Calendar: 1957-1958 Page 422

xxxvi ANNUAL REPORT Higher Degrees Sc Booth Some molecular weight determinations in dextran Ph Boulton The photochemical decomposition of some organic peroxides in the gas phase Ph Dewing Studies in the lifetime of adsorbed molecules Ph Douglas N-Arylglycosylamines Ph Littlewood Evaporation and surface diffusion Ph Β Merton-Bingham Electrical energy of redox pro- cesses Ph Palluel Studies in the aporphine group Ph Pengilly Homolytic reactions in aromatic systems Ph Peters The reactions of the free phenyl radical with some aliphatic compounds Ph Riaz Studies in furan and pyran chemistry Ph Satchell "The kinetics of hydrogen isotope exchange reactions in solution Ph Sleep Synthetic studies of the chrysanthemum carboxylic acids Ph Smith Studies in the stereochemistry of olefinic compounds Ph Stirling Studies in aromatic phenylation Departmental Notes The research laboratories continue to display high level of activity and significant progress can be reported in many directions Work on homolytic aromatic substitution has been extended to include the phenylation of naphthalene the naphthylation of aromatic compounds and the reactions of substituted phenyl radicals Hey and Williams The Pschorr and related reactions have been further investigated Hey and number of new steroid amines have been synthesised Hey and Honeyman Further work has been carried out on sugar nitrates and N-substituted glycosylamines and on the kinetics of the oxidation of sugar derivatives with sodium periodate Honeyman Continued attention has been given to the study of the Wurtz reaction the reactions of silver carboxylates and photolytic reactions in solution Bryce-Smith Certain aspects of the chemistry of tryptamines have been investigated Abramovitch Work on the emission spectra of free radicals has been continued Style Investigations on deuterium exchange reactions and the application of acidity functions to reaction kinetics have made further progress and the construction of nuclear magnetic resonance spectrometer is in progress Gold Studies with molecular beams and mass spectrometry have been continued and theory on the nature