The Organic Division of the American Chemical Society is now accepting proposals for symposia to be presented at the Spring 2013 ACS National Meeting (New Orleans). The Symposium Programming Committee (SPC) will evaluate proposals based on their ability to attract and engage a large audience, timeliness, and appropriateness for the Division of Organic Chemistry. The …
22nd Biennial Conference on Chemical Education, July 29-August 2, 2012, The Pennsylvania State University, University Park, PA When students think about chemistry, one of the first things that comes to mind is the laboratory. However, while the experiments done in the lab are the meat of the chemical research process, they are sandwiched between literature …
Members of the Division now have access to 86 different organic chemistry titles from Knovel including: the Merck Index, March’s Advanced Organic Chemistry, Metal-Catalysis in Industrial Organic Processes, Comprehensive Organic Functional Group Transformations II, (7 volumes), Comprehensive Organic Synthesis (9 volumnes), Comprehensive Organometallic Chemistry III (13 volumes), Handbook of Reagents for Organic Synthesis (5 volumes), …
With help from Oleksandr (Alex) Zhurakovskyi (at the University of Oxford), the ACS, Organic Division has provided direct access to the Organic Chemistry Reference Resolver from our website. This utility/website is intended to facilitate reference retrieval from the internet from a wide variety of publishers: instead of finding the corresponding journal page and then browsing …
To celebrate the International year of chemistry, ACS has many resources including a calendar for the year honoring a historic event for each day. The project is called 365: Chemistry for Life. Some relevent days highlighting organic chemistry include: January 1, 2011, Day 1: Chemical Abstracts First Publishes in 1907 January 27, 2011, Day 27: …
Nominations for the Technical Achievement in Organic Chemistry Award (TAOC) to be given at the Fall 2012 ACS Meeting are now being accepted. Nominations will be accepted through the online nomination form until January 28, 2012. Information on the Award and the online nomination form is available on the Technical Achievement Awards page.
Ballots have been sent out for the election of the Division of Organic Chemistry officers. Please vote before the October 21, 2011 deadline. If you are having trouble, use the following link to login: http://ACS-Vote.org/ If you have questions about the election process, please contact Maria Mizak (mizakm@sas.upenn.edu). For technical problems, please contact James Claiborne …
An outage of the ACS Servers on Saturday November 19th starting at 7 PM will occur. This will have an effect on Logins to Knovel and the Members Only area of the Organic Division Website. The downtime is currently scheduled to begin at 7 PM EST., and expected to last approximately 5-6 hours. Other functions …
We invite members to submit nominations for the ACS National Awards, particularly those relevant to organic chemistry: ACS Award for Creative Work in Synthetic Organic Chemistry, Herbert C. Brown Award for Creative Research in Synthetic Methods, Elias J. Corey Award for Outstanding Original Contribution in Organic Synthesis by a Young Investigator, Ernest Guenther Award in …
The Fall Newsletter is now available from the Newsletter Page, which includes information on all DOC initiatives including discounts and free items for DOC members. Additionally, this fall we are once again mailing out the fall DOC newsletter. Please look out for it in your mailbox in the coming weeks!
