National Organic Symposium (NOS)

The National Organic Chemistry Symposium is the premier event sponsored by the Division of Organic Chemistry of the American Chemical Society to highlight recent advances in organic chemistry. The Symposium generally consists of about a dozen invited speakers, plus the Roger Adams Awardee. The lectures are typically presented during morning and evening sessions. The goal of the symposium is to present a distinguished roster of speakers that represents the current status of the field of organic chemistry, in terms of breadth and creative advances.

Upcoming National Organic Chemistry Symposium (NOS)

The 42nd National Organic Symposium (NOS) will be held at Princeton University Sunday June 5 thru Thursday June 9th, 2011.

William J. Greenlee, Executive Officer NOS 2011
Schering-Plough Research Institute
2015 Galloping Hill Road
Kenilworth, NJ 07033
Phone (908)-740-2220
FAX (908)-740-7164
william.greenlee@spcorp.com

For more information see: http://www.nationalorganicsymposium.org/

History

The First National Symposium on Organic Chemistry was held in Rochester, N. Y., December 29 to 31, 1925, under the auspices of the Rochester Section and the Division of Organic Chemistry of the American Chemical Society.

The Second National Symposium on Organic Chemistry was held in Columbus, Ohio, December 29 to 31, 1927.

Upcoming NOS

42nd National Organic Symposium
June 5-9, 2011, Princeton, NJ.
Symposium Executive Officer: William Greenlee
Local Organizer: Paul Reider
Speakers:
Dr. Joseph Armstrong (Merck)
Professor Carolyn Bertozzi (University of California, Berkeley)
Professor Benjamin Cravatt (The Scripps Research Institute)
Professor Vy Dong (University of Toronto)
Professor Dennis Dougherty (California Institute of Technology)
Professor Dieter Enders (Rheinisch-Westfälische Technische Hochschule)
Professor Jean Frechet (University of California, Berkeley)
Professor Amir Hoveyda (Boston College)
Professor Michael Krische (University of Texas at Austin)
Professor Colin Nuckolls (Columbia University)
Professor M. Christina White (University of Illinois)
Dr. Anthony Wood (Pfizer)
Professor Hisashi Yamamoto (University of Chicago)

Recent NOS Meetings

41st National Organic Symposium
June 7-11, 2009, University of Colorado, Boulder
Symposium Executive Officer: Mukund P. Sibi
Local Organizers: Tarek Sammakia & Andrew Phillips
Speakers:
Andrew Streitwieser-2009 Roger Adams awardee (University of California, Berkeley)
Magid Abou-Gharbia (Temple University)
Phil S. Baran (The Scripps Research Institute)
Dale Boger (The Scripps Research Institute)
Joseph M. DeSimone (The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill)
Robert H. Grubbs (California Institute of Technology)
Tamio Hayashi (Kyoto University)
Linda Hsieh-Wilson (California Institute of Technology)
Eric N. Jacobsen (Harvard University)
Chad A. Mirkin (Northwestern University)
Manfred T. Reetz (Max-Planck Institute)
Melanie S. Sanford (University of Michigan)
Kevan Shokat (University of California, San Francisco)
Paul A. Wender (Stanford University)
Attendees: 720 Posters: 400

40th National Organic Symposium
June 3-7, 2007, Duke Univ.
Symposium Executive Officer: P. Andrew Evans
Local Organizer: Ross A. Widenhoefer
Speakers:
Danishefsky, Samuel J. (Columbia) (Roger Adams Award)
Corey, E. J. (Harvard Univ.
Denmark, Scott E. (Univ. of Illinois at Urbana Champaign)
Feringa, Ben L. (Univ. of Groningen)
Fukuyama, Tohru (Univ. of Tokyo)
Liu, David R. (Harvard Univ.)
Roth, Bruce D. (Genentech)
Sorensen, Eric J. (Princeton Univ.)
Stoddart, J. Fraser (Univ. of California at Los Angeles)
Stoltz, Brian M. (California Institute of Technology)
Stubbe, Joanne (Massachusetts Institute of Technology)
Toste, F. Dean (Univ. of California, Berkeley)
Trost, Barry M. (Stanford Univ.)
Wooley, Karen L. (Washington Univ. in St. Louis)
Attendees: 912 Posters: 364

