second group of prf grants approved
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Second Group of PRF Grants Approved
Acting on recommendations from the February meeting of the PRF Advisory Board, the ACS Board of Directors has approved 133 new or continuing ACS-PRF grants-in-aid. The board's action adds $3,590,005 to PRF commitments for 1988.
The new grants were recommended by the PRF Advisory Board from a total of 348 proposals. A third and final set of 1988 PRF grants will be announced this summer. Proposals for 1989 PRF grants are now being accepted.
The "32nd Annual Report on Research Under Sponsorship of the Petroleum Research Fund" will soon be available. Individuals who wish a complimentary copy, or information and application forms for current ACS-PRF grant programs, should write Petroleum Research Fund, American Chemical Society, 1155—16th St., N.W., Washington, D.C. 20036, or call (202) 872-4481.
ACS-PRF Grants for Fundamental Research in the Petroleum Field (Type AC) Andrew Garton, U of Connecticut. Ionic Interactions
at Polymer Metal Interfaces. $40,000 August F. Koster van Groos, U of Illinois, Chicago.
Montmorillonite Dehydration at Elevated Pressures and Reduced H20 Activity. $39,920
Robert S. Coe, U of California, Santa Cruz. Paleo-magnetism Applied to the Monterey Formation of Northern California. $60,000
Lon J. Mathias, U of Southern Mississippi. Captoda-tive Initiators and Monomers: a New Synthetic Approach to High Polymers. $40,000
John M. Sharp Jr., U of Texas, Austin. Fluid Flow and Thermal Anomalies in the Gulf of Mexico Basin, South Texas Example. $37,000
Willie L. Hinze, Wake Forest U. Characterization, Evaluation, and Utilization of Novel Surfactant Media in Chromatographic Separations. $40,000
Tim Byrne, Brown U. Style and Magnitude of Extension Along the U.S. Atlantic Continental Margin. $40,000
John S. Bridge, State U of New York, Binghamton. Evolution of Miocene Fluvial Paleoenvironments in Northern Pakistan. $40,000
David S. Chapman, U of Utah. Thermal Histories of Intermontane Basins. $40,000
Ralph P. Cooney, Russell F. Howe, U of Auckland. New Approaches to Pillared Clay Catalysts. $60,000
Raj Rajagopalan, U of Houston. Interaction Forces in Structured or Concentrated Colloids. $40,000
James M. Halle, Clemson U. Excess Thermodynamic Properties in Mixtures of Molecular Fluids: Determination by Computer Simulation. $40,000
Stuart A. Rice, U of Chicago. Vibrational Spectroscopy of Liquid Supported Monolayers of Long Chain Amphiphiles. $40,000
James C. W. Chien, U of Massachusetts. Homogeneous Metallocene/Methyl Aluminoxane Catalyst for Stereospecific Olefin Polymerization. $40,000
Philip W. Choquette, U of Colorado. Regional Dia-genesis of a Petroleum-Producing Cycle: Phos-phoria Formation, Western Wyoming. $40,000
Roger D. Willett, Washington State U. Mixed Valence Cu(l)/Cu(ll) Halides. $40,000
Robert N. Rosenfeld, U of California, Davis. Mechanism and Dynamics of the Reactions of Oxygen Atoms with Organometallics. $40,000
Margaret C. Etter, U of Minnesota. 13C CP/MAS NMR and X-ray Crystallographic Studies of Hydrogen-Bonded Carbonyl Groups. $40,000
Kyu-Yong Choi, U of Maryland. A Study of Free Radical Polymerization Catalyzed by Multifunctional Initiators. $40,000
Paul E. Peterson, U of South Carolina. Resolved Diols from Hydroboration of Vinyl Ethers Having Cleavable Chiral Auxiliaries. $40,000
