first group of 2002 acs prf grants approved
TRANSCRIPT
ACS NEWS
FIRST GROUP OF 2002 ACS PRF GRANTS APPROVED
THE AMERICAN CHEMICAL SO-ciety Board of Directors approved the recommendation of the Petroleum Research Fund Advisory Board to award 142
ACS PRF grants. These grants, selected from 384 proposals considered by the PRF Advisory Board at its October 2001 meeting, commit nearly $75 million of the 2002 grant budget of $25 million. They are the first grants approved at the new maximum amounts allowed for ACS PRF grants beginning in 2002.
Continuing a pattern established in 2001, about 15% of the Type AC grants were approved for three-year periods. Upcoming 2002 ACS PRF Advisory Board meetings will be in mid-February and mid-May. Applications should be received in the PRF office at least four months ahead of the advisory board meeting date.
The Petroleum Research Fund is an endowed fund originally established as a trust in 1944 and administered by the American Chemical Society (C&EN, June 18, page 45). ACS is required to "use all funds for advanced scientific education and fundamental research in the 'petroleum field,' which may include any field of pure science which may afford a basis for subsequent research direcdy connected with the petroleum field." All grant and administrative expenses are paid by the fund. No ACS dues money is used to support PRF.
Information and application materials can be obtained from the Petroleum Research Fund, American Chemical Society, 1155—16th St., N.W., Washington, DC 20036; phone (202) 872-4481; e-mail: [email protected]; or by request through the PRF website, http://www.chemistry.org/ prf. Contact ACS PRF staff if additional information is desired.
ACS PRF Grants for Advanced Scientific Education and Fundamental Research in the Petroleum Field (Type AC)
MichaelJ. Baldwin, U of Cincinnati. Oxygen Activation by Ni(II)-Polyoximate Complexes. $80,000
Andrew R. Barronp Rice U. Group 12/13 Catalyzed H/D Exchange. $80,000
David R. Benson Jr., U of Kansas. Tryptophan Side Chain Radicals in Compound I Intermediates of Peroxidase Models. $80,000
Susan L. Brantley, Jon Chorover, Pennsylvania State U. The Role of Mineral Surface Chemistry and Mesoporosity in the Preservation of Natural Organic Matter. $80,000
Nigel D. Browning, U of Illinois, Chicago. Fundamental Atomic Scale Studies of Heterogeneous Catalysts. $80,000
Jianshu Cao, Massachusetts Inst, of Technology Calculations of Third-Order and Fifth-Order Raman Spectra of Liquids. $80,000
Clement G. Chase, U of Arizona. Three-Dimensional History of the East Side of the South Central Salient, Southern Pyrenees. $77,660
Eric L. Chronister, U of California, Riverside. The Elastic Properties and Equation of State of Materials under Extreme Temperature and Pressure Conditions by Impulsive Stimulated Scattering. $80,000
Philip Coppens, State U of New York, Buffalo. Solid-State Dilution by Crystal Engineering. $80,000
Emmanuel M. Detournay, U of Minnesota. Modeling Radial Hydraulic Fractures in Reservoir Rocks. $79,549
M. Samy El-Shall, Virginia Commonwealth U. Surfactant-Induced Nucleation and Surface Enrichment Effects in Supersaturated Vapors. $80,000
George W. Gokel, Washington U School of Medicine. Molecular Probes of Cation-Arene Interactions. $80,000
Chris Goldfinger, Oregon State U. The Influence of Subduction Zone Earthquakes on the Frequency of Submarine Landslides and the Destabilization of Gas Hydrate on Hydrate Ridge, Oregon Margin. $79,975
