2012 Newsletter Snider Gawley Myers Scott

Office of the Secretary-Treasurer Fall 2012 Department of Chemistry, University of Pennsylvania Philadelphia, PA 19104-6323, Phone: 215-898-3048 e-mail: [email protected] Executive Committee Members, 2012-2013 Members-at-Large Councilors Alternate Councilors Robert Larsen, Chair Rick Broene Huw Davies Paul Feldman Gary Molander, Past-Chair Duane A. Burnett P. Andrew Evans Scott Gilbertson Lawrence Scott, Chair-Elect Bruce D. Dorsey Donna M. Huryn Cynthia A. Maryanoff Marisa Kozlowski, Secretary/Treasurer John Gupton Christopher J. Welch Ned A. Porter Ahmed F. Abdel-Magid, Program Chair (2011-2012) Seth Herzon Robert Gawley, Program Chair-Elect (2012-2013) Randall Hungate Scott McN.Sieburth, NOS Exec. Officer 2013 Katherine Lee Franklin A. Davis, Regional Meeting Liaison Janis Louie Bruce D. Dorsey, SURF Coordinator Paige E. Mahaney Robert Maleczka Katherine Maloney Brian Stoltz 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." 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 for contributed symposia at future National ACS meetings (see http://organicdivision.org/symposia for details). AWARDS Elias J. Corey Award for Outstanding Original Contribution in Organic Synthesis by a Young Investigator sponsored by the Pfizer Endowment Fund, ACS Awards to be presented in the ORGN Martin D. Burke, University of Illinois at Urbana- Division at New Orleans, April 7-11, 2013 Champaign. ACS Award for Creative Research and Applications of Ernest Guenther Award in the Chemistry of Natural Iodine Chemistry sponsored by SQM S.A., Nancy S. Products sponsored by Givaudan, Kuniaki Tatsuta, Goroff, State University of New York, Stony Brook. Waseda University, Japan. ACS Award for Creative Work in Synthetic Organic Herbert C. Brown Award for Creative Research in Chemistry sponsored by Aldrich Chemical Company, Inc., Synthetic Methods sponsored by the Purdue Borane Erick M. Carreira, ETH–Zürich, Switzerland. Research Fund and the Herbert C. Brown Award Endowment, John F. Hartwig, U. C. Berkeley ACS Award for Research at an Undergraduate Institution sponsored by Research Corporation for Science Ralph F. Hirschmann Award in Peptide Chemistry Advancement, Nancy S. Mills, Trinity University. sponsored by Merck Research Laboratories, Dale L. Boger, The Scripps Research Institute. 1 James Flack Norris Award in Physical Organic for his outstanding contribution to the Summer Undergraduate Chemistry sponsored by the ACS Northeastern Section, Research Program. Ned A. Porter, Vanderbilt University. Division of Organic Chemistry Members Elected ACS Nobel Laureate Signature Award for Graduate Fellows in 2012 Education in Chemistry sponsored by Avantor™ Angela Hoffman, Barry Martin Trost, Clark R. Landis, David Performance Materials, Bryan C. Dickinson, Harvard C. Baker, David S. Crumrine, Edel Wasserman, J. Ernest Univ,; advisor: Christopher J. Chang, U.C. Berkeley. Simpson, Jeffrey Aubé, Joel Charles Barrish, Joel Ira Shulman, Joseph Anthony Heppert, Lawrence T. Scott, Lee Alfred Bader Award in Bioinorganic or Bioorganic Hamilton Latimer, Michael Ross Johnson, P. Veeraraghavan Chemistry sponsored by the Alfred R. Bader Fund, David Ramachandran, Richard N. Armstrong, Edward E. Cane, Brown University. Taylor, Richard Vaughan Williams Ronald Breslow Award for Achievement in Biomimetic 2012-13 Div. of Organic Chemistry Graduate Fellowships Chemistry, sponsored by the Ronald Breslow Award Graduate Fellowships in the amount of $26,000 each have Endowment, Samuel I. Stupp, Northwestern University. been awarded to: Michael Joseph Ardolino, Boston College ACS Awards to be presented at the National Merck/Division of Organic Chemistry Fellow Organic Symposium in Seattle, WA in June 2013 James P. Morken, Faculty Advisor Adam Goetz, University of California, Los Angeles Roger Adams Award in Organic Chemistry sponsored by Organic Reactions/Organic Syntheses Neil Garg, Faculty Advisor Organic Reactions Inc. and Organic Syntheses Inc. David A. Evans, Harvard University. Aaron T. Herrmann, Genentech Fellow University of California, Santa Barbara Armen Zakarian, Faculty Advisor ACS Awards to be presented in the ORGN Jeffrey C. Holder, California Institute of Technology Division at 246th ACS Fall National Meeting in Boehringer Ingelheim Fellow Indianapolis, IN Brian M. Stoltz, Faculty Advisor Alison Metz, University of Pennsylvania Arthur C. Cope Award Sponsored by the Arthur C. Cope Organic Syntheses Fellow Fund, Marisa Kozlowski, Faculty Advisor Stephen L. Buchwald, Massachusetts Institute of Rebecca