Francis T. Bonner, State U of New York, Stony Brook. Singlet Nitroside Anion. $40,000
Henry K. Hall Jr., U of Arizona. Application of the Bond-Forming Initiation Theory to Quinodimeth-anes: Novel p Phenylenetetramethylene Intermediates. $40,000
Timothy P. Hanusa, Vanderbilt U. Synthesis and Reactivity of Monocyclopentadienyl Alkaline-Earth Complexes. $60,000
Peter M. Felker, U of California, Los Angeles. Nonlinear Interferometric Studies of the Spectroscopy and Dynamics of Jet-Cooled Complexes. $40,000
Geraldine L. Richmond, U of Oregon. Optical Studies of Thin-Film Growth and Electrodeposition Processes. $60,000
Peter A. Scholle, Southern Methodist U. Predictive Models of Forereef Dolomitization, Permian of West Texas. $40,000
Jan E. Almlof, Paul F. Barbara, U of Minnesota. Intramolecular Proton Transfer in Malondialde-hyde and Related Molecules. $60,000
John M. Prausnitz, U of California, Berkeley. High-Pressure Phase Equilibria for Systems Containing Water, Electrolytes, Hydrocarbons, and Gases. $40,000
Ralph M. Pollack, Dale L. Whalen, U of Maryland Baltimore County. Energetics of the Isomerization of Unsaturated Ketones. $40,000
Jeffrey A. Nunn, Louisiana State U. Solute-Driven Fluid Flow and Diagenesis in Porous Layers. $39,980
Robert J. Poreda, U of Rochester. Helium, Neon, and Argon in Natural Gases and Shales. $40,000
Neil Burford, Dalhousie U. New Structure and Bonding for the Phosphine Unit. $40,000
William J. MacKnight, U of Massachusetts. Solution Behavior of lonomers. $40,000
Mark S. Gordon, North Dakota State U. Interfacing Electronic Structure and Dynamics Calculations with Applications to Interesting Reactions. $40,000
Stuart L. Cooper, U of Wisconsin, Madison. Anomalous Small-Angle X-ray Scattering from Ion-Containing Polymers. $40,000
Henry G. Kuivila, State U of New York, Albany. Organometallic Lewis Acids. $20,000
David A. Lightner, U of Nevada, Reno. Transannular Orbital Interactions. Chiroptical Probes of Laticy-clic Conjugation. $40,000
James M. Bobbitt, U of Connecticut. Organic Nitro-sonium Salts as Oxidants in Organic Chemistry. $60,000
Richard G. Gordon, Northwestern U. True Polar Wander—a Paleomagnetic Study of Upper Cretaceous Rocks from Stable North America. $40,000
Bruce J. MacFadden, U of Florida. Calibration of Miocene Marine/Nonmarine Strata and Land Mammal Evolution in Northern Florida. $29,105
Jeffrey A. Cina, U of Chicago. Do Geometric Phases for Cyclic Quantum Evolution Have Important Consequences for the Control of Molecular Processes? $60,000
Ian Paterson, U of Cambridge. Asymmetric Synthesis Using Ketone Boron Enolates with Chiral Li-gands Attached to Boron. $40,000
Robert C. Thunell, Scott W. Snyder, U of South Carolina. Benthic Foraminiferal Biofacies of Phos-phatic and Organic-Rich Miocene-Pliocene Sediments, Florida. $38,600
Marco A. Ciufolini, Rice U. Intramolecular Arylations and Vinylations of Soft Enolates Catalyzed by Zer-ovalent Palladium. $40,000
Dennis L. Lichtenberger, U of Arizona. Electronic Structure and Bond Energy Trends in C-H and Si-H Bond Activation. $40,000
Robert A. Bernheim, Pennsylvania State U. VUV Optical Pumping Spectroscopy. $40,000
David A. Forsyth, Northeastern U. Isotopomers and Bonding in Amines. $40,000
Karl F. Freed, U of Chicago. Lattice Theories of the Statistical Mechanics of Polymer Fluids. $40,000
Edwin S. Gould, Kent State U. Unipositive Cobalt (Cobalt I). $40,000
