third group of 1993 acs prf grants approved
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Third Group of 1993 ACS PRF Grants Approved
A cting on recommendations from / % the May meeting of the Petro-
JL J L leum Research Fund Advisory Board, the American Chemical Society Board of Directors approved 139 new or continuing ACS-Petroleum Research Fund grants-in-aid. May commitments total $4,595,099. The recommended grants were selected from 457 proposals and are the last projects to be funded in 1993. ACS-PRF grants are funded by income from a trust established in 1944 by seven major oil companies. No ACS member dues income is used for PRF grants or administrative expenses.
The maximum values for ACS-PRF grants in 1994 will not change from 1993. Continuing low interest rates have reduced income available for new PRF
ACS-PRF Grants for Fundamental Research in the Petroleum Field (Type AC)
Nigel G. Adams, U of Georgia. Structural Forms of Organic Ion Products of Collisional Association Reactions. $50,000
Norman L. Allinger, U of Georgia. Ab Initio Calculation of Heats of Formation. $50,000
Robert J. Angelici, Iowa State U. Phosphorus Analogs of Cyanide and Arylisocyanide Ligands in Transition-Metal Complexes. $50,000
C. Géraldine Bazuin, Université Laval. New Liquid-Crystalline Polymeric Materials through Noncovalent "Grafting." $50,000
Thomas L. Beck, U of Cincinnati. Theory of Liquid Chromatography. $50,000
Han Benjamin, U of California, Santa Cruz. Molecular Dynamics Study of Solvent Effects in Chemical Reactions at the Solid-Liquid Interface. $50,000
Sam Boggs Jr., U of Oregon. Albitization of Miocene Deep-Sea Sandstones from the Japan Sea Backarc Basin. $19,930
James M. Boncella, U of Florida. Synthesis and Reactivity Studies of Dimeric Group-8-10 Metal Amide Complexes. $50,000
Frederick G. Bordwell, Northwestern U. Structural Effects on Bond Dissociation Energies. $50,000
William H. Breckenridge, U of Utah. Spectroscopic Studies of the Electronic Interactions of Ground- and Excited-State Atoms with Small Molecules. $50,000
grant commitments. New PRF grants declined from $14.4 million in 1992 to $12.9 million in 1993. A further decrease in commitments in 1994 is probable. The reduction in funding has significantly decreased the number of grant commitments for type AC grants, from 32% in 1992 to 23% in 1993, and for type Β grants, from 49% to 39%.
The "37th Annual Report on "Research under Sponsorship of the Petroleum Research Fund" is available. To receive a complimentary copy or information and application forms for ACS-PRF grants to commence in 1994, write to Petroleum Research Fund, American Chemical Society, 1155—16th St., N.W., Washington, D.C. 20036, or call (202) 872-4481.
