Division of Organic spring 2001 Chemistry ________ _

American Chemical Society

Website: http://www.chem.unt.edu/acs

Executive Committee Members Robert K. Boeckman, Chair Dennis Curran, Past-Chair William Nugent, Chair-Elect Alan P. Marchand, Secretarytrreasurer Jam es Rigby , Secretary trreasurer-Elect Lisa McElwee-White, Program Chair Gary A. Molander, NOS Executive Officer

Members at Large Robert A. Volkmann David J. Hart Paul L. Feldman Leslie Robinson Peter Wipf William Greenlee

./ Members of the Division of Organic Chemistry You are invited to attend the National meetings of the ACS and present contributed papers (oral or poster). Instructions for submission of papers are at the end of this letter in the section entitled "Information for Authors of Papers." Please read them carefully. Submissions should arrive by the indicated deadline for each meeting, which are published in the membership newsletter and C&E News (January and July) and posted on the ACS Website: http://www.chemcenter.org. Members are also encouraged to submit brief proposals to the National Program Chair for contributed sympo­sia at future National ACS meetings. Contact Lisa McElwee-White, College of Liberal Arts and Sciences, P.O. Box 117300, University of Florida, Gainesville, FL 32611. Tel; 352-392-3364 Fax: 352-392-3584 E­mail : orgn@chem.ufl.edu

The Fall 2000 Newsletter was not mailed out in October. Instead, it was posted on the Internet with a link from the Organic Division web page at www.chem.unt.edu/acs. Members of the Division are encouraged to check this web site periodically in order to keep current with Division news and other matters of interest to Organic Chemists.

J Awards Symposia in Chicago, August 26-31.

Arthur C. Cope A ward for outstanding achievement in the field of organic chemistry to Professor George A. Olah, University of Southern California.

Office of the Secretary-Treasurer Department of Chemistry, University of North Texas NT Station, Box 305070 Denton, TX 76203-5070 Tel: (940) 565-3823 Fax: (940) 369-7374 • (940) 565-4318 Email: pcj0002@unt.edu

Councilors Michael P. Doyle Thomas R. Hoye Franklin A. Davis Kathy Parker

Alternate Councilors Victor Snieckus William R. Roush Cynthia A. Maryanoff Anthony Czarnik

Arthur C. Cope Scholar Awards : + Geooffrey W. Coats, Cornell University + John Montgomery, Wayne State University + Nicole S. Sampson, SUNY, Stony Brook + Michael T. Crimmins, Univ. of North Carolina + Jeffrey W. Kelly, The Scripps Res. Inst. + Matthew S. Platz, The Ohio State University + Jean M. J. Frechet, Univ. California, Berkeley + Murray Goodman, Univ. California, San Diego + Richard R. Schrock, Mass. Inst. Technology + Victor A. Snieckus, Queen's University, Canada

0 Important Notices

.t Third and Fourth Year Graduate Students The Organic Division Fellowship Program now gives you an opportunity not only to receive a well paid · fellowship for a year, but also to influence, educate, and maybe even provoke your peers through a published essay.

2001-2002 Division of Organic Chemistry Graduate Fellowships in Organic Chemistry .

The Division of Organic Chemistry plans to award a number of $19,000 Fellowships for the academic year 2001-2002. Ph.D. students in their third or fourth year of study are encouraged to apply for these Fellowships. For complete details about the Fellowships, including essays written by last year's awardees, access the Organic Division website at www.chem.unt.edu/acs, then click on DOC Fellowships. Applications are due by June 4, 2001.

./Tetrahedron Letters Free On-Line to Mem­bers

Tetrahedron Letters is now posted on the internet. Members of the Organic Division can access the site free of charge by going to www.chem.unt.edu/acs.

.t 37th National Organic Symposium

The 37'h National Organic Symposium will be held June 10-14, 2001, in Bozeman, Montana, at Montana State University. Complete details of the Symposium, including registration, housing, speakers and abstract submittal, can be found by accessing the Organic Division Website at www.chem.unt.edu/acs and clicking on Symposium Events under National Organic Symposium.

Undergraduate Travel Awards The deadline for applications for Undergraduate Travel Awards for the National Organic Symposium has been extended to April 15, 2001. See the Organic Division Homepage for complete details and application form.

Faculty Travel A wards The deadline for applications for Faculty Travel Awards for the Symposium has been extended to April 15, 2001. See the Organic Division Homepage for com­plete details and application form.

