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Papers of Jerome A. Berson

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Call Number:
019
Repository:
Science History Institute Archives
Extent:
53.3 linear feet (40 boxes)
Language:
English
Preferred Citation:
Item Description, Box Number, Folder Number, Papers of Jerome A. Berson, 1923-2010, Science History Institute Archives, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.
Date:
1923-2010 (inclusive) and 1950-1999 (bulk)
Creator:
Berson, Jerome A.
Form:
Archival materials, Notebooks, and Slides (photography)
Abstract:
This collection consists of research notes, drafts of papers, lab materials, and other documents of American physical organic chemist Jerome A. Berson.

Jerome A. Berson (1924-2017) was an American physical organic chemist. Born in Sanford, Florida on May 10, 1924, Berson earned a B.S. in Chemistry from the City College of New York (1944), then briefly worked at Hoffman-LaRoche, where he worked on penicillin. From 1944 to 1946, he served in the United States Army, where he was assigned to the 29th Medical Laboratory in Calcutta, India. After his military service, Berson resumed his education at Columbia University, earning his A.M. in Chemistry (1947) and Ph.D. in Chemistry (1949). At Columbia, he conducted research with American chemist William von Eggers Doering. After earning his Ph.D., Berson served as a National Research Council Postdoctoral Fellow at Harvard University (1949-1950), where he conducted research with American organic chemist and future Nobel Laureate Robert Burns Woodward.

In 1950, Berson joined the faculty of the University of Southern California's Department of Chemistry. He rose through USC's faculty ranks, serving as Assistant Professor (1950-1953), Associate Professor (1953-1958), and Professor (1958-1963). Berson moved to the University of Wisconsin-Madison's Department of Chemistry in 1963, where served as Professor (1963-1969). In 1969, he joined the faculty of Yale University's Department of Chemistry, where he served as Professor (1969-1979), Irenee du Pont Professor (1979-1992), and Sterling Professor (1992-1994). At Yale, in addition to his teaching duties and contributions to various committees, Berson also served as Chairman of the Department of Chemistry (1971-1974) and Director of the Division of Physical Sciences and Engineering (1983-1990). He retired from Yale University in 1994 at the rank of Sterling Professor Emeritus of Chemistry Research and Scientist (1994-2017).

Over the course of his career, Berson became a recognized expert in the areas of reaction mechanisms and molecular synthesis. He first started conducting research on reaction mechanisms at USC, studying the pathways by which chemical transformations take place. At Wisconsin-Madison, he studied thermal and carbocationic rearrangements and the role of orbital symmetry in chemical reactions. At Yale, Berson continued to study thermal reactions controlled by orbital symmetry and conducted research on non-Kekule molecules. In his later years, he turned his attention to the history and philosophy of chemistry.

Berson authored numerous articles and papers over the course of his career. He was also the recipient of several awards, including the James Flack Norris Award (1978), the Nichols Medal (1985), the Roger Adams Award (1987), the Arthur C. Cope Award (1992), the Oesper Award (1998) and the Literature Prize of the German Association of Chemical Industry (2000). Berson served on many committees and advisory boards and was an active member of the American Chemical Society and the National Academy of Sciences. He was also a Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences.

Jerome A. Berson passed away on January 13, 2017.

Sources

Bergman, Robert and Marc Greenberg. Biographical Memoirs - Jerome A. Berson, 1924-2017. National Academy of Sciences, 2021. - berson-jerome.pdf (nasonline.org)

Oral History Interview with Jerome A. Berson, 2001 March 21, Science History Institute Archives, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.

Papers of Jerome A. Berson, Science History Institute Archives, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.

The Papers of Jerome A. Berson contain the personal and professional papers of American physical organic chemist Jerome A. Berson. The collection covers Berson's career as a professor of chemistry at the University of Southern California, the University of Wisconsin-Madison, and Yale University. It also documents his retirement career as a historian of chemistry and the philosophy of chemistry. The Papers of Jerome A. Berson are arranged into the following twelve series:

  1. Laboratory Notebooks
  2. Research Files
  3. Drafts and Papers
  4. Reports and Proposals
  5. Seminar Abstracts
  6. Conferences, Workshops, and Symposia
  7. Courses
  8. Academic Career
  9. Awards and Nominations
  10. Correspondence
  11. Biographical
  12. Jerome A. Berson Lecture Slides

The Papers of Jerome A. Berson were donated to the Science History Institute (formerly the Chemical Heritage Foundation) by Jerome A. Berson in 2012.

The Papers of Jerome A. Berson were processed by Andrew Mangravite in 2013.

There are no other known archival collections created by Jerome A. Berson preserved at the date of processing.

The Oral History Interview with Jerome A. Berson, 2001 March 21 is preserved at the Science History Institute Archives in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.

The Papers of John D. Roberts are preserved at the Science History Institute Archives in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.

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Subject

Publisher
Science History Institute Archives
Finding Aid Author
Finding aid created by Andrew Mangravite and encoded into EAD by Kenton G. Jaehnig.
Finding Aid Date
2013
Access Restrictions

There are no access restrictions on the materials for research purposes and the collection is open to the public.

Use Restrictions

The Science History Institute holds copyright to the Papers of Jerome A. Berson. The researcher assumes full responsibility for all copyright, property, and libel laws as they apply.

Collection Inventory

Series Description

This series contains laboratory notebooks collected and maintained by Jerome A. Berson over the course of his professional career. The contents of the Laboratory Notebooks are arranged into the following three sub-series:

  1. University of Southern California
  2. University of Wisconsin-Madison
  3. Yale University
Sub-series Description

Mostly arranged alphabetically by surname, this sub-series consists mainly of laboratory notebooks kept by members of Jerome A. Berson's research groups at the University of Southern California. They provide documentation of research conducted under Berson's direction at USC. Four notebooks kept by Berson himself, which provide some documentation of research he conducted at Harvard University, USC, and Columbia University respectively, are also preserved here.

Ben Efraim (David A.) I, 1956-1957.
Box 1 Folder 1
Ben Efraim (David A.) II, 1957-1958.
Box 1 Folder 2
Ben Efraim (David A.) III, 1957-1958.
Box 1 Folder 3
Ben Efraim (David A.) IV, 1958.
Box 1 Folder 4
Brown (Earlene) I, 1951-1953.
Box 1 Folder 5
Brown (Earlene) II, 1953.
Box 1 Folder 6
Brown (Earlene) III, 1953-1954.
Box 1 Folder 7
Choudhury (D.), 1956.
Box 1 Folder 8
Cohen (Theodore) I, 1952-1953.
Box 1 Folder 9
Cohen (Theodore) II, 1953-1954.
Box 1 Folder 10
Cohen (Theodore) III, 1954-1955.
Box 1 Folder 11
Evleth (Earl M.) I, 1956-1960.
Box 1 Folder 12
Evleth (Earl M.) II, 1959-1960.
Box 1 Folder 13
Evleth (Earl M.) III, 1961.
Box 1 Folder 14
Gajewski (Joseph J.) I, 1962-1964.
Box 1 Folder 15
Gajewski (Joseph J.) II, 1964-1965.
Box 1 Folder 16
Greenbaum (Michael A.), 1956-1959.
Box 1 Folder 17
Hamlet (Zacharias), 1960.
Box 1 Folder 18
Hammons (James), 1962-1963.
Box 1 Folder 19
Hand (Eli), 1962-1963.
Box 1 Folder 20
Houston (Donald), 1959-1961.
Box 1 Folder 21
Jones (William M.), 1953-1956.
Box 1 Folder 22
Berson (Jerome A.) (Harvard) Book I, 1950-1953.
Box 1b Folder 1
Berson (Jerome A.) (Harvard) Book II, 1950-1952, 1960-1961, 1982-1984.
Box 1b Folder 2
Berson (Jerome A.) (USC?) Book III, 1956-1958.
Box 1b Folder 3
Berson (Jerome A.) Large Ledger (Columbia) - "Products from Aspergillus Ustus Culture Filtrates", 1947-1949.
Box 1b Folder 4
Luckern (Paul J.), 1955.
Box 2 Folder 1
McArthur (Mary), 1962-1963.
Box 2 Folder 2
McGriff (Richard B.) I, 1962-1964.
Box 2 Folder 3
Related Materials

See also Box 7.

McRowe (Arthur W.) "No. A", 1962-1963.
Box 2 Folder 4
Related Materials

See also Box 7.

Olsen (Carl J.), 1955-1959.
Box 2 Folder 5
Patton (James W.), 1961-1962.
Box 2 Folder 6
Pedersen (Lawrence D.) - Pre-Doctoral Research, undated.
Box 2 Folder 7
Pedersen (Lawrence D.) - KCL 214, undated.
Box 2 Folder 8
Remanick (Allen) I, 1958-1960.
Box 2 Folder 9
Remanick (Allen) II, 1961.
Box 2 Folder 10
Reynolds (Rosalie D.), 1954-1955.
Box 2 Folder 11
Walia (J.S.), 1957-1959.
Box 2 Folder 12
Walia (J.S.) I, 1960.
Box 2 Folder 13
Warnhoff (Patricia R.), 1959-1962.
Box 2 Folder 14
Watts (William E.), 1962.
Box 2 Folder 15
Willner (D.), 1959-1961.
Box 2 Folder 16
Wilson (John Walter), 1957-1958.
Box 2 Folder 17
Wilson (John Walter), 1961.
Box 2 Folder 18
Wunderlich (Dieter), 1958-1959.
Box 2 Folder 19
Sub-series Description

Arranged alphabetically by surname, this sub-series contains laboratory notebooks kept by members of Jerome A. Berson's research groups at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. They provide documentation of research conducted under Berson's direction at UW-Madison.

Allen (John B. E.), 1964-1966.
Box 3 Folder 1
Allen (John B. E.), 1966-1969.
Box 3 Folder 2
Allen (John B. E.), 1969.
Box 3 Folder 3
Aspelin (Gary B.) I, 1962-1965.
Box 3 Folder 4
Aspelin (Gary B.) II, 1965-1966.
Box 3 Folder 5
Bahls, 1964.
Box 3 Folder 6
Balquist (James M.) I, 1966-1967.
Box 3 Folder 7
Balquist (James M.) II, 1968.
Box 3 Folder 8
Bauer (Richard D.) - Literature Review Only, 1969.
Box 3 Folder 9
Bergman (Robert G.), 1963-1964.
Box 3 Folder 10
Bergman (Robert G.) II, undated.
Box 3 Folder 11
Bloom (John W.), 1964-1965.
Box 3 Folder 12
Boettcher (Richard R.) I, 1965-1967.
Box 3 Folder 13
Boettcher (Richard R.) II, 1967-1969.
Box 3 Folder 14
Boettcher (Richard R.) III, 1969-1970.
Box 3 Folder 15
Breslauer (Kenneth), 1968.
Box 3 Folder 16
Campbell (Malcolm Murray), 1968-1969.
Box 3 Folder 17
Clark (Robert A.), 1965-1966.
Box 3 Folder 18
Clarke (G.M.), 1966-1967.
Box 3 Folder 19
Darling (Thomas R.), 1967-1969.
Box 4 Folder 1
Davis (Jeffrey P.), 1968.
Box 4 Folder 2
Dervan (Peter B.) I, 1967-1970.
Box 4 Folder 3
Related Materials

See also Box 9 Folder 4.

Donald (Dennis L.), 1965-1967.
Box 4 Folder 4
Donald (Dennis L.) II, 1967-1968.
Box 4 Folder 5
Fanega (Salvador M.), 1964-1965.
Box 4 Folder 6
Fisher (Richard R.), 1965-1966.
Box 4 Folder 7
Foley (James W.), 1967-1968.
Box 4 Folder 8
Foley (James W.) II, 1968.
Box 4 Folder 9
Grubb (P.W.), 1964.
Box 4 Folder 10
Hartter (Donald R.) I, 1966-1967.
Box 4 Folder 11
Hartter (Donald R.) II, 1967.
Box 4 Folder 12
Hasty (Noel M.) I, 1967-1969.
Box 4 Folder 13
Related Materials

See also Box 10 Folder 18.

Johnson (Henry), 1968.
Box 4 Folder 14
Jones (Maitland, Jr.), 1963-1964.
Box 4 Folder 15
Junge (Helmut), 1968-1969.
Box 4 Folder 16
Kundu (Nitya G.), 1962-1964.
Box 5 Folder 1
Kundu (Nitya G.) II, 1964-1965.
Box 5 Folder 2
La Follette (Douglas), 1968.
Box 5 Folder 3
Libbey (William J.), 1965-1966.
Box 5 Folder 4
Libbey (William J.) II, 1967-1968.
Box 5 Folder 5
Luibrand (Richard J.) I, 1965-1969.
Box 5 Folder 6
Related Materials

See also Box 12 Folder 13.

McGriff II, 1964-1966.
Box 5 Folder 7
Related Materials

See also Box 2.

McKenna (James Michael) I, 1965-1966.
Box 5 Folder 8
McKenna (James Michael) II, 1966-1967.
Box 5 Folder 9
McKenna (James Michael) III, 1967-1968.
Box 5 Folder 10
McKenna (James Michael) IV, 1968.
Box 5 Folder 11
McKenna (James Michael) V, 1968-1969.
Box 5 Folder 12
McKenna (James Michael) VI, 1969.
Box 5 Folder 13
McRowe No. B, 1963-1965.
Box 5 Folder 14
Related Materials

See also Box 2.

McRowe No. C, 1966.
Box 5 Folder 15
Morris (D.G.), undated.
Box 5 Folder 16
Nelson (George L.), 1966.
Box 6 Folder 1
Nelson (George L.) II, 1967-1968.
Box 6 Folder 2
Nelson (George L.) III, undated.
Box 6 Folder 3
Nelson (George L.) IV, undated.
Box 6 Folder 4
Olin (Stephen S.), 1967-1969.
Box 6 Folder 5
Parker, (W.), 1965-1966.
Box 6 Folder 6
Permutter (Howard D.), 1963-1965.
Box 6 Folder 7
Pomerantz (Martin), 1963-1964.
Box 6 Folder 8
Poonian (Mophindar Singh) I, 1963-1966.
Box 6 Folder 9
Poonian (Mophindar Singh) II, 1966.
Box 6 Folder 10
Salomon (R.) I, 1967-1969.
Box 6 Folder 11
Related Materials

See also Box 15 Folder 14.

Stoldt (Stephen H.), 1967-1968.
Box 6 Folder 12
Tear (James E., Jr.), 1967-1968.
Box 6 Folder 13
Vollmer (John J.), 1968-1969.
Box 6 Folder 14
Wall (Robert) II, 1965-1966.
Box 7 Folder 1
Walsh (Edward J.) I, 1964-1966.
Box 7 Folder 2
Walsh (Edward J.) II, 1966-1967.
Box 7 Folder 3
Walsh (Edward J.) III, 1967.
Box 7 Folder 4
Weinstock (June), 1964-1965.
Box 7 Folder 5
Sub-series Description

Mostly arranged alphabetically by surname, this sub-series contains laboratory notebooks kept by members of Jerome A. Berson's research groups at Yale University. They provide documentation of research conducted under Berson's direction at Yale.