Murphy, University of California, Berkeley Technology. Organic Syntheses Fellow Richmond Sarpong, Faculty Advisor Arthur C. Cope Scholar Awards, Sponsored by the Arthur John Duy Nguyen, Boston University C. Cope Fund. Amgen Fellow Corey R. J. Stephenson, Faculty Advisor William R. Dichtel, Cornell University Bradley D. Rose, University of Oregon Makoto Fujita, University of Tokyo, Japan Troyansky Fellow Michael J. Krische, University of Texas at Austin Michael M. Haley, Faculty Advisor Donald S. Matteson, Washington State University Bradley S. Moore, University of California, San Diego Information about 2013-2014 graduate fellowships will be Thomas W. Muir, Princeton University available at http://organicdivision.org/fellowships Jack R. Norton, Columbia University Sarah E. Reisman, California Institute of Technology Undergraduate Research Fellowship (SURF) Awardees Martin F. Semmelhack, Princeton University Shannon S. Stahl, University of Wisconsin-Madison Ronal Besandre, University of Houston Jeremy A. May, Mentor, DOC Sponsor Paul Gassman Award Winner Alexander Burckle, University of Utah We are pleased to announce that the winner of the 2012 Matthew S. Sigman, Mentor, Pfizer Sponsor Paul Gassman Award is Franklin A. Davis Temple Blake Daniels, University of Chicago University. This award recognizes his outstanding service to Hisashi Yamamoto, Mentor, DOC Sponsor the organic chemistry community. Frank was honored by the Bennett Ferris, Brown University Division at the 244th National ACS Meeting in August 2012 Jason Sello, Mentor, Cubist Sponsor in Philadelphia, PA. Drew Heitz, University of Iowa Hien Nguyen, Mentor, Pfizer Sponsor Division of Organic Chemistry ChemLuminary Award Rebecca Johnson, Barnard College The 2011 ChemLuminary Award was presented to Robert Christian Rojas, Mentor, Roche Sponsor Volkmann at the 2012 National ACS Meeting in Philadelphia, Hilary Kerchner, University of Delaware 2 Mary P. Watson, Mentor, Pfizer Sponsor Margaret Greene, University of California, Irvine Anna Koster, University of Nevada, Reno Steven Gunawan, University of Arizona Christopher S. Jeffrey, Mentor, DOC Sponsor Wei Li, University of Minnesota Matthew Landry, Princeton University Marilda Lisboa, Florida State University Abigail Doyle, Mentor, Merck Sponsor Wathsala Liyanage, University of Rochester Jaron Mercer, Harvard University Steven Lopez, University of California, Los Angeles Andrew G. Myers, Mentor, Pfizer Sponsor Natalie Machamer, University of Vermont Richard Thornbury, University of Illinois, Urbana Paramita Mukherjee, Duke University Scott E. Denmark, Mentor, DOC Sponsor John Nguyen, Boston University Alice Wong, Swarthmore College Aditi Patil, University of Illinois, Chicago Robert Paley, Mentor, Pfizer Sponsor Hong Ren, Michigan State University Anna Wagner, University of Michigan Additional information is available at Jing Yi, Purdue University http://organicdivision.org/SURFprogram.html Undergraduate Travel Awards Erica D’Amato, Boston University Travel Awards –San Diego Szilvia Kiss, Smith College Student Travel Awards Patrick Marks, University of Rhode Island Ravish Akhani, University of South Carolina Faculty Travel Awards Samuel Awuah, University of Oklahoma Debasish Bandyopadhyay, University of Texas-Pan American Matthew Baker, University of Florida Jeremy Steinbacher, Canisius College Hee Yeon Cho, Boston College Dianqing Sun, University of Hawaii at Hilo Surendra Dawadi, University of Missouri - St. Louis Keary Engle, Scripps Research Institute UPCOMING MEETINGS Gorkem Gunbas, University of California, Davis Kaid Harper, University of Utah The 245th National Meeting of the American Chemical Caleb Harris, East Carolina University Society, New Orleans, LA Date: April 7-11. 2013. Xiaoyong Lu, Ohio University Meeting Theme is “Chemistry of Energy and Food” Santanu Panda, Case Western Reserve University Dadasaheb Patil, Georgia Institute of Technology Division of Organic Chemistry Sponsored Symposia: Johnny Pham, University of California, Irvine Enantioselective Catalysis: Addressing the Challenge of Gabriel Reyes-Rodriguez, University of California, San Diego Reactivity through the Study of Mechanism; J. Sara Sadler, Northwestern University Johnston, Organizer Corinne Sadlowski, University of Vermont Andrew Schafer, Ohio State University Photocatalysis in Organic Synthesis; C. Stephenson, T. Courtnay Shaner, Illinois State University Yoon, Organizers Zhaoming Su, North Carolina State University Advances in Green Chemistry; B. Lipshutz,

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