Kenneth G. Caulton, Indiana U. Electrosynthesis of High-Temperature Superconductors. $40,000
Terence C. Owen, U of South Florida. Deacylation of Quaternary 2-Acylbenzimidazolium Salts. $40,000
Randy L. Bassett, U of Arizona. An Investigation of the Use of Boron Isotopes as Indicators for the Origin of Fluids in Sedimentary Basins. $40,000
Robert C. Kerber, State U of New York, Stony Brook. Iron Carbonyl Complexes of Bridged *-Xylylenes. $40,000
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Arthur J. Ashe III, U of Michigan. Theoretically Important Main-Group Organometallic Compounds. $40,000
Robert W. Thompson, Worcester Polytechnic Institute. Crystallization of Al-free ZSM-5 and Zeolite NaX in Thermal Gradient Systems. $40,000
Jose J. Fripiat, U of Wisconsin, Milwaukee. Mechanism of Reverse Spillover from Hydrogen Bronzes. $40,000
ACS-PRF Grants for Fundamental Research in the Petroleum Field (Type B) Stephen L. Davis, George Mason U. Theoretical In
vestigations of Collisional Excitation in Nonrigid Molecules. $20,000
Phoebe K. Dea, California State U, Los Angeles. Organization of Chlorophyll in Bilayers. $20,000
Norman C. Craig, Oberlin C. Vibrational Spectroscopy of Cyclobutenyl Cations. $20,000
Gerald R. Stevenson, Illinois State U. Effect of Isotropic Substitution upon Solid-State Electron Affinity: a Method for Enrichment. $20,000
Robert Q. Thompson, Oberlin C. Preparation and Characterization of Capillary Immobilized Enzyme Reactors. $20,000
Scott H. Northrup, Tennessee Technological U. Brownian Dynamics of Biomolecular Reactions. $20,000
T. Leon Venable, Agnes Scott C. Isomerization Reactions, Lewis Acid/Base Reactions, and Fusion Reactions of 6-Metalladecaboranes. $20,000
Haripada P. Saha, U of Central Florida. Theoretical and Computational Studies in Atomic Transitions, and Electron-Atom, Photon-Atom and Photon-Molecule Collisions. $20,000
Stephen K. Taylor, Hope C. Diastereoselective Reactions of Enolates with Epoxides. $20,000
Brian L. Weiner, Pennsylvania State U. A Theoretical Study on the Ionic Precursors of Soot. $20,000
Stephen J. Loeb, U of Winnipeg. Design, Synthesis, and Application of Ditopic Crown Thioether Li-gands to Organotransition Metal Chemistry. $19,400
David M. Best, Northern Arizona U. Geophysical Studies of Proterozoic Boundary Terranes in Central Arizona. $20,000
John A. Olmsted III, California State U, Fullerton. Basic Photoprocesses of Molecules Containing Sensitizers Linked with an Energy Acceptor. $20,000
Benjamin F. Plummer, Trinity U. Novel Cyclopen-tene-Fused Polycyclic Aromatic Hydrocarbons. $20,000
Dale F. Shellhamer, Point Loma Nazarene C. Reaction of Diethylaminosulfur Trifluoride and lodoben-zene Difluoride Reagents: Synthesis of Vicinal Difluorides. $20,000
Rabindra N. Roy, Drury C. Thermodynamic Study of Electrolyte Mixtures. $20,000
Alfons L. Baumstark, Georgia State U. Thermolysis of 1,2-Dioxetanes: the Effects of Structural Modifications on the Activation Parameters and Che-miexcitation Yields. $20,000
Charles F. Beam Jr., C of Charleston. Novel Syntheses with Reactive Polymetalated Intermediates. $20,000
John F. Taylor, Indiana U of Pennsylvania. Biostrati-graphy of Upper Cambrian and Lower Ordovician Strata in the Central Appalachians. $20,000
Allan M. Nishimura, Westmont C. Optically Detected Magnetic Resonance of Adsorbed Molecules on Thin Metal Films in Ultra-High Vacuum. $20,000
