The Fulbright Program and the Brazilian government’s Science Without Borders Program have teamed up to provide 30 new grants for senior and junior U.S. researchers in the STEM (sciences, technology, engineering and mathematics) fields and five post-doctoral grants in all disciplines. Five Distinguished Chair awards of approximately US $29,000 are available to top senior researchers …
The ACS, Division of Organic Chemistry will sponsor the biannual 34th Reaction Mechanisms Conference (RMC 2012), which will be held June 19-23, 2012 on the campus of the University of Missouri in Columbia with some additional financial support from Merck. Register by May 29, 2012 to guarantee the lowest conference rate (undergraduates: $25; graduate and …
The Division of Organic Chemistry congratulates the twelve 2012 DOC SURF award winners, gratefully acknowledges their sponsors, and thanks The Journal of Organic Chemistry for the opportunity to publish the biographical sketches of the winners. Student Sponsor School Mentor Ronald Besandre Division of Organic Chemistry University of Houston Jeremy A. May Alexander Burckle Pfizer University …
The Wednesday evening ORGN–MEDI Poster Session and Social Event in San Diego will be held in the Convention Center Ballroom (Room 20) beginning at 7 pm. More than 300 posters will be presented. Award winning beer from the Stone and Green Flash microbreweries will be served, in addition to water, soda and food. At 8:30, …
Applications for DOC Travel Awards to the 2012 ACS Fall Meeting will be accepted until May 1, 2012 through the online application form only. Information on the Awards and the link to the online application form is available on the DOC website at: DOC Travel Awards Page.
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: …
