ACS PRF FUNDING FOR RESEARCH PROGRAMS OF NOBEL LAUREATES Compiled by Askar Fahr, PRF Nobel Year Field Title

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1 Nobel Laureate ACS PRF FUNDING FOR RESEARCH PROGRAMS OF NOBEL LAUREATES Compiled by Askar Fahr, PRF Nobel Year Field Title PRF Awards # PRF Award Date PRF Grant Award $ PRF Other Award $ Notes 1 Harold C. Urey 1934 Chemistry Discovery of Heavy Hydrogen Analyzing the Organic Components of Carbonaceous Meteorites, rocks, Soils and Recent Sediments 2652X Nov-65 $15,000 U. Calif., San Diego 2 Peter DeBye 1936 Chemistry Knowledge of Molecular Structure Through Investigations on Dipole Moments and the Diffraction of X-rays and Electrons in Gases The Transport and Accumulation of Charges in Hydrocarbon Solutions- Electrolytes in Hydrocarbons 673A Apr-60 $50,000 Cornell U 3 Melvin Calvin 1961 Chemistry Carbon Dioxide Assimilation in Plants Organic Geochemistry of Ancient Sediments and Comparative Biochemistry of Primitive Microorganisms 3662C May-69 $20,000 U. Calif. Berkeley 4 Robert S. Mulliken 1966 Chemistry Fundamental Studies of Chemical Bonds and the Electronic Structure of Molecules by the Molecular Orbital Method AB Initio SCF Computations on Arenium Ions 7616AC Nov-73 $23,300 Univ. of Chicago 5 Geoffrey Wilkinson 1973 Chemistry Chemistry of the Organometallic - "Sandwich" Compounds Transition Metal Complexes, Organometallic Compounds and Homogeneous Catalysis 4590AC May-69 $18,000 Imperial College, UK 6 Herbert C. Brown 1979 Chemistry Development of the Use of Boron- and Phosphorus-Containing Compounds into important reagents in organic synthesis Direct Effects in Aromatic Substitutions 95A Nov-58 $7,500 Purdue U Directive Effects in Aromatic Substitutions 585C Nov-59 $50,000 Boron in Hydrocarbon Chemistry 1718A Apr-63 $27,360 7 Roald Hoffmann 1981 Chemistry Theories Concerning the Course of Chemical Reactions Potential Surfaces for Some Simple Chemical Reactions and Models for Simple Catalytic Processes 4273AC $30,000 Cornell Univ. Building a Chemical Intuition for Structural and Electronic Change at High Pressure 44853AC $40,000 8 Henry Taube 1983 Chemistry The Mechanisms of Electron Transfer Reactions, Especially in Metal Complexes Inorganic Reaction Mechanisms 755C Apr-60 $50,000 Univ. of Chicago

2 Back-Bonding in the Chemistry of Osmium(II) 8377AC Feb-75 $24,000 Stanford U Reactivity of Binuclear Complexes of the Ruthenocene 14120AC Aug-82 $30,000 Reactivity of Binuclear Complexes of the Ruthenocene 16350AC Apr-87 $35,000 9 John C. Polanyi 1986 Chemistry The Dynamics of Chemical Elementary Processes Inelastic Collisions Studied by Infrared Emissions 2081A Feb-1967 $24,000 Univ. Toronto Infrared Chemiluminescence at High Temperature 4924AC Feb-1970 $18, Yuan T.Lee 1986 Chemistry The Dynamics of Chemical Elementary Processes Crossed Molecular Beam Study of the Reactions of Oxygen Atoma with Unsaturated Hydrocarbons 4259AC Feb-1969 $27,000 Univ. Chicago 11 Dudley Herschbach 1986 Chemistry The Dynamics of Chemical Elementary Processes Molecular Beam Kinetics-Dynamics of Reactions of Chlorine Atoms with Hydrocarbons 4708AC Oct-1970 $20,000 Harvard Univ. 12 Donald J. Cram 1987 Chemistry Development and Use of Molecules with Structure-Specific Interactions of High Selectivity Electrophylic Substitutions of saturated carbon 242A Nov-57 $9,750 U.Calif. L.A Stereochemistry and Mechanisms of Organic Reactions 586C Nov-59 $50,000 U.Calif., Los Angeles Chemistry of Carbonium ion-carbonium Ion Pairs 3256A May-67 $24,770 Chemistry of Compressed Cyclophanes 7231AC May-73 $20, Rudolph A. Marcus 1992 Chemistry The Theory of Electron Transfer Reactions in Chemical Systems Theoretical Chemical Kinetics 2735C May-69 $40,000 Univ. of Illinois Inverse Photoemission and Solvent Dynamics Studies in Electron Transfers 19949AC Sept-92 $60,000 PRF AB George A. Olah 1994 Chemistry Carbocation Chemistry Electrophilic Aromatic Substitutions friedel-crafts Reactions, Carbonium Ions 2561C Nov-65 $20,000 CaseWestern Res. U Travel Expense for Carbonium Conference 3689X Oct-68 $5,000

