On Wednesday October 21st from 12-1:30 pm EST we will host our next Virtual Symposium featuring: Nuno Maulide University of Vienna Making difficult bonds with rearrangements Neil Garg University of California, Los Angeles Strained Intermediates & Chemical Education as Vehicles for Innovation You can start to access the live presentations about 5 minutes before the …
We are now able to release the videos of the lectures by Dr. Kay Brummond (University of Pittsburgh) and Dr. Tim Jamison (MIT) at the 2019 National Organic Chemistry Symposium (NOS). Note: in 2020, the Organic Division’s Executive Committee is releasing all the video content on our website free to the public in response to …
The Organic Division of the American Chemical Society is seeking to increase the involvement of bachelor’s- and master’s-level chemists in Divisional activities. Although these individuals regularly make important contributions in the workplace, all too often they receive little or no recognition for their efforts from the scientific community. As one of the means to address …
The ACS Division of Organic Chemistry is conducting our annual elections electronically. The election is now open and concludes on November 13, 2020 at 11:59 PM (EST). All members of the Division should have received an email from vote-now.com with a personal link to the ballot for the Executive Committee members. Those without an email …
The 47th National Organic Chemistry Symposium (NOS) will be held on the campus of the University of California, San Diego, June 27–July 1, 2021. In addition to an outstanding set of lecturers, NOS is widely known for its large evening poster sessions and its engagement of attendees, from undergraduates to established researchers, both academic and …
Dr. Kendall Houk the Saul Winstein Professor of Organic Chemistry at UCLA has been named as the recipient of the 2021 Roger Adams Award. The award address will be given at the 47th National Organic Chemistry Symposium (NOS) to be held on Sunday, June 27 to Thursday July 1, 2021 at the University of California, San …
The ACS Organic Division has been hard at work this summer and is now ready to release a new resource for organic chemists: https://organicchemistrydata.org/ The idea and majority of the current content (~1500 html pages and 650 PDF files) of the Organic Chemistry Data website has come from the late Professor Hans J. Reich who …
Kendall Houk, University of California, Los Angeles. “Computational Studies of I. Radical CH Abstraction vs. Addition to Alkenes, and II. Ambimodal Cycloaddition Dynamics and Mechanisms” Masayuki Wasa, Boston College. “Recent Advances in Enantioselective Cooperative Catalysis” David Procter, University of Manchester. “Sulfoxides as Substrate Activators: New Cross-Couplings for Materials and Medicines” Event is September 15th, 2020 …
The recent Empowering Women in Organic Chemistry (EWOC) Conference was held virtually on Aug 13th and 14th, with over over 600 people from around the world who tuned in for one part or another. The feedback we have been getting has been extremely positive. An email was recently sent out asking registrants to complete a …
The ACS Division of Organic Chemistry is pleased to announce that the 2020 Paul G. Gassman Distinguished Service Award has been bestowed upon Dr. Pat N. Confalone. The Gassman award was established in 1994 with financial help from the Bayer Corporation’s Pharmaceutical Division, located in West Haven, CT, and Bayer’s Polymer and Materials Divisions, located …
