** Call For Papers **

American Chemical Society National Meeting
San Francisco, CA
April 13-17, 1997

Division of Fuel Chemistry Symposium on

The Chemical and Physical Structure of Coals and Carbonaceous Solids:
Structure/Reactivity Relationships, Characterization, and Structural Prediction Methods

IMPORTANT DATES:
4 copies of abstract (original on ACS abstract form) by November 1, 1996.
Preprints are required and due by December 16, 1996.

Topics include:
€advances in chemical & physical characterization methods
€physical chemistry of solvent-coal interactions
€covalent vs. non-covalent macromolecular networks
€molecular modeling of coal & coke structure predictions
€solvent and gas diffusion - catalyst impregnation
€pore structure characterization
€structure/reactivity correlations & relationships
€molecular characterization of solvent extracts & solvent insoluble fractions
€product/precursor structural relationships in coal derived products

Submission of abstracts should be directed to either symposium chair:

George D. Cody Carnegie Institution of Washington Geophysical Laboratory 5251 Broad Branch Road, NW Washington, DC 20015 (202) 686-2410 x2479 (202) 686-2419 fax cody@gl.ciw.edu

Eric M. Suuberg Div. of Engineering, Box D Brown University Providence, RI 02912-9704 (401) 863-1420 (401) 863-1157 fax eric_suuberg@brown.edu