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New ACS-PRF grants approved At its meeting in Columbus on June 7, the ACS Board of Directors approved new and continued ACS-PRF grants-in-aids recommended at the spring meeting of the PRF Advisory Board. The recommendations, based on the consideration of 323 proposals, resulted in 112 grants and the commitment of $1,657,537. Included are 13 ACS-PRF Special Educational Opportunities Grants, totaling $36,700, to ACS divi­sions to assist with travel expenses of outstanding foreign scientists invited to participate in symposia planned for the ACS Centennial Meeting in New York City, April 4-9, 1976. This com­pletes the activity of the PRF Advisory Board for 1974-75.

Proposals now are being received for consideration by the advisory board at its November 1975 meeting. Full infor­mation and application material on the ACS-PRF program can be obtained by writing: 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)

Alexandre Blumstein, Rita Blattberg-Blumstein, Lowell Technological inst. Topochemical Con­trol of Free Radical Polymerization Within Liq­uid Crystals. Polymers with Liquid-Crystalline Organization. $24,000

Gary W. Griffin, U of New Orleans. Aryne Oxides. $24,000

Richard E. DeSimone, Wayne State U. Transition Metal Chemistry of Sulfur-Donor Macrocycles. $24,000

Joel L. Lebowitz, Yeshiva U. Equilibrium Theory of Fluids. $24,000

John M. Bird, Cornell U. Origin and Evolution of Autogeosynclines. $23,100

Robert M. Hexter, U of Minnesota. Critical Point Analysis in Molecular Crystals by the Use of Modulation Spectroscopy. $24,000

Paul W. Schmidt, U of Missouri, Columbia. X-Ray Scattering and Absorption Studies of the Equi­librium Properties of Fluids near the Liquid-Va­por Critical Point. $36,000

Paras Nath Prasad, State U of New York, Buffa­lo. Energy Transport and Relaxation in an Or­ganic Alloy. $23,800

Peter T. Lansbury, State U of New York, Buffalo. Intramolecular Acetylene Cyclizations in Or­ganic Synthesis. $24,000

Bruce S. Hudson, Stanford U. Applications of Co­herent Anti-Stokes Raman Scattering to Mo­lecular Spectroscopy. $16,000

Gary L. Haller, Yale U. Surface Transport of Chemisorbed Hydrocarbons in Catalysts. $36,000

John R. Scheffer, James Trotter, U of British Co­lumbia. Topochemical Control of Intramolecu­lar Photochemical Hydrogen Abstraction Reac­tions. $23,000

Richard L. Hilderbrandt, North Dakota State U. Structural Investigations by Electron Diffrac­tion and Spectroscopic Techniques. $16,000

William W. Graessley, Northwestern U. Visco-elasticity in Cross-Linked Polymers. $24,000

Neil S. Berman, Arizona State U. Effect of Inte­gral Scale in Turbulent Flows of Dilute Polymer Solutions. $24,000

Carl H. Brubaker Jr., Michigan State U. Polymer Attached Transition Metal Organometallics: Applications to Catalysis and "Matrix Isolation" of Low Oxidation States. $20,000

Michael J. Minch, U of the Pacific. Stereochemi­cal Control of Reactions in Chiral Surfactant Micelles. $15,400

Thomas T. Tidwell, U of Toronto. Synthesis and Reactivity of Alkenes and Alkynes. $22,500

Charles P. Casey, U of Wisconsin, Madison. Role of Metallocyclobutanes and Metal-Carbene Complexes in the Olefin Metathesis Reaction. $24,000

Donald J. Kouri, U of Houston. Rotating Coordi­nate Frames for Reactive Scattering: a Formal and Computational Study. $24,000

Martel Zeldin, Polytechnic Inst, of New York. Preparation and Characterization of Germani-um(ll) Compounds. $24,000

Claude F. Bernasconi, U of California, Santa Cruz. Kinetics of Intermediates in Nucleophilic Vinylic Substitution. $21,000

Ralph G. Pearson, Northwestern U. Orbital Sym­metry Rules for Organometallic Reactions. $36,000

W. Lester S. Andrews, U of Virginia. Proton Ra-diolysis of Methyl Halides, Methane, and Eth­ane During Matrix Deposition. Infrared Spectra of Molecular Ions. $36,000

Sambhudas Chaudhuri, Kansas State U. Di-agenetic Changes of Rare-Earth Element Dis­tributions in Deeply Buried Pelagic Sediments. $13,600

Robert E. Apfel, Yale U. Measurements of the Interfacial Tension Between Superheated Hy­drocarbons and Other Liquids. $30,000

Edwin Vedejs, U of Wisconsin, Madison. Synthet­ic Reactions of Molybdenum Peroxid. $24,000

Alexander Tulinsky, Eugene LeGoff, Michigan State U. Synthesis and X-Ray Crystallographic Studies of Porphyrins. $24,000

Patricia Dreyfuss, U of Akron. Graft Copolymers of Olefin Polymers and Polyethers: a Novel Ap­proach to Their Synthesis. $24,000

