Newsletter No. 57

CUHK NEWSLETTER Project Title C U HK Investigator(s) Amo u nt App r o v ed (HK$ m i l l i on) 72. Axon guidance in the development of mammalian retinofugal pathways Dr. S.O. Chan Dr. W.H. Yung 1.540 73. Expression studies of the murine Tlx genes during development and disruption of these genes in the embryonic stem cells Dr. S.H. Chung Cheng 0.633 74. To investigate the structural basis for the carrier specificity of anti-phosphorylcholine antibodies Dr. P.L. Lim Dr. Y.L . Chui 0.543 Ph y s i c al Sciences 75. Regiospecific conversion of 3, 4-Bis (trimethylsilyl) furan to 2, 3-Disubstituted, 2, 4-Disubstituted, 2, 3, 4-Trisubstituted, and 2, 3, 5-Trisubstituted furans Dr. N.C. Wong 0.417 76. Laser light scattering study of polyelectrolytes in solution Dr. C Wu 0.441 77. Determination of transition-silyl bond dissociation energies Dr. K.S. Chan 0.433 78. Synthesis and physical properties of novel polymeric materials: Monodisperse, homochiral starburst dendrimers Dr. H.F Chow 0.573 79. Synthetic studies on quassinoids: Syntheses of optically active simalikalactone D and Quassinmarin Dr. T.K.M. Shing 0.433 80. Surface passivation of InP and related semiconductors by polysulphides Dr. R.W.M. Kwok Dr. J.S.P. Wong Dr. G.K.C. Hui 0.403 81. Synthesis and reactivities of N-functionalized and sterically hindered metal alkyl complexes Dr. K.W.P. Leung Prof. T.C.W. Mak 0.383 82. Synthesis of poly(biphenylenes): Conjugated polymers containing antiaromatic 12 π -Electron units Dr. M.K. Leung 0.573 83. Specific volumes and glass formation of metallic systems Dr. H.W. Kui 0.640 84. Development of magnetic methods for the non-destructive inspection of steel structures Dr. D.H.L. Ng Dr. H.W. Kui 0.560 85. Synthesis, structures and properties of binuclear and polynuclear complexes Prof. T.C.W. Mak 0.659 86. Application of preorganized second coordination sphere ligands to the synthesis of cobalt containing coordination polymers 一 structure-reactivity relationship between geometrical isomers and 3D polymers Dr. S.C.F. Au Yeung 0.573 Pu re M a t h e m a t i cs 87. Crossed products: HOPF algebras and their applications Dr. K.P. Shum 0.303 88. Nonlinear functional analysis and applications Dr. K.F. Ng Dr. Y.C. Wong 0.323 89. Harmonic maps between Hadamard surfaces and universal Teichm ü ller space, function theory and structures of complete manifolds Dr. T.Y.H. Wan Dr. L.F. Tam Dr. K.K. Au 0.526 90. Invariants and classification of compact strongly pseudoconvex CR manifolds Dr. H.S. Luk 0.323 91. Harmonic functions on nonpositively curved manifolds Prof. S.Y. Cheng 0.329 NO.57 AUGUST 1994 8