Mahalo

We express our greatest appreciation and thanks to the funding agencies

and foundations that have supported our research:

American Chemical Society - Petroleum Research Fund

Research Corporation

National Science Foundation - RUI

National Science Foundation - MRI

Connecticut Innovations Program

Sherman Fairchild Foundation

International Centre for Diffraction Data

Keck Foundation

Pfizer, Inc.

We are also very grateful to Professor Steve Suib of the University of Connecticut,

who has generously given us access to his laboratory instrumentation.