2006 Program
Total Page:16
File Type:pdf, Size:1020Kb
2006 ACS ntral Regional Meeting and 39th licon Symposium Abstract Book Table of Contents Abstract Book ............................................................................................................. 1 Plenary Lecture: Ecology, Economy, and the Sea............................................................ 14 1. Ecology, Economy and the Sea ................................................................................ 14 Advanced Materials for Portable Energy Devices............................................................ 14 2. Studies of Fast Ionic Conductors using 6Li/7Li Solid-State 2D Exchange NMR.... 14 3. “Understanding Surface Instabilities In Solid State Lithium Metal Batteries: An experimental and theoretical investigation'”................................................................. 15 4. Composite Cathode Structure/Property Relationships.............................................. 15 5. Highly Efficient Compact Power Sources Based on Direct Fuel Alkaline Energy Cells With Low Resistivity Membrane Materials ........................................................ 16 6. An Overview of Hydrogen Sorption Measurements and their Impacts on Hydrogen Storage Materials Research........................................................................................... 16 Biotechnology I................................................................................................................. 17 7. Enzyme-Catalyzed Polymer Synthesis and Modification Reactions........................ 17 8. Better proteins faster: Tools and tricks for speedier protein engineering................ 17 9. Biocatalytic Transformation of Aryl Silanes using Aromatic Dioxygenases........... 18 10. Chemoenzymatic Synthesis of Epoxy-Functional Silanes and Siloxanes .............. 19 2- 11. Biomimetic Sx Synthesis of Pentathiabenzocycloheptene-1,2-diols and Thianthrene Tetraols from Ortho-benzoquinone .......................................................... 20 Catalysis I - Olefin Catalysis and Plastics Materials ........................................................ 20 12. Mechanistic aspects of metallocene-catalayzed alkene polymerization................. 20 13. Synthesis of a series of metal complexes from two novel multi-dentate ligands ... 21 14. Preparation of monocyclopentadienyl metal complexes by nucleophilic substitution of bis(cyclopentadienyl) metal complexes.................................................................... 21 15. Improved Catalysts for Ethylene-Styrene Interpolymers ....................................... 21 16. The Use of High Throughput Techniques for Catalysis and Materials R&D......... 22 Coatings Technology I...................................................................................................... 22 17. Chromate-free corrosion protection of Al alloys by metal-rich coatings based on Mg pigments ................................................................................................................. 22 18. Characterization and Performance of new Zr-Polymer Conversion Coating for Aluminum and its Alloys.............................................................................................. 23 19. Nanoceramic Pretreatment: Simple, Effective Corrosion Resistant Pretreatment for all Metal Substrates....................................................................................................... 23 20. Novel Autodepositing Epoxy/Acrylic Coating Process.......................................... 23 Environmental Challenges - Issues & Solutions I ............................................................ 24 21. Eco-Nano: The Impact of Engineered Nanomaterials on the Environment ........... 24 22. Ionic Liquid High Temperature Gas Sensors.......................................................... 24 23. Organosilicon Compounds in Ambient Air of the Great Lakes Basin ................... 25 24. Octanol-Air Partition Coefficients of Volatile Methylsiloxanes and Their Implication for Long Range Transport ......................................................................... 25 25. The Electrochemical Remediation of Atrazine Using Boron-Doped Diamond Electrode on Ti Substrate.............................................................................................. 26 Optoelectronics & Photonics - Polymers, Devices, and Applications I ........................... 26 26. Doping semiconductor nanocrystals....................................................................... 26 2006 ACS Central Regional Meeting and 39th Silicon Symposium 2 May 16 – 20, 2006 Frankenmuth, MI USA 27. Photosensitive organogermanosilicon polymers..................................................... 27 28. Optoelectronic properties of Alq3 based OLEDs as a function of temperature from 10 to 300 K.................................................................................................................... 27 29. Si-based materials for organic light emitting diodes .............................................. 28 30. Molecular modeling of water diffusion in amorphous SiC .................................... 28 Polymer Characterization I - Characterization of Polymer Branching............................. 29 31. Molecular Topology-Based Polymer Separations .................................................. 29 32. Visualizing polymer dynamics in separation media ............................................... 29 33. How polymers worm through pores ....................................................................... 30 34. Analysis of long-chain branching in polymers using rheology .............................. 30 35. Characterization of hyperbranched polymers ......................................................... 31 Poster Session, Lunch, Exposition.................................................................................... 31 36. Kinetics of the Ligand Exchange Reactions of NiTetren with 2,2'-Bipyridine and 2,2':6',2"-Terpyridine .................................................................................................... 31 37. Syntheses and structures of new layered transition metal naphthalenesulfonate salts ....................................................................................................................................... 32 38. Recent studies on asymmetric induction in photocycloaddition reactions ............. 32 39. Fullerene-Coated Materials as Reusable Catalysts for Selective Oxidations ......... 33 40. Multi-potent polymer coatings based on chemical vapor deposition co- polymerization .............................................................................................................. 33 41. Reaction of tea catechins with cytochrome c.......................................................... 34 42. Multi-element analysis of human blood with inductively coupled plasma-mass spectrometry.................................................................................................................. 34 43. Ab initio analysis of H2O/ZnO ............................................................................... 34 44. Application of amphiphilic PAMAM dendrimers in biomimetic interfaces .......... 35 45. Heats of Formation of Chiral Enantiomers and Racemates: Tartaric Acid ............ 35 46. Synthesis of an Isotopically–Labelled Analog of the Antimicrobial Peptide LL-37 ....................................................................................................................................... 35 47. Temperature Dependence of Ruthenium Complex Luminescence in Various Solvents......................................................................................................................... 36 48. Crystal growth of Zinc Oxide: Morphological control through solution chemistry36 49. Investigation of Adhesion Promoters at Polymer Interfaces using Sum Frequency Generation Vibrational Spectroscopy........................................................................... 36 50. Mechanism of lipid peroxidation of arachidonic acid: a theoretical investigation. 37 51. Kinetics and mechanism of the abiotic hydrolysis reactions of permethylated cyclosiloxanes in dilute aqueous solution..................................................................... 37 52. Analysis of American Chemical Society election procedures - improvements in majority representation and efficiency needed ............................................................. 38 53. Structural and Spectroscopic Evidence for Formation of Trinuclear and Tetranuclear V(III)/Carboxylate Complexes of Acetate and Related Derivatives in Aqueous Solution.......................................................................................................... 38 54. Chemically related subjects on philatelic covers.................................................... 38 55. Reductions by titanium(II) as catalyzed by titanium(IV) ....................................... 39 56. Continuous monitoring device for the collection of a group of herbicides ............ 39 57. Metal complexation and photocatalysis studies of EDTA...................................... 40 58. Multivariate data analysis of petroleum-based accelerants and consumer fuels .... 40 2006 ACS Central Regional Meeting and 39th Silicon Symposium 3 May 16 – 20, 2006 Frankenmuth, MI USA 59. Photocycloaddition reactions of and in dendrimers and dendrons - poster ............ 41 60. Design, Synthesis, and Evaluation of MC1R Agonists For the Prevention of Skin Cancer ..........................................................................................................................