Joan F. Brennecke, U of Notre Dame. Solvent Effect on Reactivity of Ions and Radicals in Supercritical Water Solutions. $50,000
Carlton E. Brett, U of Rochester. Dynamic Stratigraphy, Physical Sedimentology, and Paleoecology of Mid-Paleozoic Black Shales of the Northern Appalachian Basin. $50,000
Sandra J. Carlson, U of California, Davis. Reevaluating the Eocene-Oligocene Temperature Decline Using Stable Isotope Profiles from New Zealand Articulate Brachiopods. $50,000
lu-Yam Chan, Brandeis U. Dynamics of Quantum Tunneling Reactions under Pressure. $50,000
Russell J. Composto, U of Pennsylvania. Measurement of the Volume Fraction Profiles of Adsorbed Polymers. $50,000
Valerian T. D'Souza, U of Missouri, St. Louis. Novel Cyclodextrins: Synthesis and Properties. $50,000
Nancy M. Doherty, U of California, Irvine. Early Transition-Metal Nitrido and Phosphido Compounds. $50,000
Donald B. DuPre, U of Louisville. Macromo-lecular Order in Concentrated Solutions of Semiflexible Polymers. $50,000
Phillip M. Duxbury, Michigan State U. Compressive and Shear Failure of Porous Materials. $50,000
Jen-Ho Fang, Hui-Chuan Chen, U of Alabama. Inversion of Crosshole Seismic Tomography Data via Neurocomputing. $39,996
Peter M. Felker, U of California, Los Angeles. Rotational and Ground-State Vibrational Spectroscopy of Cold Metal Clusters. $50,000
M. G. Finn, U of Virginia. New Routes to Neo-carzinostatin Model Compounds: Condensation Synthesis of Aliènes. $50,000
Malcolm D. E. Forbes, U of North Carolina, Chapel Hill. Chemical and Magnetic Properties of Radical Pairs and Biradicals at Interfaces. $50,000
Stephen C. Foster, Florida State U. Infrared Spectroscopy of Reactive Species in a Supersonic Jet. $50,000
Craig R. Glenn, U of Hawaii, Manoa. Environmental Factors Controlling Cyclic Carbonate and Sapropel Formation in the Pliocene-Pleistocene Black Sea. $28,259
Lionel Goodman, Rutgers, State U of New Jersey. Two-Photon Rydberg-State Jet Spectroscopy Involving Torsional Modes. $50,000
Vicki H. Grassian, U of Iowa. Surface Photochemistry of Molecules Adsorbed on Metal Particles. $50,000
Mark M. Green, Polytechnic U. Cholesteric Liquid-Crystal State of Polyisocyanates and Other Dynamically Racemic Materials. $50,000
Masanori Hara, Rutgers, State U of New Jersey. Deformation and Fracture Behavior of Molecular Composites via Ionic Interactions. $50,000
A. Rashid Hasan, U of North Dakota. Mechanistic Model of Phase Redistribution in Well-bores. $50,000
Irving P. Herman, Columbia U. Spatially Resolved Optical Studies of Chemical Processes. $50,000
Tito E. Huber, Polytechnic U. Optical Properties of Molecular Hydrogen in Porous Materials. $50,000
Karl M. Kadish, U of Houston. Electrosynthe-sis and Electrochemistry of Fullerenes and Fullerene Films. $50,000
Douglas A. Keszler, Oregon State U. Crystal Chemistry and Optical Studies of New Solid-State Borates. $50,000
Donald L. Koch, Cornell U. Kinetic Theory for an Adsorbed Gas. $50,000
Joseph W. Kolis, Clemson U. Synthesis of New Solid-State Compounds in Supercritical Amines. $50,000
Samuel P. Kounaves, Tufts U. Electrodeposi-tion of Catalytic Alloys and Mixed Metals Using Heteropolymetallic Complexes. $50,000
David E. Krantz, U of Delaware. Stable Isotope Stratigraphy and Paleoceanography of the Bering Strait Region during the Last Interglacial. $50,000
Clifford P. Kubiak, Purdue U. Catalytic Deox-ygenation of Phenolic and Alcoholic Functional Groups. $50,000
