The 2020 Cope Award goes to Dennis Dougherty

Posted: August 29, 2019

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The ACS Organic Division would like to congratulate the latest National Award Winners including the 2020 Arthur C. Cope Award winner Dennis A. Dougherty from the California Institute of Technology Professor Dougherty will Present his award address at the Fall 2020, ACS National Meeting held August 16-20 in San Francisco, CA More 2020 ACS National …

UCLA’S Neil Garg Selected as 2019 Leete Awardee

Posted: July 19, 2019

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The ACS Division of Organic Chemistry is pleased to announce that the 2019 Leete Award has been bestowed upon Neil Garg, the Kenneth N. Trueblood Endowed Professor and Chair of the Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry at the University of California, Los Angeles. Established in 1995, the Leete Award recognizes outstanding contributions to teaching and …

2019 Edward Leete Award – Call for Nominations

Posted: March 28, 2019

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The Leete Award recognizes outstanding contributions to teaching and research in Organic Chemistry. Nominees must be members of the Organic Division of the American Chemical Society who have made outstanding contributions to both teaching and research. Teaching should be considered in the broadest sense, including of professional chemists, the dissemination of information about chemistry to prospective …

The 2019 Cope Award goes to Dieter Seebach

Posted: September 16, 2018

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The ACS Organic Division would like to congratulate the latest National Award Winners including the 2019 Arthur C. Cope Award winner Dieter Seebach from the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology (ETH), Zurich Professor Seebach will Present his award address at the Fall 2019, 258th ACS National Meeting held August 25-29 in San Diego, CA More …

2018 Gassman Award to Cynthia A. Maryanoff

Posted: May 31, 2018

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The ACS Division of Organic Chemistry has named Cynthia A. Maryanoff, Baruch S. Blumberg Institute Foundation Distinguished Professor and Pennsylvania Drug Discovery Institute Professor of Drug Delivery – the winner of the 2018 Paul G. Gassman Distinguished Service Award. The award was established in 1994 to recognize outstanding service to the organic chemistry community. Presented …

2017 Cope Symposium Photos Posted

Posted: October 31, 2017

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Photos from the 2017 Cope Awards Symposium are now available from the Arthur C. Cope Award page or the 2017 Cope Photos page

Professor Jeffrey Aubé is the 2017 Edward Leete Awardee

Posted: July 12, 2017

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The ACS Division of Organic Chemistry has named Jeffrey Aubé, Eshelman Distinguished Professor in the Division of Chemical Biology and Medicinal Chemistry at the University of North Carolina as the 2017 Edward Leete Awardee which recognizes outstanding contributions to teaching and research in Organic Chemistry. The award is named in honor of Edward Leete who, …

Organometallics Distinguished Author Award Lectureship

The annual Organometallics Distinguished Author Award recognizes the author of exceptional articles that are published in Organometallics. An article that emphasizes advance organometallic chemistry, profoundly impacts on organic and inorganic chemistry, and exhibits creativity and originality will be favorably reviewed.

Sponsorship of the Award:

The award is sponsored by Organometallics, the ACS Division of Organic Chemistry, and the ACS Division of Inorganic Chemistry.

Nature of the Award:

The awardee will receive an 1) an award plaque, 2) an honorarium of US $2,000, and 3) travel funds to attend and present at the ACS Fall National Meeting.

Eligibility:

Nominated articles must have been published in Organometallics within the current or previous calendar years.
Self-nominations and nominations of work authored by Organometallics Editors will not be accepted.
Co-authors are eligible to submit nominations.
Preference will be given to faculty and other investigators who are in the early phases of their independent careers.

Nominations and Additional Info:

See the 2026 Award Page (for publications in 2024 or 2025). The nomination deadline is December 31, 2025.

