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 …
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 …
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 …
Abstract submission for the 248th ACS National Meeting August 10-14, 2014 in San Francisco, CA is now open. Submission to the Organic Division Programs is due by March 20th. Submit abstracts using the Program and Abstract Creation System (PACS) at http://abstracts.acs.org/. The meeting website is here.
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 …
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 …
We thank all of those who attended and contributed to the recent National Organic Symposium at the University of Washington, which was a terrific hit. We thank Scott Sieburth of Temple University for his phenomenal efforts in organizing the conference, which includes the lectures. Videos are now available for the following speakers at NOS 2013 …
ORGN and HIST along with the Northeastern ACS local section are sponsoring a Symposium at the Spring 2014 ACS National Meeting in Dallas on the topic “Fifty Years of the James Flack Norris Award. The Foundations of Physical Organic Chemistry.” The symposium will take place on Monday, Mar. 17, at the convention center hotel, the …
At the ACS National Meeting in Dallas this spring, MEDI will hold a session (Tuesday, March 18th, 2014) that will feature brief presentations on the greening of chemical processes followed by a panel discussion providing perspective not only on general reaction evolution but also the practical day-in-day-out applications. Panel members include Prof. Neil K. Garg …