Martin Gruebele, U of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign. Pressure Jump Kinetics and
Multidimensional Folding Phase Diagrams for Fast Folding Proteins. $80,000
Arnold M. Guloy, U of Houston. Synthesis and Properties of Novel Germanium Anion Clusters and Polymers. $80,000
Kerry W. Hipps, Washington State U. A Scanning Tunneling Microscopy Study of Systematic Coadsorbate-Induced Ordering of Organometallic and Organic Monolayers: Self-Assembled Structures. $80,000
Russell T. Johns, U of Texas, Austin. Investigation of Three-Phase Flow in Miscible Gas Floods. $120,000
Alan T. Johnson, U of Pennsylvania. Confined Phonons and the Thermal Properties of Single-Wall Carbon Nanotubes. $60,000
Graham B. Jones, Northeastern U. New Asymmetric Induction Tactics Using η 6 Arene Cr(0) Complexes. $80,000
Sabre Kais, Purdue U. Finite Size Scaling and Stability of Atomic and Molecular Ions. $80,000
Romas J. Kazlauskas, McGill U. Creating New Enzymes for Organic Synthesis Using Structure-Guided Random Mutagenesis: New Methodology for Enan-tiomerically Pure Sulfinamides and Sulfi-nates. $80,000
David L. Kimbrough, John M. Fletcher, Marty Grove, San Diego State U. Provenance of the Magdelena Submarine Fan of Baja California Sur: Implications for Magnitude of Proto-San Andreas Transform Offsets in the Baja California Sur Continental Margin. $80,000
Krzysztof Kuczera, Gouri S. Jas, U of Kansas. Rotational Dynamics of Aromatic Molecules in Solution. $80,000
Adeniyi Lawal, Stevens Inst, of Technology Mass Transfer Enhancement in Micro-Channel Reactors by Reorientation of Fluid Interfaces and Stretching. $80,000
Sara F. Majetich, Carnegie Mellon U. Su-perferromagnetism in Nanoparticle Arrays. $80,000
Kevin W. Mandernack, Kent J. Voor-hees, Colorado School of Mines. The Bio-geochemistry of Soils Overlying Hydrocarbon Seeps and the Associated Bacterial Cause of Magnetic Anomalies. $80,000
4 6 C & E N / D E C E M B E R 2 4 , 2 0 0 1 H T T P : / / P U B S . A C S . O R G / C E N
Lisa McElwee-Whitep U of Florida. Catalytic Amine Carbonylation in Organic Synthesis. $80,000
Paul J. McGinn, U of Notre Dame. Combinatorial Investigation of Catalytic Diesel Soot Combustion. $80,000
Keiji Morokuma, Emory U. Computational Studies on Nanochemistry and Nanomaterials. $80,000
Charles B. Mullins, U of Texas, Austin. Low-Kinetic-Energy Mechanisms in the Activated Dissociative Chemisorption of Ethane on Transition Metal Surfaces. $120,000
Anthony J. Pearson, Case Western Reserve U. New Chemosensors Based on Tetraalkyl̂ phenylenediamines. $80,000
Philip W. Phillips, U of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign. Superconductivity and Pseudogap Ordering in Organic Charge Transfer Salts. $60,000
F. Christopher Piggep U of Missouri, St. Louis. Supramolecular Applications of Tri-aroylbenzenes: Design and Synthesis of Cyclophane-Based Ditopic Receptors. $80,000
R. Scott Prosser, Kent State U. Using Oxygen To Probe Membrane Protein Topology by NMR. $120,000
Rajendra Rathore, Marquette U.The Design and Synthesis of Novel Organic Materials as Nitric Oxide Sensors. $120,000
J. Fred Read, Virginia Polytechnic Inst. & State U. Eustatic/Climatic Signals in Deep Water Carbonates and Their Sequence Stratigraphie Signature on the Adjacent Ramp, MÎississippian, Eastern U.S. $80,000
Daniel E. Rivera, Hans D. Mittelman, Arizona State U. Constrained Multisine Inputs for Plant-Friendly Identification of Chemical Processes. $120,000