Atlas (Seth J.) - CHEM 490 Computation Book, 1979-1980.
Box 7 Folder 6
Arney (Jonathan S.), 1976.
Box 7 Folder 7
Bauer (Wolfgang), 1969-1970.
Box 7 Folder 8
Becknell (A.) I, 1966-1967.
Box 7 Folder 9
Becknell (A.) II, 1984-1985.
Box 7 Folder 10
"DMB" (Birney, David M.) I, 1982-1984.
Box 7 Folder 11
"DMB" (Birney, David M.) II, 1985-1986.
Box 7 Folder 12
Blackstock (Silas C.), 1986.
Box 7 Folder 13
Blaustein (Michael) I, 1979-1981.
Box 7 Folder 14
Blaustein (Michael) II, 1981-1982.
Box 7 Folder 15
Bloom (Joshua A.) - "Synthesis and Photolysis of Phenylcyclopropane", 1975-1977.
Box 7 Folder 16
"LCB" (Bush, Linda C.) II, 1988-1991.
Box 8 Folder 1
"LCB" (Bush, Linda C.) III, 1991-1993.
Box 8 Folder 2
Bushby (Richard J.) I, 1969-1970.
Box 8 Folder 3
Bushby (Richard J.) II, 1969-1970.
Box 8 Folder 4
Carpenter (Barry), 1973.
Box 8 Folder 5
Christensen (Stephen B.), 1977.
Box 8 Folder 6
Chichra (Dorothy) I, 1973-1976.
Box 8 Folder 7
Chichra (Dorothy) II, undated.
Box 8 Folder 8
Chung (Wen-Sheng) I, 1990-1991.
Box 8 Folder 9
Clark (Robert A.), 1965-1966.
Box 8 Folder 10
Clites (Jeffrey A.) I, 1990-1991.
Box 8 Folder 11
"JC" (Conceicao, Jose J.B.), 1985-1989.
Box 8 Folder 12
Cortes (David A.), 1975-1976.
Box 8 Folder 13
Corwin (Leonard R.) I, 1969.
Box 8 Folder 14
Corwin (Leonard R.) II, undated.
Box 8 Folder 15
Corwin (Leonard R.) - "Cycloadditions of Singlet and Triplet States of a Substituted Trimethylenemethane," Thesis, Yale University, 1974.
Box 8 Folder 16
Daub, 1982.
Box 9 Folder 1
Davis (James), 1971-1973.
Box 9 Folder 2
Davis (Richard) I, 1968-1971.
Box 9 Folder 3
Dervan (Peter B.) II, 1972.
Box 9 Folder 4
Related Materials

See also Box 4 Folder 3.

Dirlam (John) I, 1971.
Box 9 Folder 5
Dirlam (John) II, 1972.
Box 9 Folder 6
Dougherty (Dennis A.), 1978.
Box 9 Folder 7
Duncan (Charles D.), 1971-1973.
Box 9 Folder 8
Duncan (C.), 1974-1975.
Box 9 Folder 9
Feng (Xu Wu) I, 1989-1990.
Box 9 Folder 10
Feng (Xu Wu) II, 1990-1992.
Box 9 Folder 11
Feng (Xu Wu) III, 1989-1993.
Box 9 Folder 12
Feng (Xu Wu) IV, 1993-1994.
Box 9 Folder 13
France (Marcia), 1989-1990.
Box 9 Folder 14
Friedl (Andrienne) I, 1985.
Box 9 Folder 15
Gardiner (Linda J.), 1969-1972.
Box 10 Folder 1
Getty (Stephen J.) I, 1969-1972.
Box 10 Folder 2
Getty (Stephen J.) II, 1987-1988.
Box 10 Folder 3
Getty (Stephen J.) III, 1987-1988.
Box 10 Folder 4
Getty (Stephen J.) IV, 1988-1989.
Box 10 Folder 5
Goodman (Josh) I, 1980.
Box 10 Folder 6
Goodman (Josh) II, undated.
Box 10 Folder 7
"MMG" (Greenberg, Marc M.), 1983-1984.
Box 10 Folder 8
"MMG" (Greenberg, Marc M.) II, 1984-1985.
Box 10 Folder 9
"MMG" (Greenberg, Marc M.) III, 1985-1986.
Box 10 Folder 10
"MMG" (Greenberg, Marc M.) IV, 1986-1987.
Box 10 Folder 11
Haider (Richard B.), 1989-1991.
Box 10 Folder 12
Hansen (R.T.) I, 1972-1974.
Box 10 Folder 13
Hansen (R.T.) II, 1974-1975.
Box 10 Folder 14
Harrison (James J.) I, 1973-1975.
Box 10 Folder 15
Harrison (James J.) II, 1972-1973.
Box 10 Folder 16
Harrison (James J.) III, 1975-1976.
Box 10 Folder 17
Hasty (Noel M.) II, 1969-1970.
Box 10 Folder 18
Related Materials

See also Box 4 Folder 13.

Holder (Richard W.) I, 1969-1970.
Box 11 Folder 1
Holder (Richard W.) II, 1970-1972.
Box 11 Folder 2
Holder (Richard W.) III, 1972.
Box 11 Folder 3
Inglin (Thomas) I, 1980-1982.
Box 11 Folder 4
Inglin (Thomas) II, 1982.
Box 11 Folder 5
Janusz (John M.) I, 1972-1973.
Box 11 Folder 6
Janusz (John M.) II, 1974-1975.
Box 11 Folder 7
Janusz (John M.) III, 1976.
Box 11 Folder 8
Jenkins (Jerry A.), 1970-1972.
Box 11 Folder 9
Jicha (Henry), 1976.
Box 11 Folder 10
Jones (Guilford), 1969-1971.
Box 11 Folder 11
Kabakoff (David M.), 1970.
Box 11 Folder 12
Kabakoff (David M.) II, 1971-1973.
Box 11 Folder 13
Kelsey (Donald Ross), 1972-1974.
Box 11 Folder 14
Lahti (Paul M.) I, 1979-1981.
Box 12 Folder 1
Lahti (Paul M.) II, 1981-1984.
Box 12 Folder 2
Lazzara (Michael G.) I, 1976-1978.
Box 12 Folder 3
Lazzara (Michael G.) II, 1978-1979.
Box 12 Folder 4
Leone (Ronald), 1970-1971.
Box 12 Folder 5
Little (R. Daniel), 1974-1976.
Box 12 Folder 6
Lokensgaard (David), 1985.
Box 12 Folder 7
"HSML" (Lu, Helen S.M.) I, 1989-1990.
Box 12 Folder 8
"HSML" (Lu, Helen S.M.) II, 1990-1991.
Box 12 Folder 9
"HSML" (Lu, Helen S.M.) III, 1991-1992.
Box 12 Folder 10
"HSML" (Lu, Helen S.M.) IV, 1992-1993.
Box 12 Folder 11
Lu (Helen) V, 1993-1994.
Box 12 Folder 12
Luibrand (R.) II, 1970.
Box 12 Folder 13
Related Materials

See also Box 5 Folder 6.

Maksimovic (Yilana), 1993-1995.
Box 13 Folder 1
Malherbe (R.), 1973-1975.
Box 13 Folder 2
Maniloff (Gary Bruce), 1976-1977.
Box 13 Folder 3
Matlin (Albert) I, 1978-1980.
Box 13 Folder 4
Matlin (Albert) II, 1980-1981.
Box 13 Folder 5
Mazur (Mark), 1979-1981.
Box 13 Folder 6
McDaniel (Dale M.), 1971.
Box 13 Folder 7
"JAM" (Mondo, James M.) I, 1978-1979.
Box 13 Folder 8
"JAM" (Mondo, James M.) II, 1980-1981.
Box 13 Folder 9
Morgan (Scott C.), 1992-1993.
Box 13 Folder 10
O'Connell (Genevieve C.) II, 1976-1977.
Box 13 Folder 11
"VMO" (Osterman, Virginia M.) 1, 1985-1986.
Box 13 Folder 12
"VMO" (Osterman, Virginia M.) 2, 1986-1988.
Box 13 Folder 13
"VMO" (Osterman, Virginia M.) 3, 1988.
Box 13 Folder 14
"VMO" (Osterman, Virginia M.) 4, 1988-1989.
Box 13 Folder 15
"VMO" (Osterman, Virginia M.) 5, 1989.
Box 13 Folder 16
"VMO" (Osterman, Virginia M.) 6, undated.
Box 13 Folder 17
"KAO" (Owens, Karen A.) I, 1982-1983.
Box 14 Folder 1
"KAO" (Owens, Karen A.) II, 1984-1985.
Box 14 Folder 2
"KAO" (Owens, Karen A.) III, 1986-1987.
Box 14 Folder 3
"Parz" (Parziale, Patti) I, 1984-1985.
Box 14 Folder 4
"Parz" (Parziale, Patti) II, 1985-1986.
Box 14 Folder 5
"Parz" (Parziale, Patti) III, 1986-1988.
Box 14 Folder 6
"Parz" (Parziale, Patti) IV, 1988-1989.
Box 14 Folder 7
Petrillo (E.W.), 1969-1970.
Box 14 Folder 8
Petrillo (E.W.), 1970-1972.
Box 14 Folder 9
Petrillo (E.W.) - Thesis Research, 1972-1973.
Box 14 Folder 10
Pikulin (Steven), 1982-1984.
Box 14 Folder 11
Pikulin (Steven) II, 1984-1985.
Box 14 Folder 12
Pinhas, 1979-1981.
Box 14 Folder 13
Platz (Matthew S.) I, 1973-1974.
Box 14 Folder 14
Platz (Matthew S.) II - Preparation of Materials Used in Mass Spectrometry, 1975.
Box 14 Folder 15
Platz (Matthew S.) - Graduate Research, 1974-1975.
Box 14 Folder 16
Potter (Stephen), 1973-1975.
Box 14 Folder 17
Potter (Stephen), 1974-1975.
Box 14 Folder 18
Rasmussen (Paul W.), 1969-1970.
Box 15 Folder 1
Reynolds (James H.) I, 1985-1987.
Box 15 Folder 2
Reynolds (James H.) II, 1987-1991.
Box 15 Folder 3
Reynolds (James H.) III, 1991-1992.
Box 15 Folder 4
Rhodes (Christopher) I, 1991.
Box 15 Folder 5
Robbins (Howard M.), 1969-1971.
Box 15 Folder 6
Rule (Mark) I, 1976-1978.
Box 15 Folder 7
Rule (Mark) II, 1978-1979.
Box 15 Folder 8
Sabatelli (Anthony) I, 1980-1981.
Box 15 Folder 9
Sabatelli (Anthony) II, 1981-1983.
Box 15 Folder 10
Sabatelli (Anthony) III, 1983.
Box 15 Folder 11
Salinaro (Richard Frank), 1978-1979.
Box 15 Folder 12
Salinaro (Richard Frank), 1981.
Box 15 Folder 13
Salomon (R.) II, 1969-1970.
Box 15 Folder 14
Schmidt (Steven) I, 1980-1981.
Box 16 Folder 1
Schmidt (Steven) II, 1981-1983.
Box 16 Folder 2
Schwartz (Patricia Sullivan) I, 1969-1972.
Box 16 Folder 3
Schwartz (Patricia Sullivan) II, 1972-1973.
Box 16 Folder 4
Schwartz (Patricia Sullivan) III, 1973.
Box 16 Folder 5
"DES" (Seeger, David E.), 1979-1980.
Box 16 Folder 6
"DES" (Seeger, David E.) II, 1980-1981.
Box 16 Folder 7
"DES" (Seeger, David E.) III, 1981.
Box 16 Folder 8
Sheridan (Robert S.), 1979-1980.
Box 16 Folder 9
Siemionko (Roger), 1975-1976.
Box 16 Folder 10
Siemionko (Roger) II, 1976-1977.
Box 16 Folder 11
Siemionko (Roger) III, 1978.
Box 16 Folder 12
Stark (Edmund) I, 1984.
Box 17 Folder 1
Stark (Edmund) II, 1985-1986.
Box 17 Folder 2
Stark (Edmund) III, 1986-1987.
Box 17 Folder 3
Stark (Edmund) IV, 1989.
Box 17 Folder 4
Stark (Edmund) V, undated.
Box 17 Folder 5
"LLS" (Stevens, Lauren L.) I, 1983-1984.
Box 17 Folder 6
"LLS" (Stevens, Lauren L.) II, 1984-1985.
Box 17 Folder 7
Stone (Keith J.) - Gas Chromatograms, 1984 June.
Box 17 Folder 8
Stone (Keith J.) II, 1986.
Box 17 Folder 9
Tompkins (David), 1967-1971.
Box 17 Folder 10
"MJW" (Walker, Mati) I, 1991-1992.
Box 18 Folder 1
Wang (Patricia) I, 1992-1994.
Box 18 Folder 2
Wang (Patricia) II, 1994.
Box 18 Folder 3
Weber (Robert J.), undated.
Box 18 Folder 4
"MDW" (Wendt, Michael D.) I, 1985-1987.
Box 18 Folder 5
"MDW" (Wendt, Michael D.) II, 1987-1989.
Box 18 Folder 6
"MDW" (Wendt, Michael D.) III, 1989-1991.
Box 18 Folder 7
"TEW" (Wessel, Tania Elaine) I, 1988-1990.
Box 18 Folder 8
"TEW" (Wessel, Tania Elaine) II, 1992-1993.
Box 18 Folder 9
"TEW" (Wessel, Tania Elaine) III, 1993.
Box 18 Folder 10
Wood (Robert S.), 1963-1966.
Box 18 Folder 11
Wright (Bradford), 1983-1984.
Box 18 Folder 12
Yamane (Grover), 1980.
Box 18 Folder 13
Coombs (Robert V.), undated.
Box 19 Folder 1
Heath (Richard B.) 1, undated.
Box 19 Folder 2
Heath (Richard B.) 2, undated.
Box 19 Folder 3
Miyasaka (Tadashi) I, undated.
Box 19 Folder 4
Miyasaka (Tadashi) II, undated.
Box 19 Folder 5
Shaw (Andrew), undated.
Box 19 Folder 6
Shen (Lan Shen) I, undated.
Box 19 Folder 7
Shen (Lan Shen) II, undated.
Box 19 Folder 8
Shen (Lan Shen) III, undated.
Box 19 Folder 9
Uyeda (Roy T.), undated.
Box 19 Folder 10
"Ideas", undated.
Box 19 Folder 11
Platz (Matthew S.) - "Preparation of Materials Used in Mass Spectrometry" (Oversized), 1975.
Box 19 Folder 12
Robbins (Howard M.) (Oversized), 1969.
Box 19 Folder 13
Rule (Mark) - "GC & U-V Column Book # 1" (Oversized), undated.
Box 19 Folder 14
Sabatelli (Anthony) - "Kinetic Data I" (Oversized), undated.
Box 19 Folder 15
Sabatelli (Anthony) - "Kinetic Data II" (Oversized), undated.
Box 19 Folder 16
Sandrowski (Joseph) (Oversized), 1970.
Box 19 Folder 17

Series Description

Arranged in its original order, this series contains research files collected and maintained by Jerome A. Berson. Files concerning scientific topics of interest to Berson and the work of other scientists make up the largest components of this series. A small number of files concerning other topics, including research conducted by Berson himself, articles authored by Berson, students, fellows, and the philosophy of chemistry are also found here.

The contents of the Research Files consist of a variety of materials, including, but not limited to, correspondence, reprints, notes, reports, data, and analyses.

