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!
The Annual Florida Heterocyclic and Synthetic IUPAC-Sponsored Conference (FloHet-2012) to be held March 4-7, 2012 at the University of Florida, Gainesville. For more info, see: https://www.arkat-usa.org/conferences
Logins to the Organic Division Website were affected on September 10-12th due to a planned outage owing to some necessary maintenance work on the ACS servers. The outage affected the DOC’s website longer than expected. The issue has been resolved as of Monday 9/12 at 11 a.m. EST. Please contact us if you are still …
The Division of Organic Chemistry has awarded the 2011 Leete Award to Professor Jean A. Chmielewski of Purdue University. The award recognizes outstanding contributions to teaching and research in Organic Chemistry. You can read more about the details of this biennial award on the DOC Leete Award Page.
The 242nd American Chemical Society national meeting is only four weeks away. This meeting–with the theme of Chemistry of Air, Space and Water–promises to be an exciting meeting in a convention-friendly city. There is still time to register for the meeting and to secure a hotel within walking distance to the Colorado Convention Center and …
We congratulate the eight 2011-12 Division of Organic Chemistry Fellows and thank the generous sponsors who are: Nicholas Calandra, Yale University (Sponsor: Boehringer Ingelheim) Daniel Tzvi Cohen, Northwestern University (Sponsor: Organic Syntheses/Organic Reactions) Kaid Harper, University of Utah (Sponsor: Organic Syntheses-Nelson Leonard Fellowship) Julia Kalow, Princeton University (Sponsor: Pfizer) Justin Malinowski, University of North Carolina, …