Juhn G. Liou, W. Gary Ernst, Stanford U. Experimental Investigation of Kinetics and Rhe-ology during Diagenesis. $48,564
James M. Lisy, U of Illinois, Urbana-Cham-paign. Effect of Hydrogen Bonding on Vibrational Transition Moments. $50,000
Charles M. Lukehart, Vanderbilt U. New Synthetic Routes to Nanocomposite Materials. $50,000
Thomas E. Mallouk, Pennsylvania State U. Chemical Sensors Based on Shape-Selective Intercalation Reactions. $50,000
Cynthia K. McClure, U of Delaware. Pentaco-valent Phosphorus in Organic Chemistry: A New Route to Substituted Phosphonates. $50,000
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George A. McMechan, U of Texas, Dallas. Full-Wavefield Inversion of Seismic Data for the Distribution of Visco-Elastic Parameters in Hydrocarbon Reservoirs. $50,000
J. Casey Moore, U of California, Santa Cruz. Faulting, Dolomitization, and Fluid Migration in the Monterey Formation in the Santa Maria Basin, California. $50,000
Robert H. Morris, U of Toronto. Transition-Metal Complexes with Thiolate and Dihydro-gen Coligands. $50,000
Michael D. Morse, U of Utah. Photofragmentation Spectroscopy of Jet-Cooled Metal Cations. $50,000
Ka M. Ng, U of Massachusetts. Separation of a Multicomponent Mixture Based on Fractional Crystallization. $50,000
Kenneth M. Nicholas, U of Oklahoma. Chemistry and Synthetic Utility of Cobalt-Com-plexed Propargyl Radicals. $50,000
Donald R. Peacor, Ben A. van der Pluijm, U of Michigan. Textural Analysis of Diagenetic to Low-Grade Pelites. $50,000
William H. Pearson, U of Michigan. 2-Azaallyl Anions in Organic Synthesis. $50,000
Ralph M. Pollack, U of Maryland, Baltimore County. Effects of Phenyl and Vinyl Groups on Ketone Acidity. $50,000
Gary H. Posner, Johns Hopkins U. Simplified, Improved, and Cost-Effective Cycloadditions Using 2-Pyrones: Multigram Asymmetric Synthesis of Functionalized Cyclohexene Building Blocks. $50,000
Howard Reiss, U of California, Los Angeles. Evaluation of Configurational Entropy. $50,000
Samuel A. Safran, Weizmann Institute of Science. Surface-Induced Instabilities and Phase Transformations. $50,000
John L. Schmitt, Gary L. Bertrand, U of Missouri, Rolla. Binary Homogeneous Nucle-ation of Octane Isomers. $46,000
Gerard T. Schuster, U of Utah. Porosity and Lithology Reconstruction from Crosshole Seismic Data Using a Traveltime and Elastic Wavefield Inversion Method. $50,000
Alan W. Schwabacher, Iowa State U. Self-Organizing Receptors That Orient Substrates. $50,000
Robert J. Silbey, Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Theoretical Studies of Single-Molecule Spectroscopy, Spectral Diffusion, Photon Echoes, and Hole Burning. $50,000
Rex T. Skodje, U of Colorado. Influence of Rotational Dynamics in Heavy-Light-Heavy Chemical Reactions. $50,000
Wu-Pei Su, U of Houston. Photoexcitations in Conjugated Polymers. $50,000
Timothy M. Swager, U of Pennsylvania. Synthetic Approaches to Graphite Ribbons. $50,000
Eric J. Toonë, Duke U. Pyruvate Aldolases for Stereocontrolled Carbon-Carbon Bond Formation. $50,000
Wilfred T. Tysoe, U of Wisconsin, Milwaukee. Palladium-Catalyzed Acetylene Cyclotrimer-ization: A Bridge between Ultrahigh Vacuum and Catalysis? $40,000
Arvind Varma, William C. Strieder, U of Notre Dame. Chemical Reaction Engineering Considerations in the Synthesis of Silicon Nitride: Experiments and Theory. $50,000
Lynn M. Walter, U of Michigan. Chemical Mass Transfer between Bedded Evaporites and Sedimentary Basin Brines: Implications for Fluid Migration and Origin of CaCI2
Brines. $50,000 Hyuk Yu, George D. Zografi, U of Wisconsin,
