be added to the PRF-funded research project for the summer of 1997. These grants, committing $4,290,235 of the $13 million authorized for 1997, were recommended from the 411 proposals considered by the PRF Advisory Board in November 1996. In order to sustain the purchasing pow- er of PRF grants, the board approved a $5,000 increase in the value of Type AC and Type Β grants. Type AC grant recipi- ents may be given up to $30,000 per year. Type Β grant recipients may receive up to $30,000 for the two-year term of the grant. The increases will take effect with the 1998 PRF grants. Type G grants will re- main at $20,000 over two years. The last meeting of the PRF Advisory Board to recommend 1997 grants is scheduled for May. Proposals will be ac- cepted through June for the November PRF Advisory Board meeting for 1998 funding. For information and application materials, contact the Petroleum Re- search Fund, American Chemical Society, 1155—16th St., N.W., Washington D.C. 20036; phone (202) 872-4481, e-mail: [email protected]. ACS-PRF Grants for Fundamental Research in the Petroleum Field (Type AC) Estella Atekwana, William A. Sauck, West- ern Michigan U. Geophysical Investigations of the Anomalous Conductivities Associat- ed with Hydrocarbon Plumes. $50,000 James K. Bashkin, Washington U. Mecha- nism and Charge Control of Metal-Catalyzed RNA Transesterification. $50,000 Lorenz T. Biegler, Carnegie Mellon U. Boundary Value Approaches for Parameter Estimation of Large-Scale Differential Alge- braic Systems. $50,000 Dennis K. Bird, Stanford U. Thermodynamic Properties and Parageneses of Rock- Forming Zeolites. $49,820 Silas C. Blackstock, U of Alabama. Develop- ment of Localized Donor-Acceptor Interac- tions for Crystal Engineering. $50,000 Thierry A. Blanchet, Rensselaer Polytechnic Inst. Irradiated/Unirradiated Fluoropolymer Composites for Enhanced Wear Resis- tance and Self-Lubrication. $50,000 David J. Bottjer, Mary L. Droser, U of Southern California. Lateral Heterogeneity of Bioturbation Structures in Reservoir Sandstones. $49,790 Milton W. Cole, Pennsylvania State U. Ad- sorption on Unusual Forms of Carbon. $50,000 Robert V. Demicco, State U of New York, Binghamton. Cycopath 3-D: A Three- Dimensional, Forward-Model of Sedimenta- tion on Carbonate Platforms. $40,500 Peter A. Dowben, Marjorie A. Langell, U of Nebraska, Lincoln. Decomposition Pathways of Metallocenes on Surfaces. $50,000 Randolph S. Duran, U of Florida. Sequenc- ing and Structural Investigations of Copoly- merization Reactions in Restricted Dimen- sions. $50,000 Malcolm D. E. Forbes, U of North Carolina, Chapel Hill. Connecting Electron-Spin Ex- change Interactions and Electron-Transfer Rates in Donor-Peptide-Acceptor Mole- cules. $50,000 Joel R. Fried, U of Cincinnati. Atomistic Sim- ulation of Gas Diffusion in Highly Perme- able Amorphous Polymers in the Glassy State. $50,000 Gregory C. Fu, Massachusetts Inst, of Tech- nology. Development of Organotin Re- agents for Organic Synthesis. $50,000 Bruce C. Gates, U of California, Davis. Pro- totype Supported Bimetallic Cluster Cata- lysts. $50,000 William M. Gelbart, James R. Heath, U of California, Los Angeles. Controlling the Shapes and Sizes of Ordered Arrays of Nano- particles in Wetting Thin Films. $50,000 Terry W. Gullion, Florida State U. Measuring 13 C- 17 0 and 13 C- 14 N Distances in Solids with Applications to Bound Water and Poly- mers. $50,000 Masanori Hara, Rutgers, State U of New Jer- sey. Small-Angle Neutron Scattering Study of Molecular Composites via Ionic Interac- tions. $50,000 John F. Hartwig, Yale U. Directly Observed β-Hydrogen Elimination from Late Transi- tion-Metal Alkoxides and Amides. $50,000 William W. Hay, U of Colorado. Salinity, Thermohaline Circulation, and Ocean An- oxic Events on a Warm Earth. $50,000 D. Michael Heinekey, U of Washington. Hy- drogenolysis of Carbon-Chlorine Bonds: New Routes to CFC Alternatives. $50,000 Douglas J. Henderson, Brigham Young U. Interfacial Chemistry and the Interactions between Colloidal Particles. $50,000 Jonathan D. Hirst, Scripps Research Inst. Ab Initio Calculations of the Electronic Ex- cited States of Amides. $50,000 Michael F. Hochella Jr., Virginia Polytechnic Inst. & State U. Silicate Dissolution/Precipita- tion in the Presence of Thin, Confined Films of Water: A New Experimental Approach of Chemical Weathering Phenomena. $50,000 John D. Humphrey, Colorado School of Mines. Sediment-Water Interaction in Holo- cene Carbonate Islands, San Bias Archi- pelago, Panama. $49,225 Joseph T. Hupp, Northwestern U. Exploitation of Primitive Molecular Recognition Effects in Electron- and Energy-Transfer Reactions: Synthesis and Applications of Luminescent Squares, Rectangles, Cubes, and Columns. $50,000 Shiou-Jyh Hwu, Clemson U. Electrochemi- cal Synthesis of Conducting Transition- Metal Chalcogenides. $50,000 Wayne E. Jones Jr., State U of New York, Binghamton. Electron-Transfer and Solva- tion Dynamics in Odd-Electron Transition- Metal Complexes. $50,000 Larry L. Kesmodel, Indiana U. Surface-Sen- sitive Vibrational Spectroscopy of Poly- mers. $50,000 Tad H. Koch, U of Colorado. Redox-Active Building Blocks for Self-Assembly. $50,000 Lev N. Krasnoperov, New Jersey Inst, of Technology. Kinetics of Free-Radical Reac- tions at High Pressures. $50,000 David M. Lemal, Dartmouth C. Tetraamino- ethylenes. $50,000 Charles M. Lieber, Harvard U. Growth of One-Dimensional Carbide Nanomaterials. $50,000 Eric W. McFarland, U of California, Santa Barbara. Magnetically Controlled Catalysis: Magnetic-Fie Id-Dependent Surface- Structure Modifications in Metallic Thin Films. $50,000 Michael J. McGlinchey, McMaster U. Organ- ometallic Cations and Anions: Syntheses, Structures, and Dynamics. $50,000 Anthony J. McHugh, U of Illinois, Urbana- Champaign. Flow-Induced Conformations, Structuring, and Phase Stability of Semi- Flexible Polymers. $50,000 David W. Mead, U of Michigan. Development and Evaluation of Mixing Rules for Polydis- perse Systems of Rodlike Polymers Utiliz- ing the Double Reptation Model. $50,000 Keith T. Mead, Mississippi State U. Studies in Spiroketal Synthesis. $50,000 Philip W. Morrison Jr., Case Western Re- serve U. In Situ Diagnostics during the Growth of Diamond Films in an Enclosed Combustion Flame. $50,000 Aiichiro Nakano, Louisiana State U. Me- chanical and Thermal Properties of Porous Ceramics: Enabling Simulation Technolo- gies for Rational Design. $50,000 74 FEBRUARY 24, 1997 C&EN