Ruth A. J. Robinson, U of Saint Andrews. Quantifying Sediment Storage and Residence Times in Quaternary Intermontane Basins, Northwest Argentina. $106,739
Eriks RoznerSp Northeastern U. Synthesis and Properties of Amide-Linked RNA Mimics. $80,000
Dmitry M. Rudkevichp U of Texas, Arlington. Molecular Compartments: An Ap
proach Toward Multiple Guest Selection through Encapsulation. $80,000
Phillip E. Savage, U of Michigan. Acid-Catalyzed Hydrolysis in C02-Enriched High-Temperature Water. $80,000
S. Ismat Shah, U of Delaware. Investigation of the Fundamental Processes Involved in the Energetic Condensation for Low-Temperature Thin-Film Growth on Temperature-Sensitive Substrates. $80,000
Pamela J. Shapiro, Jay H. Baltisberger, U of Idaho. Further Investigations into the Fluxionality and Reactivity of Cyclopen-tadienyl-Al Compounds and the Design of New Organoaluminum Ligands and Catalysts. $80,000
John R. Shapley, U of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign. Selective Nitrate Reduction: New Bimetallic Nanoparticle Catalysts. $80,000
Mary Jane Shultz, Tufts U. Probing the Surface of Ice: Interaction with Ammonia. $80,000
Martin J. Stone, IndianaU. Relationships of Protein Dynamics to Structure and Stability $80,000
Lucjan Strekowski, Georgia State U. Novel Long-Wavelength Near-Infrared Hep-tamethine Cyanines. $80,000
Daniel R. Strongin, Trevor Douglas, Temple U. A Bioengineering Approach to the Production of Metallic Nanoparticles and a Surface Science Investigation of Their Surface Reactivity $80,000
Bala Subramaniam, U of Kansas. Hy-droformylation of Olefins in C02-Ex-panded Solvent Media. $80,000
Reshef Tenne, Lev Rapoport, Weizmann Inst, of Science. Nanotubes and Fullerene-like Nanoparticles of WS2 and MoS2: New Opportunities in Self-Lubrication and in Nanotechnology $80,000
Carlos Torres-Verdin, U of Texas, Austin. Numerical Simulation Studies for the Integration of Low-Field NMR and Dielectric Measurements of Porous Rocks. $80,000
Dirk Trauner, U of California, Berkeley Toward a Synthesis of the Guanacastepene Antibiotics and (+)- Halenaquinone. $80,000
Andrey Vilesov, U of Southern California. Isolation, Spectroscopy, and Reactivity of Radicals in Helium Droplets at Τ = 0.38 Κ. $120,000
Lai-Sheng Wang, Washington State U. Investigation of Free Multiply Charged Anions Using Electrospray and Photoelec-tron Spectroscopy $80,000
Denis Wirtz, Johns Hopkins U. Shear-Induced Assembly of End-Associating DNA. $80,000
L. Keith Woo, Iowa State U. Reductive Chemistry of Low-Valent^anium andZir-conium Porphyrin Complexes. $120,000
Zhiping Zheng, U of Arizona. Enhancing Electron-Transporting Capability of Electroluminescent Lanthanide Complexes with Rationally Designed Ligands. $80,000
Erwin L. Zodrow, U C of Cape Breton. Integrated Study of Marattialean Peco-pterids: Approach to Natural Species and Palaeoecology Based on In Situ Reproductive Organs and Palynology, and Cuticles and Pinnule Morphologies. $35,700
Ben A. van der Pluijm, U of Michigan. Curvature of the Pennsylvania Salient. $80,000
ACS PRF Grants for Advanced Scientific Education and Fundamental Research in the Petroleum Field (Type Β J Awarded to faculty in non-Ph.D.-granting departments
Eric Bosch, Southwest Missouri State U. Novel Heterocycles for the Self-Assembly of One-, Two-, andThree-Dimensional Coordination Networks. $42,900
Edgar R. Civitello, Northern Arizona U. Asymmetric Synthesis of Differentially Protected 2,7-Diaminosuberic Acid. $47,000
David P. Dethier, Williams C.Late-Ceno-zoic Erosion of the Boulder Creek Catchment, Colorado Front Range. $33,200
