Fall 2009

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Executive Committee Members, 2009-10 Members at Large Councilors Alternate Councilors Lisa McElwee-White, Chair Shelli R. Alpine Michael P. Doyle Huw M. L. Davies Robert Volkmann, Past Chair Mary K. Boyd Donna M. Huryn Mark D. Distefano P. Andrew Evans, Chair-Elect Franklin A. Davis Barry Snider Robert J. McMahon Gary Molander, Secretary/Treasurer Miguel A. Garcia-Garibay Christopher J. Welch Lawrence T. Scott Marisa Kozlowski, Secretary/Treasurer-Elect Kelly George Scott McN.Sieburth, Program Chair Robert B. Grossman Ahmed F. Abdel-Magid, Program Chair-Elect Molly E. Hoke William Greenlee, NOS Exec. Officer 2011 Robert D. Larsen Franklin A. Davis, Regional Meeting Liason Cynthia A. Maryanoff John L. Wood

Current information about the Division is always available on the web at http://organicdivision.org Webmaster: Brian Myers

You are invited to attend National meetings of the ACS and present contributed papers (oral or poster). Instructions for submission of papers are near the end of this letter in the section entitled "Information for Submission of a Paper or Poster." Please read them carefully. Submissions should arrive by the indicated deadline for each meeting, which is published in the membership newsletter and C&E News (January and July) and posted on the ACS Website: http://www.chemcenter.org/. Members also are encouraged to submit brief proposals to the National Program Chair for contributed symposia at future National ACS meetings. Contact: Scott McN. Sieburth, Department of Chemistry, Temple University, Beury Hall 2001, 1901 N. 13th St. Philadelphia, PA 19122, Tel: 215-204-7916, Fax: 215-204-1532, email: [email protected] Foundation, Phillippe S. Baran, The Scripps Research AWARDS Institute.

ACS Awards to be presented in San Francisco Elias J. Corey Award for Outstanding Original March 21-25, 2010 Contribution in Organic Synthesis by a Young Investigator sponsored by the Pfizer Endowment Fund, ACS Award for Creative Work in Synthetic Organic Mohammad Movassaghi, Massachusetts Institute of Chemistry sponsored by Aldrich Chemical Company, Inc., Technology. Ei-ichi Negishi, Purdue University. Ernest Guenther Award in the Chemistry of Natural ACS Award in Pure Chemistry sponsored by the Alpha Chi Products sponsored by Givaudan, Michael T. Crimmins, Sigma Fraternity and the Alpha Chi Sigma Educational University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.

1 Herbert C. Brown Award for Creative Research in Judy Chen, Columbia University Synthetic Methods sponsored by Purdue Borane Research Organic Syntheses/Organic Reactions Fellow Fund and the Herbert C. Brown Award Endowment, Larry E. Nicholas Turro, Faculty Advisor Overman, University of , Irvine. Alison Donnelly, University of Kansas Roche Fellow James Flack Norris Award in Physical Organic Chemistry Brian Blagg, Faculty Advisor sponsored by the ACS Northeastern Section, John E. Baldwin, Brett Fors, MIT Syracuse University. Boehringer Ingelheim Fellow Stephen Buchwald, Faculty Advisor ACS Awards to be presented in Boston August 12-26, 2010 Stephen Lathrop, Colorado State University Sanofi Aventis Fellow Arthur C. Cope Award Sponsored by Arthur C. Cope Fund, Tom Rovis, Faculty Advisor Kendall N. Houk, University of California, Los Angeles Jeremy Lenhardt, Duke University Schering Plough Fellow Arthur C. Cope Scholar Awards, Sponsored by Arthur C. Stephen Craig, Faculty Advisor Cope Fund. Connor Martin, UC, Irvine Amgen Fellow Helen E. Blackwell, University of Wisconsin, Madison Larry Overman, Faculty Advisor Christopher J. Chang, UC, Berkeley Jason Schmink, University of Connecticut John A. Gerlt, University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign GlaxoSmithKline Fellow Arun K. Ghosh, Purdue University Nicholas Leadbeater, Faculty Advisor Jeffrey Johnson, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill Ellen Sletten, UC Berkeley Robert A. Moss, Rutgers State University. NJ Genentech Fellow Eiichi Nakamura, University of Tokyo, Japan. Carolyn Bertozzi, Faculty Advisor Matthew S. Sigman, University of Utah. Kara Stowers, University of Michigan Alice Y. Ting, Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Eli Lilly Fellow Maria-Christina White, University of Illinois, Urbana- Champaign. Melanie Sanford, Faculty Advisor Kathy Woody, Georgia Institute of Technology Edward Leete Award Winner Organic Reactions/Nelson Leonard Fellowship David Collard, Faculty Advisor We are pleased to announce that the winner of the 2009 Joann Um, UCLA Edward Leete Award is Madeleine Joullie of the University Novartis Fellow Pennsylvania. This award recognizes her outstanding Kenneth Houk, Faculty Advisor contributions to teaching and research in Organic Chemistry. Madeleine was honored by the Division at the 238th National Information about 2010-2011 fellowships will be available ACS Meeting in Washington, DC. at http://organicdivision.org/fellowships.html

