National Organic Symposium (NOS)

Background/History

The National Organic Chemistry Symposium is the premier event sponsored by the Division of Organic Chemistry of the American Chemical Society to highlight recent advances in organic chemistry. The 40th Symposium (June 2007 at Duke University) consisted of 13 invited speakers, plus the 2007 Roger Adams Awardee. The lectures are typically presented during morning and evening sessions. The goal of the symposium is to present a distinguished roster of speakers that represents the current status of the field of organic chemistry, in terms of breadth and creative advances.

The First National Symposium on Organic Chemistry was held in Rochester, N. Y., December 29 to 31, 1925, under the auspices of the Rochester Section and the Division of Organic Chemistry of the AMERICAN CHEMICAL SOCIETY.

The Second National Symposium on Organic Chemistry was held in Columbus, Ohio, December 29 to 31, 1927.

Pictures from the 2007, 40th NOS

Recent NOS Meetings

40th National Organic Symposium
June 3-7, 2007, Duke Univ.
Symposium Executive Officer: P. Andrew Evans
Local Organizer: Ross A. Widenhoefer
Speakers:
Samuel J. Danishefsky (Columbia) (Roger Adams Award)
E. J. Corey (Harvard Univ.
Scott E. Denmark (Univ. of Illinois at Urbana Champaign)
Ben L. Feringa (Univ. of Groningen)
Tohru Fukuyama (Univ. of Tokyo)
David R. Liu (Harvard Univ.)
Bruce D. Roth (Genentech)
Eric J. Sorensen (Princeton Univ.)
J. Fraser Stoddart (Univ. of California at Los Angeles)
Brian M. Stoltz (California Institute of Technology)
Joanne Stubbe (Massachusetts Institute of Technology)
F. Dean Toste (Univ. of California, Berkeley)
Barry M. Trost (Stanford Univ.)
Karen L. Wooley (Washington Univ. in St. Louis)
Attendees: 912 Posters: 364

39th National Organic Symposium
June 12-16, 2005, Univ. of Utah, Salt Lake City
Symposium Executive Officer: Ahmed F. Abdel-Magid
Local Organizers: Jon Rainier
Speakers:
Jerrold Meinwald (Cornell) (Roger Adams Award)
Stephen Buchwald (Massachusetts Institute of Technology)
Justin Du Bois (Stanford Univ.)
Reza Ghadiri (The Scripps Research Institute)
John T. Groves (Princeton Univ.)
Steven Ley (Univ. of Cambridge)
Bruce Maryanoff (Johnson & Johnson PRD)
Jeff Moore (Univ. of Illinois at Urbana Champaign)
K. C. Nicolaou (The Scripps Research Institute)
Alanna Schepartz (Yale Univ.)
Matt Sigman (Univ. of Utah)
Amos Smith (Univ. of Pennsylvania)
Skip Volante (Merck)
Dan Yang (Univ. of Hong Kong)
Attendees: 1014 Posters: 440

38th National Organic Symposium
June 8-12, 2003, Indiana Univ. Bloomington
Symposium Executive Officer: Huw M. L. Davies
Local Organizers: J. J. Gajewski and M. J. Martinelli
Speakers:
Eschenmoser, Albert (ETH, Zurich) (Roger Adams Award)
Blackmond, Donna G. (Hull, UK)
Breslow, Ronald (Columbia Univ.)
Delaney, Edward (Bristol Myers-Squibb)
Evans, David A. (Harvard Univ.)
Kiessling, Laura L. (Univ. of Wisconsin)
Kool, Eric T. (Stanford Univ.)
Leighton, James L. (Columbia Univ.)
MacMillan, David W. C. (California Institute of Technology)
Overman, Larry E. (Univ. of California, Irvine)
Schultz, Peter G. (Scripps Research Institute)
Shair, Matthew D. (Harvard Univ.)
Swager, Timothy M. (Massachusetts Institute of Technology)
Wood, John L. (Yale Univ.)
Attendees: 1081 Posters: 460

37th National Organic Symposium
June 10-14, 2001, Montana State Univ., Bozeman, Montana
Symposium Executive Officer: Gary Molander
Local Organizer: Cynthia K. McClure
Speakers:
Noyori, Ryoji (Nagoya U) (Roger Adams Award)
Bertozzi, Carolyn R. (Univ. of California, Berkeley)
Evans, P. Andrew (Indiana Univ.)
Fürstner, Alois (Max-Plank Inst. für Kohlenforsschung)
Hartwig, John (Yale Univ.)
Johnson, Carl R. (Wayne State Univ.)
Kelly, Jeffery W. (The Scripps Research Institute)
Lipshutz, Bruce H. (Univ. of California, Santa Barbara)
Meinwald, Jerrold (Cornell Univ.)
Michl, Josef (Univ. of Colorado at Boulder)
Negishi, Ei-ichi (Purdue Univ.)
Reetz, Manfred (Max-Plank Inst. für Kohlenforsschung)
Stang, Peter (Univ. of Utah)
Sulikowski, Gary (Texas A&M)
Attendees: XXXX Posters: 241