Andrew N. French, Albion C. Synthesis and Evaluation of Chiral Hypervalent Iodine Reagents. $50,000
Steven T. Frey, Skidmore C. Catalytic Hy-
H T T P : / / P U B S . A C S . O R G / C E N C&EN / DECEMBER 24, 2001 47
ACS NEWS
drolysis of Phosphate Esters by La3+ Ion-Exchanged Hectorite Clay $49,770
Cecilia Giulivi, U of Minnesota, Duluth. Nitrotyrosine Biochemistry $50,000
David L. Kidder, Ohio U. Were Paleozoic Cherty Deposits a MovingTarget? $35,000
Donald A. Krogstad, Minnesota State U, Moorhead. Toward a Greater Understanding of Catalysis in Water. $30,000
David L. Patrick, Western Washington U. Studies of Organic Thin-Film Transistors Fabricated Using Liquid-Crystal Solvents. $50,000
George C. Shields, Hamilton C. Accurate pKa Calculations. $50,000
Daniel R. Spiegel, Trinity U Spatially Periodic Forcing of a Chemical Turing System Using Laser-Induced Transient Gratings. $40,600
Jean M. Standard, Illinois State U Computational Studies of Sulfur Ylides. $50,000
Linda M. Sweeting, TowsonU. Examination of the Mechanism of Tribolumines-cence Using New Materials Developed by Combinatorial Synthesis. $50,000
ACS PRF Grants for Advanced Scientific Education and Fundamental Research in the Petroleum Field (Type GI Starter grants awarded to faculty in Ph.D.-granting departments
Christian Bruckner, U of Connecticut. Homoporphyrins as Long-Wavelength-Absorbing Sensitizers and Two-Photon Absorbing Materials. $35,000
Chengzhi Cai, U of Houston. Chemisorp-tion of Molecules Containing Multiple Ethenyl Groups on Hydrogen-Terminated Silicon Surfaces. $35,000
Zhan Chen, U of Michigan. Molecular-Level Studies of Polymer Surface Dynamics in Water. $35,000
Daniel T. Chiu, U of Washington. Investigations and Applications of the Behavior of Immiscible Fluids in Microfluidic Systems. $35,000
4 8 C & E N / D E C E M B E R 2 4 , 2 0 0 1
John C. Conboy, Uof Utah. Exploring the Interfacial Properties of Room-Temperature Ionic Liquids. $35,000
Ricardo S. Decca, Indiana U. Photochemistry in High-Temperature Superconductors: Toward a Better Understanding of E-E Correlations. $35,000
Camélia C. Diaconescu, Uof South Carolina. Crustal Expression of the Vrancea Seismogenic Zone of Romania: Integration of Active and Passive Source Seismo-logical Data. $35,000
Michael L. Falk, U of Michigan. Direct Comparisons of Continuum and Atomistic Simulations of Dynamic Fracture. $35,000
Timothy R. Filley, Purdue U. Role of Fungal Decomposition of Woody Tissue in the Sulfurization of Lignin in Sulfidic Sediments. $35,000
Paul E. Floreancig, U of Pittsburgh. Mechanistic Studies and Applications of Electron-Transfer-Initiated Cyclizations. $35,000
Giovanni Gadda, Georgia State U. Investigation of Carbon-Hydrogen Bond Cleavage of Primary Alcohols Catalyzed by Flavoprotein Oxidoreductases. $35,000
Daniel R. Gamelin, U of Washington. Electronic Structure and Photophysics of Dopant Ions in Dilute Magnetic Semiconductor Quantum Dots and Related Materials. $35,000
Shekhar Garde, Rensselaer Polytechnic Inst. Molecular-Level Studies of Pressure Effects on Water-Mediated Interactions and on Protein Structure. $35,000
Brian R. Gibney, ColumbiaU. Second Coordination Sphere Control of Metal Ion Specificity in Designed Metallopeptides. $35,000
Craig A. Grapperhaus, U of Louisville. Modeling the Photoregulation of Iron-Containing Nitrile Hydratase. $35,000
Susan K. Gregurick, U of Maryland Baltimore County Theoretical Investigations of Vibrational Spectroscopy and Vibrational Energy Transfer. $35,000
