Posters are now being accepted for the 48th National Organic Chemistry Symposium (NOS).This biennial event will be held from Sunday, July 9 to Thursday July 13, 2023 on the campus of the University of Notre Dame. The due date is June 16, 2023. See the NOS Poster Submission Page for more details. The National Organic …
We are now able to release the video of the lecture by Mingji Dai (Purdue University, West Lafayette, Indiana, USA) entitled “Chemistry Innovation and Biological Discovery Through Natural Product Total Synthesis” which was given at the 2022 National Organic Chemistry Symposium (NOS). This video makes up 6 of the 15 that will be released from …
The Technical Achievement in Organic Chemistry (TAOC) awards recognize outstanding contributions to the field of organic chemistry from accomplished professional chemists, who hold a bachelor’s or master’s degree-equivalent and who are pursuing careers in industrial or government sectors. Awardees give a 30 minute presentation on their research at the ACS Fall National Meeting and receive …
We are now able to release the video of the lecture by Javier Read de Alaniz (University of California, Santa Barbara, Santa Barbara, California, USA) entitled “Shining Light on Chemistry” which was given at the 2022 National Organic Chemistry Symposium (NOS). This video makes up 4 of the 15 that will be released from the …
We are now able to release the video of the lecture by Corinna S. Schindler (University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, Michigan, USA) entitled “New Cycloadditions of Imines and Carbonyls” which was given at the 2022 National Organic Chemistry Symposium (NOS). This video makes up 3 of the 15 that will be released from the 47th …
We are now able to release the video of the lecture by Jeremiah A. Johnson (Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, Massachusetts, USA) entitled “Deconstructing Macromolecules” which was given at the 2022 National Organic Chemistry Symposium (NOS). This video makes up 2 of the 15 that will be released from the 47th NOS held in La …
We are now able to release the Roger Adams Award Ceremony video from the 2022 National Organic Chemistry Symposium (NOS). The ceremony commenced with a presentation by P. Andrew Evans (Queen’s University and Editor-in-Chief, Organic Reactions) on the Organic Reactions Overview and The Roger Adams Award. John Wood (Baylor University and Treasurer, Organic Syntheses) presented …
The Organic Division congratulates Professors Carolyn R. Bertozzi (Stanford University, CA, USA); Morten Meldal (University of Copenhagen, Denmark); and K. Barry Sharpless (Scripps Research, La Jolla, CA, US) who have won the 2022 Nobel Prize in Chemistry “for the development of click chemistry and bioorthogonal chemistry” See the Nobelprize.org for more information. Professor Bertozzi is …
The next Virtual Symposium will be hosted on Wednesday, October 19, 2022 at 12:00-1:30 PM ET. The symposium features: Cathleen Crudden Queens University “Organometallic chemistry in catalysis and materials” Hosea Nelson Caltech “Selective reactions of vinyl cations and structural elucidation by electron crystallography” You can start to access the live presentations about 5 …
The ACS Division of Organic Chemistry is conducting our annual elections electronically. The election is now open and concludes on November 16, 2022 at 11:59 PM (U.S. Eastern time).
the next Virtual Symposium will be hosted on Wednesday, September 21, 2022 at 12:00-1:30 PM ET. The symposium features: “Taming nitrene transfer with silver catalysis” (Jennifer Schomaker – UW Madison) and “Photoenzymatic Catalysis – Using Light to Reveal New Enzyme Functions” (Todd Hyster – Cornell)
Our award winning Organic Chemistry Data website (2022 ACS Chemluminary Awards, see above) continues to grow as a result of the hard work of our team of extraordinary webmasters. This month we are releasing the Dave Evans Problem Set Generator. This contains all of the problems hosted in his original service, with some modernization and …
The Division of Organic Chemistry has been awarded a 2022 ChemLuminary Award in “Recognition of Innovation and Outstanding Service to Members of a Division.” The award cites the Division for its Organic Chemistry Database as an outstanding resource for its membership, as exhibited by its heavy use: “The database website was expanded and upgraded for …
The annual Spring ACS Meeting, with the theme Crossroads of Chemistry, will be held in Indianapolis March 26-30. The format of the meeting will be hybrid Abstract submission is open now and will remain open until October 17.
Chemical synthesis of #biopolymers, the building blocks of many vital disciplines, is becoming increasingly important. Join the Chemical Sciences Roundtable for a webinar on new and potential breakthroughs on biopolymer synthesis: https://www.eventbrite.com/e/emerging-development-of-biopolymer-synthesis-tickets-356543791077
This Virtual Symposium will be hosted on Wednesday, July 20, 2022 at 12:00-1:30 PM EST. The symposium features the Innovative Process Enablement of Molnupiravir and Nirmatrelvir by Patrick Fier Merck Process Chemistry and Taegyo Lee Pfizer Process Chemistry You can start to access the live presentations about 5 minutes before the presentations: www.orgn.link/watch More details …
Our condolences to the entire David Evans scientific family. His passing is a tremendous loss to the community but his legacy will live on in the generations of scientists he trained and all those who have benefited from his research. Some of Professor Evans’s impressive contributions can be seen in this National Organic Symposium talk …
The next Virtual Symposium will be hosted on Wednesday, April 20th, 2022 at 12:00-1:30 PM EST. The symposium features: Mark Ondari–Corteva “The elastic anatomy of industrial chemistry: From basic research in electronic materials to process development & manufacturing science of agrochemicals” Prof. Liz Jarvo–University of California, Irvine “Nickel-Catalyzed Stereoselective Cross-Coupling and Cross-Electrophile Coupling Reactions of …
Registration for the 2022 National Organic Chemistry Symposium (#NOS2022) is now open! The 47th NOS will be held Sunday, June 26 to Thursday June 30, 2022 at the La Jolla Marriott in Southern California. The NOS is the premier event sponsored by the ACS Division of Organic Chemistry to highlight recent advances in organic chemistry. …
The ACS Organic Division congratulates one of our Members-at-Large, Cathleen Crudden, the A.V. Douglas Distinguished Professor of Chemistry and Canada Research Chair (Tier 1) in metal organic chemistry at Queen’s University in Kingston, Ontario as the 2022 Alfred Bader Award recipient. The Alfred Bader award is presented annually for excellence in research by an organic …
