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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 …

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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 …

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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 …

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The Organic Division currently provides Travel Awards to up to 10 Graduate Students, Undergraduates, and Faculty at Predominantly Undergraduate institutions who are presenting papers or posters at each ACS National Meeting. The recipients for the 2014 Spring ACS National Meeting are: Type First Name Last Name Institution Advisor Faculty Jessie Carrick Tennessee Technological University   …

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The Organic Division of the American Chemical Society seeks to increase the involvement of bachelor’s and master’s-level chemists in Divisional activities. These chemists make important contributions in the workplace but often receive only limited recognition from the scientific community. In 1992, the Organic Division instituted an annual symposium at the Fall ACS meeting to recognize …

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Pacifichem 2015 will be the seventh in the series of successful cosponsored scientific conferences of the Pacific Basin Chemical Societies. Founded in 1984, these conferences have been held in Honolulu, Hawaii about every five years. Date/Location: Honolulu, Hawaii, USA, December 15-20, 2015Symposia Proposals Due: March 1, 2014. One of the requirements of proposal submission is that …

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Open access and free to everyone, the newly redesigned OrgSyn website is a valuable resource for the entire organic chemistry community worldwide. The new journal website has a number of impressive features that make it extremely easy to read articles and to search the database of over 5000 detailed and “checked” procedures for the synthesis of organic compounds. Organic Syntheses can be …

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Organic Letters (OL), The Journal of Organic Chemistry (JOC) and the ACS Division of Organic Chemistry are seeking nominations for the 2014 Outstanding Author of the Year Award Lectureships. Two authors will be awarded, one from each journal, for an outstanding article published in 2013 (either in an issue or ASAP) that demonstrates creativity and …

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