./Undergraduate Travel Awards for San Diego

Two students are the recipients of the Division of Organic Chemistry Travel Award for Outstanding Undergraduate Students in Organic Chemistry, spon­sored by the R. W. Johnson Pharmaceutical Research Institute. Kelly Boss of the University of Northern Iowa and Douglas Young of the University of Puget Sound received stipends to help them attend the ACS National Meeting in San Diego.

The next Undergraduate Travel Awards will be for the Spring 2002 Meeting April 7-12 in Orlando, FL. Watch for the announcement in the Fall 2001 Newsletter or on our website.

./ Division Officers 2001 Election The 2001 Nominating Committee Report, a ballot and a return envelope for the marked ballot is included with this Newsletter. Please Note: Under the bylaws for the Division of Organic Chemistry. Affiliates do not have voting privileges. The results of the ballot shall be determined by those votes returned to the Secretary­Treasurer' s office, Dr. Alan P. Marchand, University of North Texas, Department of Chemistry, P.O. Box 305070, Denton, TX 76203-5070 no later than .June 3, 2001. Please follow the directions carefully (given on the ballot) in order for your vote to be valid. PLEASE USE A NUMBER 2 PENCIL TO COMPLETELY FILL IN THE CORRESPONDING BOXES.

./ Bylaws Amendments Another insert accompanying this Newsletter details a series of Bylaw Amendments for the Division of Organic Chemistry. The main reason for the change in bylaws is to move the election of officers from the Spring to the Fall. Originally, the calendar for the Division was based on an academic schedule. More recently, the calendar was rearranged to a January­December schedule. Presently, new officers are elected almost a year before they take office. At the top of the ballot accompanying this Newsletter there is a place for members to vote for or against the proposed bylaw changes. Please take a minute to mark your ballot and return it in the preaddressed stamped envelope.

./ Organic Syntheses On-Line Organic Syntheses, Inc. is pleased to announce the release of its entire publication as a web publication at www.orgsyn.org anticipated by the Spring ACS meet­ing. The site is freely available to all chemists and contains the contents of all Collective and Annual Volumes of Organic Syntheses, as published by John Wiley & Sons, Inc. The site was developed in collabora­tion with CambridgeSoft.Com of Cambridge, MA, and DataTrace Publishing of Towson, MD.

Organic Syntheses is a primary reference source providing validated procedures for preparation of a variety of important organic compounds. To create the Organic Syntheses web site, DataTrace Publishing transcribed all text and structures and Cam­bridgeSoft.Com built the database, search engine and website.

Chemists can search the site using search strategies including chemical name, formula, OS reference keyword index terms, or structures either as an e~act structure or as a substructure match. Users of the Organic Syntheses site need· a ChemDraw Plugin, freely available at the site or. included as part of ChemDraw when purchased, to add chemical structure drawing and viewing capability to their web browsers.

This first release of OS online is expected to grow with additional features in future versions. Any comments or problems should be sent to JPressORxn@aol.com .

./ Availability of Area Grants. Grants that are available to eligible institutions that have granted baccalaureate degrees to 25 or more individuals who have obtained academic or professional doctoral degrees in health related sciences during the period 1986-1995 are now available and reviewed 3 times a year. For more information concerning these grants contact the website: http://www.nib.gov/grants/guide/pa-files/P A -97. 052.html More details can also be found at the website: http://www.nih.gov/grants/guide/pa-files/PA-96-020.html

./The Division's Newsletter is Available on Inter-net.

Access the most recent issue of the Division Newsletter: http://www.chem.unt.edu/acs. This posting also includes an overview of the Division, Membership information, a list of other ACS sites and a list of Orgapic Chemistry sites. . To access and view the ACS Meetings Home Page: http://www.acs.org/meetings/welcome.htm.

./ Annual Volumes of Organic Syntheses Even though Organic Syntheses will soon be available free on the internet, the Organic Division will continue to send out paperback copies of the Annual Volumes to it's members. Volume 78 will be mailed to Division members in the near future. If you do not receive your copy or receive a damaged copy you can request another copy of the book through the Office of the Secretarr Treasurer. Additional copies are available upon request for $6.00. Checks should be made out to the Division of Organic Chemistry and mailed to the office of the Secretary-Treasurer.

./ Abstracts Abstracts of papers presented before the Organic Division at National ACS meetings will be lithographed and distributed to all members of the Division. Since the Division abstracts are sent surface mail, some members may not receive the abstracts in advance of the meet­ings. Members who attend the meetings and have not yet received their Division abstracts (this applies to the most recent upcoming meetings only) can obtain them from the ACS Operations Office at the meeting site. If you are unable to obtain the Division abstracts at the meeting site and you are a member of the Division, you can request them free of charge by contacting the Secretary-Treasurer's Office, Alan P. Marchand, University of North Texas, Department of Chemistry, Box 305070, Denton, TX 76203-5070; Tel: 940-565-3823; Fax: 940-369-7374; E-mail: pcj0002@unt.edu. Please be certain to mention your membership number when placing your order.

