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Acknowledgments. This work was supported by the Petroleum Research Fund of the American Chemical Society (grant 29566-G4), by a K STAR EPSCoR FIRST Award, and by the University of Kansas General Research Fund. The use of the Origin 2000 computer at the Kansas Center for Advanced Scientific Computing is gratefully acknowledged. 

I am pleased to acknowledge that the simulation results presented in this chapter were obtained from calculations carried out in collaboration with Kechuan Tu, Mike Klein, and Kent Blasie. The calculations and fitting of the neutron scattering spectra benefited from discussions with Mounir Tarek. Financial support was provided by the School of Physical Sciences at the University of California at Irvine and a grant from the donors of The Petroleum Research Fund, administered by the American Chemical Society (ACS-PRF 33247-G7). 

This work has been supported in part by the National Science Foundation (Grants CHE-9601971 and CHE-9813729), the donors of the Petroleum Research Fund, administered by the American Chemical Society (Grant No. ACS-PRF 31573-AC9), and a NATO Collaborative Research Grant (Grant HTECH.CRG972915). 

The support of the Petroleum Research Fund of the American Chemical Society is gratefully acknowledged. 

We owe much to our continued discussions of these problems with A. G. Harrison, to whom we are also indebted for preprints prior to publication. We are grateful to a referee for drawing our attention to Ref. (30) and for seeking clarification of several points which were obviously obscure in the original manuscript. We thank the Petroleum Research Fund for a grant to support both this work and one of us (D.J.H.). 

Acknowledgment is made to the Donors of The Petroleum Research Fund, administered by the American Chemical Society, for partial support of this research. J.L.K. is a Cottrell Scholar of the Research Corporation. The author would also like to thank David H. Reitze and Christopher J. Stanton for inspiring conversations. 

This work has been supported in part by grants from the NIH (GM-30580), the Petroleum Research Fund of the American Chemical Society, and the National Science Foundation Office of Advanced Scientific Computing. RML is the recipient of a NIH Research Career Development Award. 

P.M. would like to thank aU of his previous and current group members who have contributed to the results of this research and is grateful for funding from the American Chemical Society Petroleum Research Fund and the Beckman Foundation. 

This work was supported by a Faculty Research Grant from the University of California, Irvine and the Petroleum Research Fund administered by the American Chemical Society. The excimer laser... 

This research has been funded by the Donors of the Petroleum Research Fund (ACS, grant 28336-G5) and by the National Science Foundation (CTS-940618). Support from the Layman Fund and the Research Council at the University of Nebraska is so acknowledged. We thank the National Synchrotron Light Source and the Stanford Synchrotron Radiation Laboratory for X-ray beamtime. 

Acknowledgements We thank the National Science Foundation, Petroleum Research Fund, Exxon Education Foundation, Union Carbide, DuPont, and Cytec Canada for support of our studies in this area. 

Student support for this research was provided by the W. M. Keck Foundation (E.L. G.) and the Inland Northwest Research Alliance (J.P.G., J. R. B.). This research was supported in part by the Office of Science (BER) U. S. Department of Energy (DE-FG02-03ER63576), a National Science Foundation ADVANCE Award to S. L. C. (DMI-0340709) and a National Science Foundation CAREER Award to J. D.S (CTS-0348076). Acknowledgement is made to the Donors of the American Chemical Society Petroleum Research Fund for partial support of this research. 

Engineering, Eastman Kodak Laboratories, and Petroleum Research Fund of the American Chemical Society. We also acknowledge the generous financial support for the symposium and the preparation of the volume from the Office of Naval Research. 

The author s research work on photochemistry of free radicals has been supported by US National Science Foundation, ACS Petroleum Research Fund, Camille and Henry Dreyfus Foundation, A. P. Sloan Foundation, and UC Regents Faculty Fellowships and Faculty Development Award. 

It is a pleasure to acknowledge the skillful and dedicated efforts of our co-workers whose names are to be found among the references and whose achievements have provided the basis of this review. We are also grateful to N.A.T.O. for the provision of Research Grant Number 1559 which has enabled us to collaborate in the production of this article. Our work has been supported by the National Institutes of Health, the National Science Foundation, the Petroleum Research Fund, the Guggenheim Foundation, the Sloan Foundation, Research Corporation, Western Fher Company, Eli Lilly Company, and University of Puerto Rico (WA), and by the Science Research Council (AJB). 