Ring Expansion and Other Notions - notes and sketches, 1951.
Box 20 Folder 1
Analyses by Jerome A. Berson, 1951-1955.
Box 20 Folder 2
IR (Infrared) Curves, 1952-1958.
Box 20 Folder 3
Bruice, T.C. - "Syntheses of 2,4,6-Trimethyl-3-Hydroxydiphenyl Ether", 1953.
Box 20 Folder 4
IR (Infrared) Spectra, 1958.
Box 20 Folder 5
N-Analogs (Nitrogen Analogs), 1959.
Box 20 Folder 6
Student Reports, 1959.
Box 20 Folder 7
Cyclopropane, 1960, 1972, 2003.
Box 20 Folder 8
Thermal Isomes, 1963.
Box 20 Folder 9
VIC Shifts, 1964.
Box 20 Folder 10
Nonclassical Ion Question - S. Winstein Papers, 1964.
Box 20 Folder 10b
Nonclassical Ion Question - correspondence between Jerome A. Berson and principals, 1964-1968.
Box 20 Folder 10c
Markov Chain: Tropilidene Computer Program (Includes Fortran deck.), 1965.
Box 20 Folder 11
Tropilidene Rearrangement - Potential NSF (National Science Foundation) Proposal, 1966, 1968 .
Box 20 Folder 12
Derivations on Me (Methyl) Norbornyl, 1966.
Box 20 Folder 13
Diamine Reduction of Anti-3-Norborene-7-Carbinol, 1968.
Box 20 Folder 14
Lab Analyses, 1968-1969.
Box 20 Folder 15
Endo-6-Acetate and Exo-7-Methyl-Endo - Arrhenius Parameters, 1969.
Box 20 Folder 16
Felkin, H. - Felkin and McRowe Data, 1969.
Box 20 Folder 17
Mellor, J.M. - Mellor and McRowe Data, 1971.
Box 20 Folder 18
Koenig, Thomas - correspondence, re: vacuum sublimation chamber (Includes a reprint.), 1974-1976.
Box 20 Folder 19
Bordeaux Energy Project - correspondence with L. Salem, re: cyclopropanes (Includes reprints.), 1974-1975.
Box 20 Folder 20
Nemeth, Josef - correspondence, re: D-analysis (Deuterium Analysis), 1976.
Box 20 Folder 21
Schoeller, Wolfgang W. - correspondence, re: substituted trimethylenemethanes, 1978.
Box 20 Folder 22
Synthesis and Thermolysis - correspondence, re: a submission to Journal of the American Chemical Society, 1981.
Box 20 Folder 23
Kinetic Runs for EA (Ethyl Acetate), 1981.
Box 20 Folder 24
Kinetic Runs for Benzene/MeOH (Benzene/Methanol)…, 1981.
Box 20 Folder 25
Mukai, Toshiro - correspondence, re: a paper by Mukai, 1981-1983.
Box 20 Folder 26
Humphrey Chemical Company - statements for Humphrey Fellows working with Jerome A. Berson, 1981-1986.
Box 20 Folder 27
Laboratory Safety - correspondence, re: leak prevention (Includes historical materials.), 1923, 1971.
Box 20 Folder 28
Philosophy of Chemistry - correspondence, reprints, and tear-sheets, 1972-2004.
Box 20 Folder 29
Wessel, Tania - research reports, 1989, 1992.
Box 20 Folder 30
Borden, Wesley T. - 1,2,6-Heptatriene, 1994.
Box 20 Folder 31
Zewail, Ahmed - Diradicals (Preprint by Zewail and Science "Perspectives" piece by Jerome A. Berson.), 1994.
Box 20 Folder 32
Levine, R.D. - correspondence, re: papers on four-center reactions and disassociation dynamics, 1994-1997.
Box 20 Folder 33
Carpenter, Barry K. - correspondence, re: Barry K. Carpenter preprints on stereomutation of cyclopropane, 1994-1997.
Box 20 Folder 34
Zewail, Ahmed H. - reprints, 1992-1995.
Box 20 Folder 35
Doubleday, Charles - correspondence and paper on stereomutation of cyclopropane, 1996.
Box 20 Folder 36
Cramer, Christopher - correspondence, re: TME (Trimethylenebenzene), 1997.
Box 20 Folder 37
Halevi, Amitai - correspondence, re: calculations by Jerome A. Berson, 1997-1998.
Box 20 Folder 38
Kuhn, Hans - correspondence and a reprint by Kuhn, 1997-1998.
Box 20 Folder 39
Chemical Creativity - correspondence and notes on molecular instability and mechanism, undated.
Box 20 Folder 40
Chemical Creativity - author's contract, 1998-1999.
Box 20 Folder 41
Synthesis - reprints and notes re:, 1995-1997.
Box 20 Folder 42
Brush, Stephen G. - reprints, 1999.
Box 20 Folder 43
Quinine - correspondence and reprints concerning (Including Woodward and Doering.), 1945-1999.
Box 20 Folder 44
Chemical Discoveries - book prospectus, 2002.
Box 20 Folder 45
Ikeda, Hiroshi - correspondence, re: Ikeda's paper on TMM (Triethylenemethane), 2004.
Box 20 Folder 46
Hoffman, Roald - correspondence and reprints, re: Woodward-Corey "Rules" controversy, 2004-2005.
Box 20 Folder 47
Houk, Kenneth - correspondence, re: thermal 1,3-rearrangement, 2005.
Box 20 Folder 48
Julian, Percy - re: Julian-Robinson Physostigmine controversy (Includes reprints.), 2002.
Box 20 Folder 49
7.7-di CNNorborodienes - notes, undated.
Box 20 Folder 50
Kinetic Runs - CN3CN/MeOH (Acetonitrile/Methanol), undated.
Box 20 Folder 51
Kinetic Runs - Decomposition of Enone, undated.
Box 20 Folder 52
MO Notes, undated.
Box 20 Folder 53
NMR (Nuclear Magnetic Resonance) Kinetics - Enone and Benzoenone, undated.
Box 20 Folder 54
Natural Products - notes, undated.
Box 20 Folder 55
Thermal Rearrangement - figures, undated.
Box 20 Folder 56
Tropilidene Rearrangement - figures, undated.
Box 20 Folder 57

Series Description

Arranged chronologically by year, this series contains Jerome A. Berson's working files for some of the articles and papers he published. These files provide documentation of scientific research conducted by Berson over the course of his career. They also represent Berson's efforts to publicize his work within the scientific community.

Article and paper manuscripts make up the bulk of the materials in these files. A variety of other miscellaneous materials, including, but not limited to, typescripts, reprints, correspondence, notes, and galley proofs are preserved here as well.