Joseph F. Pachut Jr., Indiana U-Purdue U, Indianapolis. Developmental Patterns and Microevolution in Ordovician Bryozoans. $20,000
ACS-PRF Grants for Fundamental Research in the Petroleum Field (Type G) Paul E. Olsen, Columbia U. Comparison of Growth
Structures Along Border Faults in the Newark-Gettysburg and Fundy Rift Basins. $18,000
Charles L. Angevlne, U of Wyoming. Quantitative Analysis of Factors Influencing Passive Margin Sedimentation. $18,000
Krishnan P. Nambiar, U of California, Davis. Design and Synthesis of Sequence-Specific DNA-Binding Peptides and Proteins. $18,000
Mark E. Welker, Wake Forest U. Applications of Transition Metal S20 Complexes in the Synthesis of Organosulfur Compounds. $18,000
Daniel A. Singleton, Texas A&M U. Silyl Group-Transfer Mediated Polyene Cyclizations. $18,000
Colin P. Horwitz, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute. Zeolite-Modified Electrodes as Size- and Shape-Selective Electrocatalysts. $18,000
William G. Tong, San Diego State U. Laser Analytical Spectrometry Based on Nonlinear Optical Phase Conjugation. $18,000
Daniel F. Harvey, U of California, San Diego. Investigation of Transition-Metal Vinyl Carbene Complexes and Their Application to Natural Products Synthesis. $18,000
Roger F. Loring, Cornell U. Microscopic Theory of the Excitation of Molecular Motions in Liquids with Short Optical Pulses. $18,000
Mengfei Ho, State U of New York, Buffalo. Design and Synthesis of Alpha-Helix Peptide Stabilizing Structure. $18,000
Constantine Pozrikidis, U of California, San Diego. Transport of Particles by Peristaltic Flows. $18,000
Philip B. Oldham, Mississippi State U. Characterization of Chromatographic Stationary Phases Using Total Internal Reflection Fluorescence. $18,000
Alan V. Klotz, Louisiana State U. Structural Studies on 7-A/-Methylasparagine in Phycobiliproteins. $18,000
Kevin D. Moeller, Washington U. Electrochemically Initiated Intramolecular Olefin Dimerization Reactions. $18,000
Craig E. Lunte, U of Kansas. Voltammetric-Ampero-metric Detection for Liquid Chromatography Using Micro-Electrode Arrays. $18,000
Everett L. Shock, Washington U. Prediction of the Solubility of Hydrocarbons in Sedimentary Basin Brines and Hydrothermal Solutions. $18,000
Carol Korzeniewski, U of Michigan. Investigation of Conducting Films on Electrode Surfaces by In-Situ Infrared Spectroscopy. $18,000
Mark R. Deakin, Florida State U. Ion Detection in Solution Using the Quartz Crystal Microbalance. $18,000
James R. Baker-Jarvis, North Dakota State U. The Interaction of Intense Electromagnetic Fields with Carbonaceous Compounds. $18,000
Richard L. Cifelli, U of Oklahoma. Microvertebrate Reconnaissance, Morrison, and Antlers Formations, Oklahoma. $18,000
Behave S. Shivaram, U of Virginia. Propagation of Sound in High-Temperature Metal Oxide Superconductors. $18,000
Juliette T. J. Lecomte, Pennsylvania State U. Structure of Apomyoglobin and DesFe-Myoglobin by Nuclear Magnetic Resonance Spectroscopy. $18,000
Jonathan S. Dordick, U of Iowa. Enzyme-Catalyzed Polymerization of Phenols in Nonaqueous Media. $18,000
Monica Olvera de la Cruz, Northwestern U. Linear and Circular Polymer Gel Electrophoresis Studies. $18,000
Eric L. Chronister, U of California, Riverside. The Dynamics of Anharmonic Motion Under Extreme Conditions. $18,000
Mark J. Bausch, Southern Illinois U, Carbondale. Radical Anion Basicities. $18,000.
