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Acknowledgments We gratefully acknowledge the generous sup-
port of the National Science Foundation—Undergraduate Research
Center program: CHE-0532242 ‘‘The Northern Plains Undergraduate
Research Center (NPURC),’’ NASA Space Grant NGT5-40042, and
Augustana College and its Augustana Research and Artists Fund grant
program (ARAF). We also acknowledge the NPURC collaborative
electrospray MS work by Jason Reynolds and Miles Koppang (Univ.
S.D.). Adogen 343 was graciously supplied by Witco Chemical Corp.
(now Chemtura, Greenwich, CT). This material is also based upon
work supported by the National Science Foundation/EPSCoR Grant
No. 0903804 and by the State of South Dakota (in particular, the
NMR was purchased by this grant).
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Duane E. Weisshaar holds a B.A. degree in chemistry from Western
State College of Colorado (Gunnison, Colorado), a M.Sc. degree from
the University of Kansas (Lawrence, Kansas), and a Ph.D. in
analytical chemistry from North Dakota State University (Fargo,
North Dakota). He is currently professor of chemistry at Augustana
College and has conducted postdoctoral research at Ohio State
(Columbus, Ohio) and the Ames Laboratories (Ames, Iowa).
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Gary W. Earl holds a B.A. degree in chemistry from Augustana
College (Sioux Falls, South Dakota) and a Ph.D. in organic chemistry
from Purdue University (West Lafayette, Indiana). He was associate
professor at Capital University (Columbus, Ohio), spent 15 years with
the Chemical Products Division of Ashland Chemicals and Sherex
Chemical, and currently is Professor Emeritus of Chemistry, Augus-
tana College.
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Michael W. Amolins holds a B.A. degree in chemistry from
Augustana College (Sioux Falls, South Dakota) and a M.Sc. in
medicinal chemistry from Kansas University (Lawrence, Kansas). He
is currently employed as a chemistry teacher at Harrisburg High
School, Harrisburg, South Dakota.
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