Berson, Jerome A. "On the Structure of Dehydroacetic Acid," submitted to Journal of the American Chemical Society (Folder 1 of 2.), 1952.
Box 21 Folder 1
Berson, Jerome A. "On the Structure of Dehydroacetic Acid," submitted to Journal of the American Chemical Society (Folder 2 of 2.), 1952.
Box 21 Folder 2
Berson, Jerome A. "Structure and Stereochemistry of Bicyclic Derivatives. V. Pryolysis of Endo-Cis-3,6-Endomethylene-Exo- Cis-4,5-Dibromohexahydrophtalic Acid," submitted to Journal of the American Chemical Society, 1953.
Box 21 Folder 3
Berson, Jerome A. and R. Swindler. "Influence of Conformational Restraint on Reactivity. Solvolysis, Elimination and Rearrangement Studies on Some Bicyclic Vicinal Bibromides," submitted to Journal of the American Chemical Society, 1953.
Box 21 Folder 4
Berson, Jerome A. and R. Swindler. "Synthesis of Maleimide," submitted to Journal of the American Chemical Society, 1953.
Box 21 Folder 5
Berson, Jerome A. "Infrared Spectra of Some Tricyclic and Tetracyclic Lactones" ("Paper VII in the series 'Structure and Stereochemistry of Bicyclic Derivatives'."), 1954.
Box 21 Folder 6
Berson, Jerome A. and E. Brown. "Photochemical Disproportionation of 4-(2'-Nitrophenyl)-1,4-Dihydropyridines," submitted to Journal of the American Chemical Society, 1954.
Box 21 Folder 7
Berson, Jerome A. and E. Brown. "An Absolute Asymmetric Synthesis," submitted to Journal of the American Chemical Society, 1954.
Box 21 Folder 8
Berson, Jerome A. and R.D. Reynolds. "Stereochemistry and Mechanism of the Diels-Alder Reaction. An 'Internal' Mechanism for the Interconversion of Endo-Exo Isomers," submitted to Journal of the American Chemical Society, 1955.
Box 21 Folder 9
Berson, Jerome A. and T. Cohen. "Synthetic Approaches to Ipecac Alkaloids. I. New Synthesis of 2-Pyridones," submitted to Journal of the American Chemical Society (Folder 1 of 2.), 1955.
Box 21 Folder 10
Berson, Jerome A. and T. Cohen. "Synthetic Approaches to Ipecac Alkaloids. I. New Synthesis of 2-Pyridones," submitted to Journal of the American Chemical Society (Folder 2 of 2.), 1955.
Box 21 Folder 11
Berson, Jerome A. and W.M. Jones. "Reaction of Ketone with Pyridine," submitted to Journal of the American Chemical Society, 1955-1957.
Box 21 Folder 12
Berson, Jerome A. "Standard of Absolute Configuration for Optically Active Biphenyls," submitted to Journal of the American Chemical Society, 1956.
Box 21 Folder 13
Berson, Jerome A. and W.M. Jones. "Conversion of a 1,4-Diol to a Lactone by Raney Nickel," submitted to Journal of Organic Chemistry, 1956.
Box 21 Folder 14
Berson, Jerome A., W.M. Jones, and Sister L.F. O'Callaghan, C.S.J. "Spectra as a Guide to Structure in the Hydroxypyrone and Hydroxypyridone Series", 1956.
Box 21 Folder 15
Berson, Jerome A. "Stereochemistry of the Darzens Condensation," submitted to Chemistry & Industry, 1957.
Box 21 Folder 16
Berson, Jerome A. and M.A. Greenbaum. "Structural Factors Influencing the Asymmetric Efficiency of the Reactions of Grignard Reagents with -Ketoesters of Optically Active Alcohols." Submitted to Journal of the American Chemical Society (Not published; includes remarks from Donald J. Cram.), 1957.
Box 21 Folder 17
Berson, Jerome A. and M.A. Greenbaum. "Synthesis and Complete Resolution of 2-Hydroxy-1,1'-Binaphthyl and the Reaction of its Phenylglyoxylate with Methylmagnesium Iodide," submitted to Journal of the American Chemical Society, 1957.
Box 21 Folder 18
Berson, Jerome A. and D. Ben-Efraim. "Resolution, Stereochemical Correlation, and Maximum Rotations of the Endo- and Exo-Norborane- and 5-Norborane-2-Carboxylic Acids. Isotope Dilution as an Aid in the Determination of Optical Purity," submitted to Journal of the American Chemical Society, 1958.
Box 21 Folder 19
Berson, Jerome A. and S. Suzuki. "Stereochemistry of the Perbenzoic Acid Oxidation of Optically Active Exo-Acetylnorbornane", 1958.
Box 21 Folder 20
Berson, Jerome A. and M.A. Greenbaum. "Asymmetric Induction Studies with Optically Active Biphenyls. V. On the 'Phenylethylene Glycol Method' of Establishing Absolute Configuration," submitted to Journal of the American Chemical Society, 1959.
Box 21 Folder 21
Berson, Jerome A. and D.A. Ben-Efraim. "Reaction of (+)-Endo-Norbornylamine with Nitrous Acid," submitted to Journal of the American Chemical Society, 1959.
Box 21 Folder 22
Berson, Jerome A. and J.S. Walia. "Synthetic Approaches to Ipecac Alkaloids. III. Studies on the Synthesis and Partial Reduction of Pyridines," submitted to Journal of the American Chemical Society, 1959.
Box 21 Folder 23
Berson, Jerome A. "Apportionment of Products from Unsymmetrically Substituted Mesomeric Carbonium Ions," Tetrahedron Letters, Vol. 16, 17, 1960.
Box 21 Folder 24
Berson, Jerome A. "Carbonium Ion Rearrangements in Bridged Bicyclic Systems," Chapter 3, Molecular Rearrangements, New York: John Wiley & Sons (Includes galley sheets and manuscript.), 1962.
Box 21 Folder 25
Supporting materials for Jerome A. Berson's chapter on carbonium ion rearrangements (Folder 1 of 2.), undated.
Box 21 Folder 26
Supporting materials for Jerome A. Berson's chapter on carbonium ion rearrangements (Folder 2 of 2.), undated.
Box 21 Folder 27
Berson, Jerome A., C.J. Olsen, and J.S. Walia. "Reactions of the 2-Bornyl Radical. II. A Free Radical Wagner-Meerwein Rearrangement," Journal of the American Chemical Society, Vol. 84, 3337, 1962.
Box 21 Folder 28
Berson, Jerome A. and A. Remanick. "Nitrous Acid Determination of the Norbornylamines. Carbon and Hydrogen Rearrangements of the Norbornyl Cations," submitted to Journal of the American Chemical Society, 1963.
Box 21 Folder 29
Berson, Jerome A., E.M. Evleth, Jr., and Z. Hamlet. "Nitrogen Analogues of Sesquifulvalence. I. Synthesis and Properties," submitted to Journal of the American Chemical Society (Draft manuscript only.), 1964.
Box 21 Folder 30
Berson, Jerome A., E.M. Elveth, Jr., and S.L. Manatt. "Nitrogen Analogues of Sesquifulvalene. II. Theoretical Correlation of Ground State Properties," submitted to Journal of the American Chemical Society (Draft manuscript only.), 1964.
Box 21 Folder 31
Elveth, E.M., Jr., Jerome A. Berson, and S.L. Manatt. "Nitrogen Analogues of Sesquifulvalene. III. Theoretical Correlation of Excited State Properties," submitted to Journal of the American Chemical Society (Draft manuscript and typescript.), 1964.
Box 21 Folder 32
Berson, Jerome A., etc. "Nitrogen Analogues of Sesquifulvalene. I-III" - typed copies, 1964.
Box 21 Folder 33
Berson, Jerome A. and J.J. Gajewski. "Deformationally Isomeric Carbonium Ions, Ring Expansion of the Syn- and Anti-2- Norborene-7-Carbinyl Systems," submitted to Journal of the American Chemical Society, 1964.
Box 21 Folder 34
Berson, Jerome A. and M. Jones, Jr. "Synthesis of Ketones by the Thermal Isomerization of 3-Hydroxy-1,5-Hexadienes. Oxy-Cope Rearrangement," and "Stepwise Mechanisms in the Oxy-Cope Rearrangement," - two papers submitted as Communications to Journal of the American Chemical Society, 1964.
Box 21 Folder 35
Berson, Jerome A., E.M. Elveth, Jr., and S.L. Manatt. "Nitrogen Analogues of Sesquifulvalene. II. & III., JPL Technical Report #32, 776, 1965.
Box 22 Folder 1
Berson, Jerome A. and R.G. Bergman. "Simple LCAO Influences on the Stereochemical Course of Substitution Reactions," submitted as a Communication to Journal of the American Chemical Society (Not published.), 1966.
Box 22 Folder 2
Berson, Jerome A., R.G. Bergman, A.W. McRowe, and J.H. Hammons. "Chemistry of Methylnorbornyl Cations. I.-VI.," submitted as a group to Journal of the American Chemical Society, 1966.
Box 22 Folder 3
Berson, Jerome A. and R.S. Wood. "On the Geometric Requirements for Thermolysis of Allylic Bonds. 1,3-Sigmatropic Rearrangement of Syn-Cis-Bicyclo (3.2.0.)-Hept-2-Enyl-6 Acetate," submitted to Journal of the American Chemical Society, 1966.
Box 22 Folder 4
Berson, Jerome A., D.R. Hartter, H. Klinger, and F.W. Grubb. "7,7-Dicarbomethoxycycloheptatriene," submitted to Journal of Organic Chemistry, 1967.
Box 22 Folder 5
Berson, Jerome A. "Stereochemistry of Sigmatropic Rearrangements. Tests of the Predictive Power of Orbital Symmetry Rules," Accounts of Chemical Research, Vol. 1, No. 5, pp. 152-160, May 1968, 1968.
Box 22 Folder 6
Berson, Jerome A. and J.M. Balquisrt. "On the Mechanism of Thermolysis of Cyclopropane," submitted to Journal of the American Chemical Society, 1968.
Box 22 Folder 7
Berson, Jerome A. and S.S. Olin. "Geometry of the Transition State of the Retrograde Homo-Diels-Alder Reaction. Stereospecific Conversion of 1,3- to 1,4-Dienes," submitted as a Communication to Journal of the American Chemical Society, 1968.
Box 22 Folder 8
Berson, Jerome A. and E.J. Walsh, Jr. "Oxy-Cope Rearrangement. Evidence for an Intermolecular Mechanism and an Enolic Intermediate"/"Allylic and α-oxygen Resonance Energy Effects on the 'Strengths' of Carbon-Carbon Bonds. Activation Parameters in Step-wise Biallyl Rearrangements"/Energy Barrier to Combination of Allylic Radicalism" - 3 papers submitted as Communications to Journal of the American Chemical Society (Draft manuscripts only.), 1968.
Box 22 Folder 9
Berson, Jerome A. and E.J. Walsh, Jr. "Oxy-Cope Rearrangement," submitted as a Communication to Journal of the American Chemical Society, 1968.
Box 22 Folder 10
Berson, Jerome A., D. Wege, G.M. Clarke, and R.G. Bergman. "Circuitous Mechanism for the Formation of a Cyclopropylcarbinyl Cation. On the Anomalous Relative Migratory Aptitude of a Cyclopropyl vs. A Cyclopentyl Ring in Nortricyclycarbinyl Cation," submitted as a Communication to Journal of the American Chemical Society, 1968.
Box 22 Folder 11
Berson, Jerome A., J.J. Gajewski, and D.S. Donald. "Memory Effects in Multiple Carbonium Ion Rearrangements. I." - manuscript and typescript - submitted to Journal of the American Chemical Society, 1969.
Box 22 Folder 12
Berson, Jerome A., D. Wege, G.N. Clarke, and R.G. Bergman. "Memory Effects in Multiple Carbonium Ion Rearrangements. IV." - typescript only, 1969.
Box 22 Folder 13
Berson, Jerome A., R.G. Bergman, G.M. Clarke, and D. Wege. "Memory Effects in Multiple Carbonium Ion Rearrangements. V." - typescript only, 1969.
Box 22 Folder 14
Berson, Jerome A., D. Wege, G.M. Clarke, and R.G. Bergman. "Memory Effects in Multiple Carbonium Ion Rearrangements. IV. and V. - submitted to Journal of the American Chemical Society, 1969.
Box 22 Folder 15
Berson, Jerome A. and S.S. Olin. "Non-Reversal of Stereochemistry in the Photochemical Counterpart of a Thermal Retrograde Cycloaddition," Communication to Journal of the American Chemical Society, March 1970, 1969-1970.
Box 22 Folder 16
Berson, Jerome A., W. Bauer, and M. Campbell. "Stereochemistry of Thermal Isomerizations…" Communication submitted to Journal of the American Chemical Society, 1970.
Box 22 Folder 17
Berson, Jerome A., R.R. Boettcher, and J.J. Vollmer. "Thermal Rearrangement of Bicycle(4.2.1)Nona-2,4,7-Triene to Bicycle(4.3.0)Nona-2,4,7-Triene (Cis-8.9 Dihydroindene)"/"Synthesis and Pyrolysis of Tricycle(4.2.1.0 2,9) Nona-4,7-Diene, a Hypothetical Intermediate in the "Hydrogen Rebound" Pathway of Thermal Rearrangements," two Communications, submitted to Journal of the American Chemical Society, 1970.
Box 22 Folder 18
Berson, Jerome A., R.J. Bushby, J.M. McBride, and M. Tremelling. "2-Isopropylidenecyclopentan-1, 3-Diyl. Preparation, Properties, and Reactions of a Distorted Trimethylenemethane. Direct Evidence for Triplet-Triplet Dimerization," submitted to Journal of the American Chemical Society, 1970-1971.
Box 22 Folder 19
Berson, Jerome A., J.M. McKenna, J.W. Foley, etc. - four manuscripts, submitted as Communications to Journal of the American Chemical Society, 1970.
Box 22 Folder 20
Berson, Jerome A. and G. Nelson. "Steric Prohibition on the Inversion…"/"Inversion-Retention Ratio…"/"Kinetic Parameters of Thermal…" - 3 Communications submitted to Journal of the American Chemical Society, 1970.
Box 22 Folder 21
Berson, Jerome A. and D.C. Tompkins. "Geometric Isomerization vs. Cycloreversion in the Pyrolysis of Tetramethylcyclobutane-d6. Ponderal and Energetic Effects on the Competition Ratio in a Series of '1,4-Butanediyls'," Communication submitted to Journal of the American Chemical Society, 1970.
Box 22 Folder 22
Salem, L. "Narcissistic Reactions ," (Includes correspondence with Jerome A. Berson.) - submitted to Journal of the American Chemical Society, 1970.
Box 22 Folder 23
Saunders, M. and Jerome A. Berson. "On the Ratio of Rates of 6,2- and 3,2-Hydride Shifts in the Norbornyl System," Communication submitted to Journal of the American Chemical Society, 1970.
Box 22 Folder 24
Hasty, N.M., Jr. and Jerome A. Berson. "Bicycle (3.1.0)Hex-2-Enyl Cation"/"Solvolytic Behavior of Bicycle (3.1.0)Hex-3-En-2-Yl Derivatives," two papers submitted to Journal of the American Chemical Society, 1971.
Box 23 Folder 1
Berson, Jerome A. and J.W. Foley. "On the Relationship between the Relative Kinetic Effect of Substitution and the Absolute Magnitude of the Activation Energy in Carbonium Ion Reactions. Stereoselectivity in Carbonium Ion Ring-Expansions of the 1-Methyl-7 Norbornylcarbinyl System," Communication submitted to Journal of the American Chemical Society, 1971.
Box 23 Folder 2
Berson, Jerome A., R.T. Luibrand, N.G. Kundu, and D.G. Morris. "Carbonium Ion Rearrangements of Bicycle(2.2.2.)Oct-2- Ylcarbonyl Derivatives," Communication to Journal of the American Chemical Society, 1971 July.
Box 23 Folder 3
Berson, Jerome A. and R. Salomon. "Thermal Sigmatropic Migration of the Carbomethoxyl Group," submitted to Journal of the American Chemical Society, 1971.
Box 23 Folder 4
Berson, Jerome A., W. von E. Doering, and L. Salem. "Subjacent Orbital Control: An Electronic Factor Favoring Concertedness in Woodward-Hoffmann "Forbidden" Reactions," Journal of the American Chemical Society, December 1972, 1970-1972.
Box 23 Folder 5
Berson, Jerome A. "Orbital Symmetry-Forbidden Reactions," Accounts of Chemical Research, 1972.
Box 23 Folder 6
Berson, Jerome A. and R.F. Davis. "Directed Synthesis of Cis-Anti-Cis-Tricyclo(6.4.0.0.2,7) Dodecatetraene ("o,o'-Dibenzene"). Thermal Rearrangement of a Blocked Dibenzene to a Caged (CH)12 Precursor,"submitted as a Communication to Journal of the American Chemical Society, 1972.
Box 23 Folder 7
Berson, Jerome A. and P.B. Dervan. "Incremental Substituent Effects Leading to Steric Blockade of the Boat-Like Six-Center Cope Rearrangement of Cis-1,2-Dialkenylcyclobutanes," submitted to Journal of the American Chemical Society, 1972.
Box 23 Folder 8
Berson, Jerome A. and P.B. Dervan. "Mechanistic Analysis of the Four Pathways in the 1,3-Sigmatropic Rearrangements of Trans-1,2-Trans, Trans- and Trans-1, 2-Cis, Trans-Dipropenylcycloburtane," submitted as a Communication to Journal of the American Chemical Society, 1972.
Box 23 Folder 9
Berson, Jerome A. and P.B. Dervan. "Rearrangement of Trans-1,2-Divinylcyclobutane and the Energy Surface of the Dimers of Butadiene," submitted to Journal of the American Chemical Society, 1972.
Box 23 Folder 10
Berson, Jerome A. and P. Dervan. "Stereodistal Cope Rearrangement of Trans-1,2-Dialkenylcyclobutanes," Journal of the American Chemical Society, January 1973, 1972.
Box 23 Folder 11
Berson, Jerome A. and J.A. Jenkins. "Homotropylium Ion-4-d. On the Energy Barrier to a Non-Least-Motion Circumambulatory Rearrangement," submitted to Journal of the American Chemical Society, 1972.
Box 23 Folder 12
Berson, Jerome A., D.M. McDaniel, L.B. Corwin, and J.H. Davis. "Direct Formation of Methylenecyclopentanes by Cycloaddition of a Trimethylenemethane to Olefins," submitted to Journal of the American Chemical Society, 1972.
Box 23 Folder 13
Berson, Jerome A., D.M. McDaniel, and L.R. Corwin. "On the Mechanism of the Reaction of 7-Isopropylidene-2,3-Diazanorborn-2-Ene with Olefins. Evidence for a Symmetrical, Nitrogen-Free Intermediate," submitted to Journal of the American Chemical Society, 1972.
Box 23 Folder 14
Holder, R.W. and Jerome A. Berson. "Forbidden 1,3-Signatropic Rearrangements," Journal of the American Chemical Society, Vol. 95, 2037 (1973), 1973.
Box 23 Folder 15
Berson, Jerome A., E.W. Petrillo,Jr., and P. Bickart. "Cycloconversions of Diazabicyclo(4.2.0) Ocetenes. Test of the Bent Bond Requirement for Concert," submitted to Journal of the American Chemical Society, 1973-1974.
Box 23 Folder 16
Berson, Jerome A., L.R. Corwin, and J.H. Davis. "Mechanistic Separation of Singlet and Triplet Reactions of a Trimethylenemethane. Stereospecificity and Regiospecificity in the Cycloadditions of 2-Isopropylidenecyclopentane-1,3-Diyl to Olefins," submitted as a Communication to Journal of the American Chemical Society, 1974.
Box 23 Folder 17
Berson, Jerome A. and J.M. Janusz. "Automerization of 6-Methylenebicyclo(3.2.1)Oct-2-Ene," submitted as a Communication to Journal of the American Chemical Society, 1974.
Box 23 Folder 18
Berson, Jerome A., T. Miyashi, and G. Jones, II. "(1,3)-Sigmatropic Rearrangement with Retention of Configuration Forced upon the Migrating Group," submitted to Journal of the American Chemical Society, 1974.
Box 23 Folder 19
Berson, Jerome A., S.S. Olin, E.W. Petrillo, Jr., and P. Bickart. "Stereochemistry and Mechanism of the (δ2 + δ2 + δ2) Cycloreversion," Tetra, 883/1, 1974.
Box 23 Folder 20
Berson, Jerome A., L.D. Pedersen, and B.K. Carpenter. "Synchronous Double Rotation in the Stereomutation of Optically Active 1-Phenylcyclopropane-2-d," Berson, Jerome A. and L.D. Pedersen. "Thermal Stereomutation of Optically Active Trans-Cyclopropane-1,-2-d2" - 2 papers, submitted as Communications to Journal of the American Chemical Society, 1974 (File includes correspondence and related reprints by other Jerome A. Berson colleagues.), 1974-1978.
Box 23 Folder 21
Berson, Jerome A. and P.S. Schwartz. "Stereochemistry of Vicinal Hydrogen Shift in Carbonium Ion Reactions of the Bicycle(2.2.2) Octyl System," submitted as a Communication to Journal of the American Chemical Society, 1974.
Box 23 Folder 22
Berson, Jerome A. and R. Malherbe. "Stereochemistry of the Diels-Adler Dimerization of Trans, Trans-Penta-1,3-Diene-1-d," submitted to Journal of the American Chemical Society, 1975.
Box 23 Folder 23
Berson, Jerome A., L.D. Pedersen, and B.K. Carpenter. "Thermal Stereomutation of Cyclopropanes," full typescript - submitted to Journal of the American Chemical Society (Folder 1 of 2.), 1975.
Box 23 Folder 24
Berson, Jerome A., L.D. Pedersen, and B.K. Carpenter. "Thermal Stereomutations of Cyclopropanes" (Folder 2 of 2.), 1975.
Box 23 Folder 25
Berson, Jerome A., L.D. Pedersen, and B.K. Carpenter, "Thermal Stereomutations of Cyclopropanes," Journal of the American Chemical Society, Vol. 98, 122, 1976, 1975-1976.
Box 23 Folder 26
Berson, Jerome A., P.B. Dervan, R. Malherbe, and J.J. Jenkins. "Formation and Thermal Rearrangement of Some Dimers…"- correspondence and revised pages only - submitted to Journal of the American Chemical Society, 1976.
Box 24 Folder 1
Berson, Jerome A., C.D. Duncan, G.C. O'Connell, and M.S. Platz. "Kinetic Confirmation and Synthetic Circumvention of the Cascade Mechanism for Population of the Triplet Ground State of a Trimethylenemethane," submitted as a Communication to Journal of the American Chemical Society, 1976.
Box 24 Folder 2
Carpenter, B.K., R.D. Little, and Jerome A. Berson. "Influence of Substituents on the Molecular Orbital Energies and Ground Electronic States of Substituted Trimethylenemethanes"/Platz, M.S., B.K. Carpenter, J. M. McBride, R.D. Little, J.J. Harrison, A. Shaw, S. Potter, and Jerome A. Berson. "Ground Electronic States of Substituted Trimethylmethanes," 2 papers submitted to Journal of the American Chemical Society, 1976.
Box 24 Folder 3
Platz, M.S. and Jerome A. Berson. "Absolute Rates of Triplet-Triplet Dimerization and Cycloaddition of Trimethylenemethane Biradicals," submitted to Journal of the American Chemical Society, 1976.
Box 24 Folder 4
Platz, M.J., D.R. Kelsey, Jerome A. Berson, and N.J. Turro. "On the Nature of the Capturable Singlet Trimethylenemethane Intermediate in the Decomposition of 7-Isopropylidene-2,3-Diazanorborene," submitted to Journal of the American Chemical Society, 1976, 1976-1977.
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Platz, M.S., J.M. McBride, B.D. Little, J.J. Harrison, A. Shaw, S.E. Potter, and Jerome A. Berson. "Triplet Ground States in Trimethylenemethanes," submitted as a Communication to Journal of the American Chemical Society, 1976.
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Berson, Jerome A. "Hypothetical Biradical Pathways in Thermal Unimolecular Rearrangements," submission for a book (Includes correspondence and notes.), 1977-1980.
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Berson, Jerome A. "Thermal Rearrangements," Annual Review of Physical Chemistry, Vol. 28, 1977.
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Berson, Jerome A. and R.D. Bauer. "Competing Pathways in the Thermal Rearrangement of Bicycle(4.2.1) Nona-2,4,7-Triene to Bicycle (4.3.0.)Nona-2,4,7-Triene (Cis-8.9-Dihydroindene)," submitted to Nouveau Journal de Chimie, 1977.
Box 24 Folder 9
Cichra, D., M.S. Platz, and Jerome A. Berson. "Generation and Capture of Common Intermediates from Proto-Planar and Proto-Bisected Trimethylenemethane Precursors. Thermal Rearrangement of a Methylenepyrazoline," submitted to Journal of the American Chemical Society, 1977.
Box 24 Folder 10
Cichra, D. and Jerome A. Berson. "Methylenepyrazoline (Arrow) Methylenepyrazoline Isomerization. Thermal Rearrangement of 7-Isopylidene-2,3-Diazanorborene to 2,3-Dimethyl-3,4-Diazabicyclo (3.3.0) Octa-3,8-Diene"/Cichra, D. and Jerome A. Berson. "COMM ED: Generation and Capture of…," Journal of the American Chemical Society, 1977.
Box 24 Folder 11
Janusz, J.M., L.J. Gardiner, and Jerome A. Berson. "Thermal (1,3) Sigmatropic Acyl Shift in the Degenerate Rearrangement of Bicycle (3.2.1)Oct-2-En-7-One," submitted to Journal of the American Chemical Society, 1977.
Box 24 Folder 12
Janusz, J.M. and Jerome A. Berson. "Trisection of the Reaction Pathways in the Automerization of 6-Methylenebicyclo(3.2.1)Oct-2-Ene," Journal of the American Chemical Society, April 1978, 1977-1978.
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Platz, M.S. and Jerome A. Berson. "On the Size of the Singlet-Triplet Energy Gap in Trimethylenemethanes," submitted as a Communication to Journal of the American Chemical Society, 1977.
Box 24 Folder 14
Berson, Jerome A. "Chemistry of Trimethylenemethanes, a New Class of Biradical Reactive Intermediates," submitted to Accounts of Chemical Research, 1978.
Box 24 Folder 15
Rule, M. and Jerome A. Berson. "Distinctively Different Chemical Properties of Bicycle (3.1.0)Hex-1-Enes and Singlet Trimethylenemethanes," Tertrahedron Letters, 1978.
Box 24 Folder 16
Siemionko, R., A. Shaw, G. O'Connell, R.D. Little, B.K. Carpenter, L. Shen, and Jerome A. Berson. "Frontier Orbital Control of Regiospecificity in Singlet Cycloadditions of 2-Methylenecyclopenta-1,3-Diyls," Tetrahedron Letters, 1978.
Box 24 Folder 17
Turro, N.J., M.J. Mirbach, N. Harrit, Jerome A. Berson, and M.S. Platz. "Evidence from the Absorption and Emission Spectra of Trimethylenemethane Derivatives for Two Molecular Species in Thermal Equilibrium," submitted to Journal of the American Chemical Society, 1978.
Box 24 Folder 18
Wood, J.T., J.S. Arney, D. Cortes, and Jerome A. Berson. "Test for "Wrong-Bond" Rupture in the Thermal Structural Isomerization of Phenylcyclopropane and a Confirmation of the Two-Center Epimerization Mechanism in its Stereomutation," submitted to Journal of the American Chemical Society, 1978.
Box 24 Folder 19
