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 …