Recent Recipients:

2026 – Courtney C. Roberts, University of Twin Cities, Minnesota, USA. See the ACS Axial interview for more information.
2025 – Aleksandr V. Zhukhovitskiy, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, USA, for work including “Six-Membered Iridacycles with Five Nitrogen Atoms in the Ring“
2024 – Julia Khusnutdinova, Okinawa Institute of Science and Technology, Japan for work including “Photoinduced Perfluoroalkylation Mediated by Cobalt Complexes Supported by Naphthyridine Ligands”
2023 – Jesús Campos Manzano, University of Seville, Spain, for work on
“Metalla-Frustrated Lewis Pairs (FLPs), elegantly bridging late-transition-metal chemistry with main-group chemistry and catalysis for impactful developments in organic synthesis, Pub1, Pub2.”
2022 – Josep Cornella, Max Planck Institute for Kohlenforschung, for work including “Ni(^4-tBustb)₃: A Robust 16-Electron Ni(0) Olefin Complex for Catalysis“
2021 – Robert J. Gilliard, Jr., University of Virginia, for publications such as: “N-Heterocyclic Carbene-Mediated Ring Opening of Reduced Diazamagnesacycles ”
2020 – Viktoria H. Gessner, Ruhr University Bochum, for “Cooperative Bond Activation Reactions with Nickel and Palladium Carbene Complexes with a PCcarbeneS Pincer Ligand”
2019 – Ian Tonks, University of Minnesota, for “Generation of TiII Alkyne Trimerization Catalysts in the Absence of Strong Metal Reductants”
2018 – Tianning Diao, New York University, for “Nickel-Catalyzed Reductive Cycloisomerization of Enynes with CO2”
2017 – Alexander J. M. Miller, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, for “Modulating the Elementary Steps of Methanol Carbonylation by Bridging the Primary and Secondary Coordination Spheres”
2016 – Valentine P. Ananikov, Russian Academy of Sciences, for “Can We Predict the Future of Organometallic Chemistry?”

Organic Letters Outstanding Publication of the Year Lectureship Award

The annual Organic Letters Outstanding Publication of the Year Award Lectureship recognizes the author of an exceptional, creative, and impactful article that is published in Organic Letters.

Sponsorship of the Award:

The award is sponsored by Organic Letters and the ACS Division of Organic Chemistry.

Nature of the Award:

The awardee will receive an 1) an award plaque, 2) an honorarium of US $2,000, and 3) travel funds to attend and present at the ACS Fall National Meeting.

Eligibility:

Nominated articles must have been published in Organic Letters within the current or previous calendar years.
Self-nominations and nominations of work authored by Organic Letters Editors will not be accepted.
Co-authors are eligible to submit nominations.

Nominations and Additional Info:

See the 2026 Award Page (for publications in 2025). The nomination deadline is December 31, 2025. Visit the ACS Axial article for more information.

Recent Recipients:

2026 – Marvin Parasram and colleagues from New York University for “Merging Photoexcited Nitroarenes with Lewis Acid Catalysis for the Anti-Markovnikov Oxidation of Alkenes“. See also the ACS Axial interview with the winners.
2025 – Gabriel Schäfer and colleagues from Idorsia Pharmaceuticals and the University of Oxford for “Sandmeyer Chlorosulfonylation of (Hetero)Aromatic Amines Using DABSO as an SO2 Surrogate”. See also the ACS Axial interview with the winners.
2024 – Cheng-yi Chen and Zhichao Lu from Mirati Therapeutics for “Synthesis of Adagrasib (MRTX849), a Covalent KRAS^G12C Inhibitor Drug for the Treatment of Cancer“
2023 – Daniele Leonori and colleagues at RWTH Aachen University, for “A Halogen-Atom Transfer (XAT)-Based Approach to Indole Synthesis Using Aryl Diazonium Salts and Alkyl Iodides“
2022 – Sophie Rousseaux and John J. Monteith, University of Toronto, for “Ni-Catalyzed C(sp³)–O Arylation of α-Hydroxy Esters“
2021 – The Wilkerson-Hill group, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, for “Programmed Sequential Additions to Halogenated Mucononitriles ”
2020 – Ruben Martin, Institute of Chemical Research of Catalonia (ICIQ), for “Ni-catalyzed Reductive Deaminative Arylation at sp3 Carbon Centers”
2019 – Gregory L. Beutner, Bristol-Myers Squibb, for “TCFH–NMI: Direct Access to N-Acyl Imidazoliums for Challenging Amide Bond Formations”
2018 – Tehshik P. Yoon, University of Wisconsin, Madison, for “Radical Cation Cycloadditions Using Cleavable Redox Auxiliaries”
2017 – Xile Hu, École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne (EPFL), for “Alkoxy Hydrosilanes As Surrogates of Gaseous Silanes for Hydrosilylation of Alkenes”
2016 – Bruce H. Lipshutz, University of California, Santa Barbara, for “Nucleophilic Aromatic Substitution Reactions in Water Enabled by Micellar Catalysis”
2013 – Dale L. Boger, The Scripps Research Institute, for “Iron(III)/NaBH₄-Mediated Additions to Unactivated Alkenes: Synthesis of Novel 20′-Vinblastine Analogues”