Corwin, L.R., D.M. McDaniel, R.J. Bushby, and Jerome A. Berson. "Dimerization and Cycloaddition Reactions of a Trimethylenemethane Derivative, 2-Isopropylidene-Cyclopenta-1,3-Diyl. Mechanistic Separation of Triplet and Singlet Reactions," submitted to Journal of the American Chemical Society, 1979.
Box 24 Folder 20
Duncan, C.B., L.B. Corwin, J.H. Davis, and Jerome A. Berson. "Ranking of Diylophilic Reactivities of Olefins toward the Singlet and Triplet Forms of the Trimethylene Biradical, 2-Isopropylidenecyclopenta-1,3-Diyl," submitted to Journal of the American Chemical Society, 1979.
Box 24 Folder 21
Lazzara, M.G., J.J. Harrison, M. Rule, and Jerome A. Berson. "Stereoisomerization by Bridgehead Double Inversion and Olefinic Torsion in 5-Alkylidenebicyclo(2.1.0)Pentanes," submitted as a Communication to Journal of the American Chemical Society, 1979.
Box 24 Folder 22
Platz, M.S. and Jerome A. Berson. "Direct Measurements of the Absolute Rates of Dimerization and Capture of the 2- Isopropylidenecyclopenta-1,3-Diyl Species by Electronic Paramagnetic Resonance Spectroscopy," submitted to Journal of the American Chemical Society, 1979.
Box 24 Folder 23
Rule. M., A.R. Matlin, E.F. Hilinski, D.A. Dougherty, and Jerome A. Berson. "M-Quinomethane: Synthesis of a Covalent-Biradicaloid Pair of Valence Tautomers," submitted to Journal of the American Chemical Society, 1979.
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Rule, M., M.G. Lazzara, and Jerome A. Berson. "5-Alkylidenebicyclo(2.1.0.)Pentanes. On the Question of a Negative Bond Dissociation Energy," submitted as a Communication to Journal of the American Chemical Society, 1979.
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Salinaro, R.F. and Jerome A. Berson. "Mechanisms of Dimerization and Rearrangement of a Bicycle(3.1.0) Hex-1-Ene" - typescript and manuscript only, but submitted as a Communication to Journal of the American Chemical Society, 1979.
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Goodman, J.L and Jerome A. Berson. "Formation and Intermolecular Capture of M-Quinodimethane" (Includes typescript and data.), 1979.
Box 24 Folder 27
Blaustein, M.A. and Jerome A. Berson. "Experimental Test of An Alternative Hypothesis for Isotope-Position Scrambling in the Photochemical Wolff rearrangement of Azibenzil," submitted to Tetrahedron Letters, 1981.
Box 25 Folder 1
Lahti, P.M. and Jerome A. Berson. "Alkenylallenes from the Reactions of Dimethylvinyl-Idenoids with Cyclopropenes. Fragmentation of a 2-Alkylidenebicyclo(1.1.0) Butane or a Cyclopyl Anion Intermediate," submitted to Journal of the American Chemical Society, 1981.
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Lahti, P.M. and Jerome A. Berson. "Thermal Rearrangement of an Allenic Diazoalkane and Intermolecular Capture of a Diazoethene by a Cyclopropene to Give a Common Dihydropyridazine Product," submitted to Journal of the American Chemical Society, 1981.
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Rule, M., R.F. Salinaro, D.R. Pratt, and Jerome A. Berson. "Chemistry of Bicycle(3.1.0)Hex-1-Enes Contrasted with That of a 2-Alkylidenecyclopentane-1,-3-Diyls," submitted to Journal of the American Chemical Society, 1981.
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Rule, M., A.R. Matlin, D.E. Seeger, E.F. Hilinski, D.A. Dougherty, and Jerome A. Berson. "Non-Kekule Molecules Derived Conceptually by Heteroatom-for-Carbon Substitution in Alternant Hydrocarbons. M-Quino-Methane and M-Naphthoquinomethane," submitted to Tetrahedron "Symposium in Print", 1981.
Box 25 Folder 5
Salinaro, R.F. and Jerome A. Berson. "1-T-Butyl-5-Isopropylidenebicyclo(2.1.0) Pentane," submitted to Journal of the American Chemical Society, 1981.
Box 25 Folder 6
Salinaro, R.F. and Jerome A. Berson. "Generation and Reactivity of Sterically Hindered Bicycle(3.1.0)Hex-1-Enes," submitted to Tetrahedron Letters, 1981-1982.
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Matlin, A.R., T.A. Inglin, and Jerome A. Berson. "Chemistry of the Energy-Rich M-Quinomethane System. Formal (3+2) Cycloadditions to Olefins via a Singlet Intermediate," submitted to Journal of the American Chemical Society, 1982.
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Schmidt, S.P., A.R. Pinhas, J.H. Hammons, and Jerome A. Berson. "High Temperature Pathways on the Energy Surface Connecting a Vinylidene and a Trimethylmethane. Gas Phase Generation of a Bicycle(3.1.0)-Hex-1-Ene and a Novel Cyclization of a 1,2,5-Triene," submitted to Journal of the American Chemical Society, 1982.
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Schmidt, S.P., A.R. Pinhas, J.H. Hammons, and Jerome A. Berson. "Photochemistry of a Triplet-Biradical, Cyclization, Cleavage, and Hydrogen Shift in 2-Isoproppylidenecyclopentane-1,3-Diyl," submitted to Journal of the American Chemical Society, 1982.
Box 25 Folder 10
Birney, D.M. and Jerome A. Berson. "Norborna-2,5-Dien-7-One, a Covalent Benzene-Carbon Monoxide Adduct. New Point on the Cycloreversion Structure-Reactivity Correlation Curve," submitted as a Communication to Journal of the American Chemical Society, 1985.
Box 25 Folder 11
Pikulin, S. and Jerome A. Berson. "Vinyltrimethylenemethane Intermediate in the 1,3-5-Sigmatropic Rearrangement of the 6- Methylenebicyclo (3.1.0.) Hex-2-Enyl System," submitted as a Communication to Journal of the American Chemical Society, 1985.
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Seeger, D.E., P.M. Lahti, A.R. Rossi, and Jerome A. Berson. "Synthesis of Two Bis-M-Quinomethanes. Experimental Study of Connectivity Effects on the Equal-Parity Criterion for Low-Spin Ground States in Alternant Non-Kekule Molecules," submitted to Journal of the American Chemical Society (Folder 1 of 2.), 1985.
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Seeger, et al. (Folder 2 of 2.), 1985.
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Birney, D.M. and Jerome A. Berson. "Synthesis of the Covalent Benzene-Carbon Monoxide Cycloadduct. Norborna-2,5-Dien-7-One. Correlation of Kinetic and Thermodynamic Stabilities in Cycloreversion Reactions," submitted to Tetrahedon "Symposium in Print", 1986.
Box 25 Folder 15
Jerome A. Berson. "Meta-Quinonoid Compounds," The Chemistry of Quinonoid Compounds." S. Patai and Z. Rappoport, eds., (New York: Wiley Interscience) - includes galley proofs, 1986.
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Supporting Materials for "Meta-Quinonoid Compounds", 1949-1983 .
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Jerome A. Berson. "Meta-Quinonoid Compounds," The Chemistry of Functional Groups. S. Patai and Z. Rappaport, eds. (New York: Wiley-Interscience), 1986.
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Jerome A. Berson, D. Griller, K. Owens, and D.M. Wayner. "Ring Inversion Barriers for the 3- and 4-Cyclohexenyl Radicals in Solution" - typescript and spectra, 1986-1987.
Box 25 Folder 19
Stone, K.J., M.M. Greenberg, J.L. Goodman, K.S. Peters, and Jerome A. Berson. "3,4-Dimethylene Furan and 3,4- Dimethylenethiophene. Heterocyclic Analogues of the Disjoint Non-Kekule Hydrocarbon Tetramethyleneethane," submitted as a Communication to Journal of the American Chemical Society, 1986.
Box 25 Folder 20
Zilm, K.W., R.A. Merrill, M.M. Greenberg, and Jerome A. Berson. "Magic Angle Spinning NMR Spectrum of a Captive Intermediate: Direct Observation of a Singlet Ground State Biradical, 3,4-Dimehylenefuran," submitted to Journal of the American Chemical Society, 1986.
Box 25 Folder 20b
Greenberg, M.M., S.C. Blackstock, and Jerome A. Berson. "Identity of 3,4-Dimethylenethiophene Reactive Intermediates from Diazene and Bis-Allene Precursors. Correlation of Singlet Biradical Reactivity in the Tetramethyleneethane and Trimethylenemethane Series," submitted to Tetrahedron Letters, 1987.
Box 25 Folder 21
Jerome A. Berson, D.M. Birney, W.P. Dailey, III, and J.F. Liebman. "Ethylenedione, Its Ions, and Isoelectronic Analogs," Unconventional Chemical Bonding. (New York: VCH Publishers), 1987.
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Owens, K.A. and Jerome A. Berson. "Exclusion of a 1,4-Cyclohexendiyl as a Metastable Intermediate in the (3.3)- Sigmatropic Rearrangement of a 1-Hexen-5-Yne," submitted to Journal of the American Chemical Society, 1987.
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Zilm, K.W., R.A. Merrill, G.G. Webb, M.M. Greenberg, and Jerome A. Berson. "Two Dimensional Solid State NMR of a Captive Intermediate: Structure of the Radical Centers in 3,4-Dimethylenethiophene," submitted to Journal of the American Chemical Society, 1987.
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Jerome A. Berson. "Reaction Symmetry Criteria in the Detection of Metastable Mechanistic Intermediates: Application to (1,3)- and (3.3)-Sigmatropic Rearrangements," CHEMTRACTS-Organic Chemistry 2: 213-227, (1989), 1989.
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Lahti, P.M., A.S. Ichimura, and Jerome A. Berson. "Properties of Organic Diradicaloid Molecules Predicted by Semiempirical Molecular Orbital Theory - A Practical Procedure," submitted to Journal of Organic Chemistry, 1988.
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Pikulin, S. and Jerome A. Berson. "Static Structure of a Regular Intermediate Controls the Course of the Thermal 1,3 Sigmatropic Rearrangement of 6-Methylenebicyclo(3.1.0)Hex-2-Enyl Derivatives," submitted to Journal of the American Chemical Society, 1988.
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Stevens, L.L. and Jerome A. Berson. "Reciprocal Tests of Steric Opposition to Down-Disrotatory Thermal Ring-Opening of (3.2.1) Propellanes. Cycloreversion Stereochemistry of the 6,7,8-Trimethyltricyclo(3.2.1.01,5)Octanes," submitted to Tetrahedron Letters, 1988.
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Stone, K.J., M.M. Greenberg, S.C. Blackstock, and Jerome A. Berson. "Heterocyclic Aromatic Non-Kekule Molecules. Synthesis and Solution Phase Chemistry of the Singlet Biradicals 3,4-Dimethylenefuran and 3,4-Dimethylenethiophene"/"Greenberg, M.M. and Jerome A. Berson. "Ground State Multiplicities of 3,4-Dimethylenefuran and 3,4-Dimethylenethiphene. Experimental Tests of Ab Initio and Semi-Empirical Theories of Heteroatom-Bridged Disjoint Buiradicals," - 2 papers submitted to Journal of the American Chemical Society, 1988.
Box 26 Folder 5
Stone, K.J., M.M. Greenberg, S.C. Blackstock, and Jerome A. Berson. "Heterocyclic Aromatic Non-Kekule Molecules. Synthesis and Solution Phase Chemistry of the Inglet Biradicals 3,4-Dimethylenefuran and 3,4-Dimethylenethiophene", 1988.
Box 26 Folder 6
Jerome A. Berson. "Reaction Symmetry Criteria in the Detection of Metastable Mechanistic Intermediates: Application to (1,3)- and (3,3)- Sigmatropic Rearrangements," CHEMTRACTS-Organic Chemistry, (July/August 1989), 1989.
Box 26 Folder 7
Osterman, V.M., G. Schulte, and Jerome A. Berson. "Thermally Generated Benzannealated Trimethylenemethane Biradicals of the 2-Methylcyclohexene-1,3-Diyl Series Escape Capture by a New Rearrangement to Benzannealated Bicycle(3.2.0)Hept-1-Enes," submitted to Journal of the American Chemical Society, 1989.
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Owens, K.A. and Jerome A. Berson. "Stereochemistry of the Thermal Acetylenic Cope Rearrangement. Experimental Test for a 1,4-Cyclohexendiyl As a Mechanistic Intermediate," submitted to Journal of the American Chemical Society, 1989.
Box 26 Folder 8
Scaiano, J.C., V. Wintgens, A. Bedell, and Jerome A. Berson. "Absolute Rates of Dimerization and Cycloaddition of 3,4- Dimethylenefuran and 3,4-Dimethylenethiophene by Nanosecond Time-Resolved Spectroscopy," Journal of the American Chemical Society, 1989.
Box 26 Folder 9
Sciano, J.C., V. Wintgens, K. Haider, and Jerome A. Berson. "Parallel Reactivity Sequences in Cycloadditions of Singlet Biradicals and Diels-Alder Reactions. Common Physical Basis Manifested as Entropy Control or Enthalpy Control," Journal of the American Chemical Society, 111, 8732, (1989) (Reprint only.), 1989.
Box 26 Folder 10
Greenberg, M.M., S.C. Blackstock, Jerome A. Berson, R.A. Merrill, and J.C. Duchamp. "Structure of the Carrier of the CP MAS 13C Signal Assigned to 3,4-Dimethylenethiophene…," accepted as a Journal of the American Chemical Society Communication, 1990-1991.
Box 26 Folder 11
Jerome A. Berson. "Overlap Component of the Stereoelectronic Factor. Remote Control of Stereogenicity Transfer Through the Anisotropic Influence of a Ring," Accounts of Chemical Research, 1991.
Box 26 Folder 12
Getty, S.J. and Jerome A. Berson. "Persistence of Stereospecificity of Thermal Homodienyl Hydrogen Shift…," Journal of the American Chemical Society Communication, 1991.
Box 26 Folder 13
Haider, K.W., J.A. Clites, and Jerome A. Berson. "Transition State Structure and Frontier Orbital Influence on the Cycloaddition Reactions of 2,5-Dimethyl-3,4-Dimethylenethiophene with Styrenes and Benzaldehydes," Tetrahedron Letters, 1991.
Box 26 Folder 14
Parziale, P.A. and Jerome A. Berson. "Stereochemistry of the Thermal Homodienyl Hydrogen Shift Reverse Ene Reaction. Stereoelectronic Control of Stereogenicity Trans…," Journal of the American Chemical Society Communication, 1991.
Box 26 Folder 15
Reynolds, J.H., Jerome A. Berson, K.K. Kumashiro, J.C. Duchamp, K.W. Zilm, A. Rubello, and P. Vogel. "Kinetically Stable Singlet State of 1,2,4,5-Tetramethylenebenzene," submitted to Journal of the American Chemical Society, 1991.
Box 26 Folder 15b
Wendt, M.D. and Jerome A. Berson. "Chiral Pathways in the Thermal Rearrangement of 3,7-Dimethylene-1-Ethyltricyclo(4.1.02,4)," submitted to Journal of the American Chemical Society, 1991.
Box 26 Folder 15c
Wendt, M.D. and Jerome A. Berson. "Orbital Overlap Constraints in the Thermal Rearrangement of 3,7-Dimethylenetricyclo(4.1.0.02,4)Heptane Derivatives," submitted to Journal of the American Chemical Society, 1991.
Box 26 Folder 15d
Cordes, M.H.J. and Jerome A. Berson. "Thermal Interconversion of a Pair of Diastereomeric Cyclopropanones. Upper Limit for a Cyclopropanone-Oxyallyl Energy Separation," submitted as a Communication to Journal of the American Chemical Society, 1992.
Box 26 Folder 16
Reynolds, J.H., Jerome A. Berson, K.K. Kumashiro, J.C. Duchamp, K.W. Zilm, A. Rubello, and P. Vogel. "Kinetically Stable Singlet State of 1,2,4,5-Tetramethylenebenzene," Journal of the American Chemical Society, 114, 763-764, (1992) (Reprint only.), 1992.
Box 26 Folder 17
Bush, L.C., R.B. Heath, and Jerome A. Berson. "Long-Lived Isomerism of Singlet and Triplet States of N-Arenesulfonyl-3,4- Dimethylenepyrroles," submitted to Journal of the American Chemical Society, 1993.
Box 26 Folder 18
Heath, R.B., L.C. Bush, X., W. Feng, Jerome A. Berson, J.C. Scaiano, and A.B. Berinstain. "Absolute Rates of Heterocyclic Singlet Biradical Reactions Determined by Nanosecond Time-Resolved Absorption Spectroscopy. Dimerizations and Cycloadditions to Alkenes and to Dioxygen," submitted to Journal of Physical Chemistry, 1993.
Box 26 Folder 19
Reynolds, J.H., Jerome A. Berson, K.K. Kumashiro, J.C. Duchamp, K.W. Zilm, J.C. Sciano, A.B. Berinstain, A. Rubello, and P. Vogel. "2,3,5,6-Tetrakis(Methylene)-1,4-Cyclohexanediyl (1,2,4,5-Tetramethylenebenzene), a Disjoint Non-Kekule Singlet Hydrocarbon Biradical," Journal of the American Chemical Society, 115, 8073-8090, (1993) (Reprint only.), 1993.
Box 26 Folder 20
Wessel, T.E. and Jerome A. Berson. "Allylic Stabilization of a Putative Cyclohexane-1,4-Diyl Intermediate Elicits an Antarafacial Cope Rearrangement. Pyrolysis of R,E-5-Methylocta-1,2,6-Triene to R,E- and S,E-4-Methyl-3-Methylene-1,5-Heptadiene," submitted to Journal of the American Chemical Society, 1993.
Box 26 Folder 21
Borden, W.T., H. Imazu, and Jerome A. Berson. "Violations of Hund's Rule in Non-Kekule Hydrocarbons: Theoretical Prediction and Experimental Verification," submitted to Accounts of Chemical Research, 1994.
Box 26 Folder 22
Cordes, M.H.J., S. de Gala, and Jerome A. Berson. "Stereochemistry of a Cyclopropanone by Crystal Structure Analysis. Exo Configuration of the Diels-Adler Adduct of Cyclopropanone and 1,3-Diphenylisobenzofuran Appears to be Stabilized Relative to the Endo by An Attractive Ether-Carbonyl Interaction," submitted to Journal of the American Chemical Society, 1994.
Box 26 Folder 23
Lu, H.S.-M. and Jerome A. Berson. "1,3-Di[(3.4-Dimethylene-5-Methyl)-2-Thienyl]Benzene, A Singlet Tetraradical Prototype of a Quasi-Alternant Non-Classical Conducting Polymer" - typescript, supplementary material, and correspondence, 1995.
Box 26 Folder 24
Maksimovic, L., X.W. Feng, L.C. Bush, H.S.-M. Lu, and Jerome A. Berson. "Electron Spin Resonance Spectroscopic Evidence of Diazenyl Biradicals in the Photolysis of Diazenes. Conformational Isomerization in Low-Temperature Matrices," submitted to Journal of the American Chemical Society, 1995.
Box 26 Folder 25
Cordes, M.H.J. and Jerome A. Berson. "Medium Effects on the Rates of Stereomutation of a Pair of Diastermeric Cyclopropanones. Ground State Stabilization in Nucleophilic Solvents Induces Deviation from Solvent Polarity Controlled Behavior," submitted to Journal of the American Chemical Society, 1996.
Box 26 Folder 25b
Jerome A. Berson. "New Class of Non-Kekule Molecules with Tunable Singlet-Triplet Energy Spacings," Accounts of Chemical Research, Vol. 30, No. 6, pp. 238-244, (1997) (Reprint only.), 1997.
Box 26 Folder 26
Bush, L.C., R.B. Heath, X.W. Feng, P.A. Wang, L. Maksimovic, A.I. Song, W.-S. Chung, A. B. Berinstain, J.C. Scaiano, and Jerome A. Berson. "Tuning the Singlet-Triplet Energy Gap in a Non-Kekule Series by Designed Structural Variation. Singlet States of N-Substituted-3,4-Dimethylenepyrrole Biradicals," Journal of the American Chemical Society, Vol. 119, No. 6, pp. 1406-1415, (1997) (Reprint only.), 1997.
Box 26 Folder 27
Bush, L.C., L. Maksimovic, X.W. Feng, H.S.M. Lu, and Jerome A. Berson. "Triplet Species from Dihydropyrrolo(3,4-d)Pyridazines, the Diazene Precursors of N-Arenesulfonyl-3,4-Dimethyleneprrroles," Journal of the American Chemical Society, Vol. 119, No. 6, pp. 1416-1427, (1997) (Reprint only.), 1997.
Box 26 Folder 28
Lu, H.S.M. and Jerome A. Berson. "Catenation of Heterocyclic Non-Kekule Biradicals to Tetraradical Prototypes of Conductive or Magnetic Polymers," Journal of the American Chemical Society, Vol. 119, No. 6, pp. 1428-1438, (1997) (Reprint only.), 1997.
Box 26 Folder 29
Jerome A. Berson, "On the Origin of the Long-Lived Spin Isomerism in Pi-Conjugated Non-Kekule Molecules," submitted to Journal of Molecular Structure (Theochem), 1998.
Box 26 Folder 30
Jerome A. Berson. "Structural Determinants of the Chemical and Magnetic Properties of Non-Kekule Molecules," in Magnetic Properties of Organic Materials, P.M. Lahti, ed. (New York: Marcel Dekker, Incorporated) p. 752, 1999.
Box 26 Folder 31
Jerome A. Berson. "Kekule Escapes, Popper Notwithstanding," submitted to Angewandte Chemie, 2000.
Box 26 Folder 32
Jerome A. Berson. "Kinetics, Thermodynamics, and The Problem of Selectivity: Maturation of An Idea," submitted to Angewandte Chemie, 2006.
Box 26 Folder 33
Jerome A. Berson. "Hypothetical Biradical Pathways in Thermal Unimolecular Rearrangements" - corrected typescript, undated.
Box 27 Folder 1
Jerome A. Berson. "Hypothetical Biradical Pathways…" - handwritten manuscript, undated.
Box 27 Folder 2
Jerome A. Berson - Untitled and Undated Corrected Typescript on Excited Cyclobutanes, undated.
Box 27 Folder 3
Jerome A. Berson? "On The Photolysis of Benzene. Mechanism of Formation Bicycle (3.1.0.) Hexenyl Derivatives in Hydroxylic Media", undated.
Box 27 Folder 4
Jerome A. Berson. "Peroration on Hund's Rule" (Slides and notes.), undated.
Box 27 Folder 4b
Jerome A. Berson and J.M. Balquist. "On the Mechanism of Thermolysis of Cyclopropanes. Racemization and Geometrical Isomerization of Tetramethylcyclopropane-D6", undated.
Box 27 Folder 5
Jerome A. Berson, R.G. Bergman, G.M. Clarke, and D. Wege. "Memory Effects in Multiple Carbonium Ions, V." - manuscript only, undated.
Box 27 Folder 6
Jerome A. Berson and E. Brown. "Studies on Dihyropyridines I-III", undated.
Box 27 Folder 7
Jerome A. Berson, D.S. Donald, and W.J. Libbey. "Memory Effects in Multiple Carbonium Ions. III" - manuscript only, undated.
Box 27 Folder 8
Jerome A. Berson, C.D. Duncan, and L.R. Corwin. "Relative Diylophylic Reactivities of Olefins Toward a Trimethylenemethane" - typescript, drafts, and manuscript only, undated.
Box 27 Folder 9
Jerome A. Berson, J.W. Foley, J.M. McKenna, H. Junge, D.S. Donald, R.T. Luibrand, N.G. Kundu, W.J. Libbey, M.S. Poonian, J.J. Gajewski, and J.B.E. Allen. "Deanimative and Solvolytic Ring-Expansion. Relative Migratory Aptitudes of Ring Members and Beta-Substituents", undated.
Box 27 Folder 10
Jerome A. Berson and W.M. Jones. "Principles of the Isotope Dilution Method of Determining Optical Purity", undated.
Box 27 Folder 11
Jerome A. Berson, J.M. McKenna, and H. Junge. "Magnification of the Memory Effect by Methyl Substitution. Ring-Expansions of the 1-Methyl-Endo- and Exo-2-Norbornylcarbinyl Systems", undated.
Box 27 Folder 12
Jerome A. Berson and G.L. Nelson. "Stereochemistry of the Migrating Group in the Thermal Sigmatropic Rearrangement of Bicycle(3.2.0.)Hept-2-En-6-Yl to Norborn-5-En-2-Yl Acetate," - manuscript and typescript only, undated.
Box 27 Folder 13
Jerome A. Berson, G.C. Nelson, and J.M. Balquist. "Stereochemistry of Sigmatropic Rearrangements" - abstract and notes only, undated.
Box 27 Folder 14
Jerome A. Berson, M.S. Poonian, and W.J. Libbey. "Memory Effects in Multiple Carbonium Ion Rearrangements. II" - manuscript only, undated.
Box 27 Folder 15
Jerome A. Berson, D. Wege, G.M. Clarke, and R.G. Bergman. "Memory Effects in Multiple Carbonium Ions. IV" - manuscript only, undated.
Box 27 Folder 16
Jerome A. Berson and M.R. Willcott, III. "Thermally Induced Skeletal Rearrangements of Tropilidenes", undated.
Box 27 Folder 17
Jerome A. Berson, M.R. Willcott, and R.S. Wood. "Degenerate Thermal Reorganization of Tropilidene," submitted as a Communication to Journal of the American Chemical Society, undated.
Box 27 Folder 18
Jerome A. Berson, R.S. Wood, and J.W. Patton. "Structural Characterization of the Thermal Sigmatropic Rearrangement of Cis - Bicyclo (3.2.0) Hept-2-En-Endo-6-Yl-Acetate to Norborn-5-En-Exo-2-Yl Acetate and Demonstration of Its Intermolecularity," - manuscript and corrected typescript only, undated.
Box 27 Folder 19
Cordes, M.H.J. and Jerome A. Berson. "Chemistry of Cyclopropanone-Oxyallyl Pairs. Nature of the True Reactive Intermediates in Cycloadditions and Favorskii Rearrangements", undated.
Box 27 Folder 19b
Harrison, J. and Jerome A. Berson. "Stereochemical Randomization in a Pyrazoline-Derived Trimethylmethane," - manuscript and draft versions, undated.
Box 27 Folder 20
Malherbe, R. (and Jerome A. Berson). "Dimerization of Piperylene," - Malherbe manuscript and typescript only, undated.
Box 27 Folder 21
Salinaro, R.F. and Jerome A. Berson. "Implication of a Common Trimethylmethane Intermediate in Dimer Formation and Structural Methylenecyclopropane Rearrangement of a Bicycle(3.1.0.) Hex-1-Ene to a 5-Alkylidenebicyclo(2.1.0) Pentane", undated.
Box 27 Folder 22
Zilm, K.W., R.A. Merrill, M.M. Greenberg, S.C. Blackstock, and Jerome A. Berson. "Assignment of Ground Spin States to the ESR-Silent Biradicals 3,4 Dimethylenefuran and 3,4-Dimethylenetiophene by Solid-State Cross-Polarization Magic Angle Spinning 13c NMR Spectroscopy of Isotropically Enriched Species" - typescript only, undated.
Box 27 Folder 23
Zilm, K.W., R.A. Merrill, M.M. Greenberg, S.C. Blackstock, and Jerome A. Berson. "Structure of the Carrier of the CP MAS 13C NMR Signal of 3,4-Dimethylthiophene. Multiple Position-Labeling and Chemical Trapping in Annealed Glasses", undated.
Box 27 Folder 24