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acs n e w s

First Group Of 1997 PRF Grants T he American Chemical Society

Board of Directors has approved 156 new or continuing ACS-Petroleum

Research Fund (PRF) grants for fundamen­tal research or scientific education. Also approved were 33 of 59 requests for sup­plements to existing ACS-PRF Research Grants. The supplements will allow a fac­ulty member from an undergraduate de­partment to be added to the PRF-funded research project for the summer of 1997. These grants, committing $4,290,235 of the $13 million authorized for 1997, were recommended from the 411 proposals considered by the PRF Advisory Board in November 1996.

In order to sustain the purchasing pow­er of PRF grants, the board approved a $5,000 increase in the value of Type AC and Type Β grants. Type AC grant recipi­ents may be given up to $30,000 per year. Type Β grant recipients may receive up to $30,000 for the two-year term of the grant. The increases will take effect with the 1998 PRF grants. Type G grants will re­main at $20,000 over two years.

The last meeting of the PRF Advisory Board to recommend 1997 grants is scheduled for May. Proposals will be ac­cepted through June for the November PRF Advisory Board meeting for 1998 funding. For information and application materials, contact the Petroleum Re­search Fund, American Chemical Society, 1155—16th St., N.W., Washington D.C. 20036; phone (202) 872-4481, e-mail: [email protected].

ACS-PRF Grants for Fundamental Research in the Petroleum Field (Type AC)

Estella Atekwana, William A. Sauck, West­ern Michigan U. Geophysical Investigations of the Anomalous Conductivities Associat­ed with Hydrocarbon Plumes. $50,000

James K. Bashkin, Washington U. Mecha­nism and Charge Control of Metal-Catalyzed RNA Transesterification. $50,000

Lorenz T. Biegler, Carnegie Mellon U. Boundary Value Approaches for Parameter Estimation of Large-Scale Differential Alge­braic Systems. $50,000

Dennis K. Bird, Stanford U. Thermodynamic Properties and Parageneses of Rock-Forming Zeolites. $49,820

Silas C. Blackstock, U of Alabama. Develop­ment of Localized Donor-Acceptor Interac­tions for Crystal Engineering. $50,000

Thierry A. Blanchet, Rensselaer Polytechnic Inst. Irradiated/Unirradiated Fluoropolymer Composites for Enhanced Wear Resis­tance and Self-Lubrication. $50,000

David J. Bottjer, Mary L. Droser, U of Southern California. Lateral Heterogeneity of Bioturbation Structures in Reservoir Sandstones. $49,790

Milton W. Cole, Pennsylvania State U. Ad­sorption on Unusual Forms of Carbon. $50,000

Robert V. Demicco, State U of New York, Binghamton. Cycopath 3-D: A Three-Dimensional, Forward-Model of Sedimenta­tion on Carbonate Platforms. $40,500

Peter A. Dowben, Marjorie A. Langell, U of Nebraska, Lincoln. Decomposition Pathways of Metallocenes on Surfaces. $50,000

Randolph S. Duran, U of Florida. Sequenc­ing and Structural Investigations of Copoly-merization Reactions in Restricted Dimen­sions. $50,000

Malcolm D. E. Forbes, U of North Carolina, Chapel Hill. Connecting Electron-Spin Ex­change Interactions and Electron-Transfer Rates in Donor-Peptide-Acceptor Mole­cules. $50,000

Joel R. Fried, U of Cincinnati. Atomistic Sim­ulation of Gas Diffusion in Highly Perme­able Amorphous Polymers in the Glassy State. $50,000

Gregory C. Fu, Massachusetts Inst, of Tech­nology. Development of Organotin Re­agents for Organic Synthesis. $50,000

Bruce C. Gates, U of California, Davis. Pro­totype Supported Bimetallic Cluster Cata­lysts. $50,000

William M. Gelbart, James R. Heath, U of California, Los Angeles. Controlling the Shapes and Sizes of Ordered Arrays of Nano-particles in Wetting Thin Films. $50,000

Terry W. Gullion, Florida State U. Measuring 13C-170 and 13C-14N Distances in Solids with Applications to Bound Water and Poly­mers. $50,000

Masanori Hara, Rutgers, State U of New Jer­sey. Small-Angle Neutron Scattering Study of Molecular Composites via Ionic Interac­tions. $50,000

