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Cheves Walling papers, 1938-1992

Overview of the Collection

Creator
Walling, Cheves, 1916-
Title
Cheves Walling papers
Dates
1938-1992 (inclusive)
Quantity
70 linear feet
Collection Number
ACCN 1236
Summary
The Cheves Walling papers (1938-1992) contain documents relating to Walling's experiences as a professor of chemistry at University of Utah, a researcher, a writer, and an administrator. Personal and professional correspondence, lecture materials, grants, proposals, editorial material for the Journal of the American Chemical Society, symposium proceedings, letters of recommendation, referee reports, and research files are included. Student applications, drafts, published articles, manuscripts, minutes, consulting records, theses, travel records, day books, awards, and interviews are also included. Cheves Walling has been acknowledged as one of the world's foremost authorities on free-radical chemistry.
Repository
University of Utah Libraries, Special Collections
Special Collections, J. Willard Marriott Library
University of Utah
295 South 1500 East
Salt Lake City, UT
84112-0860

Telephone: 8015818863
special@library.utah.edu
Access Restrictions

Twenty-four hour advanced notice encouraged. Materials must be used on-site. Access to parts of this collection may be restricted under provisions of state or federal law.

Languages
English
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Historical Note

Cheves Walling was born in 1916 to a Chicago banking family. After receiving a B.A. degree from Harvard in 1937, he decided to pursue graduate studies in chemistry at the University of Chicago. He received his Ph.D. under Morris Kharasch in 1939. Those were exciting times because the Kharasch group had just discovered the free-radical mechanism for anti-Markovnikov addition to alkenes. Thus, Walling performed key mechanistic work on the problem for his thesis and helped establish what is now routinely described in every textbook on organic chemistry. In 1940, he married Jane Ann Wilson, and they now have five children. During World War II he worked first for the DuPont Company and then for U.S. Rubber Company, with Frank Mayo helping develop the synthetic rubber industry. This collaboration with Mayo led to a couple of papers which were the first to point out that free-radical reactions can be subject to inductive polar effects. He finished his industrial career with three years at Lever Brothers Company. Then, in 1952 he joined the Chemistry Department at Columbia University as Professor of Organic Chemistry. He served as Department Chairman from 1963-1966. In 1970, he moved to the University of Utah as Distinguished Professor of Chemistry, where he taught until he retired in 1991.

See the biography on Walling by Peter Wagner in the 1982 Journal of the American Chemical Society for further information.

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Content Description

The Cheves Walling papers (1938-1992) is loosely arranged into seven sections. The first section, boxes 1-20, contains correspondence including letters of recommendation that he wrote for students, and referee reports that he wrote at the request of various chemistry journals. Other correspondence is interspersed throughout the collection when Walling associated the correspondence more with a particular topic than with general correspondence. Also, most of Walling's own file names were used in labeling the folders. This accounts for the fact that there are several different types of correspondence which don't read very differently. The second section, boxes 21-26, contains work related to his academic career at Columbia University and the University of Utah. This includes files on his graduate students and post doctoral researchers, and his lecture notes for the courses he taught. The next six boxes, section three, house Walling's writings. Section four, boxes 33-50, is comprised of information regarding the various committees, associations, societies, councils, academies, conferences, seminars, and symposiums with which Walling was involved. Section five, boxes 51-54, contain Walling's industrial and consulting work. Section six, boxes 55-60, contains miscellaneous material. The final and largest section, boxes 61-145, contains material relating to the Journal of the American Chemical Society.

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Use of the Collection

Restrictions on Use

The library does not claim to control copyright for all materials in the collection. An individual depicted in a reproduction has privacy rights as outlined in Title 45 CFR, part 46 (Protection of Human Subjects). For further information, please review the J. Willard Marriott Library's Use Agreement and Reproduction Request forms.

Preferred Citation

Collection Name, Collection Number, Box Number, Folder Number. Special Collections, J. Willard Marriott Library, The University of Utah.

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Administrative Information

Acquisition Information

Gift of Cheves Walling.

Processing Note

Processed by Manuscripts Division staff.

Separated Materials

Photographs were transferred to the Multimedia Division of Special Collections (P0534).

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Detailed Description of the Collection

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Subject Terms

  • Chemistry, Organic
  • Chemistry--Study and teaching (Higher)--Utah

Personal Names

  • Walling, Cheves, 1916---Archives

Corporate Names

  • Journal of the American Chemical Society--Records and correspondence
  • University of Utah--Faculty

Form or Genre Terms

  • Correspondence
  • Reprints
  • Syllabi

Finding aid created by Manuscripts Division staff.
2007 (last modified: 2019)

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