Series Description

Arranged chronologically by year, this series contains reports and proposal files collected and maintained by Jerome A. Berson. These files document Berson's efforts to obtain funding for his scientific research from various sources, including United States government agencies, professional organizations, and the private business sector. They also document his reporting back to the various entities that provided funding to him.

Files regarding grant proposals and reports submitted by Berson to his funding sources make up the largest components of this series. A few files concerning other miscellaneous matters, including grant requests and applications submitted by Berson, guidelines, and the Berson-Baldwin controversy within the American Chemical Society are also preserved here.

The contents of the Reports and Proposals files consist of a variety of materials. Proposals and reports make up the largest components of the contents of these files. Other miscellaneous materials, including, but not limited to, correspondence, grant applications, grant requests, and guidelines are found in these files as well.

NSF (National Science Foundation) Proposals, 1960-1986.
Box 28 Folder 1
ARO Proposal: "Thermal Rearrangements", 1966-1969.
Box 28 Folder 2
Research Grant-in-Aid Requests, 1967-1968.
Box 28 Folder 3
PRF-3705-C1 Annual Report: "Mechanistic Studies of Organic Reactions", 1969-1978.
Box 28 Folder 4
NSF (National Science Foundation) Proposal: "Spin Reactivity", 1979-1982.
Box 28 Folder 5
Jerome A. Berson Referee Report on a paper by Paul D. Bartlett et al. submitted to Journal of the American Chemical Society, 1971.
Box 28 Folder 5b
Hoffmann-La Roche Foundation Grant - correspondence, 1971-1975 .
Box 28 Folder 6
National Cancer Institute - Compounds Screening Program - correspondence and Compound Collection Records, 1973-1975.
Box 28 Folder 7
NAS-NRC (National Academy of Sciences-National Research Council) - correspondence and reports, re: carcinogens in laboratories, 1975-1979.
Box 28 Folder 8a
OSHA (Occupational Safety and Health Administration) Carcinogens Guidelines (Folder 1 of 2.), 1975-1977.
Box 28 Folder 8b
OSHA (Occupational Safety and Health Administration) Carcinogens Guidelines (Folder 2 of 2.), 1975-1977.
Box 28 Folder 8c
Related Materials

See also Box 34 Folder 13.

HEW (U.S. Department of Health, Education, and Welfare) - Grant Application: "DNA, Photosynthesis, and the Chemistry of Triplets", 1976.
Box 28 Folder 9
DoE (U.S. Department of Energy) Proposal: "Ethylenedione", 1976-1978, 1984.
Box 28 Folder 10
NSF (National Science Foundation) Peer Reviews - correspondence, re: from P.D. Bartlett and Jerome A. Berson, 1977.
Box 28 Folder 11
NSF (National Science Foundation) - CHE-8011399; "Strained Rings, Biradicals, and Higher Spin Organic Molecules", 1978-1983 .
Box 28 Folder 12
PRF Proposal 11730 AC4: "High Energy Intermediates in Hydrocarbon Reactions", 1979-1982.
Box 28 Folder 13
NSF (National Science Foundation) Proposal: "Laser Spectroscopy Equipment" (Not funded.), 1979.
Box 28 Folder 14
Humphrey Chemical Company-Yale University - Research Grant Agreement, 1980-1989.
Box 28 Folder 15
NSF (National Science Foundation) Proposal: "Fast Kinetic Studies of Chemical Mechanisms", 1981-1983.
Box 28 Folder 16
PRF Application: "Hydrocarbons with a Negative Bond Dissociation Energy", 1981.
Box 28 Folder 17
NIH (National Institutes of Health) Proposal: "Novel Cycloaddition Reactions", 1981-1982.
Box 28 Folder 18
PRF Grant 1982: Hydrocarbons with a Negative Bond Dissociation Energy", 1982-1985.
Box 28 Folder 19
NSF (National Science Foundation) - Advisory Committee for Chemistry, Chemistry Division and Oversight Review Team for Chemical Dynamics, February 3-4, 1983, 1983.
Box 28 Folder 20
NSF (National Science Foundation) Proposal: "Temporal and Spectroscopic Characterization of Reactive Intermediates" (Folder 1 of 2.), 1983.
Box 28 Folder 21
NSF (National Science Foundation) Proposal (Folder 2 of 2.), 1983.
Box 28 Folder 22
NSF-IUC Proposal: "Picosecond Studies of Light-Driven Reactions" (Folder 1 of 2.), 1981-1982.
Box 28 Folder 23
NSF-IUC Proposal (Folder 2 of 2.), 1981-1982.
Box 28 Folder 24
IBM (International Business Machines Corporation) Proposal: "Far-Ultraviolet Laser Ablation of Polymers: A Study of Free-Radical Pathways", 1983.
Box 28 Folder 25
NSF (National Science Foundation) Laser Proposal (Folder 2 of 2.), undated.
Box 28 Folder 26
NSF (National Science Foundation) Grant - CHE 8820073: "Non-Kekule Molecules and Reaction Mechanisms" (Folder 1 of 3.), 1985-1993.
Box 29 Folder 1
NSF (National Science Foundation) Grant - CHE 8820073 (Folder 2 of 3.), 1985-1993.
Box 29 Folder 2
NSF (National Science Foundation) Grant - CHE 8820073 (Folder 3 of 3.), 1985-1993.
Box 29 Folder 3
NIH (National Institutes of Health) Grant: "Mechanistic Basis of Synthetic Design", 1986-1987.
Box 29 Folder 4
PRF Grants 2606-AC-4, 23117-AC4-E, and 176-AC-4C: "Absolute Kinetics of Biradical Reactions", 1988-1990.
Box 29 Folder 5
Yale University - General Contract Information (Includes "Research Investigator's Guide."), 1980-1994.
Box 29 Folder 6
NIH (National Institutes of Health) Proposal: "Mechanistic Basis of Synthetic Design", 1988-1991.
Box 29 Folder 7
NIH (National Institutes of Health) Proposal - S10 RR05654-01 - "Purchase of a Quadrupole Mass Spectrometer", 1989-1990.
Box 29 Folder 8
ACS and AAAS (American Chemical Society and American Association for the Advancement of Science) - Berson-Baldwin Controversy (Folder 1 of 4.), 1993-1998.
Box 29 Folder 9
ACS (American Chemical Society) - Berson-Baldwin Controversy (Folder 2 of 4.), 1993-1994.
Box 29 Folder 10
ACS (American Chemical Society) - Berson-Baldwin Controversy (Folder 3 of 4.), 1990-1993.
Box 29 Folder 11
ACS (American Chemical Society) - Berson-Baldwin Controversy (Folder 4 of 4.), 1990-1993.
Box 29 Folder 12
NIH (National Institutes of Health) Grant 4R37GM30787-12: "Mechanistic Basis of Synthetic Design", 1992-1995.
Box 29 Folder 13
NSF (National Science Foundation) Proposal: "Reactive Intermediates and Reaction Mechanisms", 1991-1996.
Box 29 Folder 14

Series Description

Arranged chronologically by year, this series contains Jerome A. Berson's seminar abstracts. The contents of these files consist of abstracts for scientific seminars Berson attended between 1945 and 1963.