John F. Hartwig, Yale U. Directly Observed β-Hydrogen Elimination from Late Transi­tion-Metal Alkoxides and Amides. $50,000

William W. Hay, U of Colorado. Salinity, Thermohaline Circulation, and Ocean An­oxic Events on a Warm Earth. $50,000

D. Michael Heinekey, U of Washington. Hy-drogenolysis of Carbon-Chlorine Bonds: New Routes to CFC Alternatives. $50,000

Douglas J. Henderson, Brigham Young U. Interfacial Chemistry and the Interactions between Colloidal Particles. $50,000

Jonathan D. Hirst, Scripps Research Inst. Ab Initio Calculations of the Electronic Ex­cited States of Amides. $50,000

Michael F. Hochella Jr., Virginia Polytechnic Inst. & State U. Silicate Dissolution/Precipita­tion in the Presence of Thin, Confined Films of Water: A New Experimental Approach of Chemical Weathering Phenomena. $50,000

John D. Humphrey, Colorado School of Mines. Sediment-Water Interaction in Holo-cene Carbonate Islands, San Bias Archi­pelago, Panama. $49,225

Joseph T. Hupp, Northwestern U. Exploitation of Primitive Molecular Recognition Effects in Electron- and Energy-Transfer Reactions: Synthesis and Applications of Luminescent Squares, Rectangles, Cubes, and Columns. $50,000

Shiou-Jyh Hwu, Clemson U. Electrochemi­cal Synthesis of Conducting Transition-Metal Chalcogenides. $50,000

Wayne E. Jones Jr., State U of New York, Binghamton. Electron-Transfer and Solva­tion Dynamics in Odd-Electron Transition-Metal Complexes. $50,000

Larry L. Kesmodel, Indiana U. Surface-Sen­sitive Vibrational Spectroscopy of Poly­mers. $50,000

Tad H. Koch, U of Colorado. Redox-Active Building Blocks for Self-Assembly. $50,000

Lev N. Krasnoperov, New Jersey Inst, of Technology. Kinetics of Free-Radical Reac­tions at High Pressures. $50,000

David M. Lemal, Dartmouth C. Tetraamino-ethylenes. $50,000

Charles M. Lieber, Harvard U. Growth of One-Dimensional Carbide Nanomaterials. $50,000

Eric W. McFarland, U of California, Santa Barbara. Magnetically Controlled Catalysis: Magnetic-Fie Id-Dependent Surface-Structure Modifications in Metallic Thin Films. $50,000

Michael J. McGlinchey, McMaster U. Organ-ometallic Cations and Anions: Syntheses, Structures, and Dynamics. $50,000

Anthony J. McHugh, U of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign. Flow-Induced Conformations, Structuring, and Phase Stability of Semi-Flexible Polymers. $50,000

David W. Mead, U of Michigan. Development and Evaluation of Mixing Rules for Polydis-perse Systems of Rodlike Polymers Utiliz­ing the Double Reptation Model. $50,000

Keith T. Mead, Mississippi State U. Studies in Spiroketal Synthesis. $50,000

Philip W. Morrison Jr., Case Western Re­serve U. In Situ Diagnostics during the Growth of Diamond Films in an Enclosed Combustion Flame. $50,000

Aiichiro Nakano, Louisiana State U. Me­chanical and Thermal Properties of Porous Ceramics: Enabling Simulation Technolo­gies for Rational Design. $50,000

74 FEBRUARY 24, 1997 C&EN

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Amos M. Nur, Stanford U. Seismic Signa­tures of Geopressure in the Gulf of Mexico: The Rock Physics Basis. $50,000

Kyriakos D. Papadopoulos, Tulane U. Fluo­rescent Microscopy of W/O/W Globules for Studying Stability and the Release Mecha­nisms in Liquid Membranes. $50,000

Ronald J. Phillips, U of California, Davis. Properties of Viscoelastic Particulate Sus­pensions in Sedimentation and Shear Flows. $50,000

David W. Pratt, U of Pittsburgh. Laser Prob­ing of Enzyme Mimics in the Gas Phase. $50,000

T. V. RajanBabu, Ohio State U. Asymmetric Catalysis of Carbon-Carbon Bond-Forming Reactions. $50,000

Thomas G. Richmond, U of Utah. Cobalto-cene Mediated C-C, C-H, and C-F Bond Activations. $50,000

Lisa L. Robbins, U of South Florida, Tampa. Microbial Fingerprint: An Investigation of the Isotopic, Elemental, and Crystallo­graphy Signatures of Microbially Precipitat­ed Carbonates. $50,000

John D. Roberts, California Inst, of Technol­ogy. Steric, Electrostatic, Hydrogen Bond­ing, and Solvent Effects on Conformational Equilibria and Equilibrations. $40,000

William B. Russel, Princeton U. Film Forma­tion from Dispersions of Polymer Lattices. $50,000

Franklin A. Schultz, Indiana U-Purdue U, In­dianapolis. Single versus Multiple Electron Transfer and Electrocatalysis by Ligand-Bridged Binuclear Complexes. $50,000

Bala Subramaniam, U of Kansas. Coking of Acidic Catalysts by Olefinic Oligomers: Role of Dissolved Oxygen and Feed Perox­ides. $50,000

Martin T. Vala Jr., U of Florida. Spectroscop­ic Studies of Polycyclic Aromatic Hydrocar­bon and Carbon Chain Ions. $50,000

Jan Veizer, U of Ottawa. Hydrothermal Vent­ing in Coral Reef. $50,000

Robert M. Williams, Colorado State U. Stud­ies on the Biosynthesis of Taxol. $25,000

B. Erik Ydstie, Carnegie Mellon U. Distilla­tion Control Systems from Thermodynam­ics. $50,000

Jin Z. Zhang, U of California, Santa Cruz. Ul-trafast Studies of Interfacial Electron Dynam­ics in Colloidal Metal Nanoparticles. $50,000