Madison. Two-Dimensional Intrinsic Viscosity. $50,000
Xiangdong Zhu, U of California, Davis. Toward a Comprehensive Investigation of Quantum Tunneling of Atomic Hydrogen on Metals. $50,000
Hans-Conrad zur Loye, Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Synthesis of Novel Ternary Nitrides from Solid-State Precursors. $50,000
ACS-PRF Grants for Fundamental Research in the Petroleum Field (TypeB)
Mark E. Bussell, Western Washington U. Surface Science Investigation of Alumina-Supported Hydrodesulfurization Catalysts. $25,000
Ronald Caple, U of Minnesota, Duluth. Exo-glucals as Precursors of 1,1-Dialkyl Gluco-sides. $25,000
Ronald L. Christensen, Bowdoin C. Optical Studies of Linear Polyenes. $25,000
JoAnn P. DeLuca, Illinois State U. Second-Period Ylide Intermediates in Reactions of Singlet Carbenes. $25,000
Michael P. Eastman, Northern Arizona U. Cy-clodextrin Host-Guest Chemistry Including the Tetracyanoquinodimethane Anion Radical. $25,000
Paul A. Flowers, Pembroke State U. Elec-troreduction of Carbon Dioxide in Molten Alkylammonium Salts. $24,500
Jerome E. Haky, Florida Atlantic U. Surface Modification of Alumina by Adsorption with Phosphonic Acids. $25,000
Jerry P. Jasinski, Keene State C. Structural, Photophysical, and Theoretical Studies of Laser Dye Clusters. $25,000
Markes E. Johnson, Williams C. Cretaceous Rocky Shores of Baja California: Coastal Oceanography and Sea-Level Changes. $25,000
Michael Lattman, Southern Methodist U. Fundamental Studies on "Hypervalent" Main-Group Elements Constrained by Macrocycles. $25,000
Albert R. Matlin, Oberlin C. Photochemical Generation and Cycloadditions of Oxyallyl Systems. $25,000
Jerry R. Mohrig, Carleton C. Stereochemical Determinants in Proton Transfer and Elimination Reactions. $25,000
Tetsuo Otsuki, Occidental C. Synthesis and Property of Furocoumarin-Oligonucleotide Complexes as a Sequence-Specific Modifier of DNA via Triple-Helix Formation. $25,000
Michael J. Retelle, Bates C. Environmental Reconstruction from High Arctic Lacustrine and Marine Sediments, Sophia Lake, Eastern Cornwallis Island, Northwest Territories, Canada. $25,000
Rosette M. Roat, Washington C. Oxidation-Reduction Behavior of Platinum(IV) Compounds in Reactions with Nucleobases. $24,700
Christopher J. Schmidt, Western Michigan U. Geometry, Fault Displacement, and Internal Strain in a Thrust-Fold Salient, Southwestern Montana. $21,150
Merlyn D. Schuh, Davidson C. Phosphorescence Probe of Dynamics of Heme Proteins. $25,000
Paul Siders, U of Minnesota, Duluth. Kinetic Model of Modulated Microstructure in Cal-cian Dolomite. $25,000
Lucjan Strekowski, Georgia State U. Novel Chemistries of A/-Fluoropyridinium Salts. $25,000
Jan Tobochnik, Kalamazoo C. Lattice Models for Hydrogen Bonding in Lipid Bilayers. $25,000
Jeffrey R. Walker, Vassar C. Modeling of Disorder in Chlorite Using Powder X-Ray Diffraction Data. $25,000
ACS-PRF Grants for Fundamental Research in the Petroleum Field (TypeG)
John W. Benbow, Lehigh U. Radicals in Organic Synthesis: An Addition-Fragmentation Approach to Butenolide Installation. $20,000
Paul T. Buonora, Lamar U. Studies of the Enantioselective Allylation of Carbonyl Compounds by Diorganozinc-Auxiliary Complexes. $20,000
Long-Qing Chen, Pennsylvania State U. Atomistic Computer Simulation of Structure and Phase Transformations of Strongly Segregated Oxide Surfaces. $20,000
Judith S. Chester, St. Louis U. Accommodation Mechanisms of Crustal Block Rotation and Significance to Transrotational Basin Development in Strike-Slip Regimes. $20,000