36th National Organic Symposium
June XX-XX, 1999, Univ. of Wisconsin, Madison
Symposium Executive Officer: Steven D. Burke
Speakers:
Seebach, Dieter (ETH, Zurich) (Roger Adams Award)
Corey, Elias J. (Harvard Univ.)
Dewitt, S. (Orchid Biocomputer)
Fu, Gregory (Massachusetts Institute of Technology)
Gellman, S. (Univ. of Wisconsin)
Grubbs, R. (California Institute of Technology)
Hirschmann, R. (Univ. of Pennsylvania)
Khosla, C. (Stanford Univ.)
Moore, J. (Univ. of Illinois at Urbana Champaign)
Petsko, G. (Brandeis Univ.)
Schreiber, S. (Harvard Univ.)
Shibasaki, M. (Univ. of Tokyo)
Singleton, D. (Texas A&M)
Attendees: 900 Posters: 322

35th National Organic Symposium
June 22-26, 1997, Trinity Univ., San Antonio, Texas
Symposium Executive Officer: James H. Rigby
Local Organizers: M. P. Doyle, N. S. Mills, B. F. Plummer and R. E. Lyle
Speakers:
Sharpless, K. Barry (Scripps) (Roger Adams Award)
Barton, Jacqueline (California Institute of Technology)
Brookhart, Maurice (Univ. of North Carolina, Chapel Hill)
Danishefsky, Samuel (Columbia Univ.)
Davis, Franklin (Temple Univ.)
Ellman, Jonathan (Univ. of California, Berkeley)
Eschenmoser, Albert (ETH, Zurich)
Meyers, Albert I. (Colorado State Univ.)
Porter, Ned (Duke Univ.)
Reider, Paul (Merck)
Seeman, Jeffrey I. (Philip Morris)
Still, W. Clark (Columbia Univ.)
Wong, Chi Huey (The Scripps Research Institute)
Attendees: 939 Posters: 349

34th National Organic Symposium
June 11-15, 1995 The College of William and Mary, Williamsburg, Virginia
Symposium Executive Officer: Thomas R. Hoye
Local Organizer: Christopher J. Abelt
Speakers:
Trost, Barry M. (Stanford) (Roger Adams Award)
Boger, Dale (Scripps)
Buchwald, Stephen L. (Massachusetts Institute of Technology)
Evans, David A. (Harvard Univ.)
Fox, Mary Ann (Univ. of Texas at Austin)
Jacobsen, Eric (Harvard Univ.)
Jorgensen, William L. (Yale Univ.)
Platz, Mathew S. (Ohio State Univ.)
Roberts, John D. (California Institute for Technology)
Schepartz, Alanna (Yale Univ.)
Shinkai, Ichiro (Merck)
Smith, Amos, B., III (Univ. of Pennsylvania)
Stoddart, J. Fraser (Univ. of Birmingham)
Attendees: XXXX Posters: 289

33rd National Organic Symposium
June 13-17, 1993, Montana State Univ., Bozeman, Montana
Symposium Executive Officer: Amos B. Smith, III
Local Organizers: W. Jennings and A. Craig
Speakers:
Corey, Elias J. (Harvard) (Roger Adams Award)
Burrows, Cynthia J. (SUNY, Stony Brook)
Hegedus, Louis, S. (CSU)
Kishi, Yoshito (Harvard Univ.)
Lehn, Jean-Marie (Université Louis Pasteur, France)
Myers, Andrew G. (California Institute of Technology)
Overmann, Larry, E. (Univ. of California, Irvine)
Schreiber, Stuart L. (Harvard Univ.)
Tomalia, Donald A. (Michigan Molecular Institute)
Walsh, Christopher T. (Harvard Medical School)
White, James D. (Oregon State Univ.)
Wudl, Fred (Univ. of California, Santa Barbara)
Attendees: XXXX Posters: 272

32nd National Organic Symposium
June 16-20, 1991, Univ. of Minnesota, Minneapolis, Minnesota
Symposium Executive Officer: Frank B. Mallory
Local Organizers: Paul Gassman, Thomas Hoye and Scott Rychnovsky
Speakers:
Stork, Gilbert J. (Columbia) (Roger Adams Award)
Curran, Dennis P. (Univ. of Pittsburgh)
Dervan, Peter B. (California Institute of Technology)
Dougherty, Dennis A. (California Institute of Technology)
Eaton, Philip E. (Univ. of Chicago)
Grubbs, Robert H. (California Institute of Technology)
Houk, Kendall N. (Univ. of California at Los Angeles)
Meinwald, Jerrold (Cornell Univ.)
Seebach, Dieter (ETH, Zurich)
Sharpless, K. Barry (The Scripps Research Institute)
Wender, Paul A. (Stanford Univ.)
Attendees: 903 Posters: 158

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Secretary-Treasurer, Organic Division, ACS

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