Calendar: 1962-1963 Page 430

ANNUAL REPORT xli First Degrees Sc Special 1st Class Honours 2nd Class Honours Upper Division 2nd Class Honours Lower Division 3rd Class Honours Higher Degrees Ph Bunyan Some studies in organic anodic processes Ph Crossley The synthesis and addition reactions of some tricyclic compounds Ph Darby The stereochemistry of some addition reactions of cyclic olefins Ph Emerson Some reactions of heterocyclic N-oxides Ph Foster Studies on the decomposition of benzoyl peroxide in aromatic solvents יי Ph Leigh Some reactions of Group IV tetrahalides and related compounds Ph Sherman Homolytic hydrogen-abstraction reac- tions Ph Vosper The dinitrogen trioxide system Departmental Notes The facilities available in the research laboratories have been fully extended and the subjects under investigation covered wide field In inorganic chemistry work has been continued on the stereochemistry of addition compounds on equilibria and reaction rates of inorganic complexes on the gas-phase hydrolysis of silicon tetrachloride and on X-ray crystallography In physical chemistry subjects under investi- gation included surface reactions catalysis by quenched metals and aspects of isotope chemistry involving acid-catalysed exchange reactions kinetic and thermodynamic effects new programme of work has been initiated on calculations of the electronic spectra of aromatic molecules and of the electron properties of graphites In the field of organic chemistry work has been extended on photochemical reactions and on the chemistry of heterocyclic and organo-phosphorus compounds In the study of free radical reactions greater attention is now being devoted to addition reactions One such reaction which is of wide interest has provided new method for the alkylation of ethyl malonate and related compounds Active investigations have also been pursued on the structure and stereochemistry of natural rotenoids on lipid Degrees taken at Queen's University Belfast