J. Warkentin, McMaster U. Azocarbinol Deriva­tives. New Syntheses Based on Radical Chain Addition to Olefins. $23,000

Arthur T. Hubbard, U of Hawaii. Structure and Influence of the Double Layer at Solid Elec­trodes. $36,000

John E. Ellis, U of Minnesota. Synthesis and Chemistry of Metal Carbonyl Di- and Trianions. $24,000

Edward A. Perry Jr., U of Massachusetts. Shale Diagenesis in Relation to Petroleum Migration and Geochemical Cycles. $14,140

Frank B. Mallory, Bryn Mawr Coll. Studies in NMR Spectroscopy: Diamagnetic Anisotropy of Acetylenes and Benzenes, and Through-Space Coupling Involving Fluorine. $24,000

William C. Stwalley, U of Iowa. Spin-Aligned Atoms. $20,000

Richard E. Casey, Rice U. Studies on Radiolarian Biostratigraphy, Paleooceanography, and Evo­lution. $16,000

James A. Moore, Rensselaer Polytechnic Inst. Polymeric Dehydration Agents Bearing Ynam-ine Groups. $24,000

Richard S. Stein, U of Massachusetts. Light Scattering Studies of Polymer Crystallization. $24,000

Dimitri N. Coucouvanis, U of Iowa. Structures, Bonding, and Reactions of the M8S12 Metallo-cubanes. $24,000

John C. Bailar Jr., U of Illinois. Selective Reac­tions of Polyunsaturated Organic Molecules as Affected by Transition Metal Catalysts. $36,000

Martin F. Semmelhack, Cornell U. Transition Metals as Agents in New Methods of Carbon-Carbon Bond Formation. $24,000

William C. Gardiner Jr., U of Texas, Austin. Chemical Reactor Shock Tube Study of Meth­ane Oxidation. $18,000

Robert W. Lenz, U of Massachusetts. New Ap­proaches to the. Synthesis of infusible-Insolu­ble Homopolymers and Highly Stereoregular Vinyl Polymers. $16,000

Chin-hsien Wang, U of Utah. Ultrahigh-Resolution Raman Scattering of Dense Molecular Fluids at High Pressure. $24,000

Robert L. Cullers, Kansas State U. Minéralogie and Rare-Earth Content of Different Size Frac­tions from Selected Pennsylvanian, Permian, and Triassic Units from the Mid-Continent of the U.S.A. $13,070

Franklin E. Massoth, U of Utah. Study of the Ef­fect of Cobalt and Nickel on the Properties and Desulfurization Activity of Molybdena Cata­lysts. $24,000

Fillmore Freeman, U of California, Irvine. Kinetic and Product Studies of the Chromyl Acetate Oxidation of Arylalkanes and Arylalkenes. $24,000

John I. Brauman, Stanford U. Dynamic Pro­cesses in Gas-Phase, Ion-Molecule Reactions. $24,000

Robert S. Mulliken, U of Chicago, Digital Ma­chine Computations of Protonated Benzene and Methylated Benzenes. $12,000

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

Peter W. Rabideau, Indiana U-Purdue U, India­napolis. Stereochemistry of 1,4-Cyclohexa-dienes. $10,717

Merlyn D. Schuh, Davidson Coll. Vapor Phase Triplet Studies. $11,000

Mark Wicholas, Western Washington State Coll. Mixed Ligand Cyanide Complexes of Copper-i l l ) . $11,000

John Mantzaris, Central Connecticut State Coll. Insertion and Olefin Coupling Reactions via Transition Metal Complexes. $11,000

John T. Shaw, Grove City Coll. Pentaazaphen-alenes and Aza Analogs. $8500

Victor L. Heasley, Point Loma Coll. Studies on the Stereochemistry of Ionic and Radical 1,4-Additions to the Isomeric 2,4-Hexadienes. $11,000

Stanley H. Pine, California State U, Los Angeles. Stereochemistry in Ammonium and Sulfonium Salt Arrangements. $11,000

Carl C. Wamser, California State U, Fullerton. Nonphotochemical Generation of Excited States. $11,000

Edward E. Waali, Georgia Coll. 1,2,4,6,8-Cyclo-nonapentaene and Cyclononatetraeylidene. $10,530

David W. Thompson, Randolph A. Coleman, Coll. of William and Mary. Alkylation of Carbon-Car­bon Multiple Bonds. $11,000

Tze-Chi Jao, U of Puerto Rico. Vibrational Band Shape Studies. $9480

Bruce N. Storhoff, Terry L. Kruger, Ball State U. Studies of Nitrile Ligands. $11,000

Mitsuru Kubota, Harvey Mudd Coll. Intermediates in Catalysis by Transition Metal Complexes. $11,000

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Geoffrey A. Dafforn, Bowling Green State U. Transition State Analog Studies. $11,000

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

W. Rodger Nutt, Davidson Coll. Gallium-Nitrogen Chemistry. $9000

Darryl D. Siemer, Marquette U. Improvement of Methods for Trace-Level Heavy Metal Detec­tion. $9000

