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Professors Bertozzi, Meldal, and Sharpless win the 2022 Nobel Prize in Chemistry

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The Organic Division congratulates Professors Carolyn R. Bertozzi (Stanford University, CA, USA); Morten Meldal (University of Copenhagen, Denmark); and K. Barry Sharpless (Scripps Research, La Jolla, CA, US) who have won the 2022 Nobel Prize in Chemistry “for the development of click chemistry and bioorthogonal chemistry” See the Nobelprize.org for more information. Professor Bertozzi is …

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Virtual Symposium – Wednesday October 19, 2022 @ 12 PM ET.

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The next Virtual Symposium will be hosted on Wednesday, October 19, 2022 at 12:00-1:30 PM ET. The symposium features: Cathleen Crudden Queens University “Organometallic chemistry in catalysis and materials”   Hosea Nelson Caltech “Selective reactions of vinyl cations and structural elucidation by electron crystallography”   You can start to access the live presentations about 5 …

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2022 Division of Organic Chemistry Elections

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The ACS Division of Organic Chemistry is conducting our annual elections electronically. The election is now open and concludes on November 16, 2022 at 11:59 PM (U.S. Eastern time).

Virtual Symposium – Wednesday September 21, 2022 @ 12 PM ET.

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the next Virtual Symposium will be hosted on Wednesday, September 21, 2022 at 12:00-1:30 PM ET. The symposium features: “Taming nitrene transfer with silver catalysis” (Jennifer Schomaker – UW Madison) and “Photoenzymatic Catalysis – Using Light to Reveal New Enzyme Functions” (Todd Hyster – Cornell)

Dave Evans Problem Set Generator Added to Organic Chemistry Data Website

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Our award winning Organic Chemistry Data website (2022 ACS Chemluminary Awards, see above) continues to grow as a result of the hard work of our team of extraordinary webmasters. This month we are releasing the Dave Evans Problem Set Generator. This contains all of the problems hosted in his original service, with some modernization and …

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Division Wins ChemLuminary Award

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The Division of Organic Chemistry has been awarded a 2022 ChemLuminary Award in “Recognition of Innovation and Outstanding Service to Members of a Division.” The award cites the Division for its Organic Chemistry Database as an outstanding resource for its membership, as exhibited by its heavy use: “The database website was expanded and upgraded for …

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DOC Virtual Symposium-The Innovative Process Enablement of Molnupiravir and Nirmatrelvir

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This Virtual Symposium will be hosted on Wednesday, July 20, 2022 at 12:00-1:30 PM EST. The symposium features the Innovative Process Enablement of Molnupiravir and Nirmatrelvir by Patrick Fier Merck Process Chemistry and Taegyo Lee Pfizer Process Chemistry You can start to access the live presentations about 5 minutes before the presentations: www.orgn.link/watch More details …

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Professor Evans-2013 NOS Lecture

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Our condolences to the entire David Evans scientific family. His passing is a tremendous loss to the community but his legacy will live on in the generations of scientists he trained and all those who have benefited from his research. Some of Professor Evans’s impressive contributions can be seen in this National Organic Symposium talk …

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