I am indebted to the many hardworking students who have contributed so much both experimentally and intellectually to the chemistry described in this article. Many of their names appear in the references that follow. I also wish to acknowledge the Petroleum Research Fund, the National Institutes of Health, and the National Science Foundation for their financial support Kawaken Fine Chemicals Co. and Johnson Matthey Inc. for donating the palladium salts and Frontier Scientific for providing the arylboronic acids used in this work. 

This work was partially supported by a grant from the Research Corporation and by the Donors of the Petroleum Research Fund administered by the American Chemical Society. Early work was supported by the National Institutes of Health (GM 30147), while instrumentation and theoretical development have been supported by the National Science Foundation. Much work described stems from the research of a number of postdoctoral and graduate student co-workers, whose names are noted in the cited references. Many of the samples for special applications came to us as gifts or via collaborations with researchers from around the world, most of whom are also coauthors in the publications. 

It is a pleasure to acknowledge that the symposium from which these chapters derive has received financial support from the following Division of Polymer Chemistry, Inc., Petroleum Research Fund, American... 

The authors are very grateful to the National Science Foundation and to the donors to the Petroleum Research Fund, administered by the American Chemical Society, for grants that have made possible their contributions to the research described herein. They are also grateful to Professor Jerry Atwood of the University of Alabama for fruitful collaborative efforts in this area. 

Funding for the conference came from the ACS Division of Inorganic Chemistry the Petroleum Research Fund, administered by the ACS and the Alfa Products Division of Morton Thiokol, Inc. Portions of travel expenses were borne by AT T Bell Laboratories BBC-Brown, Boveri Co. Exxon Research and Engineering and Imperial Chemical Industries, Ltd. The conference would not have occurred without the generous support of these organizations. Finally, I wish to thank all of the contributing authors, whose cooperation and timeliness have been greatly appreciated. 

We acknowledge support of this work by the Air Force Office of Scientific Research under contract 83-0372, the National Science Foundation under grant CHE 82-06976 and the donors of the Petroleum Research Fund administered by the American Chemical Society under grant 15163-AC3. We acknowledge many useful conversations with Dr. Martyn Poliakoff and Prof. J. J. Turner and thank NATO for a travel grant which facilitated these conversations. We also thank our coworkers in the field for their useful suggestions and comments. 

Work at Nottingham has been supported by the SERC, the Donors of the Petroleum Research Fund adminstered by the American Chemical Society, the Paul Instrument Fund of the Royal Society and the Scientific Stimulation Programme of the EEC. We also gratefully acknowledge the help of many colleagues both at Nottingham and elsewhere. 

The authors would like to thank the National Science Foundation, the Petroleum Research Fund, and the Welch Foundation for financial support while writing this chapter. 

We would like to acknowledge the assistance of the Petroleum Research Fund in providing financial aid for the travel of several of the overseas academic participants, and also that of the many officers of the Division of Colloid and Surface Chemistry of the American Chemical Society who helped to make the symposium possible. 

I should like to thank the Office of Naval Research, the Petroleum Research Fund administered by the American Chemical Society, E. I. du Pont de Nemours Company, Exxon Research Engineering Company, The Chemical Institute of Canada, the ACS Division of Inorganic Chemistry, Monsanto Company, Imperial Chemical Industries (London), Union Carbide Corporation, Strem Chemicals, Indiana University s Friends of Chemistry, and the Office of the Vice President of Indiana University for financial support of this symposium. I should also like to thank my wife, the former Cynthia Truax and Symposium Secretary, for all her assistance. 

Structural work reported here was performed by Dr. H. W. Chen and Dr. C. Paparizos. The National Science Foundation NSF-CHE 80-13141 and the donors of the Petroleum Research Fund as administered by the American Chemical Society have supported this work. 

I thank the Research Corporation, the Petroleum Research Fund administered by the American Chemical Society and the U.S. Department of Energy (DE-FG02-80ER10125) for their financial support. I also acknowledge my fruitful collaborations with Dr. John C. Huffman, Director of the Molecular Structure Center, Indiana University, as well as my own group Whose contributions are cited in the references. 

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