Seminar Abstracts to 1948 - from the Organic Chemistry Seminar, 1945-1948.
Box 30 Folder 1
Seminar Abstracts, 1949.
Box 30 Folder 2
Seminar Abstracts, 1950-1951.
Box 30 Folder 3
Seminar Abstracts, 1952-1954.
Box 30 Folder 4
Seminar Abstracts, 1955-1957.
Box 30 Folder 5
Seminar Abstracts, 1958-1959.
Box 30 Folder 6
Seminar Abstracts, 1960-1961.
Box 30 Folder 7
Seminar Abstracts, 1962-1963.
Box 30 Folder 8

Series Description

Arranged alphabetically by year, this series contains Jerome A. Berson's conference, workshop, and symposia files. These files concern scientific conferences, workshops, and symposia that were of interest to Berson. Berson attended most of the functions represented in this series. He also presented papers, presented lectures, and conducted short courses at a number of the functions documented here.

The contents of the Conferences, Workshops, and Symposia files consist of a variety of materials. Correspondence, notes, programs, and abstracts are the most common materials found in these files. Smaller amounts of other miscellaneous materials, including, but not limited to, lectures by Berson, attendee lists, slides, and transparencies are preserved here as well.

(American Chemical Society National) Organic Symposium, June 16-20, 1963 - Includes Jerome A. Berson lecture "Recent Aspects of Molecular Rearrangements", 1963.
Box 31 Folder 1
Notre Dame Conference on Stereochemistry 1965 - correspondence and problem set, 1965.
Box 31 Folder 2
Eleventh Conference on Reaction Mechanisms - correspondence and conference materials, 1964-1966.
Box 31 Folder 3
Burgenstock Conference on Stereochemistry, May 8-13, 1966 - includes program and attendee list, 1966.
Box 31 Folder 4
Gordon Conference 1967 - "Organic Reactions and Processes," July 23-28, 1967 - correspondence, program, attendee list, Jerome A. Berson notes, and abstract of talk on "Molecular Rearrangements", 1966-1967.
Box 31 Folder 5
Twelfth Conference on Reaction Mechanisms - conference materials, 1968.
Box 31 Folder 6
Conference on Carbonium Ions, October 25-28, 1968, 1968.
Box 31 Folder 7
Washington University Lecture Series - correspondence and Jerome A. Berson talk on "Molecular Rearrangements", 1968-1969.
Box 31 Folder 8
IUPAC (International Union of Pure and Applied Chemistry) Karlsruhe 1968 - Symposium on Valence Isomerization - correspondence, program, list of participants, and abstract of Jerome A. Berson talk on "Stereochemistry of Sigmatropic Rearrangements", 1968.
Box 31 Folder 9
Journees de Chimie Organique, September 23-26, 1969 - correspondence and bulletin, 1969.
Box 31 Folder 10
(American Chemical Society 21st National) Organic Chemistry Symposium, June 1969 - Report by Jerome A. Berson, 1969.
Box 31 Folder 11
Symposium on Diazonium Ions, September 16-17, 1970 - correspondence, program, Jerome A. Berson notes, and lecture slides, 1970.
Box 31 Folder 12
(American Chemical Society 22nd National) Organic Chemistry Symposium, June 13-17, 1971 - correspondence, program, abstracts, and notes for Jerome A. Berson lecture, 1971.
Box 31 Folder 13
IUPAC (International Union of Pure and Applied Chemistry) 1971 - Symposium on Intramolecular Rearrangements, July 25- 30, 1971 - correspondence, program, and attendee list, 1969-1972.
Box 31 Folder 14
Thirteenth Conference on Reaction Mechanisms - conference materials, 1970.
Box 31 Folder 15
ACS (American Chemical Society) Midwest Regional Meeting, St. Louis, Missouri, October 1971, 1971.
Box 31 Folder 16
Fourteenth Conference on Reaction Mechanisms - correspondence, reference materials, and Jerome A. Berson notes, 1971-1972.
Box 31 Folder 17
Fifteenth Conference on Reaction Mechanisms - conference materials, 1974.
Box 31 Folder 18
Tables Rondes Roussel Uclaf - "Transition States and Chemical Paths," July 1974 - correspondence and Jerome A. Berson paper "The Chemistry of Some Trimethylenemethanes", 1974.
Box 31 Folder 19
Gordon Conference on Hydrocarbon Chemistry, June 13-17, 1977 - includes correspondence and Jerome A. Berson notes, 1976-1977.
Box 31 Folder 20
Gordon Conference on Organic Photochemistry, July 25-29, 1977 - includes correspondence, program, and Jerome A. Berson lecture notes, 1976-1977.
Box 31 Folder 21
Conference on Spin States of Organic Molecules - NSF (National Science Foundation) Proposal, conference materials, correspondence, and notes (Folder 1 of 2.), 1977-1978.
Box 31 Folder 22
Conference on Spin States of Organic Molecules (Folder 2 of 2.), 1977-1978.
Box 31 Folder 23
First New England Workshop on Organometallic Chemistry, May 6-8, 1977, includes correspondence and Jerome A. Berson notes on talks given, 1977.
Box 31 Folder 24
Gordon Conference on Free Radicals 1979 - correspondence, notes on talks, and Jerome A. Berson lecture notes, 1977-1979.
Box 31 Folder 25
IUPAC (International Union of Pure and Applied Chemistry) - Pericyclic Reactions - Jerome A. Berson response to questionnaire on nomenclature, 1979.
Box 31 Folder 26a
Irenee Du Pont Symposium: "Perspectives in Organic Chemistry", 1980.
Box 31 Folder 26b
Gordon Conference 1982 - Physical Organic Chemistry, June 14-18, 1982, 1982.
Box 31 Folder 27
NSF (National Science Foundation) Workshop 1982 - Physical Organic Chemistry (Includes Jerome A. Berson's notes.), June 24-27, 1982, 1982.
Box 31 Folder 28
RSC Congress 1983 - Annual Chemical Congress, April 11-13, 1983 (Includes Jerome A. Berson's notes.), 1983.
Box 31 Folder 29
ACS (American Chemical Society) Frontiers in Organic Chemistry, June 13-18, 1993 - correspondence, 1982-1983.
Box 31 Folder 30
ACS (American Chemical Society) Frontiers in Organic Chemistry - Jerome A. Berson short course notes on reaction mechanisms and neutral reactive intermediates, 1983.
Box 31 Folder 31
ACS (American Chemical Society) Frontiers in Organic Chemistry - supporting materials for Jerome A. Berson's short course, 1983.
Box 31 Folder 32
ACS (American Chemical Society) Frontiers in Organic Chemistry - Jerome A. Berson short course transparencies, 1984.
Box 31 Folder 33
ACS (American Chemical Society) Frontiers in Organic Chemistry - Jerome A. Berson short course notes, 1984.
Box 31 Folder 34
ACS (American Chemical Society) Frontiers in Organic Chemistry - Jerome A. Berson short course supporting materials, 1984.
Box 31 Folder 35
ACS (American Chemical Society) Frontiers in Organic Chemistry - correspondence and program, 1984.
Box 31 Folder 36
ACS (American Chemical Society) Frontiers in Organic Chemistry - Jerome A. Berson course notes, 1984.
Box 31 Folder 37
ACS (American Chemical Society) Frontiers in Organic Chemistry - Jerome A. Berson short course, 1985.
Box 31 Folder 38
Twentieth Reaction Mechanisms Conference, June 4-7, 1984 - correspondence, 1983-1984.
Box 31 Folder 39
PAC CHEM '84, December 16-21, 1984 - correspondence, conference materials, Jerome A. Berson lecture notes "Syntheses Inspired by Theory, and Vice-Versa", 1984.
Box 31 Folder 40
(American Chemical Society) NERM-14, 1984 - correspondence, program, and abstracts (Jerome A. Berson was a section chair.), 1982-1984.
Box 31 Folder 41
Sigma Xi 89th Annual Dinner, Yale University, April 24, 1984, 1984.
Box 31 Folder 42
Gordon Conference 1985 - "Free Radical Reactions," June 10-14, 1985 - correspondence, program, and attendee list, 1984-1985.
Box 31 Folder 43
NYU (New York University) Visiting Committee, 1985.
Box 31 Folder 44
ACS (American Chemical Society) Pittsburgh Section - 1985 Pittsburgh Award to Kurt R. Schreiber, 1985.
Box 31 Folder 45
University of Wisconsin - Hyp J. Dauben Symposium, 1986.
Box 31 Folder 46
30th National Organic Symposium, June 21-26, 1987 - correspondence, program, conference abstracts, Jerome A. Berson notes, and lecture "Structure, Spin, and Reactivity of Pi-Conjugated Non-Kekule Molecules", 1986-1987.
Box 32 Folder 1
30th National Organic Symposium - Jerome A. Berson lecture slides, 1987.
Box 32 Folder 2
(CIC) 1990 Halifax Conference - correspondence only, 1989.
Box 32 Folder 3
Center for Photochemical Sciences - Scientific Advisory Board Meeting, October 6, 1989, 1989.
Box 32 Folder 4
ICQC 1991 - International Conference on Quantum Chemistry, July 2-5, 1991 - correspondence, program, and Jerome A. Berson lecture abstract, 1989-1991.
Box 32 Folder 5
Merck 1991 - "Concepts and Techniques in the Elucidation of Reaction Mechanisms," January 24-25, 1991 (Includes Jerome A. Berson short course notes.), 1991.
Box 32 Folder 6
Merck Lectures - notes, transparencies, and answers to problems, 1991.
Box 32 Folder 7
Wasserman, Harry - birthday symposium with remarks by Jerome A. Berson, 1991.
Box 32 Folder 8a
Yale University - Berson Lectures, 1993-2008.
Box 32 Folder 8b
Pople, John A. - Kirkwood Medal - remarks by Jerome A. Berson at presentation, 1994.
Box 32 Folder 9
8th IUPAC (International Union of Pure and Applied Chemistry) Conference on Physical-Organic Chemistry, Tokyo, Japan, August 27-29, 1986, 1986.
Box 32 Folder 10
6th Annual William S. Johnson Symposium, Stanford University, October 11-12, 1991, 1991.
Box 32 Folder 11
Taipei, Taiwan, 1995.
Box 32 Folder 12
Lausanne, Switzerland - includes short course on reaction mechanisms given by Jerome A. Berson, 1996.
Box 32 Folder 13
Center for Photochemical Sciences - Annual Board Meeting, 1991.
Box 32 Folder 14
Lausanne, Switzerland - correspondence, re: a visit and a short course, 1991.
Box 32 Folder 15
Gordon Reach Conference on Physical Organic Chemistry - correspondence and program, 1997.
Box 32 Folder 16
Jerusalem - Hebrew University of Jerusalem - correspondence, re: Jerome A. Berson's visit and lectures, 1996-1997.
Box 32 Folder 17
Telluride (Summer Research Center) - "Radicals in the Rockies II" - correspondence, 1996.
Box 32 Folder 18
Roald Hoffmann Symposium - 60th Birthday Symposium, Ithaca, New York, includes correspondence, 1997.
Box 32 Folder 19
Ken Wiberg Symposium - lecture slides, 1997.
Box 32 Folder 20
Gassman Lecturer, University of Minnesota, October 13-17, 1997, 1997.
Box 32 Folder 21
Oesper Award Banquet Symposium - correspondence, 1998.
Box 32 Folder 22
Ted (Theodore) Cohen Symposium - correspondence, Jerome A. Berson lecture and slides, 1999.
Box 32 Folder 23
28th Reaction Mechanism Conference, Madison, Wisconsin, June 24-29, 2000, 2000.
Box 32 Folder 24
Literaturpreis 2000 - Literature Award of the German Chemical Industry, Berlin, 2000.
Box 32 Folder 25
Gordon 2000 - otherwise unidentified presentation, 2000.
Box 32 Folder 26
ISH Lecture - "The Illogic of Scientific Discovery", 2001.
Box 32 Folder 27
USC (University of Southern California) 2001 - "The Illogic of Scientific Discovery", 2001.
Box 32 Folder 28
Brandeis Talk, March 18, 2002, 2002.
Box 32 Folder 29
University of Colorado Lecture Series: "The Dynamics of Discovery" (Correspondence only.), August 12-23, 2002, 2002.
Box 32 Folder 30
University of Alabama, November 7, 2002 (Correspondence only.), 2002.
Box 32 Folder 31
NYU (New York University)/Schuster - David I Schuster Symposium talk "The Illogic of Scientific Research," February 13, 2003, 2003.
Box 32 Folder 32
Publishing Day Talk, May 6, 2003, 2003.
Box 32 Folder 33
Rutgers University, September 22, 2003 (Correspondence only.), 2003.
Box 32 Folder 34
ISRIUM (International Symposium on Reactive Intermediates and Unusual Molecules) 2003 - correspondence and notes, re: a declined invitation, 2003.
Box 32 Folder 35
"Circulating Knowledge," Fifth British-North American Joint Meeting of the BSHS, CSHPS and HSS, Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada, August 5-7, 2004, 2004.
Box 32 Folder 36
"Experiment and Theory in Modern Organic Chemistry: Symposium in Honor of the 80th Birthday of Jerome A. Berson," Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, August 25, 2004, 2004.
Box 32 Folder 37
Princeton University, October 7, 2004 (correspondence, and opening and closing remarks.), 2004.
Box 32 Folder 38
George S. Hammond Symposium, Bowling Green State University, April 21, 2006, 2006.
Box 32 Folder 39
IPSC, San Francisco, California August 6, 2007 (Includes draft version of Jerome A. Berson talk and correspondence.), 2007.
Box 32 Folder 40
33rd Reaction Mechanisms Conference, Amherst, Massachusetts, June 23-26, 2010, 2010.
Box 32 Folder 41
General Note

Jerome A. Berson did not present, but many of his former colleagues did, and signed his copy of the Program and Book of Abstracts.

General Note

Arranged chronologically by year, this series contains Jerome A. Berson's course files. These files concern some of the chemistry courses taught by Berson. The bulk of the files in this series concern courses taught by Berson at Yale University. Two files concerning courses taught by Berson at the University of Southern California are also present here.

The contents of these files include homework reports, study problems, and other miscellaneous materials.