Tamara L Hendrickson, Johns Hopkins U. GPI Membrane Anchor Formation: Assay Development and Substrate Evaluation. $35,000
T. Keith Hollis, Uof California, Riverside. Mechanism of the Isomerization of Phos-phametallocenes. $35,000
Urs Jans, City U of New York, City C. Role of Reduced Sulfur Species in Promoting the Transformations of Phospho-rothionate Esters in Estuaries and Salt Marshes. $35,000
Alexander Katz, U of California, Berkeley. The Effect of Framework Hydropho-bicity on the Selectivity of a Heterogeneous Catalyst. $35,000
llya Koltover, Northwestern U. Dendro-nized Protein Polymers: Well-Defined Building Blocks for Nanoscale Self-Assembled Materials. $35,000
Yan Liang, Brown U Developing a Method for Measuring Crystal-Melt Interfacial Energy in Multicomponent Silicates at High Temperatures and Pressures. $35,000
Joseph P. Loria, Yale U Structure and Dynamics of RH1I: A Bacterial Quorum-Sensing Signal Generator. $35,000
Jam's Louie, U of Utah. The Development of Nitrile Hydroamination Catalysts Based on Transition Metal Imido Complexes. $35,000
John J. Love, San Diego State U Protein Engineering: Novel Protein/Protein Docking by Design. $35,000
Cecilia H. Marzabadi, SetonHallU. ASol-id-Phase Approach to the Synthesis of Cyclic Oligosaccharides. $35,000
Adam J. Matzger, Uof Michigan. ANew Cycloaromatization Reaction. $35,000
Matthew D. McCluskey, Washington State U Infrared Spectroscopy of Conjugated Molecules under Pressure. $35,000
Daniel L. Minor, Uof California, San Francisco. Evolution of Membrane Proteins with Enhanced Properties for Biochemical and Crystallographic Study. $35,000
Mark H. Schoenfisch, U of North Carolina, Chapel Hill. Studies of Molecular Orientation and Order in Printed Self-Assembled Monolayers. $35,000
Matthew S. Sigman, U of Utah. Metal-Catalyzed Enantioselective Oxidation Reactions Using Molecular Oxygen as the Terminal Oxidant. $35,000
H T T P : / / P U B S . A C S . O R G / C E N
Brian M. Stolz, California Inst, of Technology New Approaches to the Total Synthesis of Medicinally Active Complex Natural Products. $35,000
YuYe Tongp Georgetown U. Surface Electrochemical NMR and Infrared Spectroscopic Investigations of Catalytic Properties at Real-World Bimetallic Surfaces. $35,000
John F. C. Turner, Uof Tennessee. Structural Characterization of Superacids and Superacidic Solutions Using Neutron Dif-fraction with Isotopic Substitution. $35,000
Timothy H. Warren, Georgetown U. Met-al-Ligand Multiple Bonds in Hydrocarbon Functionalization: Later, First-Row Transition Metal-Imido Complexes Supported by β-Diketiminates. $35,000
Marcus Week, Georgia Inst, of Technology Gold Nanoclusters as Solution Support in Catalysis. $35,000
Eric R. Weeks, Emory U. Microscopic Behavior of Confined, Dense Colloidal Suspensions. $35,000
Mary Elizabeth Williams, Pennsylvania State U. Driving Chemical Reactants: Nanoparticles with Attached Biomolecu-lar Motors. $35,000
Alicia M. Wilson, U of South Carolina. The Distribution of Brines in Foreland Basins Containing Evaporites: Numerical Experiments. $35,000
Adam T. Woolley, Brigham Young U. Biotemplated Patterning and Fabrication of Sub-10 Nanometer Diameter Nano-wires for Electrical Interconnects in Na-noelectronic Circuits. $35,000
ACS PRF Grants for Advanced Scientific Education and Fundamental Research in the Petroleum Field (Type GJ Starter grants awarded to faculty in non-Ph.D.-granting departments