JOC Publication of the Year Lectureship Award

The Journal of Organic Chemistry (JOC) Outstanding Publication of the Year Award Lectureship will be awarded for an outstanding article published in JOC in a calendar year-either in an issue or ASAP-that demonstrates creativity and impact in the field of organic chemistry, broadly based. Special consideration will be given to the originality and impact of the article. The winning corresponding author will present at the Fall ACS National Meeting.

Sponsorship of the JOC Publication Award:

The award is sponsored by The Journal of Organic Chemistry and the ACS Division of Organic Chemistry.

Nature of the Award:

The corresponding author of the recognized article will receive an 1) an award plaque, 2) an honorarium of US $2,000, and 3) travel funds to attend and present at the ACS Fall National Meeting.

Eligibility:

Nominated articles must have been published in JOC within the corresponding calendar year either in an issue or ASAP.
Self-nominations and nominations of work authored by JOCEditors will not be accepted.
Co-authors are eligible to submit nominations.

Nominations and Additional Info:

See the 2026 Award Page (for publications in 2025). The nomination deadline is December 31, 2025. Visit the ACS Axial article for more information.

Recent Recipients:

2026 – Jun Xiao and colleagues from Pfizer, USA for “C(sp²)–C(sp³) Suzuki-Miyaura Cross-Coupling Using gem-Bis(boronates)“. See also the ACS Axial interview with the winners.
2025 – Jacquelyne A. Read and colleagues for “Computational Library Enables Pattern Recognition of Noncovalent Interactions and Application as a Modern Linear Free Energy Relationship“. See also the ACS Axial interview with the winners.
2024 – The research group of Fernanda Duarte and James A. Bull from the University of Oxford and Imperial College London for “Visible Light Photoredox-Catalyzed Decarboxylative Alkylation of 3-Aryl-Oxetanes and Azetidines via Benzylic Tertiary Radicals and Implications of Benzylic Radical Stability “
2023 – The research group of Christine M. Le, York University, Canada, for “Synthesis of Carbamoyl Fluorides Using a Difluorophosgene Surrogate Derived from Difluorocarbene and Pyridine N-Oxides“
2022 – The research group of Ju Hyun Kim, Gyeongsang National University, for “Transition Metal-Free, Methoxide-Catalyzed Synthesis of Pyridoindolones“
2021 – The research groups of Xin Hong (Zhejiang University) and Elizabeth Jarvo (University of California, Irvine) for “Engaging Sulfonamides: Intramolecular Cross-Electrophile Coupling Reaction of Sulfonamides with Alkyl Chlorides”
2020 – David Nagib, The Ohio State University, for “Development of an Imine Chaperone for Selective C–H Functionalization of Alcohols via Radical Relay”
2019 – Scott Denmark, University of Illinois, for “Catalytic Nucleophilic Allylation Driven by the Water-Gas Shift Reaction”
2018 – Masayuki Inoue, University of Tokyo, for “Total Synthesis and Biological Mode of Action of WAP-8294A2: A Menaquinone-Targeting Antibiotic”
2017 – Melodie Christensen, Merck, for “Enantioselective Synthesis of α-Methyl-β-cyclopropyldihydrocinnamates”
2016 – Jeffrey S. Johnson, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, for “Asymmetric Total Synthesis of the Indole Diterpene Alkaloid Paspaline”
2013 – Dennis G. Hall, University of Alberta, for “Direct Amidation of Carboxylic Acids Catalyzed by ortho-Iodo Arylboronic Acids: Catalyst Optimization, Scope, and Preliminary Mechanistic Study Supporting a Peculiar Halogen Acceleration Effect”