I would like to thank Dan Falconer for always being a good sport to bounce ideas off of.Rupendrea Mukerjea was a great laboratory supervisor who was very knowledgeable. I would like to thank Dr. John Robyt for taking me on in his lab. I am grateful for Richard Honzatko for taking me under his supervision when health issues resulted in the lab disintegrating. I am indebted to the Iowa State Chemistry Department and Dr. Jesudoss Kingston for hiring me and promoting me so I would have a job, but one that did not involve freshman my second semester teaching. And lastly, I would like to thank the "Honorable" Representative Larry Sheets for being a thorn in my side for the last 24 years.