ACS-PRF Grants for Fundamental Research in the Petroleum Field (Type B) Awarded to faculty in non-Ph.D.-granting departments

Robert K. Boggess, Radford U. Use of Su­percritical Carbon Dioxide to Infuse Metal-Containing Additives into Polyimides. $25,000

Ronald Caple, U of Minnesota, Duluth. Utili­zation of the Concept of Stepwise Electro-philic Addition in the Construction of Carbon Skeletons. $25,000

Philip J. Chenier, U of Wisconsin, Eau Claire. Synthesis and Chemistry of Chiral Tropocoronands. $25,000

John G. Cobley, U of San Francisco. Bio­chemical and Genetic Investigation of the Utilization of n-Alkanes by the Marine Fila­mentous Cyanobacterium Phormidium cori-um. $25,000

Ronald J. Duchovic, Indiana U-Purdue U, Fort Wayne. Kinetics and Dynamics of Bi-molecular Combustion Reactions. $25,000

Timothy E. Elgren, Hamilton C. Neurocuprein: A Novel Type II Copper Protein. $25,000

Gabriel M. Filippelli, Indiana U-Purdue U, In­dianapolis. Phosphorus and Carbon Sedi­mentation in the Southern Ocean on Gla-cial/lnterglacial Timescales. $25,000

Fred J. Grieman, Pomona C. Electronic Spec­troscopy of Perdeuterodimethylzinc Cation and the Zinc Dihalide Cations. $25,000

Jeffry D. Grigsby, Ball State U. In Search of Chemical Fingerprints: Petrology, Clay Min­eralogy, and Chemistry of Bentonite Beds Exposed Near the Eocene-Oligocene Boundary, Gulf Coastal Plain. $25,000

John M. Holbrook, Southeast Missouri State U. Investigation for Evidence and Criteria Indicating Impact on the Sedimentary Record by Subtle Tectonics: Examination of the Lake County Uplift. $25,000

Donald T. Jacobs, C of Wooster. Heat Ca­pacity in Binary Fluid Mixtures and Univer­sality Near the Critical Point. $25,000

John A. Maguire, Southern Methodist U. Struc­tural and Theoretical Studies of Pentagonal Bipyramidal Metallacarboranes. $25,000

William H. Miles, Lafayette C. Chemistry of 3-Methylene-2,3-Dihydrofuran. $25,000

Daniel C. Robie, Barnard C. Cross Sections of Weak Absorptions by Cavity Ring-Down Spectroscopy. $23,400

June R. P. Ross, Western Washington U. Evolutionary Relations within Upper Ordo-vician and Lower Silurian Bryozoans in Midwestern States. $25,000

Charles D. Schaeffer Jr., Claude H. Yoder, Elizabethtown C. Stabilization of Silylenium Ions by Intramolecular Charge-Dipole En­capsulation. $25,000

Thomas T. Shawe, Bucknell U. Asymmetric Synthesis of Optically Active Cycloal-kenones. $25,000

Elizabeth A. Stemmler, Bowdoin C. Control­ling Neutral and Ionic Reactions in the Neg­ative Chemical Ionization Source. $25,000

Marc Zimmer, Connecticut C. Molecular Me­chanical and Cluster Analysis of the Factors Responsible for the Conformations Adopted by Tetraaza Macrocycles. $25,000

ACS-PRF Grants for Fundamental Research in the Petroleum Field (Type G) Awarded to faculty in Ph.D.-granting departments

Eric Bakker, Auburn U. Novel Approaches to the Selectivity of Carrier-Based Ion-Selective Electrodes. $20,000

Anne M. Baranger, Wesleyan U. Studies on the Contribution of Stacking Interactions to RNA-Protein Complexes. $20,000

Angel C. de Dios, Georgetown U. Chemical Shifts: Insight into Structure and Environ­ment. $20,000

Francis D'Souza, Wichita State U. Molecular Recognition via Hydroquinone-Quinone Pairing in Porphyrin Covalently Attached Either to Hydroquinone or Quinone. $20,000

Elliot P. Douglas, U of Florida. Synthesis and Phase Behavior of Liquid Crystalline Thermosets. $20,000

Jeffrey E. Elbert, South Dakota State U. Triplet Energy Transfer Sensitization of Lanthanide-DOTA Complexes Studied by Flash Photolysis and Photoacoustic Calo-rimetry. $20,000

Patrick J. Farmer, U of California, Irvine. Myoglobin-Based Functional Models for Ni­trite and Sulfite Reductases. $20,000

Cassandra L. Fraser, U of Virginia. Metal Core Macromolecules: Multifunctional Met­al Complex Initiators and Terminating Agents for Living Polymerization Reactions. $20,000

David Y. Gin, U of Illinois, Urbana-Cham-paign. Enantiospecific Synthesis of Batzel-ladine A, a Potent Inhibitor of the HIV gp120-CD4 Interaction. $20,000

Rachel S. Goldman, U of Michigan. Nano­meter-Scale Investigations of Interfacial Chemistry in Semiconductor Structures. $20,000

Daniel A. Higgins, Kansas State U. Polymer Dispersed Liquid Crystals Studied by Near Field Scanning Optical Microscopy. $20,000

Bo Hong, U of California, Irvine. Supramolec-ular Photochemistry and Surface Attach­ment of Light-Harvesting Dendritic Assem­blies. $20,000

Laurens E. Howie, Duke U. Active Control of Convection in Porous Media. $20,000

Christopher A. Klug, Stanford U. Nuclear Magnetic Resonance Study of the Struc­tures and Reactions of Simple Molecules on Supported Metal Catalysts. $20,000

Jeffrey L. Krause, U of Florida. Laser Con­trol of Chemical and Material Processes. $20,000

Michael B. Kruger, U of Missouri-Kansas City. Structural Studies of Pressure-Amorphized Materials. $20,000