Gar W. Rothwell, Ohio U. Botanical Constituents of Late Paleozoic Coal Deposition. $9000

Marvin Bishop, Howard U. "Rotator" Transition in A/-Alkanes. $9000

Francis W. Plankey Jr., U of Pittsburgh. Mecha­nisms of Excitation in Atomic Fluorescence Flame Spectrometry with a Continuum Source. $9000

W. Clark Still, Vanderbilt U. Group IVA Metal Salts in Organic Synthesis. $9000

William B. Russel, Princeton U. Mechanism for Shear-Thickening in Multiphase Fluids. $9000

Michael B. Hall, Adelphi U. Development of a First Order Differential Overlap Technique for the Calculation of the Electronic Structure of Molecules. $9000

Ian M. Armitage, Yale U. Application of 13C Magnetic Resonance Techniques to Elucidation of Macromolecular Structure. $9000

George O. Evans II, State U of New York Coll., Fredonia. Catalytic Fixation of Carbon Dioxide Using Transition Metal Hydrides. $9000

Barry K. Carpenter, Cornell U. Preparation and Rearrangement of Silyl Anions. $9000

Virginia R. Haddon, Douglass Coll., Rutgers U. Synthesis of Chorismic Acid, Ζτ-Phosphate and Chorismate Analogs. $9000

Rex F. Pratt, Wesleyan U. Mechanism of Action of the /^-Lactamase Enzymes. $9000

Paul L. Houston, Cornell U. Laser-Induced Reac­tions: the Chemistry of State-Selected Reac-tants and Products. $9000

James W. Cooper, Tufts U. Computer Pattern Recognition of Carbon-13 Spectra Using Spin-Lattice Relaxation Times. $9000

Gregory J. Exarhos, Harvard U. Spectroscopic Studies of Metal Oxidation States in Oxide Glasses. $9000

Richard M. Jacobson, Indiana U. New Acetonyl Alkylating Agents. $9000

Kenneth L. Cameron, U of California, Santa Cruz. Petrology of Late Mesozoic and Cenozoic Ig­neous Rocks from Northwestern Mexico and West Texas. $9000

Kenneth W. Busch, Baylor U. Determination of the Fundamental Parameters Required for Si­multaneous Multielement Flame Analysis. $9000

William L. Jorgensen, Purdue U. Theoretical and Experimental Studies of Small Ring Com­pounds. $9000

Gary B. Schuster, U of Illinois. Design and Inves­tigation of New Chemiluminescent Systems. $9000

Steven P. Hopper, Vassar Coll. Chemistry of Si-laethylene Intermediates. $9000

John D. Petersen, Kansas State U. Photoinduced Energy Transfer in Transition Metal Complexes Through Bridging Organic Ligands. $9000

David A. Forsyth, Clarkson Coll. of Technology. Dynamics of Intramolecular Processes in Car-bocations. $9000

Rosalie Crouch, Medical U of South Carolina. 11-cis Vitamin A Aldehyde Derivatives. $9000

Raymond Daniel Little, U of California, Santa Barbara. Synthetic and Mechanistic Investiga­tion of the Reactions of Allyl Sulfones. $9000

William V. Sweeney, City U of New York, Hunter Coll. Investigation of the Influence of the Poly­peptide on the Reduction Potentials of Iron-Sulfur Proteins. $9000

Richard H. Sullivan, Jackson State U. Conforma­tions of Thioureas and Their SbCI5 and BF3 Adducts. $9000

Barry B. Snider, Princeton U. Organocuprate Ad­dition to Allylic Lactones. $9000

Eric P. Grimsrud, Montana State U. Analytical Applications of High-Pressure Mass Spectrom­etry. $9000

C. Frank Shaw III, U of Wisconsin, Milwaukee. Thiocarbonyls: Synthesis and Catalytic Proper­ties. $9000

William H. Rastetter, Massachusetts Inst, of Technology. Organic Synthesis—Biogenesis and Biomimetics. $9000

Peter A. Jacobi, Wesleyan U. Synthetic Ap­proach to Saxitoxin and Related Per-Hydro Purines. $9000

Betty R. Bartschmid, Virginia Polytechnic Inst, and State U. Use of the Salet Phenomenon in the Determination of Nonmetals. $9000

ACS-PRF special educational opportunity grants (SEO)

Henry Leidheiser Jr., on behalf of the Division of Colloid and Surface Chemistry, ACS and IUPAC, "International Conference on Colloids and Surfaces." $6000

Marvin D. Rausch, Ronald D. Archer, on behalf of the Division of Inorganic Chemistry, ACS, "Historical Perspectives and Current Trends in Inorganic and Organometallic Chemistry." $1500

M. Stanley Whittingham, on behalf of the Division of Inorganic Chemistry, ACS, "Solid State Chemistry of Energy Conversion and Storage." $4500

Dietmar Seyferth, on behalf of the Division of In­organic Chemistry, ACS, "New Applications of Organometallics to Organic Chemistry." $1500

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