39th National Organic Symposium
June 12-16, 2005, Univ. of Utah, Salt Lake City
Symposium Executive Officer: Ahmed F. Abdel-Magid
Local Organizers: Jon Rainier
Speakers:
Meinwald, Jerrold (Cornell) (Roger Adams Award)
Buchwald, Stephen (Massachusetts Institute of Technology)
Bois, Justin Du (Stanford Univ.)
Ghadiri, Reza (The Scripps Research Institute)
Groves, John T. (Princeton Univ.)
Ley, Steven (Univ. of Cambridge)
Maryanoff, Bruce (Johnson & Johnson PRD)
Moore, Jeff (Univ. of Illinois at Urbana Champaign)
Nicolaou, K. C. (The Scripps Research Institute)
Schepartz, Alanna (Yale Univ.)
Sigman, Matt (Univ. of Utah)
Smith, Amos (Univ. of Pennsylvania)
Volante, Skip (Merck)
Yang, Dan (Univ. of Hong Kong)
Attendees: 1014 Posters: 440

38th National Organic Symposium
June 8-12, 2003, Indiana Univ. Bloomington
Symposium Executive Officer: Huw M. L. Davies
Local Organizers: J. J. Gajewski and M. J. Martinelli
Speakers:
Eschenmoser, Albert (ETH, Zurich) (Roger Adams Award)
Blackmond, Donna G. (Hull, UK)
Breslow, Ronald (Columbia Univ.)
Delaney, Edward (Bristol Myers-Squibb)
Evans, David A. (Harvard Univ.)
Kiessling, Laura L. (Univ. of Wisconsin)
Kool, Eric T. (Stanford Univ.)
Leighton, James L. (Columbia Univ.)
MacMillan, David W. C. (California Institute of Technology)
Overman, Larry E. (Univ. of California, Irvine)
Schultz, Peter G. (Scripps Research Institute)
Shair, Matthew D. (Harvard Univ.)
Swager, Timothy M. (Massachusetts Institute of Technology)
Wood, John L. (Yale Univ.)
Attendees: 1081 Posters: 460

37th National Organic Symposium
June 10-14, 2001, Montana State Univ., Bozeman, Montana
Symposium Executive Officer: Gary Molander
Local Organizer: Cynthia K. McClure
Speakers:
Noyori, Ryoji (Nagoya U) (Roger Adams Award)
Bertozzi, Carolyn R. (Univ. of California, Berkeley)
Evans, P. Andrew (Indiana Univ.)
Fürstner, Alois (Max-Plank Inst. für Kohlenforsschung)
Hartwig, John (Yale Univ.)
Johnson, Carl R. (Wayne State Univ.)
Kelly, Jeffery W. (The Scripps Research Institute)
Lipshutz, Bruce H. (Univ. of California, Santa Barbara)
Meinwald, Jerrold (Cornell Univ.)
Michl, Josef (Univ. of Colorado at Boulder)
Negishi, Ei-ichi (Purdue Univ.)
Reetz, Manfred (Max-Plank Inst. für Kohlenforsschung)
Stang, Peter (Univ. of Utah)
Sulikowski, Gary (Texas A&M)
Attendees: 990 Posters: 241

36th National Organic Symposium
June 13-17, 1999, Univ. of Wisconsin, Madison
Symposium Executive Officer: Steven D. Burke
Speakers:
Seebach, Dieter (ETH, Zurich) (Roger Adams Award)
Corey, Elias J. (Harvard Univ.)
Dewitt, Sheila (Orchid Biocomputer)
Fu, Gregory (Massachusetts Institute of Technology)
Gellman, Samuel (Univ. of Wisconsin)
Grubbs, Robert (California Institute of Technology)
Hirschmann, Ralph (Univ. of Pennsylvania)
Khosla, Chaitan (Stanford Univ.)
Moore, Jeffery (Univ. of Illinois at Urbana Champaign)
Petsko, Gregory (Brandeis Univ.)
Schreiber, Stuart (Harvard Univ.)
Shibasaki, Masakatsu (Univ. of Tokyo)
Singleton, Daniel (Texas A&M)
Attendees: 900 Posters: 322