Tingyu Li, Vanderbilt U. Preorganized Short Oligopeptides for Chiral Chromatography. $20,000

Patrick A. Limbach, Louisiana State U. Structural Characterization of Conducting Polymers Using Mass Spectrometry. $20,000

David W. M. Marr, Colorado School of Mines. Influence of Interactions on Interfacial Properties in Binary Systems. $20,000

Stefan Matile, Georgetown U. Exploring Mechanisms and Specificities of Cell-Mem­brane-Related Processes by Means of Synthetic Rigid-Rod Molecules. $20,000

FEBRUARY 24, 1997 C&EN 75

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Peggy A. O'Day, Arizona State U. Determi­nation of Oxygen Isotope Ratios of Clay Minerals in Situ Using Secondary Ion Mass Spectrometry (SIMS). $20,000

Jonathan R. Parquette, Ohio State U. Cata­lytic Dendrimers: Design and Synthesis of Dendrimers for Asymmetric Catalysis in Aqueous Media. $20,000

Peter A. Petillo, U of Illinois, Urbana-Cham-paign. Polymerization Strategies for Carbo­hydrate Synthesis. $20,000

Robin L. B. Selinger, Catholic U of America. Theory of Polyisocyanates Designed for Optical Switching. $20,000

Panagiotis G. Smirniotis, U of Cincinnati. Selective Dealumination of Zeolite Super-cages Leading to Minimum Coke Deposi­tion: Catalyst Synthesis and Characteriza­tion. $20,000

Cinzia Spencer-Cervato, U of Maine, Orono. Evolution of the Thermocline during the Pliocene: Implications for Oceanic Produc­tivity. $20,000

Richard E. Taylor, U of Notre Dame. Oligo-cyclopropanes from Homo-Allyl Cations. $20,000

Britt N. Thomas, U of Wyoming. Probes of Spatially Constrained Phospholipid Tubule Formation. $20,000

Trevor A. Tyson, New Jersey Inst, of Tech­nology. Investigation of Electron-Lattice-Spin Correlations in Transition-Metal Ox­ides: Doped LaMn03 Systems. $20,000

ACS-PRF Grants for Fundamental Research in the Petroleum Field (Type G) Awarded to faculty in non-Ph.D.-granting departments

Jay H. Baltisberger, Berea C. Studies of Dis­tributional Effects in Alkaline Phosphate Glasses. $20,000

Kieron Burke, Rutgers, State U of New Jer­sey. Density Functional Theory of Re­sponse Properties: Ionization Thresholds. $20,000

Ronald B. Cole, Allegheny C. Deformation, Synorogenic Sedimentation, and Geochro-nology of the Early Eocene Upper Cantwell Formation: Refining the Accretionary to Strike-Slip Tectonic History of the Central Alaska Range. $20,000

Matthew J. Elrod, Hope C. Studies of the At­mospheric Fate of Halogenated Methylper-oxy Radicals Using Turbulent Flow Chemi­cal Ionization Mass Spectrometry. $20,000

Victoria J. Fabry, California State U, San Marcos. Quantitative Significance of the Ef­fects of Coccolithophore Calcification on Oceanic C02 Chemistry. $20,000

Rebecca C. Hoye, Macalester C. Scope of the Aryl-Alkyne Zipper Reaction and Mech­anism of an Unusual Carbanionic Cleavage Reaction. $20,000

W. Bryan Lynch, U of Evansville. High-Field Electron Paramagnetic Resonance Study of the Metal-Binding Site in Manganese(ll)-Substituted Carboxypeptidase A. $20,000

Gina M. MacDonald, James Madison U. Fourier-Transform Infrared Investigation of Nucleotide Binding in the Recombination Protein, RecA. $20,000

David Y. Son, Southern Methodist U. New Halogenated Organosilicon Monomers and Polymers. $20,000

Sarah L Stoll, Oberlin C. Tuning of Size-De­pendent Properties of Rare-Earth and Transition-Metal Chalcogenide Materials. $20,000

Feimeng Zhou, U of Wisconsin, Eau Claire. Kinetic Studies of Homogeneous Chemical Reactions of Species Electrogenerated from Fullerenes and Fullerene Derivatives. $20,000

Edward P. Zovinka, Saint Francis C. Multiply Functionalized Metallocenes. $20,000

ACS-PRF Grants for Scientific Education (Type SE)

Steven M. Bachrach, on behalf of Northern Illinois U. Cubanes, Homocubanes, and Heterocubanes (X=P, As, N): Synthesis and Chemistry at the 5th Chemical Con­gress of North America, Cancun, Mexico, November 1997. $2,000

Richard A. Bartsch, on behalf of ACS Division of Industrial & Engineering Chemistry Inc., Subdivision of Separation Science & Tech­nology. Recognition with Imprinted Polymers at the 213th ACS national meeting, San Francisco, April 1997. $2,000

Thomas W. Bell, on behalf of ACS Division of Organic Chemistry. Synthetic Receptors for Optical Chemosensors at the 213th ACS national meeting, San Francisco, April 1997. $2,000

William J. Brittain, on behalf of ACS Division of Polymer Chemistry Inc. Acrylate Poly­merization: New Mechanisms and Poly­mers at the 213th ACS national meeting, San Francisco, April 1997. $2,000

Patrick E. Cassidy, on behalf of ACS Divi­sion of Polymer Chemistry Inc. Fluoropoly-mers at the 216th ACS national meeting, Boston, August 1998. $2,000

H. N. Cheng, on behalf of ACS Division of Polymer Chemistry Inc. NMR Spectroscopy of Synthetic Macromolecules at the 213th ACS national meeting, San Francisco, April 1997. $2,000

Christopher J. Cramer, on behalf of ACS Di­vision of Computers in Chemistry. The Role of Electrostatics in Chemistry at the 214th ACS national meeting, Las Vegas, Septem­ber 1997. $2,000