University of Southern California - CHEM 641, undated.
Box 33 Folder 1a
University of Southern California - CHEM 523L - "homework" reports, 1951.
Box 33 Folder 1b
University of Southern California - CHEM 528 - Natural Resources, 1951-1953.
Box 33 Folder 2
Yale University - CHEM 29L, 1971-1972.
Box 33 Folder 3
Yale University - CHEM 521, Fall 1979, 1979.
Box 33 Folder 4
Yale University - Group Seminar, 1979-1993.
Box 33 Folder 5
Yale University - CHEM 420/520, 1982-1983.
Box 33 Folder 6
Yale University - CHEM 125, 1985-1988.
Box 33 Folder 7
Yale University - CHEM 420/520, 1986-1989.
Box 33 Folder 8
Yale University - CHEM 567 - "Reaction Mechanisms and Characterization of Reactive Intermediates", 1987.
Box 33 Folder 9
Yale University - CHEM 420/520, 1990-1993.
Box 33 Folder 10
Yale University - CHEM 420/520 - Study Problems, 1990.
Box 33 Folder 11
Yale University - CHEM 420/520, 1992-1993.
Box 33 Folder 12a
Yale University - CHEM 420/520b, 1992-1993.
Box 33 Folder 12b
Yale University - CHEM 225, 1993-1994.
Box 33 Folder 13

General Note

Arranged chronologically by year, this series contains Jerome A. Berson's academic files. These files document Berson's non-research activities at the University of Southern California, the University of Wisconsin-Madison, and Yale University. Activities documented in these files include his involvement with various university committees and miscellaneous administrative matters. The bulk of the files in this series concern Berson's non-research activities at Yale. Single files regarding his non-research activities at USC and Wisconsin-Madison are also present here.

The contents of the Academic Career files consist of a variety of materials, including, but not limited to, correspondence, reports, and minutes.

University of Southern California - Laboratory Schedules and Procedures, 1953-1961.
Box 34 Folder 1
University of Wisconsin - Selective Service "Channeling" and the Draft, 1967.
Box 34 Folder 2
Yale University - Jerome A. Berson Hiring, 1967-1969.
Box 34 Folder 3
Yale University - Jerome A. Berson Move (University of Wisconsin to Yale University), 1967-1969.
Box 34 Folder 4a
Yale University - Sterling Chemistry Lab Rooms, 208 and 209 "as is" plan, 1968.
Box 34 Folder 4b
Yale University - Burglary of Jerome A. Berson Residence, 1969.
Box 34 Folder 5
Yale University - Post-Doc Procedures, 1969.
Box 34 Folder 6
Yale University - Branford College - "Master's Teas" Lecture Program, 1969-1979.
Box 34 Folder 7
Yale University - Yale College Committee on the Course of Study - Report to the Faculty (Includes a resolution, re: impending trial of Black Panthers in New Haven.), 1970, 1971.
Box 34 Folder 8
Yale University - NSF (National Science Foundation) Committee on "Future Directions in Chemistry" - correspondence, data, and draft report, 1972.
Box 34 Folder 9
Yale University - Berson Group Community Operations and Safety, 1975 March.
Box 34 Folder 10
Yale University - Advisory Committee on the Physical Sciences - Minutes (Folder 1 of 2.), 1975-1990.
Box 34 Folder 11
Yale University - Advisory Committee on the Physical Sciences (Folder 2 of 2.), 1975-1990.
Box 34 Folder 12
Yale University - Committee on Chemical Carcinogens: "Tentative Guidelines for the Handling of Carcinogenic Chemicals", 1977.
Box 34 Folder 13
Related Materials

See also Box 28 Folders 8a and 8b.

Yale University - Committee for Junior Faculty Fellowships, 1981.
Box 34 Folder 14
Yale University - Committee on Divisional Structure of Engineering and Applied Science, 1988-1989.
Box 34 Folder 15
Yale University - Committee on Physics and Engineering - Ten Year Plan, 1989-1991.
Box 34 Folder 16
Yale University - Committee on Appointments and Procedures 1990, 1989-1991.
Box 34 Folder 17
Yale University - Committee on Governance - Report to the Faculty, 1992.
Box 34 Folder 18
Yale University - Committee on Physics and Engineering - Visiting Committee (to Caltech), 1991-1992.
Box 34 Folder 19
Yale University - Committee on Governance - correspondence and minutes, 1991-1993.
Box 34 Folder 20
Yale University - Jerome A. Berson's notes on a meeting held, re: establishing a Dean of FAS (Faculty of Arts and Sciences), 1992.
Box 34 Folder 21
Yale University - Committee on Governance - correspondence and memos, 1992.
Box 34 Folder 22
Yale University - Committee on Governance - 1993 Report, 1992-1993.
Box 34 Folder 23
Yale University - Graduate School Campaign Steering Committee, 1994, 1996.
Box 34 Folder 24

Series Description

Arranged chronologically by year, this series contains Jerome A. Berson's awards and nominations files. These files concern several science awards. A majority of the files in this series concern Berson's nominations in support of other scientists for various awards. A few files concerning awards Berson himself was nominated for or was a recipient of, including the James Flack Norris Award, the Nichols Medal, and the Arthur C. Cope Award, are also preserved here.

The contents of these files include nominations and correspondence.

Bergman, Robert G. - award nominations and Jerome A. Berson recommendations, 1963-1993.
Box 35 Folder 1
James Flack Norris Award - correspondence, re: institution of award, 1964-1965.
Box 35 Folder 2
James Flack Norris Award - correspondence, re: award to Jerome A. Berson, 1977-1978.
Box 35 Folder 3
Roger Adams Award - correspondence, re: Jerome A. Berson's nomination of William E. Doering, 1967.
Box 35 Folder 4
HEW (U.S. Department of Health, Education, and Welfare) Public Health Service/NIH (National Institutes of Health) Service Certificate to Jerome A. Berson, undated.
Box 35 Folder 5
MCA College Chemistry Teacher Award - in support of Harry Wasserman, 1971-1972.
Box 35 Folder 6
Roger Adams Award/Cope Award - in support of R.B. Woodward and R. Hoffmann, 1972-2008.
Box 35 Folder 7
Norris Award - in support of Ken Wiberg, 1973.
Box 35 Folder 8
National Academy of Sciences - Nomination of Sidney W. Benson, 1976-1977.
Box 35 Folder 9
Connecticut Academy of Science and Engineering - correspondence, re: membership matters, 1976-1999.
Box 35 Folder 10
Japan Society for the Promotion of Science - JSPS Professorship for Jerome A. Berson, 1977-1978.
Box 35 Folder 11
ACS (American Chemical Society) Award for Creative Work in Synthetic Organic Chemistry - in support of Emmanuel Vogel, 1978-1979.
Box 35 Folder 12
Humboldt Foundation - U.S. Distinguished Scientist Award to Jerome A. Berson, 1980-1986.
Box 35 Folder 13
Nichols Medal - correspondence, re: award to Jerome A. Berson, 1984.
Box 34 Folder 14
Nichols Medal - in support of Peter Dervan, 1994.
Box 35 Folder 15
ACS (American Chemical Society) Award for Creative Work in Organic Chemistry - in support of Samuel J. Danishevsky, 1985.
Box 35 Folder 16
Nichols Medal - in support of Samuel J. Danishevsky, 1986-1992.
Box 35 Folder 17
Welsh Award - in support of Samuel J. Danishevsky, 1987-1990.
Box 35 Folder 18
Cope Award - in support of Samuel J. Danishevsky, 1988.
Box 35 Folder 19
Claude S. Hudson Award in Carbohydrate Chemistry - in support of Samuel J. Danishevsky, 1988.
Box 35 Folder 20
ACS (American Chemical Society) Roger Adams Award - correspondence re: award to Jerome A. Berson, 1987.
Box 35 Folder 21
Norris Award - in support of Kurt Mislow, 1989.
Box 35 Folder 22
Wolf Foundation - Wolf Prize in Chemistry - nomination of Jerome A. Berson, 1990.
Box 35 Folder 23
Welsh Award - nomination of Jerome A. Berson, 1990-1997.
Box 35 Folder 24
ACS (American Chemical Society) Cope Scholar Award - Jerome A. Berson was a grant recipient, 1991-1996.
Box 35 Folder 25
National Medal of Science - in support of Marye Anne Fox, 1996.
Box 35 Folder 26
National Academy of Sciences - nomination of Martin Saunders, 1996.
Box 35 Folder 27
Cope Award - in support of Marc M. Greenberg, 1998-2001.
Box 35 Folder 28
Cope Award - in support of Weston Thatcher Borden, 1998.
Box 35 Folder 29

Series Description

This series contains Jerome A. Berson's correspondence files. The contents of the Correspondence files are arranged into the following two sub-series:

  1. Chronological Correspondence
  2. Topical Correspondence
Sub-series Description

Arranged chronologically by year, this sub-series contains Jerome A. Berson's chronological correspondence files from 1952 to 2006.

Chronological Correspondence, 1952.
Box 36 Folder 1
Chronological Correspondence, 1953.
Box 36 Folder 2
Chronological Correspondence, 1954.
Box 36 Folder 3
Chronological Correspondence, 1955.
Box 36 Folder 4
Chronological Correspondence, 1956.
Box 36 Folder 5
Chronological Correspondence, 1957.
Box 36 Folder 6
Chronological Correspondence, 1958.
Box 36 Folder 7
Chronological Correspondence, 1959.
Box 36 Folder 8
Chronological Correspondence, 1960.
Box 36 Folder 9
Chronological Correspondence, 1961.
Box 36 Folder 10
Chronological Correspondence, 1962.
Box 36 Folder 11
Chronological Correspondence, 1963.
Box 36 Folder 12
Chronological Correspondence, 1964.
Box 36 Folder 13
Chronological Correspondence, 1965.
Box 36 Folder 14
Chronological Correspondence, 1966.
Box 36 Folder 15
Chronological Correspondence, 1967.
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Chronological Correspondence, 1968.
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Chronological Correspondence, 1969.
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Chronological Correspondence, 1970.
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Chronological Correspondence, 1971.
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Chronological Correspondence, 1972.
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Chronological Correspondence, 1973.
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Chronological Correspondence, 1974.
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Chronological Correspondence, 1975.
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Chronological Correspondence, 1976.
Box 36 Folder 25
Chronological Correspondence, 1977.
Box 36 Folder 26
Chronological Correspondence, 1978.
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Chronological Correspondence, 1979.
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Chronological Correspondence, 1980.
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Chronological Correspondence, 1981.
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Chronological Correspondence, 1982.
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Chronological Correspondence, 1983.
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Chronological Correspondence (Includes material on nuclear disarmament and treatment of Soviet dissidents.), 1984.
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Chronological Correspondence, 1985.
Box 37 Folder 8
Chronological Correspondence, 1986.
Box 37 Folder 9
Chronological Correspondence, 1987.
Box 37 Folder 10
Chronological Correspondence, 1988-1991.
Box 37 Folder 11
Chronological Correspondence, 1990-1992.
Box 37 Folder 12
Chronological Correspondence, 1993-1995.
Box 37 Folder 13
Chronological Correspondence, 1996-1999.
Box 37 Folder 14
Chronological Correspondence, 1999-2006.
Box 37 Folder 15
Sub-series Description

Arranged alphabetically by subject, this sub-series contains Jerome A. Berson's topical correspondence files. These files concern several topics that were of interest to Berson. Files regarding the National Academy of Sciences' biographical memoirs of chemists make up the largest component of this sub-series. A few files containing Berson's correspondence with other chemists are also present in this sub-series. A handful of other miscellaneous topics, including, but not limited to, human rights and the Duesburg vs. Gallo HIV controversy are preserved here as well.

AFOSR (Air Force Office of Scientific Research), 1969-1973.
Box 37 Folder 16
Bader, Alfred (re: Josef Loschmidt), 2001.
Box 37 Folder 17
Brown-Winstein Non-Classical Ion Controversy, 1964-1970, 2001.
Box 37 Folder 18
Greenbaum, Michael A., 1956-1965.
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Hendrickson, James B., 2000-2001.
Box 37 Folder 20
Hoffmann, Roald (Includes short essay "Why a History of Chemistry" by Roald Hoffman.), 2001, 2004.
Box 37 Folder 21
Duesberg vs. Gallo on HIV and AIDS (Folder 1 of 2.), 1992-1995.
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Duesberg vs. Gallo (Folder 2 of 2.), 1992-1995.
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Human Rights (correspondence, re:), 1992-1999.
Box 37 Folder 24
Lang, Serge (correspondence, re: science and ethics), 1992-1999.
Box 37 Folder 25
NAS (National Academy of Sciences) Biographical Memoirs - general correspondence, 2000-2003.
Box 37 Folder 26
NAS (National Academy of Sciences) Biographical Memoirs - correspondence with authors, 2000-2001.
Box 37 Folder 27
NAS (National Academy of Sciences) Biographical Memoirs - correspondence, re: Herman Bloch, 2000.
Box 37 Folder 28
NAS (National Academy of Sciences) Biographical Memoirs - correspondence, re: Paul J. Flory, 2000.
Box 37 Folder 29
NAS (National Academy of Sciences) Biographical Memoirs - correspondence, re: Lewis H. Sarett, 2000.
Box 37 Folder 30
NAS (National Academy of Sciences) Biographical Memoirs - correspondence, re: Charles P. Smyth, 2000.
Box 37 Folder 31
NAS (National Academy of Sciences) Biographical Memoirs - correspondence, re: Henry Lord Wheeler, 2001.
Box 37 Folder 32
Parziale, Patti, 2001.
Box 37 Folder 33
Sommer, Toby J., 2000-2001.
Box 37 Folder 34

Series Description

Arranged alphabetically by subject and chronologically by date, this series contains Jerome A. Berson's biographical files. The materials preserved in these files summarize his life and professional career as a physical organic chemist.

The contents of the Biographical files consist of a variety of materials, including, but not limited to correspondence, Berson's graduate school class notes, biographical sketches, and curricula vitae.

Jerome A. Berson Class Notes (1)—CHEM 147 (Advanced Organic Chemistry) - Columbia University, Winter 1946 - Professor William von Eggers Doering, 1946.
Box 38 Folder 1a
Jerome A. Berson Class Notes (2) - CHEM 147 and CHEM 148, undated.
Box 38 Folder 1b
Jerome A. Berson Class Notes (3) - "Terpenes," Lectures by W. von E. Doering - Columbia University, undated.
Box 38 Folder 2
Jerome A. Berson Class Notes (4) - "Physical Organic Chemistry," lectures by L.P. Hammett, undated.
Box 38 Folder 3
Jerome A. Berson Class Notes (5) - "Chemical Physics," lectures by G.E. Kimball - University of Southern California, 1946.
Box 38 Folder 4
Jerome A. Berson Class Notes (6) - "Organic Chemistry III," Columbia University, undated.
Box 38 Folder 5
Jerome A. Berson Consultancy Agreement with Riker Laboratories, 1961.
Box 38 Folder 6
Jerome A. Berson Pocket Notebook, Conference on Carbonium Ions, Case Western Reserve University, Cleveland, Ohio, October 23-25, 1968 (Folder 1 of 2.), 1968.
Box 38 Folder 7
Jerome A. Berson Pocket Notebook (Folder 2 of 2.), 1968.
Box 38 Folder 8
NAS (National Academy of Sciences) - biographical sketches, curricula vitae, congratulatory messages, 1970-1990.
Box 38 Folder 9
NAS (National Academy of Sciences) - Jerome A. Berson's Election To, 1970-1971.
Box 38 Folder 10
Sabbatical Leave - 1974-1975 - correspondence, 1974.
Box 38 Folder 11
Fairchild Scholarship - correspondence, 1975.
Box 38 Folder 12
Triennial Leave - Spring 1978, 1981, 1984,1987, 1990 - correspondence and applications (Includes Jerome A. Berson's retirement.), 1976-1994.
Box 38 Folder 13
Autobiographical Sketch (For Modern Scientists and Engineers, McGraw-Hill, 1978.), 1978.
Box 38 Folder 14
Guggenheim Fellowship - correspondence and proposal, 1981.
Box 38 Folder 15
Sterling Professorship - correspondence, 1992.
Box 38 Folder 16
Students (of Jerome A. Berson) - lists of former students in industry and academia, 1994, undated.
Box 38 Folder 17
Jerome A. Berson Biographical Materials - includes a biography, curricula vitae, publications, etc., 2000.
Box 38 Folder 18
Chemical Heritage Foundation - correspondence, re: acceptance of Jerome A. Berson's papers, 2001-2003.
Box 38 Folder 19

Series Description

This series contains Jerome A. Berson's lecture slides

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Jerome A. Berson Lecture Slides, undated.
Box 39

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