Ariette R. C. Baljon, San Diego State U. Structure-Composition Relationships for Curved Membranes. $35,000
Bert D. Chandler, Trinity U. Dendrimer Templates for Size and Compositional
Control over Supported Bimetallic Catalysts: Platinum-Based CO Oxidation Catalysts. $35,000
Juliet Crider, Western Washington U. Fault-Propagation Folding by Extensional Faults: Field and Numerical Investigations. $35,000
Barrett Eichler, Northwest Missouri State U. Synthesis and Investigation of the Properties of Novel Electronic and Optical Materials Based on Silole-Substituted Conjugated Molecules and Polymers. $35,000
Darla L. McCarthy, Calvin C. Purification and Characterization of Tetrachlorohy-droquinone Dehalogenase from Mycobacterium chlorophenolicumVCP-l. $35,000
Scott E. McKay, Central Missouri State U. Evaluating the Nature o fC-H-O Hydrogen Bonds and Donor-Acceptor Interactions in Heterocyclic-N-Oxides. $35,000
Erik B. Melchiorre, DePauwU. Stable Isotope Geochemistry and Thermometry of Zinc Carbonate and Other Divalent Cation Carbonates, with Application to Natural Systems. $35,000
Timothy J. Romack, East CarolinaU. Syntheses and Properties of Precision-Designed Fluoroalkyl Block and Graft Copolymers: Building Blocks for Self-Assembly, Nanomaterials, and High-Perfor-mance Coatings. $35,000
Krzysztof Slowinski, California State U, Long Beach. Hg-Hg and Hg-Au Tunnel-ingjunctions. $35,000
David N. Steer, U of Akron. Fold and Thrust Belt Geometry of the Middle Urals, Russia. $35,000
Mark G. Stocksdale, EarlhamC. Investigation of Ring Contractions and Ring Expansions of Cyclic β-Hydroxy Tertiary Amines under Mitsunobu and Modified Mitsunobu Conditions. $35,000
Jeffrey B-H. Tok, City U of New York, %rk C. Gene Expression Control through the Design and Synthesis of Novel RNA-Cleaving Conjugated Aminoglycoside. $35,000
Elisabeth A. Wadep Mills C. The Environmental Fate of Two Agricultural Fu-migants. $35,000
John N. Yukich, Davidson C. Motional Stark Effect on Photodetachment from Trapped Negative Ions. $35,000
ACS-PRF Grants for Scientific Education (Type SE)
Christer B. Aakeroy, on behalf of American Crystallographic Association. Crystal Engineering at the Annual American Crystallographic Association Meeting, May 2002, San Antonio. $3,600
John Blackwell, on behalf of ACS Division of Polymer Chemisitry. Polymer Diffraction Methods at the ACS national meeting, April 2002, Orlando, Fla. $3,600
Donna A. Chen, on behalf of ACS Division of Colloid & Surface Chemistry. Nanoscale Studies of Surface Phenomena at the ACS national meeting, April 2002, Orlando, Fla. $3,600
William R. Cullen, on behalf of Canadian Society for Chemistry (CSC) Division of Environmental Chemistry Air, Earth, Fire, Water Symposium at the CSC annual meeting, June 2002, Vancouver, British Columbia. $2,400
Karen I. Goldberg, on behalf of ACS Division of Inorganic Chemistry Activation and Functionalization of C-H Bonds at the ACS national meeting, April 2002, Orlando, Fla. $3,600
Ian R. Gould, on behalf of the InterAmer-ican Photochemical Society Thirteenth Winter Inter-American Photochemical Society Conference,January2002,Tempe, Ariz. $2,400
Christopher Groves, on behalf of the Geological Society of America, North Central Region. Groundwater Flow and Geochemistry in Carbonate Karst Terrains at the Joint Southeast/North Central Regional Geological Society of America Meeting, April 2002, Lexington, Ky $3,600
Paul L. Houston, H. Floyd Davis, on behalf of ACS Division of Physical Chemistry Frontiers in Chemical Dynamics at the ACS national meeting, April 2002, Orlando, Fla. $3,600
