Mason, James

James Mason Crafts (1839-19171 was bo 1 n in Boston, Massachusetts, and graduated from Harvard in 1858, Although he did not receive a Ph D., he studied with eminent chemists in Europe for several years and was appointed in 1868 as the firs professor of chemistry at the newly founded Cornell University in Ithaca, New York. Ithaca winters proved too seve-e, however, and he soon moved to the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, where he served as president from 1897 to 1900. 

NEAL R. AMUNDSON Chairman), University of Houston EDWARD A. MASON Vice-Chairman), Amoco Corporation JAMES WEI Vice-Chairman), Massachusetts Institute of Technology MICHAEL L. BARRY, Vitelic Corporation ALEXIS T. BELL, University of California, Berkeley KENNETH B. BISCHOFF, University of Delaware HERBERT D. DOAN, Doan Associates ELISABETH M. DRAKE, Arthur D. Little, Inc. 

Cynthia Cilmour, Reed Harris, James Hurley and Robert Mason... 

This is a fascinating story of an terror-stricken young Englishman who takes his story of involvement with the Hermetic Order of the Golden Dawn, Masonic and Rosicrucian history, Cabalistic magick and much more to Albert Einstein and James Joyce for help... 

Some opportunities of such approximations are well illustrated by considering two characteristic examples. The first example will be a dusty-gas model, where porous media is considered as one of components of a gas mix of huge molecules (or particles of a dust), mobile or rigidly fixed in space [249,252,253], Such a model allows a direct application of methods and results of kinetic theory of gases and is effectively applied to the description of mass transfer processes in PS. The history of such an approach, the origins of which can be found in the works by Thomas Graham (1830 to 1840) is considered in Ref. [249], Actually, the model was first proposed by James Maxwell (1860), further it was independently reported by Deryagin and Bakanov (1957), and then also independently reported by Evans, Watson, and Mason (1961 see Refs. [249,252]). 

Mason, A.B., Halbrooks, P.J., James, N.G., Connolly, S.A., Larouche, J.R., Smith, V.C., MacGillivray, R.T.A. and Chasteen, N.D. (2005) Mutational analysis of C-lobe ligands of human serum Transferrin insights into the mechanism of iron release, Biochemistry, 44, 8013-8021. 

Friedel became internationally known for the synthetic method called the Friedel-Crafts Reaction using aluminum chloride as a catalyst in the the introduction of an alkyl or acyl group into benzene. James Mason Crafts was an American professor from MIT working with Friedel in 1877 at the Sorbonne. Crafts later became president of MIT. 

Friedel, C. Crafts, J. M. Compt. Rend. 1877, 84, 1392. Charles Friedel (1832-1899) was born in Strasbourg, France. He earned his Ph.D. in 1869 under Wurtz at Sorbonne and became a professor and later chair (1884) of organic chemistry at Sorbonne. Friedel was one of the founders of the French Chemical Society and served as its president for four terms. James Mason Crafts (1839-1917) was bom in Boston, Massachusetts. He studied under Bunsen and Wurtz in his youth and became a professor at Cornell and MIT. From 1874 to 1891, Crafts collaborated with Friedel at Ecole de Mines in Paris, where they discovered the Friedel-Crafts reaction. He returned to MIT... 

Friedel-Crafts (FC) alkylation, acylation, and sulfonylation reactions are important C-C or C-S bond forming reactions in organic chemistry [60-64], Since the seminal works of Charles Friedel and James Mason Crafts published in 1877 in which they report the use of A1C13 for alkylation reactions [65], the search for more active catalysts, especially for acylation reactions, continues. Due to increasing environmental concerns, the need for green catalysts and processes for the FC reaction has gained significant importance. Bi(III) salts have shown to be efficient and recoverable catalysts with applicability in this area [13]. 

JAMES P. BELL, ALAN S. MICHAELS, ALLAN S. HOFFMAN, and EDWARD A. MASON ... 

Figure 6.1 Charles Friedel and James Mason Crafts [39],...

Mason, S. Seib, L. Bowman-James, K. Unusual encapsulation of two nitrates in a single bicyclic cage, J. Am. Chem. Soc. 1998, 120, 8899-8900. 

Aguilar, J. A Clifford, T. Danby, A. Llinares, J. M. Mason, S. Garcia-Espana, E. Bowman-James, K. Fluoride ion receptors A comparison of a polyammonium monocycle versus its bicyclic corollary, Supramol. Chem. 2001, 13, 405-417. 

Members of the National Academies Press—Sally S. Stanfield, James M. Gormley, Estelle H. Miller, Dan Parham, and William B. Mason—and staff of the Institute of Medicine Office of Reports and Communication—Jennifer Bitticks, Jennifer Otten, Bronwyn Schrecker, and Leah Covington—provided valuable support to the FCC staff toward the publication of this edition. 

James M. Mason is Director of the Hydrogen Research Institute in Farmingdale, New York. He received his PhD at Cornell University in 1996. His research interests are the economic modelling of centralized hydrogen production and distribution systems using renewable energy sources. 

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