Dennis P. Clougherty, U of Vermont. Quantum Sticking at Finite Temperature. $20,000
Charles W. S. Conover, Colby C. Rydberg Molecules in External Fields. $20,000
Thomas R. Cundari, Memphis State U. Computational Studies of Transition-Metal-Mediated Methane Activation. $20,000
Elbio Dagotto, Florida State U. Superconductivity in Doped Fullerenes. $20,000
Bernadette T. Donovan, U of North Carolina, Charlotte. Electrochemical Studies of Steri-cally Crowded Organorhodium Complexes. $20,000
David G. Evans, North Carolina State U. Bifurcating Solutions to Coupled Groundwater Flow Near Salt Domes. $20,000
Kent S. Gates, U of Missouri, Columbia. Pro-tein-DNA Interactions: A Study of Nonspecific DNA Binding by Type-lls Restriction Enzymes. $20,000
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John M. Holbrook, Southeast Missouri State U. Evaluative Analysis of Genetic Interrelationships between Sequence-Boundary Morphology and Internal Architecture of Overlying Fluvially Dominated Strata. $20,000
Sean M. Kerwin, U of Texas, Austin, C of Pharmacy. Aza-Bergman Cyclization Route to 2,5-Didehydropyridines. $20,000
Hyung J. Kim, Carnegie Mellon U. Theoretical Studies of Rotational Dynamics and Dielectric Friction: Role of Solute Electronic Structure and Solvation Dynamics. $20,000
Yuzhuo Li, Clarkson U. Photoinduced Redox Reactions on Semiconductor Particles: A New Synthetic Method for the Reduction of Nitro and Azido Compounds. $20,000
Charles R. Marshall, U of California, Los Angeles. Confidence Intervals on Stratigraphie Ranges for Taxa with Nonrandom Distributions of Fossil Horizons. $20,000
Cary J. Miller, U of Maryland. Electronic Properties of Individual Functional Groups within Thiol Monolayers at Au Electrodes. $20,000
Susan M. Miller, U of California, San Francisco. Mechanistic Investigation of the Alternating-Sites Hypothesis for Catalysis in the Enzyme Mercuric Ion Reductase. $20,000
David Ritter, Southeast Missouri State U. Reaction Kinetics of Gas-Phase Multiply Charged Transition-Metal Cations. $20,000
Roseanne J. Sension, U of Michigan. Time-Resolved Studies of Energy Redistribution and Disposal in Hydrocarbons. $20,000
Peter C. Sercel, U of Oregon. Investigation of the Optical Properties and Microstructure of Nanometer-Scale Silicon and Germanium Clusters. $20,000
David A. Shultz, North Carolina State U. Paramagnetic Discotic Liquid Crystals. $20,000
Milton R. Smith, Michigan State U. Synthesis, Structure, and Reactivity of Early Transition-Metal Complexes with Direct Bonds to Boron. $20,000
Steven A. Soper, Louisiana State U. Fluorescence Properties of Near-IR Dyes Bound to dsDNAs and Its Application to the Detection of Single DNA Molecules. $20,000
Wanda J. Taylor, U of Nevada, Las Vegas. Contractional and Extensional Tectonic Evolution in the White Pine Range, Central Great Basin. $20,000
John Y. Walz, Tulane U. Effect of Fluid Motion on the Interaction between a Particle and an Interface. $20,000
Lewis E. Wedgewood, U of Washington. LDV Study of the Flow Field in the Aligned and Misaligned Cone-and-Plate Rheometer. $20,000
Wuchang Wei, U of California, San Diego. Global Calibration of Paleogene Calcareous Nannofossil Datums with Magnetostratigra-phy. $20,000
Derk A. Wierda, St. Anselm C. Reduction of Dini-trogen by Vanadium Complexes. $20,000
David O. Wipf, Mississippi State U. Pitting Corrosion Formation and Examination with the Scanning Electrochemical Microscope. $20,000