35th National Organic Symposium
June 22-26, 1997, Trinity Univ., San Antonio, Texas
Symposium Executive Officer: James H. Rigby
Local Organizers: M. P. Doyle, N. S. Mills, B. F. Plummer and R. E. Lyle
Speakers:
Sharpless, K. Barry (Scripps) (Roger Adams Award)
Barton, Jacqueline (California Institute of Technology)
Brookhart, Maurice (Univ. of North Carolina, Chapel Hill)
Danishefsky, Samuel (Columbia Univ.)
Davis, Franklin (Temple Univ.)
Ellman, Jonathan (Univ. of California, Berkeley)
Eschenmoser, Albert (ETH, Zurich)
Meyers, Albert I. (Colorado State Univ.)
Porter, Ned (Duke Univ.)
Reider, Paul (Merck)
Seeman, Jeffrey I. (Philip Morris)
Still, W. Clark (Columbia Univ.)
Wong, Chi Huey (The Scripps Research Institute)
Attendees: 939 Posters: 349

34th National Organic Symposium
June 11-15, 1995 The College of William and Mary, Williamsburg, Virginia
Symposium Executive Officer: Thomas R. Hoye
Local Organizer: Christopher J. Abelt
Speakers:
Trost, Barry M. (Stanford) (Roger Adams Award)
Boger, Dale (Scripps)
Buchwald, Stephen L. (Massachusetts Institute of Technology)
Evans, David A. (Harvard Univ.)
Fox, Mary Ann (Univ. of Texas at Austin)
Jacobsen, Eric (Harvard Univ.)
Jorgensen, William L. (Yale Univ.)
Platz, Mathew S. (Ohio State Univ.)
Roberts, John D. (California Institute for Technology)
Schepartz, Alanna (Yale Univ.)
Shinkai, Ichiro (Merck)
Smith, Amos, B., III (Univ. of Pennsylvania)
Stoddart, J. Fraser (Univ. of Birmingham)
Attendees: 1033 Posters: 289

33rd National Organic Symposium
June 13-17, 1993, Montana State Univ., Bozeman, Montana
Symposium Executive Officer: Amos B. Smith, III
Local Organizers: W. Jennings and A. Craig
Speakers:
Corey, Elias J. (Harvard) (Roger Adams Award)
Burrows, Cynthia J. (SUNY, Stony Brook)
Hegedus, Louis, S. (CSU)
Kishi, Yoshito (Harvard Univ.)
Lehn, Jean-Marie (Université Louis Pasteur, France)
Myers, Andrew G. (California Institute of Technology)
Overmann, Larry, E. (Univ. of California, Irvine)
Schreiber, Stuart L. (Harvard Univ.)
Tomalia, Donald A. (Michigan Molecular Institute)
Walsh, Christopher T. (Harvard Medical School)
White, James D. (Oregon State Univ.)
Wudl, Fred (Univ. of California, Santa Barbara)
Attendees: n/a Posters: 272

32nd National Organic Symposium
June 16-20, 1991, Univ. of Minnesota, Minneapolis, Minnesota
Symposium Executive Officer: Frank B. Mallory
Local Organizers: Paul Gassman, Thomas Hoye and Scott Rychnovsky
Speakers:
Stork, Gilbert J. (Columbia) (Roger Adams Award)
Curran, Dennis P. (Univ. of Pittsburgh)
Dervan, Peter B. (California Institute of Technology)
Dougherty, Dennis A. (California Institute of Technology)
Eaton, Philip E. (Univ. of Chicago)
Grubbs, Robert H. (California Institute of Technology)
Houk, Kendall N. (Univ. of California at Los Angeles)
Meinwald, Jerrold (Cornell Univ.)
Seebach, Dieter (ETH, Zurich)
Sharpless, K. Barry (The Scripps Research Institute)
Wender, Paul A. (Stanford Univ.)
Attendees: 903 Posters: 158

12th National Organic Symposium
June 11-15, 1951, Denver, CO
Symposium Executive Officer: n/a
Local Organizers: n/a
Speakers:
Bartlett, P. D.
Brown, H. C.
Carmack, M.
Cope, A. C.
Vigneaud, V. du
Elderfield, R. C.
Fieser, L. F.
Hurd, C. D.
Leonard, N. J.
Roberts, J. D.
Urry, W. H.
Young, W. G.
Attendees: n/a Posters: n/a

10th National Organic Symposium
June 11-14, 1947, Harvard University
Symposium Executive Officer: n/a
Local Organizers: n/a
Speakers:
Arnold, Richard T.
Bartlett, Paul. D.
Bruson, Herman A.
Carter, H. E.
Cope, Arther C.
Fieser, Louis F.
Johnson, William S.
Newman, Melvin S.
Price, Charles, C.
Snyder, H. R.
Suter, C. M.
Wilds, A. L.
Attendees: n/a Posters: n/a

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Secretary-Treasurer, Organic Division, ACS

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