Division of Organic Chemistry Members Elected ACS Undergraduate Research Fellowship (SURF) Awardees Fellows Valerie Angell, Union College Ahmed Abdel-Magid, Robert Boeckman, Weston Borden, Organic Division, ACS , Charles Buchanan, Charles Casey, Melanie James Adrian, Mentor Cooper, Debbie Crans, Dennis Curran, Huw Davies, Franklin Joseph Michael Azzarelli, Stanford University Davis, Scott Denmark, Michael Doyle, Kevin Edgar, Symyx Technologies, Inc. Jacquelyn Gervay-Hague, John Gladysz, William Greenlee, Barry Trost, Mentor Robert Grubbs, M. Frederick Hawthorne, Stephen Hecht, Ned Ross W. Cheloha, University of Nebraska Heindel, Kendall Houk, Carl Johnson, William Jorgensen, American Chemical Society Madeleine Joullié, Eusebio Juaristi, Robert Lichter, Richard David Berkowitz, Mentor Loeppky, Bruce Maryanoff, Cynthia Maryanoff, Andrew Chung, Harvey Mudd College Elizabeth Nalley, George Olah, Kathlyn Parker, C. Dale Organic Division, ACS Poulter, John D. Roberts, William Roush, James Shoffner, David Vosburg, Mentor Amos Smith, Victor Snieckus, E. Thomas Strom,Robert Rachel Dorset, Smith College Volkmann, George Whitesides, Steven Zimmerman Sepracor Inc. Kevin Shea, Mentor 2009-10 Div. of Organic Chemistry Graduate Fellowships Nathaniel Erskine, Swarthmore College Organic Division ACS Graduate fellowships in the amount of $26,000 each have Robert Paley, Mentor been awarded to: Reid M. Faylor, Xavier University Organic Division ACS 2 Richard Mullins, Mentor Polina Smith, University of Washington Michelle Grau, UCSD Atsuhiko Taniguchi, Kyoto Pharmaceutical University Pfizer Inc. Faculty Travel Awards Debbie Tahmassebi, Mentor Christina Collison, Rochester Inst. of Technology Joshua Green, Bilal Kaafarani, American University of Beirut Cubist Pharmaceuticals Massamiliano Lamberto, Monmouth University Tobias Ritter, Mentor Justin Miller, Hobart and Wm. Smith Colleges Jonathan James Hulce, University of Vermont Pfizer Inc. UPCOMING MEETINGS Paul Krapcho, Mentor Lauren E. Kennedy, University of Pennsylvania The 239th National Meeting of the American Chemical Wyeth Research Society, San Francisco, Date: March 21-25. Gary Molander, Mentor Meeting Theme is “Chemistry for a Sustainable World.” Cameron Moore, Western Washington University American Chemical Society Contributed Symposia: Timothy Clark, Mentor “Green Chemistry: Industrial Research Needs and Academic Joseph Nagano-Gerace, Brown University Mentoring” Pfizer Inc. Christopher Seto, Mentor The 240th National Meeting of the American Chemical Andy I. Nguyen, UC, Irvine, Society, Boston, MA, Date: August 12-26. Pfizer Inc. Meeting Theme is “Chemistry for Preventing and Fighting Alan Heyduk, Mentor Disease.” Shreyas Shah, Rutgers University Organic Division ACS Contributed Symposia: Ki-Bum Lee, Mentor “ Memorial Symposium” Shannon Stone, Brown University “Journal of Organic Chemistry 75th Anniversary Symposium” Novartis “The Role of Organic Synthesis in Early Clinical Drug Amit Basu, Mentor Development”