3 Hydrocarbon Chemistry 5290AC May-71 $20, Robert F. Curl, Jr Chemistry Discovery of Fullerenes Rice Univ. Microwave Spectroscopy 3630A Feb-68 $24, Richard E. Smalley 1996 Chemistry Discovery of Fullerenes Molecular Beam Photochemistry 9989AC Feb-77 $24,000 Rice Univ Vibrational Redistribution Measurements in Jet-Cooled Molecules 12407AC Apr-80 $30,000 Deceased 2008 Vibrational Redistribution Measurements in Jet-Cooled Molecules 14132AC Jul-82 $45, John Pople 1998 Chemistry Development of Computational Methods in Quantum Chemistry Northwestern Univ Theoretical Studies of Processes Involving Biradicals 20733AC Jul-91 $40,000 Co-PI, Stuart Staley PI 18 Ahmed Zewail 1999 Chemistry Development of Femtoscience, Making it Possible to Observe the Movement of Individual Atoms in a Femtosecond. Electron Transfer and Relaxation in Ionic Solids 9538G Nov-77 $9,000 CalTech 19 Alan G. MacDiarmid 2000 Chemistry The Discovery and Development of Conductive Polymers Group IV Analogos of Ethyl Compounds 2365A Nov-65 $20,000 Univ. of Pennsylvania 20 K. Barry Sharpless 2001 Chemistry Chirally Catalysed Oxidation Reactions New Synthetic Transformations Involving Reductionof Oxygenated Organic Molecules 6702AC May-72 $13,600 MIT New Synthetic Transformations with Metal Reagents 8974AC Nov-75 $24,000

4 21 John B. Fenn 2002 Development of Electrospray Ionization (ESI) Isomerization Dynamics by Molecular Beam Method 4010A Nov-69 $24,000 Yale Univ. Molecule-Surface Interaction Studies with a Recycling Molecular Beam reactor 8338AG Feb-75 $33,000 Laser Stimulated Surface Reactions 11992AC Jan-90 $30,000 Electrospray Ion Source for Mass Spectrometry of Petroleum Derivatives 16284AC May-90 $52, Paul C. Lauterbur 2003 Medicine Physiology or Medicine NMR of Complexes 2003A May-64 $21,000 Analytical Nuclear Magnetic Resonance Zeugmatography 8381AC Feb-75 $16,000 State Univ. of N.Y. 23 Robert H. Grubbs 2005 Chemistry Development of the Metathesis Method in Organic Synthesis Metal-Catalyzed Olefin Methathesis Reaction 6372AC Nov-71 20,400 Michigan State Univ The Metal Catalyzed Olefin Metathesis Reaction 8922AC Nov-75 $24, Richard R. Schrock 2005 Chemistry Development of the Metathesis Method in Organic Synthesis Selective Dimerization of Ethylene to 1-Butene 9962AC Feb-77 $24,000 MIT 25 Richard F. Heck 2010 Chemistry Palladium Catalyzed Carbon-Carbon Bonding Reaction Carbon-Carbon Bond Formation with Organocobalt Carbonyl Complexes AC May-79 $30,000 Univ. of Delaware Reactions and Rearrangements of *Trisubstituted Transition Metal Alkyls AC Apr-87 $35,000 Annulation of Aromatic Halides with Alkynes AC Jul-90 $35,000

5 26 Ei-ichi Negishi 2010 Chemistry Palladium Catalyzed Carbon-Carbon Bonding Reaction Exploration of New Carbon-Carbon Bond Formation Reactions Catalyzed or Promoted by Transition Metals 18710AC Jul-91 $35,000 Purdue Univ. 1,1-Dimetallo Alkenes. Their Structures and Synthetic Applications 13470AC Feb-82 $45,000 Carbometallation. Its Application to the Selective Synthesis of Trisubstituted Olefins 10802AC May-78 $45,000 Recent Advances in Organopalladium Chemistry at the 213th ACS National Mtg., San Francisco, CA, April SE Feb-98 $2,000 Titanium, Zirconium, and Hafnium at the 205th ACS Nat'l Mtg., Denver, Spring SE Jun-94 $2,000 symposium entitled "Controlled Carbometalation and Related Reactions," scheduled to e held at the ACS 17459SE Jun-87 $3,400 Total PRF Grant Awards $1,459,080 Total PRF Other Awards $7,400 Grand Total PRF Funding to Nobel $1,466,480

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