Paul L. Dubin, on behalf of ACS Division of Colloid & Surface Chemistry. Polymer-Sur­factant Interactions at the 213th ACS na­tional meeting, San Francisco, April 1997. $2,000

William E. Geiger Jr., on behalf of ACS Divi­sion of Inorganic Chemistry. Electrochemis­try in the Characterization of Inorganic, Or-ganometallic, and Biological Systems at the 214th ACS national meeting, Las Vegas, September 1997. $2,000

David W. Grainger, on behalf of ACS Divi­sion of Polymer Chemistry Inc. Polyethyl­ene Glycol: Chemistry and Biological Appli­cations at the 213th ACS national meeting, San Francisco, April 1997. $2,000

Timothy J. Grundl, on behalf of ACS Division of Geochemistry Inc. Kinetics and Mecha­nisms of Reactions at the Mineral-Water In­terface at the 213th ACS national meeting, San Francisco, April 1997. $2,000

Bruce A. Harrington, on behalf of ACS Divi­sion of Polymeric Materials: Science & En­gineering Inc. Engineering Polyolefins at the 213th ACS national meeting, San Fran­cisco, April 1997. $2,000

Patrick G. Hatcher, on behalf of ACS Division of Geochemistry Inc. Biogeochemistry of Al­gae at the 213th ACS national meeting, San Francisco, April 1997. $2,000

Bing R. Hsieh, on behalf of ACS Divisions of Polymer Chemistry Inc. and Polymeric Ma­terials: Science & Engineering Inc. Organic Materials and Devices for Display Technol­ogy at the 213th ACS national meeting, San Francisco, April 1997. $2,000

Jerry E. Hunt, on behalf of ACS Division of Fuel Chemistry. Asphaltene and Resid Char­acterization at the 213th ACS national meet­ing, San Francisco, April 1997. $2,000

Hannes Jonsson, John T. Yates Jr., on be­half of ACS Divisions of Physical Chemistry and Colloid & Surface Chemistry. New Concepts in Surface Chemistry: Diffusive Motion of Atoms and Molecules on Surfac­es at the 213th ACS national meeting, San Francisco, April 1997. $2,000

Clifford P. Kubiak, on behalf of Interameri-can Photochemical Society. 9th Interameri-can Photochemical Society Winter Confer­ence, Clearwater Beach, Fla., January 1997. $2,000

Hilary S. Lackritz, on behalf of ACS Divisions of Polymer Chemistry Inc. and Polymeric Materials: Science & Engineering and the Optical Society of America. Organic Thin Films for Photonic Applications, Long Beach, Calif., September 1997. $2,000

Brian B. Laird, on behalf of American Physical Society Division of Chemical Physics. Dy­namics of Glasses and Supercooled Liquids at the American Physical Society Meeting, Kansas City, Mo., March 1997. $2,000

Neocles B. Leontis, on behalf of ACS Division of Computers in Chemistry. Molecular Mod­eling and Structural Determination of Nucleic Acids at the 213th ACS national meeting, San Francisco, April 1997. $2,000

Thomas E. Mallouk, on behalf of ACS Divi­sion of Inorganic Chemistry. Solid-State Chemistry and Materials Science at the 213th ACS national meeting, San Fran­cisco, April 1997. $2,000

Todd B. Marder, on behalf of U of Waterloo. Transition-Metal Group 13 Compounds In­cluding Their Roles in Catalytic Processes at the 5th Chemical Congress of North America, Cancun, Mexico, November 1997. $2,000

Michael J. Maroney, on behalf of ACS Divi­sion of Inorganic Chemistry. Role of Nickel in Biology and Catalysis at the 5th Chemi­cal Congress of North America, Cancun, Mexico, November 1997. $2,000

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David H. McConville, on behalf of Canadian Society for Chemistry. Non-Cp Ligand Envi­ronments: Activation of Small Molecules at the Canadian Society for Chemistry Confer­ence, Windsor, Ontario, June 1997. $2,000

Roger E. Miller, Peter M. Felker, on behalf of ACS Division of Physical Chemistry. Ori­entation and Alignment in Chemical Pro­cesses at the 213th ACS national meeting, San Francisco, April 1997. $2,000

Buddy D. Ratner, on behalf of ACS Division of Polymer Chemistry Inc. Plasmas and Poly­mers at the 213th ACS national meeting, San Francisco, April 1997. $2,000

Eisa Reichmanis, on behalf of ACS Division of Polymeric Materials: Science & Engi­neering Inc. Polymers for Micro- and Nano-patterning Science and Technology at the 214th ACS national meeting, Las Vegas, September 1997. $2,000

June R. P. Ross, on behalf of PaleoForams '97 Organizing Committee/Western Wash­ington U. PaleoForams '97: An Internation­al Conference on Paleozoic Foraminifera, Bellingham, Wash., August 1997. $2,000

Richard B. Ross, on behalf of ACS Division of Computers in Chemistry. Industrial Appli­cations of Computational Chemistry at the 213th ACS national meeting, San Fran­cisco, April 1997. $2,000

Daniel J. Sandman, Takeshi Ogawa, on be­half of ACS Division of Polymer Chemistry Inc. Polymers from Acetylenes at the 5th Chemical Congress of North America, Can-cun, Mexico, November 1997. $2,000

Daniel A. Scarpiello, on behalf of the Catal­ysis Society, Chicago Section. 15th North American Meeting of the Catalysis Society, Chicago, May 1997. $2,000

Donald N. Schulz, on behalf of ACS Division of Polymeric Materials: Science & Engi­neering Inc. Functional Polymers at the 213th ACS national meeting, San Fran­cisco, April 1997. $2,000

Vladimir M. Shalaev, on behalf of ACS Divi­sion of Physical Chemistry. Nanostructured Materials: Clusters, Composites, and Thin Films at the 213th ACS national meeting, San Francisco, April 1997. $2,000