Jin Z. Zhang, U of California, Santa Cruz. Femtosecond Studies of Photoreaction Dynamics at the Liquid-Solid Interface. $20,000
ACS-PRF Grants for Fundamental Research in the Petroleum Field (Type SE)
William J. Brittain, on behalf of ACS Division of Polymer Chemistry. Synthesis of Controlled Polymeric Structures through Living Polymerization and Related Processes, 208th ACS national meeting, Washington, D.C., August 1994. $2000
Joseph M. DeSimone, on behalf of ACS Division of Polymer Chemistry. Recent Advances on the Synthesis and Characterization of Block and Graft Copolymers, 206th ACS national meeting, Chicago, August 1993. $2000
R. I. Haddad, on behalf of Geochemical Society Division of Organic Geochemistry. Sedimentary Diagenesis of Nitrogen and Sulfur in Organic Matter, GSA meeting, Boston, October 1993. $2000
Patrick G. Hatcher, on behalf of ACS Division of Geochemistry. Biopolymers in Sedimentary Systems, 206th ACS national meeting, Chicago, August 1993. $2000
D. Michael Heinekey, on behalf of ACS Division of Inorganic Chemistry. Chemistry and Spectroscopy of Dihydrogen and Related Hydride Complexes, 206th ACS national meeting, Chicago, August 1993. $2000
William D. Jones, on behalf of ACS Division of Inorganic Chemistry. Alkane Functionaliza-tion at Metal Centers in Natural and Unnatural Systems, 207th ACS national meeting, San Diego, March 1994. $2000
Ronald M. Levy, on behalf of ACS Division of Physical Chemistry. Protein Folding, 206th ACS national meeting, Chicago, August 1993. $1000
Timothy P. Lodge, on behalf of ACS Division of Polymer Chemistry. Block Copolymer Dynamics, 207th ACS national meeting, San Diego, March 1994. $2000
James E. Mark, on behalf of ACS Division of Polymeric Materials: Science & Engineering. Inorganic-Organic Polymeric Composites, 207th ACS national meeting, San Diego, March 1994. $2000
P. K. Mukhopadhyay, Wallace G. Dow, on behalf of ACS Division of Geochemistry. Re-evaluation of Vitrinite Reflectance as a Maturity Parameter: Petrologic, Kinetic, and Geochemical Factors, 206th ACS national meeting, Chicago, August 1993. $2000
Gilbert M. Nathanson, Kenneth B. Eisenthal, on behalf of ACS Division of Physical Chemistry. Chemistry at Liquid Surfaces: Equilibrium and Dynamic Properties, 207th ACS national meeting, San Diego, March 1994. $2000
Dudley D. Rice, Martin Schoell, on behalf of ACS Division of Geochemistry. Sources of Natural Gas, 206th ACS national meeting, Chicago, August 1993. $2000
T. L. RobI, on behalf of ACS Division of Geochemistry and the Society for Organic Petrography. Geochemistry and Petrography of Kerogen Macérais, 207th ACS national meeting, San Diego, March 1994. $2000
Kirk S. Schanze, on behalf of Inter-American Photochemical Society. 6th Winter Conference of the Inter-American Photochemical Society, Clearwater Beach, Fla., January 1994. $2000
Alan T. Stone, Bradley M. Tebo, on behalf of ACS Division of Geochemistry. Transformations at the Oxic-Anoxic Interface, 207th ACS national meeting, San Diego, March 1994. $2000
William C. Trogler, on behalf of ACS Division of Inorganic Chemistry. Inorganic Chemistry in Environmental Problems, 207th ACS national meeting, San Diego, March 1994. $1000
Marek W. Urban, on behalf of ACS divisions of Polymeric Materials: Science & Engineering, and Analytical Chemistry. Hyphenated Techniques in Polymer Characterization, 206th ACS national meeting, Chicago, August 1993. $2000 Π
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