Additional information is available at Other Organic Chemistry Meetings http://organicdivision.org/SURFprogram.html NOS 2011 Travel Awards - Salt Lake City The 42nd National Organic Chemistry Symposium will be at Student Travel Awards Princeton University on June 5-9, 2011. Additional Jiayue Cui, University of Chicago information will be available after October 1. Maria Destandes, Case Western Reserve Suprio Majumder, Michigan State University Speakers: TBA Mark Rubinshtein, UC, San Diego Lynette Smyth, University of London Cancer Institute The 33rd Reaction Mechanisms Conference will be held Craig Stivala, UC Santa Barbara June 23 - 26, 2010, at the University of Massachusetts, Faculty Travel Awards Amherst. Begun in 1946 and held on years alternating with Narayan Bhat, University of Texas-Pan American the National Organic Symposium, these conferences focus Jeffrey Byers, Middlebury College broadly on all aspects of mechanistic chemistry. See http://www.chem.umass.edu/~rmc2010 for details. Travel Awards – Washington, DC Student Travel Awards PACIFICHEM Kristen Adams-Barrett, University of Sciences, Philadelphia Honolulu, Hawaii, USA, December 15-20, 2010. Website: Juan Chen, University of Louisville http://www.pacifichem.org/ Carla Counceller, Ohio State University Ampofo Darko, University of Florida Inaugural Symposium: Advances In Chemical Sciences Ozlem Dilek, SUNY, Binghampton "Bench to Pilot Plant" Symposium sponsored by NESACS Guangbin Dong, Stanford University and RSC-US. Maher Fathalla, Tulane University Date/Location: October 23, 2009, Cambridge, MA Olga Griffith, University of Arizona Sudath Hapuarachchi, New Mexico State University Huan Liang, University of British Columbia For information about attending the National meeting see the Yuan Liu, Scripps, UCSD ACS meeting web site at: http://www.acs.org/meetings Liang Luo, SUNY Angela Puchlopek, Yale University Jason Schmink, University of Conn

3 ANNOUNCEMENTS and 2 people per institution for the first 50 and then up to 1 extra student per institution for every additional 25 ORGN Archives. The Organic Division Executive participants may attend. DOC Fellowship winners are eligible, Committee recently reached an agreement with the Chemical but will only be allowed to give a poster and/or a flash Heritage Foundation (CHF) to preserve the Division of presentation. The Symposium will be held at a location to be Organic Chemistry archives. The early records of the division announced, and application forms will appear soon on the from 1935 to 1985 were carefully preserved by Walt Division of Organic Chemistry website. Trahanovsky,who was secretary-treasurer and program chair from 1981-1985. These files were recently transferred to Information for Submission of a Paper or Poster at an CHF. Among these files was a letter written by Ralph Shriner ACS meeting in an Organic Division Session in 1939 stating, "the by-laws were approved in 1909, but no one seems to know very much about what happened in the Call for Papers for the 239th ACS National Meeting division prior to 1935." We don't want that situation to be repeated. Therefore, if you feel that you have records or Date/Location: San Francisco, California papers that might be included in the ORGN archives, please Abstracts Due Online: October 19, 2009 contact the secretary-treasurer. Eventually, we hope to list the Submit abstracts using the Online Abstract Submittal System items in the archives on this website. PACS at http://abstracts.acs.org

Call for Nominations Extended abstracts are no longer required.

The 2010 Technical Achievement in Organic Chemistry If you do not have web access contact Awards nomination deadline is December 31st 2009. For Dr. Scott McN. Sieburth more information: http://www.organicdivision.org ([email protected]) program chair, before the posted deadline. See http://www.organicdivision.org/meetings.html 2010 Paul G. Gassman Distinguished Service Award

Scott McN. Sieburth Purpose: To recognize outstanding contributions to teaching Department of Chemistry and research in organic chemistry. Temple University Teaching should be considered in the broadest sense, Beury Hall 2001 1901 N. 13th St. including of professional chemists, the dissemination of Philadelphia, PA 19122 information about chemistry to prospective chemists, to Tel: 215-204-7916, Fax: 215-204-1532 members of the profession, to students in other areas and to email: [email protected] the general public. A nominee must also have accomplished outstanding creative work in any area of organic chemistry. Notes to authors who wish to submit a paper for an ACS Nominations should emphasize both the nominee's teaching meeting in one of the Organic Division Sponsored sessions: and research contributions. Five copies of the nomination document, supporting materials, and seconding letters (up to 1. Log into PACS http://abstracts.acs.org/ with your User five) should be sent to: Dr. Marisa Kozlowski, Name and Password. Secretary/Treasurer, Division of Organic Chemistry, 2. Note the Document ID number in the upper left hand Department of Chemistry, University of Pennsylvania, 231 corner. In the PACS system, institution information is entered South 34th Street, Philadelphia, PA. 19104-6323. and saved first, followed by the names of the authors, who are

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