Amnon Kohen, on behalf ofACS Division of Physical Chemistry Structure-Function Correlation in Enzyme Action at the ACS national meeting, April 2002, Orlando, Fla. $3,600
H T T P : / / P U B S . A C S . O R G / C E N C&EN / DECEMBER 24, 2001 49
ACS NEWS
James D. Kubicki, on behalf of ACS Division of Geochemistry Complexity of the Water-Solid Interface: Mineral Surfaces and Nanoparticles at the ACS national meeting, April 2002, Orlando, Fla. $3,600
Ernest L. Mehler, on behalf ofACS Division of Physical Chemistry Modern Aspects of Structure-Function Correlations of Biomolecules II: Electrostatic Aspects at the ACS national meeting, April 2002, Orlando, Fla. $3,600
John E. Mylroie, on behalf of Karst Waters Inst. Karst Frontiers: Florida and Related Environments at Karst Waters Inst. Symposium, March 2002, Gainesville, Fla. $3,600
Charles L. Perrin, on behalf of IUPAC Commission 111.2 (Physical Organic Chemistry). Structure and Mechanism in Organic Chemistry at the 16th IUPAC Conference on Physical Organic Chemistry, August 2002, Lajolla, Calif. $3,600
Adrian E. Roitberg, on behalf of ACS Division of Computers in Chemistry. Enhanced Sampling Techniques in MC/MD Simulations at the ACS national meeting, April 2002, Orlando, Fla. $2,400
Gregory A. Sotzing, on behalf of ACS Division of Polymeric Materials: Science & Engineering. Recent Advances in Elec-troactive Polymers at the ACS national meeting, April 2002, Orlando, Fla. $3,600
Angela K. Wilson, on behalf of ACS Division of Computers in Chemistry Recent Advances in Electronic Structure Methodology at the ACS national meeting, April 2002, Orlando, Fla. $3,600
WCC presents first group of 2002 travel awards
THE ACS WOMEN CHEMISTS COMMIT-
tee has awarded travel grants to cover expenses associated with attend
ing scientific meetings between Jan. 1 and June 30,2002. Undergraduate, graduate, and postdoctoral women chemists who wish to present the results of their research at a scientific meeting are eligible for these grants, which are funded by Eli Lilly & Co. A list of the recipients follows. Laurie Cardoza, a second-year graduate student of Cynthia Larive's at the University of Kansas, Lawrence, will present
"Structure Elucidation of Ciprofloxacin and Its Aquatic Transformation Products with HPLC-NMR" at the Experimental Nuclear Magnetic Resonance Conference to be held next April in Pacific Grove, Calif. Tricia M. Coleman, a second-year graduate student of Faqing Huang's at the University of Southern Mississippi, Hatties-burg, will present "In Vitro Evolution of RNAwithThioester Synthase Activity" at the annual meeting of the RNA Society to be held next May in Madison, Wis. Jennifer Craft, a second-year graduate student of Thomas Brunold's at the University of Wisconsin, Madison, will attend the Metals in Biology Gordon Conference in Harbortown, Calif, next month. She will present "Spectroscopic Insights into the Molecular Mechanism of CO Oxidation Catalyzed by CO Dehydrogenase." Kersten Forsthoefel, a third-year graduate student of Larry Sneddon's at the University of Pennsylvania, will attend the Ma-terials Research Society 2002 spring meeting to be held in April in San Francisco. Her planned presentation is titled "Chemical Precursor Routes to Nano-structured Nonoxide Ceramics." Rachel Herzig-Marx, a third-year undergraduate student of Kate Queene/s at Smith College, Northampton, Mass., will attend the ACS national meeting in April in Orlando. There, she