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The Division of Organic Chemistry plans to award the 2014-2015 academic year fellowships for Ph.D. students to be held during their third or fourth year of study.   Applicants must meet all of the following criteria: (1) be starting their 3rd or 4th year of Ph. D. studies in Fall 2014, (2) be US citizens …

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Organic chemists face many regulatory challenges when trying to make a chemical process more environmentally friendly, as C&EN Senior Correspondent Stephen Ritter reports. Now, a consortium of industry chemists working in conjunction with Food & Drug Administration officials has produced an informational document with Food & Drug Administration that lays out how to help promote …

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The ACS Division of Organic Chemistry and The Journal of Organic Chemistry are proud to announce Larry E. Overman, University of California, Irvine, as the 2014 winner of The Journal of Organic Chemistry Outstanding Author of the Year Lectureship Award.  For more info see: https://organicdivision.org/JOC_Author_2014

The ACS Division of Organic Chemistry and Organic Letters are proud to announce Yong Huang, Peking University, as the winner of the 2014 Organic Letters Outstanding Author of the Year Lectureship Award. This follows on the heals of the announcement that Larry E. Overman won The Journal of Organic Chemistry Outstanding Author of the Year Lectureship …

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Members can now access the abstract separates for the 247th ACS National Meeting held in Dallas (Spring 2014). To access the file, you must be a Division Member. You can download the PDF file (6 MB) from the Organic Division’s Meeting Abstract Page. Use your ACS Login ID to access the page. If you do …

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The Division of Organic Chemistry congratulates the following 4 graduate students who are the 2013-14 DOC Fellows. Three excellent students are also recognized for their achievements; we were unable to award them fellowships because they won an NSF fellowship for the 2013-14 academic year. However, we have granted each of them a travel award to …

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ACS GCI Pharmaceutical Roundtable’s Medicinal Chemistry group is seeking to fund a one year R&D program targeting the identification and development of alternatives to the commonly employed stoichiometric hydride-based reagents or transition-metal catalyzed silane reductions, with a focus on substrates that are widely applicable to the pharmaceutical industry. Proposals are invited from public and private …

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