Susan M. Kauzlarich, U of California, Davis. The Investigation of New Hosts for Intercalation Chemistry: the Lanthanide Oxychlorides and Oxysul-fides. $18,000
John R. Ertel, U of Georgia. Lignin Biomarkers in Quaternary Sediments. $18,000
R. Mark Leckie, U of Massachusetts. Cretaceous Biostratigraphy and Paleoceanography of the Southern Western Interior Seaway: Phase I, Northern San Juan Basin. $18,000
Gunda I. Georg, U of Kansas. Asymmetric Synthesis of a-Amino Acids. $18,000
Debbie C. Crans, Colorado State U. Synthesis and Structural Studies of Organic Vanadium(V) Esters as a Model for Organic Phosphate Esters. $18,000
William E. Buhro, Washington U. Molecular Routes to Phosphorus-Rich Clusters and Inorganic Materials. $18,000
Mark A. Buese, Temple U. Preparation of Vinyl Polymers with Controlled Tacticity and the Characterization of Stereo-Block and Stereo-Gradient Polymers. $18,000
Richard D. Ludescher, Wichita State U. Luminescence Spectroscopy of the Surface-Active Lipolytic Enzyme Phospholipase A2. $18,000
Mark M. Clark, U of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign. Floe Restructuring in Varied Turbulent Mixing. $18,000
Scott D. Kahn, U of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign. Ab-initio Steric Factors. $18,000
John R. Stille, Michigan State U. Intramolecular Al-kene Insertion into Metal-Carbon Bonds. $18,000
David J. Wasserman, Hamilton C. A Thermodynamic Study of the Hydrophobic Interaction. $18,000
Daniel D. Bombick, Wright State U. The Mass Spec-trometric Analysis of Polymers Using Potassium Ionization of Desorbed Species (K+IDS). $18,000
Seth E. Rose, Georgia State U. The Displacement of Saline Water from Aquifers: a Numerical Solute Transport Modeling Approach. $18,000
William F. Polik, Hope C. Spectroscopy and Dynamics of Highly Excited Vibrational States in Polyatomic Molecules. $18,000
David E. Fastovsky, U of Rhode Island. Towards a Reconstruction of the Evolution of Depositional Systems, Maestrichtian, Northern Great Plains: Paleoenvironments of the Lower- to Middle-Hell Creek Formation. $18,000
Brian J. Bozlee, Saint Vincent C. Surface-Enhanced Raman Spectroscopy of Alkali Metal Colloids. $18,000
ACS-PRF Grants for Fundamental Research in the Petroleum Field (TypeSE) Mary L. Sohn, John I. Hedges, on behalf of the ACS
Division of Geochemistry. Symposium on Organic Geochemistry of Aquatic Systems, ACS national meeting, Dallas, spring 1989. $3400
Evgeny Shustorovich, on behalf of the ACS Division of Colloid & Surface Chemistry. Symposium on New Frontiers in Surface Chemistry—Concepts and Opportunities, ACS national meeting, Los Angeles, fall 1988. $2550
Bruce Chase, on behalf of the ACS Division of Polymer Chemistry. Symposium on Fourier Transform Raman Spectroscopy of Polymers, ACS national meeting, Los Angeles, fall 1988. $3400
Ernest L. Eliel, Helen M. Free, on behalf of the Committee on International Activities, ACS. "Summer" Support for Five Argentine Academic Chemists to Visit U.S. Institutions, January-March 1989. $18,000
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Joel M. Bowman, on behalf of the ACS Division of Physical Chemistry. Symposium on Frontiers in Molecular Vibrations: Theory and Experiment, ACS national meeting, Los Angeles, fall 1988. $3400
Brian R. James, on behalf of the U of British Columbia. 6th International Symposium on Homogeneous Catalysis, Vancouver, August 1988. $3400
Lieng-Huang Lee, on behalf of the ACS Division of Polymer Chemistry. Symposium on New Trends in Physics and Physical Chemistry of Polymers, ACS national meeting, Toronto, June 1988. $3400
Walter G. Klemperer, on behalf of the ACS Division of Inorganic Chemistry. Symposium on Heteropo-lyanions and their Catalytic Activity, 3rd Chemical Congress of North America, Toronto, June 1988. $3400
Ramanathan Nagarajan, on behalf of the ACS Division of Colloid & Surface Chemistry. 62nd National Colloid & Surface Science Symposium, Pennsylvania State U, June 1988. $1700
Clifford P. Kublak, on behalf of the ACS Division of Inorganic Chemistry. Symposium on Chemistry of Transition Metal Alkoxide, Oxo, and Related Compounds, ACS national meeting, Los Angeles, fall 1988. $1700
Armand F. Lewis, on behalf of the ACS Division of Polymer Chemistry. Symposium on Polymers in Information Storage Technology, ACS national meeting, Los Angeles, fall 1988. $3400