Martin R. Tant, on behalf of ACS Division of Polymeric Materials: Science & Engineering Inc. Structure and Properties of Glassy Poly­mers at the 213th ACS national meeting, San Francisco, April 1997. $2,000

Thomas T. Tidwell, on behalf of Canadian So­ciety for Chemistry, Organic Division. Toward the Second Century of Carbocation Chemistry at the 5th Chemical Congress of North Ameri­ca, Cancun, Mexico, November 1997. $2,000

John C. Van Houten, on behalf of Saint Michael's C. 12th International Symposium on Photochemistry and Photophysics of Coordination Compounds, Colchester, Vt., June and July 1997. $2,000

John T. Welch, on behalf of ACS Division of Fluorine Chemistry. 13th Winter Fluorine Conference, St. Petersburg Beach, Fla., January 1997. $2,000

Richard V. Williams, on behalf of 5th Chem­ical Congress of North America. Theoreti­cally Interesting Molecules at the 5th Chemical Congress of North America, Can­cun, Mexico, November 1997. $2,000

Xiaoliang Sunney Xie, William E. Moerner, on behalf of ACS Division of Physical Chemistry. Single Molecules at the 213th ACS national meeting, San Francisco, April 1997. $2,000

Weitao Yang, on behalf of Duke U. Density Functional Theory and Applications—A Satellite Symposium of the 9th Internation­al Congress of Quantum Chemistry, Dur­ham, N.C., June 1997. $2,000

ACS-PRF Summer Research Supplements to Type AC Grants

Rex E. Crick, Brooks B. Ellwood, U of Tex­as, Arlington. Evaluating the Magnetosus-ceptibility Stratigraphy Method: Key to High-Resolution Correlation and Cyclo-stratigraphy. $5,000

Thomas R. Cundari, U of Memphis. Methane Activation by Mercury(ll) Complexes. $5,000

Ronald I. Dorn, Arizona State U. Temperature Dependency of Calcium- and Magnesium-Silicate Weathering in Nature: Implications for the Global Carbon Cycle. $5,000

Erik J. Fernandez, U of Virginia. Magnetic Resonance Imaging Analysis of Viscous Fingering. $5,000

Robert E. Gawley, U of Miami. Properties and Synthetic Applications of α-Amino and α-Alkoxy Organolithiums. $5,000

Harry W. Gibson, Virginia Polytechnic Inst. & State U. Novel Dendrimers Formed from Macrocyclic and Cryptand Units. $5,000

Gordon W. Gribble, Dartmouth C. Fused Heterocycles in Natural Products Synthe­sis. $5,000

David C. Johnson, U of Oregon. Synthesis of Crystalline Superlattices by Controlled Crys­tallization of Modulated Reactants. $5,000

James M. Mayer, U of Washington. Oxida­tion of Alkanes and Arylalkanes by Transi­tion-Metal Oxo Complexes. $5,000

Gordon J. Miller, Iowa State U. At the Boundary of Metal-Insulator Transitions, Superconductivity, and Relativistic Effects: New Bismuthides and Antimonides. $5,000

George A. Petersson, G. Barney Ellison, Wesleyan U. Energetics of Organic Diradi-cals. $5,000

Suzanne T. Purrington, North Carolina State U. New Approach to the Synthesis of β-Lactams. $5,000

Paul G. Rasmussen, U of Michigan. Synthe­sis of High Nitrogen, Low Hydrogen, Mate­rials from Λ/,Λ/',ΛΓ-Tricyanoguanidinate, C4N6

2_, Dianion. $5,000 John R. Scheffer, U of British Columbia.

Control of Reaction Multiplicity in Solid-State Organic Photochemistry: Energy Transfer and Heavy Atom Effects. $5,000

Paul W. Schmidt, U of Missouri, Columbia. Two-Length-Scale Structure in Porous Sol­ids. $5,000

Bakthan Singaram, U of California, Santa Cruz. Asymmetric Hydroboration of Func-tionalized Alkenes. $5,000

Dwight A. Sweigart, Brown U. Bimetallic Arene Complexes and Their Application as Models for Hydrodesulfurization and Hydro-denitrogenation. $5,000

Paul G. Tratnyek, Oregon Graduate Inst, of Science & Technology. Organic Reduction Reactions at the Metal-Water Interface. $5,000

Kenneth B. Wiberg, Yale U. Toward an Un­derstanding of 13C Chemical Shifts. $5,000

Scott A. Wood, U of Idaho. Thermodynamics of REE Complexes with Simple Carboxylic Acid Anions at Elevated Temperatures. $5,000

Xiao-lun Wu, U of Pittsburgh. Hydrodynam­ics in Driven Soap Films. $5,000

ACS-PRF Summer Research Supplements to Type Β Grants

Ernest H. Gilmour, Eastern Washington U. Permian Bryozoa of the Productus Creek Group, Brook Street Terrane, South Island, New Zealand. $5,000

Lawrence D. Margerum, U of San Francisco. Metal Ion Binding Sites in a Series of Poly-amine Dendrimers: Thermodynamics and Lewis Acid Catalytic Sites. $5,000

Allan M. Nishimura, Westmont C. Triplet-Triplet Energy Transfer of Adsorbed Organ­ic Species. $5,000

ACS-PRF Summer Research Supplements to Type G Grants

Gregory V. Hartland, U of Notre Dame. Ul-trafast IR Spectroscopy of Nanometer-Sized Semiconductor Clusters. $5,000

Michael Manga, U of Oregon. Drops and Bubbles in Low Reynolds Number Mul­tiphase Flows. $5,000

Philip J. Reid, U of Washington. Resonance Raman Spectroscopic Investigations of Ul-trafast Radical Chemistry in the Condensed Phase. $5,000