will present "Integration of Multiple Internal Reflection Infrared Spectroscopy with Silicon-Based Chemical Microreactors." Ellen Higgins, a third-year undergraduate student at Saint Mary's College, Notre Dame, Ind., and a student of Alanah Fitch's at Loyola University, Chicago, will attend the ACS national meeting in Orlando and present "The Effect of Ferrocenyl-PEG on a Clay-Modified Electrode." Anna Hutchings, a third-year undergraduate student of Vicky L. H. Bevilacqua's at Kennesaw State University, Marietta, Ga., will attend the annual meeting of the Biophysical Society that will be held in February in San Francisco. She will present "NMR Studies of Cannabinoid Receptor Second Extracelluar Loop Peptides in the Absence and Presence of SDS." Jennifer Look, a second-year graduate student of Karen Goldberg's at the University of Washington, Seattle, will attend the ACS national meeting in Orlando and present "Mechanistic Studies of the Reaction of 0 2 with Pt(IV) Hydrides To Form Pt(IV) Hydroperoxide Complexes." Jennifer A. McReynolds, a second-year graduate student of Scott Shipp/s at the University of Illinois, Chicago, plans to attend the Pittsburgh Conference on Ana
lytical Chemistry & Applied Spectroscopy (Pittcon), to be held in March in New Orleans. There she will present "Microfabri-cated Multiplexed Capillary Electrophoresis for Biological Samples." Ravinder Raju, a third-year undergraduate student of Robert Engel's at Queens College of the City University of New York, Flushing, will attend the ACS national meeting in Orlando and present "Synthesis and Characterization of Poly-cationic Liquid Ionic Phosphates." Heather Voegtle, a third-year graduate student of John H. Dawson's and Thomas A. Bryson's at the University of South Carolina, Columbia, will attend the ACS national meeting in Orlando. There she will present "Synthesis of Osmium and Ruthenium Complexes for Electron Photoinjection of Cytochrome P450cam." Jennifer L. White, a first-year graduate student of Daniel Rabinovich's at the University of North Carolina, Charlotte, will attend the ACS national meeting in Orlando. There she will present "Coordination Chemistry of a Bulky Tris(mercap-toimidazolyl)borate Ligand."
CAS completes Scientific Century
CHEMICAL ABSTRACTS SERVICE (CAS)
announced that it has completed a project, called Scientific Century, to
make the bibliographic and abstract information from the entire Chemical Abstracts (CA) collection back to 1907 available for searching through STN, SciFinder, and SciFinder Scholar research tools.
Now available in the CA and CAplus files are 3.8 million records from pre-1967 CA issues. About 789,000 of the earlier records are for patents while 2,855,000 are journal material. The balance are for books, technical reports, conference proceedings, and dissertations.
Among the pre-1967 scientific literature, for which records are now accessible online in CAS files, are many studies in fields other than chemistry For example, records are available for the more than 100 papers by Enrico Fermi and more than 50 articles by Albert Einstein.
"We have opened the door to a little-used storeroom of information from the first half of the 20th century," said CAS Director Robert J. Massie. "Findings reported by the scientists of this era may have unforeseen and exciting implications for the most pressing interests and concerns of today's researchers."
5 0 C & E N / D E C E M B E R 2 4 , 2 0 0 1 H T T P : / / P U B S . A C S . O R G / C E N