William C. Stwalley, on behalf of the U of Iowa. 4th International Laser Science Conference, Atlanta, Ga., October 1988. $3400
Anastasia A, Morfesis, Anna C. Balazs, on behalf of the ACS Division of Colloid & Surface Chemistry. Symposium on Ordered Particles and Polymer Colloids, ACS national meeting, Los Angeles, fall 1988.$850
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Several changes in ACS staff positions Several members of the American Chemical Society headquarters staff in Washington, D.C., have been appointed to new positions recently, and some newly created positions have been filled.
Justin W. Collat, who formerly headed the Membership Division, has been named secretary-designate and will become secretary of the society upon Rodney N. Hader's retirement later this year. Halley A. Merrell will continue in his role as assistant secretary and will assume the additional title of assistant to the president of the society.
D. H. Michael Bowen, formerly the director of the Books & Journals Division, will succeed Collat as director of the Membership Division, the activities of which have been expanded to include those of the Government Relations & Science Policy Department and the International Activities Department—both formerly components of the Public Policy & Communication group. That group had been headed by R. Eric Leber, who recently was appointed to represent the society in a special project to establish a science exhibit at the Smithsonian Institution (C&EN, March 28, page 34).
The two remaining units of the Public Policy & Communication group—the Department of Public Communication and the Office of Corporation Associates—will be headed by a new director of public relations, Patrick P. McCurdy, who most recently was editor in chief for Chemical Week and is a former editor of C&EN.
In the Membership Division, a Department of Member & Professional Services has been created, incorporating programs heretofore administered by the departments of Membership Activities and of Professional Services. The new department will be headed by Pamela Ayre, formerly manager of the Office of Local Section Activities. Earl Klinefelter, who formerly headed the Department of Membership Activities, and Robert K. Neuman, who headed the Department of Professional Services, both have been appointed special assistants in those areas on Bowen's staff.
Robert H. Marks, formerly director of publishing for the American Institute of Physics, has joined the ACS staff as director of the newly created Publications Division. The division comprises the former Books & Journals Division as well as Chemical & Engineering News.
In the Publications Division, Randall E. Wedin, formerly a special assistant to the executive director and recently coordinator of National Chemistry Day, has been appointed head of the newly created Special Publications Department. In that position, Wedin is responsible for management of staff functions for Analytical Chemistry, Chem-cyclopedia, CHEMTECH, Environmental Science & Technology, and Today's Chemist, the society's new controlled-circulation magazine.
In addition, C. Michael Phillippe, formerly head of the Production Department, has been appointed director of Operational Support, which has been reorganized to encompass several staff support groups, including management services, office and information systems, production, and purchasing and travel. •
Updated guide to small chemical businesses An updated guide to small chemical businesses is now available, listing 331 companies, their addresses, phone numbers, key persons, major product lines, and services. Published by the ACS Division of Small Chemical Businesses, it includes a directory section with 164 headings, showing the firms offering each item or category. Consulting services are in a separate directory with 77 headings.
This guide is the successor of "Directory for Trade and Information/ ' published by the division in 1984.
Copies can be ordered from: DSchB Guide, Box 14373, Columbus, Ohio 43214. Price is $5.00 postpaid. Single copies will be sold at the exposition (booth 916) at the Toronto meeting for $4.00 U.S. or $5.00 Canadian. •
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