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BOARD O F TRUSTEES

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of a stack of cured epoxy films and copper wire screens. The epoxy pre-punched film flows into the screens during cure to define the various channels. Since the four channels are thermally connected by all the screens, the lateral thermal conduction between all the channels is very high, making it possible for several separate gas streams flowing in one direction to simultaneously exchange heat very efficiently with a counterflowing gas stream. The Committee recommends that a patent application not be filed for this invention since the University department involved is of the opinion that the idea is not patentable. If no application is filed by the University, the rights to the invention, under the contract held with the sponsoring agency, vest with that agency. 11. Dialkoxydiarylsulfuranes — J. C. Martin, Professor of Chemistry, and R. J. Arhart, Research Assistant in Chemistry, Urbana, inventors; developed under the sponsorship of the National Science Foundation. The invention is a new type of sulfur compound containing tetracoordinate sulfur, specifically with two aryl ligands and two alkoxy ligands on sulfur. It is anticipated that these compounds will prove to be extremely useful in synthesis and that they have considerable promise as laboratory reagents or as intermediates or reagents in the manufacture of fine chemicals or drugs. The Committee recommends that a patent application not be filed for this invention since authoritative sources within the University department are of the opinion that the idea has little or no commercial possibility. If no application is filed by the University, the rights to the invention, under the contract held with the sponsoring agency, vest with that agency. I concur in these recommendations.

On motion of Mr. Neal, these recommendations were approved.

PURCHASE O F 1 21 2 WEST CALIFORNIA A V E N U E , URBANA

(34) The President of the University, with the concurrence of the appropriate administrative officers, recommends that the University of Illinois Foundation purchase the property at 1212 West California Avenue, Urbana, at a price of $100,000 and lease it to the University at a rental sufficient to pay the interest cost on a loan to the Foundation. The Foundation will hold the property until the University has funds for its acquisition. The property is located on the northeast corner of California and Mathews Avenues and is needed as a part of the site for the Medical Sciences Building. It consists of a lot, 69 feet by 120 feet (8,280 square feet), and is improved with a one-story commercial building and parking lot.

On motion of Mr. Grimes, this recommendation was approved by the following vote: Aye, Mr. Forsyth, Mr. Grimes, Mr. Hahn, Mr. Howard, Mr. Hughes, Mr. Neal, Mr. Pogue, Mr. Steger, Mr. Swain; no, none; absent, Dr. Bakalis, Governor Ogilvie.

ACQUISITION OF PROPERTY. URBANA

(35) The University of Illinois Foundation, at the request of the Board of Trustees, has acquired a number of properties which are required for University expansion at the Urbana-Champaign campus. In 1965 the Foundation acquired the Cruse Farm at a cost of approximately $3,050 per acre. The President of the University, with the concurrence of appropriate administrative officers, recommends that authority be given to acquire from the Foundation the south portion of the Cruse Farm at a cost of $3,050 per acre to the extent that funds are available but not to exceed $183,814. The Cruse Farm is described as: All of that part of Section Twenty-Five (25), Township Nineteen (19) North, Range Eight (8) East of the Third Principal Meridian, lying East of the Easterly Right-of-Way line of the Illinois Central Railroad, situated in the County of Champaign and State of Illinois. Funds are available in state capital appropriations to the University and have been released by the Governor.

On motion of Mr. Steger, the purchase of this property at the price indicated was authorized by the following vote: Aye, Mr. Forsyth, Mr.