External Grants active during FY03
T. H. Black
Project: Carbon Acylation of Highly Delocalized Enolates Using Catalytic DMAP Derivatives
Agency: Petroleum Research Fund
Amount: $30,000
R. W. Chesnut
Project: Synthesis of Platinum-Containing Estrogens for Treating Breast Cancer
Agency: R esearch Corporation
Amount: $25,700
R. W. Chesnut
Project: Platinated Estrogens for Treatment of Breast Tumors
Agency: National Institutes of Health
Amount: $102,000
N.C. Furumo (with Steve Daniel)
Project: Assessing Aggressiveness in Sclerotinia sclerotiorum, the Causative Agent of Sclerotinia Stem Rot of Soybeans
Agency: Illinois Soybean Program Operating Board
Amount: $15, 900
R. L. Keiter
Project: Intramolecular Phosphorus Exchange in Metal Carbonyl Complexes
Agency: Petroleum Research Fund
Amount: $50,000
R. L. Keiter
Project: Acceleration of Phosphine Exchange
Agency: National Science Foundation
Amount: $245,752
B. A. Lawrence (with collaborators at University of the Pacific)
Project: Molecular Mechanisms for the Mechanical Diversity of Spider Silks
Agency: National Science Foundation
Amount: $201,235 (EIU portion)
M. E. McGuire
Project: Adsorption of Flavin Derivatives and Metal-Flavin Complexes on TiO
2
-Coated Electrode
Surfaces
Agency: Petroleum Research Fund
Amount: $30,000
Internal Grants active in FY03
Jon Blitz and Dan Sheeran, CFR, Using Model Compounds to Study Surface Reactions (summer, 2002)
Mark McGuire, Redden Fund, Molecular Modeling kits
Dan Sheeran and Jon Blitz, COS Special Projects, Flame test development with Ocean Optics diode array spectrometer

National Offices
T. H. Black – Councilor, Council on Undergraduate Research
E. A. Keiter – Associate Member, Women Chemists Committee of the American Chemical Society
B. A. Lawrence – Councilor, Council on Undergraduate Research
Regional Office
J.R. Marquart—Vice Chair East Central Illinois Section of the ACS
Publications in FY03
Blitz, Jonathan P.; Klarup, Douglas G. Signal-to-noise ratio, signal processing, and spectral information in the instrumental analysis laboratory.
Journal of Chemical Education (2002), 79(11),
1358-1360.
Deakyne, Carol A. Proton affinities and gas-phase basicities: theoretical methods and structural effects.
International Journal of Mass Spectrometry (2003), 227(3), 601-616.
Deakyne, Carol A.; Li, Le; Liebman, Joel F. The structure and energetics of [B, C, F, H3]+: quantum chemistry shows multiple minima.
International Journal of Mass Spectrometry (2003), 227(3), 555-
561.
Keiter, Richard L.; Martin, J. Scott; Keiter, Ellen A.; Rheingold, Arnold L. Crystal structure of trans-
-PPh2)2.
Journal of Chemical Crystallography (2003), 33(5/6), 491-495.
Marjanovic, M., Lawrence, B., Wright, N., Carlson, J. and DeVries, A. (2002) Osmoregulation and freezing avoidance in fertilized eggs of the Antarctic naked dragon fish ( Gymnocraco acuticeps ).
Physiologist , vol. 45 (4): 308. (Published Abstract)
Sanz, M. Eugenia; Antolinez, Sonia; Alonso, Jose L.; Lopez, Juan C.; Kuczkowski, Robert L.; Peebles,
Sean A.; Peebles, Rebecca A.; Boman, Faith C.; Kraka, Elfi; Cremer, Dieter. The microwave spectrum, ab initio analysis, and structure of the fluorobenzene-hydrogen chloride complex.
Journal of
Chemical Physics (2003), 118(20), 9278-9290.
Matzger, Adam J.; Lewis, Kevin D.; Nathan, Colleen E.; Peebles, Sean A.; Peebles, Rebecca A.;
Kuczkowski, Robert L.; Stanton, John F.; Oh, Jung Jin. Structures of Diethynyl Sulfide and
Bis(phenylethynyl) Sulfide.
Journal of Physical Chemistry A (2002), 106(50), 12110-12116.
Treadwell, Edward M.; Neighbors, Jeffrey D.; Wiemer, David F. A Cascade Cyclization Approach to
Schweinfurthin B.
Organic Letters (2002), 4(21), 3639-3642.
Reiter, Emily, Treadwell, Edward, Cederstrom, Ericka, Reichardt, Paul B., Clausen, Thomas P.
