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E. J. Corey In Proc. of the Robert A. Welch Foundation Conferences on Chemical Research. XII. Organic Synthesis, November 11-13, 1968, pp 51-79 (1969). 

Acknowledgements—This work was supported by the Office of Naval Research, the National Science Foundation, the Robert A. Welch Foundation, and used equipment designed for study of fullerene-encapsulated catalysts supported by the Department of Energy, Division of Chemical Sciences. 

D. C. Hoffman, Proc. Robert A. Welch Foundation Conference XXXIV. Fifty Years with Transuranium Elements, October 1990, pp. 255-76. D. C. Hoffman, Chem. Eng. News, May 2, 24 - 34 (1994). 

Sharpless, K. B. Proc. Robert A. Welch Foundation Conf. Chem. Res. 1983, 27, 59. 

C. A. Coulson, in Proceedings of the Robert A. Welch Foundation Conference on Chemical Research, XVI, Theoretical Chemistry, 1973, pp. 61-97. 

NORMAN HACKERMAN Chairman), Robert A. Welch Foundation... 

The authors are grateful to the Robert A. Welch Foundation, the National Science Foundation, the Phillips Petroleum Foundation, and Haldor Topsoe A/S (Denmark) for financial support. We express our thanks to the Exxon Research and Engineering Co. for measuring the solid state NMR spectra and the Shell Development Company for the ESCA measurements. Finally, we acknowledge the participation of Dr. Zinfer R. Ismagilov in part of the cyclohexane studies. 

The Robert A. Welch Foundation of Houston, Texas is acknowledged for financial support of this work. 

L. H. Germer and A. U. MacRae, A new low electron diffraction technique having possible applications to catalysis, The Robert A. Welch Foundation Research Bulletin, 1961, No. 11. 

Acknowledgement. The financial support of The Robert A. Welch Foundation is gratefully acknowledged. The author is also grateful for the opportunity of many stimulating discussions with colleagues, William B. Giles, Ernesto Silber, Jerold Feuer, Dale Otteson, Joseph Hull, and John N. Marx. 

Studies of chemical reactions in low-temperature matrices have been supported by funding from the National Science Foundation, the U.S. Army Research Office, Durham, and from the Robert A. Welch Foundation. 

Acknowledgments The author is grateful for support of this work by National Science Foundation Grant CHE8109541 and Robert A. Welch Foundation Grant F-733. 

The authors would like to acknowledge the essential role of our many collaborators over the years of study of this topic. We are indebted to J.W. Schneider and H. Keller for their help in obtaining figures. We also would like to thank A.M. Portis for helpful suggestions. This work was supported by the National Research and Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Councils of Canada. One of us (T.L.E.) would like to acknowledge support from Robert A. Welch Foundation grant C-1048. 

We are grateful to the National Science Foundation (CHE-9629088), the Science and Technology Center Program of the National Science Foundation (CHE-8920120), and the Robert A. Welch Foundation for generous financial support. CJC thanks the Royal Society for a Dorothy Hodgkin Fellowship. 

This work was supported in part by the Robert A. Welch Foundation and the National Science Foundation (CHE 80-05107). A fellowship to JRC awarded by the New Mexico Section of the American Vacuum Society is gratefully acknowledged. 

Research in the areas of high temperature chemistry, fluorine chemistry, optical and mass spectroscopy and thermodynamics has been supported at Rice University by the United States Atomic Energy Commission, by the US. Army Research Office (Durham), by the National Aeronautics and Space Administration, by the Petroleum Research Fund of the American Chemical Society and by the Robert A. Welch Foundation. Liquid helium for low temperature nock was provided through arrangements with the U.S. offices of Naval Research. 

Acknowledgment. We thank the National Institutes of Health and the Robert A. Welch Foundation for their generous support of our research in the PLC area. 

The authors acknowledge the Robert A. Welch Foundation (F-1466), the Research Corporation Cottrell Scholar Award, the National Science Foundation CAREER Award, the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation, the Camille and Henry Dreyfus Foundation, Eli Lilly, and Merck. 

Acknowledgment is made to the Robert A. Welch Foundation and to the Regents of Texas A M University for support of this research. 

Patrick Cassidy expresses his appreciation to the Robert A. Welch Foundation, the National Aeronautics and Space Administration, the National Science Foundation, and the Institute for Environmental and Industrial Science at Southwest Texas... 

Acknowledgments We hereby acknowledge the financial support provided to Maria Bruma by the Robert A. Welch Foundation, Houston, Texas, USA (Grant AI-0524). Our thanks also go to Central Glass Company, Japan, for the generous supply of HFAF, and to Mr. Rock Rushing from Texas Research Institute, Austin, Texas, USA, for conducting the thermal analyses. 

I gratefully acknowledge the numerous contributions of my collaborators mentioned in the references and especially T. M. Bockman, S. Sankarara-man, J. M. Masnovi, K. Y. Lee and E. K. Kim for their outstanding creative efforts. I also thank the National Science Foundation, the Robert A. Welch Foundation and the Texas Advanced Research Program for financial support, and the American Chemical Society for permission to use the excerpts from my research publications (identified by asterisks in the text). 

The support of the Robert A. Welch Foundation (Grant D-650), which has made possible our continued investigation of, and interest in, mechanisms and reactivity in reactions of sulfur oxyacids and their anhydrides, is gratefully acknowledged. 

Bowler BE, Meade TJ, Mayo SL, Richards JH, Gray HB (1989) J Am Chem Soc 111 8757 Lieber CM, Karas JL, Mayo SL, Albin M, Gray HB (1987) Proceedings of the Robert A. Welch Conference on Chemical Research. Design of Enzymes and Enzyme Models, Nov. 2-4, 1987, p 9, Robert A. Welch Foundation, Houston, TX... 

BDC and HL gratefully acknowledge the Robert A. Welch Foundation (Grant number W-1552) for financial support of this work. Acknowledgement is made to the donors for the American Chemical Society Petroleum Research Fund and to Research Corporation for partial support of this research. We are very grateful to Stephen Maldonado and Prof. Keith Stevenson at the University of Texas at Austin for their assistance in obtaining TEM data. We also thank Samuel Deutsch and Prof. Michael Amiridis at the University of South Carolina for performing the NOx experiments. 

SK wishes to acknowledge the San Jose State University Foundation and the Robert A. Welch Foundation of Houston, Texas (Grant AX-709) for their generous support of this work. In addition, RFW wishes to thank the Btobert A. Welch Foundation of Houston, Texas (Grant AX-769) for their support. 

D.A. Evans, "Studies in Asymmetric Carbon-Carbon Bond Construction", presented at "The Robert A. Welch Foundation Conferences on Chemical Research. XXVII. Stereospecificity in Chemistry and Biochemistry", held in Houston, Texas, November 7-9, 1983. 

Enlightening conversations with Dr. Elaine Rich (Department of Computer Science, University of Texas) are gratefully acknowledged. Mr. James Wells wrote the Pascal programs which allow input and output via mnemonic strings of characters. This research was sponsored in part by the Robert A. Welch Foundation, Research Corporation, and NSF (MCS-8122039). Additional support was provided by a National Science Foundation Graduate Fellowship to RAL. 

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