Shawn C. Sendlinger, North Carolina Cen­tral U. New Synthetic Routes to Inorganic Oligomers and Polymers. $5,000

Greg M. Swain, Utah State U. Electrochemical and Spectroscopic Characterization of Elec­trochemical Interfaces Found at Conductive Diamond Thin-Film Surfaces. $2,500

John P. Toscano, Johns Hopkins U. Time-Resolved Infrared Spectroscopic Studies of Triplet Ketones and Enones. $5,000

Dionisios G. Vlachos, U of Massachusetts. Microscopic Approach to Oxidation Reac­tions and Reactors. $5,000

Michael T. Whalen, U of Alaska, Fairbanks. Regional Sequence and Chronostratigra-phy of Upper Devonian Platform and Basin Sequences, Alberta, Canada. $5,000

John B. Wiley, U of New Orleans. New Strat­egies for the Preparation of New Layered Copper Oxides. $5,000^

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ACS Delaware Section special symposium The ACS Delaware Section held a special symposium titled "The Chemical Indus­try Today & Tomorrow," featuring tech­nology officers from three Delaware chemical companies. ACS President Paul S. Anderson opened the symposium.

Speaking at the Jan. 9 symposium were Joseph A. Miller, senior vice president and chief technology officer at DuPont; David A. Simpson, director of new technology research at Hercules; and Alvin K. Willard, vice president of biomedical research at Zeneca Pharmaceuticals.

The speakers addressed the challeng­es and opportunities facing their respec­tive companies, focusing on four current common threads: the globally competi­tive chemical market, innovative devel­opments in industry and academe, objec­tives of R&D, and outsourcing.^

Clinical chemistry volunteers sought The National Registry in Clinical Chemistry (NRCQ seeks health and safety chemists to participate in a sample test for a chemical hygiene officer certification program.

The guidelines and questions for the examination were developed in line with the Occupational Safety & Health Admin­istration's laboratory standard for chemi­cal hygiene officers. At the request of ACS, NRCC has assumed the task of de­veloping, implementing, and administer­ing the examination.

The sample examination will be held in conjunction with the ACS national meet­ing in San Francisco. The exam will con­sist of approximately 70 questions and will be held from 3 to 5 PM on April 12.

To volunteer or for more information, contact NRCC, 815—15th St., N.W., Suite 630, Washington, D.C. 20005; phone (202) 393-7140, fax (202) 393-4059, e-mail: [email protected].<4

Analytical reagents meeting The ACS Committee on Analytical Re­agents will meet April 9-11 at ACS head­quarters in Washington, D.C. The com­mittee will consider testing methods and specifications for chemicals used as re­

agents in analytical testing. The results of the meeting will be compiled in the 9th edition of "Reagent Chemicals—ACS Specifications." The committee is re­questing suggestions of additional re-

ACS names new National Chemistry Week program manager

Michael J. Kenney has joined the Ameri­can Chemical Society Public Outreach staff as program manager for National Chemistry Week (NCW). He will assist local section volunteers in reaching their goals for NCW, which is celebrating its 10th anniversary this year. ACS President Paul S. Anderson has set a goal of increas­ing by 50% the number of people reached by this year's program.

Kenney came to ACS from the chem­istry department of George Washington University, Washington, D.C, where he taught in the fall of 1996. From 1992 to 1996, Kenney was professor of chemis­try at Michigan State University, East Lan­sing. He was honored there as the first Lumsden-Valrance Lecturer, a position endowed by James R. and Jean L. Val-rance to provide opportunities for teach­ers to improve the image of chemistry among incoming college students.

Kenney was actively involved with the ACS Michigan State University Section, in­cluding serving as cochair of the section's 1993 NCW committee. He organized a

Kenney

agents for inclusion in the book. Sugges­tions should be sent to the committee chair, Paul Bouis, Mallinckrodt Baker, Phillipsburg, NJ. 08865; phone (908) 859-9443, fax (908) 859-9454. <

"Living Periodic Table" event that year, which involved having the periodic table march across the Michigan State football field during halftime of their game against Northwestern University.

Kenney has also taught at Marquette University, Milwaukee, and at Carroll Col­lege, Waukesha, Wis. At Marquette, in 1992, he received the Teacher of the Year Award in the chemistry department.

Kenney received a B.A. degree in chemistry from St. John's University, Col-legeville, Minn., in 1982, and a Ph.D. de­gree in physical chemistry from Iowa State University, Ames, in 1990.

Diana Higgins

DEATHS

LEONARD M. FREEMAN, 94, died Jan. 20 in St. Petersburg, Fla. Freeman, nearly a 70-year member of ACS, counted his service as a vol­unteer abstractor among his many contribu­tions to the society, family members say.

He received a bachelor's degree from Mi­ami University, Oxford, Ohio, in 1924, and a master's degree in chemistry in 1926 from the University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign. He began his career in chemistry in 1926 at BF Goodrich Tire Co., where he eventually became manager of the company's works technical group, which included the general chemistry laboratory, raw materials inspec­tion and development, and physical testing laboratories. He retired from the company in 1958. Joined ACS in 1928; emeritus mem­ber.^

ALBERT L. ROCKLIN, 75, died Dec. 18 in La-guna Hills, Calif. Upon retirement in 1986, Rocklin was a senior research chemist at Shell Development's Westhollow Research Lab in Houston. At Shell in the 1960s, he developed additives for solid rocket fuels. More recently, he studied the evaporation of solvent blends used for paints.

Rocklin received bachelor's (1943), mas­ter's (1944), and Ph.D. degrees (1946) in chemistry from the University of Toronto. From 1946 until 1950, he worked as an as­sistant professor at Purdue University at both its Indianapolis and West Lafayette, Ind., campuses. In 1951, he went to work as an organic chemist for Dow Chemical Co. in Pittsburg, Calif. He joined Shell De­velopment in 1958. Joined ACS in 1948; emeritus member.^

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