Diterpenes from Colophospermum mopane: “Missing Links” in the Biogenesis of 9,13-
Epoxylabdanes . Journal of Natural Products (2002), 66(1), 30-33.
Presentations in FY03
Blitz, Jonathan P.; Diebel, Richard E.; Deakyne, Carol A.; Christensen, Jeannine M.; Gun'ko, Vladimir M.;
Meverden, Craig C. Experimental and theoretical investigations of AlCl3-nRn reactions with silica gel surfaces.
Abstracts of Papers, 225th ACS National Meeting, New Orleans, LA, United States, March 23-
27, 2003 (2003).

Jeannine M. Christensen, Richard E. Diebel III, Jonathan P. Blitz, and Carol A. Deakyne, "The Reactivity of Boron and Aluminum Compounds with Silanols", American Conference on Theoretical Chemistry;
Champion, PA; July 2002.
Chesnut, Robert W.; Bailey, Laurel J.; Bundy, Jason S.; Bendler, Sara E.; Clark, Sarah A.; Davis, Diana N.;
Orwar, Nicole A.; Katzenellenbogen, John A.; Carlson, Kathryn E. Novel 7- -substituted estradiol derivatives.
Abstracts of Papers, 225th ACS National Meeting, New Orleans, LA, United States, March
23-27, 2003 (2003).
Deakyne, Carol A.; Li, Le; Liebman, Joel F. Structure and energetics of [B, C, F, H3]+: Quantum chemistry shows multiple minima.
Abstracts of Papers, 224th ACS National Meeting, Boston, MA,
United States, August 18-22, 2002 (2002).
Keiter, Richard L.; Liu, Yong; Perera, Pradeep; Hayner, Matthew W.; McGuire, Mark E.; Keiter, Ellen A.
Phosphido-bridged carbonyl complexes linked by tetraphenyldiphosphinoacetylene/ethylene ligands.
Abstracts of Papers, 225th ACS National Meeting, New Orleans, LA, United States, March 23-27, 2003
(2003).
Bellott, Brian J.; McMillian, David A.; Anthony, Heather M.; Holloway, Geoffrey A.; Southern, Joel S.;
Keiter, Ellen A.; Keiter, Richard L. Double dangling tetraphenyldiphosphinomethane carbonyl complexes of group 6.
Abstracts of Papers, 225th ACS National Meeting, New Orleans, LA, United
States, March 23-27, 2003 (2003).
Ellen A. Keiter, Richard L. Keiter, Joel Southern, Mary Stanley, Chaminda Gamage, Richard Keaton, Ryan
Bailey, Roger Sommer, Ilia Guzei, Glenn Yap, and Arnold Rheingold, “Phosphorus-Carbon Spin-Spin
Coupling Between Dangling Phosphines and M-CO”, 35 th International Coordination Chemistry
Conference; Heidelberg, Germany; July 2002.
Richard L. Keiter, Ellen A. Keiter, Chaminda Gamage, Ryan Bailey, “Intramolecular Exchange of
Coordinated and Terminal Phosphino Groups of Polydentate Phosphines in Linkage Isomers of Metal
Carbonyls”, 35 th International Coordination Chemistry Conference; Heidelberg, Germany; July 2002.
Lawrence, Barbara; Wright, Nicholas; Werner-Zwanziger , Ulrike; Moore, Anne , “Characterization of
Tarantula Silk Using Carbon-13 CP-MAS Solid State NMR Spectroscopy” XX th International Conference on Magnetic Resonance In Biological Systems, Toronto, Ont. (August, 2002).
Marjanovic, M., Lawrence, B., Wright, N., Carlson, J. and DeVries, A. “Osmoregulation and freezing avoidance in fertilized eggs of the Antarctic naked dragon fish ( Gymnocraco acuticeps ).” Comparative
Physiology Meeting, San Diego, California. (August, 2002).
Patel, Manisha; McGuire, Mark E. Ruthenium(II) complexes of a bipyridine-based alloxazine ligand incorporated into TiO2-coated electrodes.
Abstracts of Papers, 225th ACS National Meeting, New
Orleans, LA, United States, March 23-27, 2003 (2003).
Malinowski, Lauren; McGuire, Mark E. Incorporation of a Ru(II) complex containing a phenanthroline-based azo dye into a "Gratzel-type" solar cell.
Abstracts of Papers, 225th ACS
National Meeting, New Orleans, LA, United States, March 23-27, 2003 (2003).
Lutes, Bryn; McGuire, Mark E. Alloxazines as H-atom transfer mediators incorporated into TiO2coated electrodes.
Abstracts of Papers, 225th ACS National Meeting, New Orleans, LA, United States,
March 23-27, 2003 (2003),