./ Organic Reactions and Organic Syntheses, Inc. The volumes of Organic Reactions, the Collective Volumes 1-8 of Organic Syntheses, the Cumulative Indexes for Collective Volumes 1-8 of Organic Synthe­ses, and the Organic Syntheses Reaction Guide can be purchased at 50% off list price by undergraduate and graduate students, postdoctoral fellows, and research associates in chemistry and biochemistry at schools in Canada, Mexico, and the U.S. In addition, annual Volumes 70-75 of Organic Syntheses are available on the same basis. Further details on this offer and current prices can be found on at the Division's Home Page: http://www.chem.unt.edu/acs. For information about orders for Organic Syntheses contact: Dr. Jeremiah P. Freeman, Secretary of Organic Syntheses, Inc., Depart­ment of Chemistry, University of Notre Dame, Notre Dame, IN 46556; Tel: 219-631-5658; Fax: 219-631-6652; E-mail: Jeremiah.P.Freeman. l@nd.edu. For information about orders for Organic Reactions contact: Dr. Jeffery Press, Secretary/Treasurer of Organic Reactions, Inc., Bear Berry Lane, Brewster, NY 10509; Tel: 914-278-4849; Fax: 914-278-4849; E-mail: JPressORxn@aol.com.

0 A Brief Report: Council Committee on Chemistry and Public Affairs (CCPA)

Kathy Parker, Councilor for the Organic Division, would like to inform the members of some of the activities of the Council Committee on Chemistry and Public Affairs (CCPA) of the American Chemical Society. The CCPA works with the ACS staff in the Office of Legislative and Government Affairs (OLGA) to increase the influence of the ACS on governmental science policy decision, particularly those that are part of the process that leads to federal funding for chemical research.

In 2001, OLGA is coordinating "Contact Congress Week". OLGA will help local sections in g.r:ganizing a visit by a federal or state legislator who is involved in a policy issue that concerns chemistry. For details contact Ethan Castelo, ACS Grassroots Coordinator at E_costelo@acs.org.

In order to gain attention in Congress for federal funding of research as well ~s for other concerns of chemists, ACS has created the "Legislative Action Network," (LAN). ACS members who have joined the LAN receive e-mail notification of pending legislation that is important to chemists. If you would like to become part of the Network, go to www.acs.org/government/action.

On behalf of the ACS, the CCPA is responsible for preparing nominations for The National Medal of Science, in recognition of a creative research program; The Vannevar Bush Award, in recognition to a senior scientist's contributions to public service; The ACS Public Service Award, in recognition of public service that has benefited the chemical sciences. For more information on these awards, contact Kathy Parker· at Kathlyn_Parker@brown.edu.

dJ Book Discount Program Hang on to those book coupons that are included with this Newsletter. They provide substantial discounts on the purchase of books from participating publishers. The discount book coupons are sent once a vear in the Spring Newsletter. The phone numbers and addresses of the participating publishers are listed in this News­letter, so make sure you keep this portion of the News­letter as a source guide to participating publishers. To obtain the discount, sign the coupon, include it with the required prepayment (use U.S. currency only), and send to the publisher's address ·listed below. Extra coupons are available from the Secretary-Treasurer's office upon request. A list of the discounts and partici­pating publishers are: • Academic Press, Inc., 25% discount. Order De­

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• Aldrich Chemical Co., 25% discount on published books only. Orders must be directed to the atten­tion of George Gama, Techware Dept., Aldrich Chemical Co., 940 W. St. Paul Ave., Milwaukee, WI 53233, Tel: 1-800-771-673 7, ext. 5414

• John Wiley & Sons, Inc., 25% discount on Wiley­Interscience books, excluding textbooks. John Wiley & Sons, Eastern Distribution Center, 1 Wiley Drive; Somerset, NJ 08875, Tel: 732-469-4400, ext. 2497

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ii Call for Papers for National Meetings

Division of Organic Chemistry

Program Chair: L. McElwee-White, P.O. Box 117300, Liberal Arts & Sciences, U of Florida, Gainesville, FL 32611-7300, tel: (352)392-2264, fax: (325)392-3584, e-mail: ORGN@chem.ufl.

ACS Requirements: The bylaws of the American Chemical Society places the following requirements on papers that are presented at National ACS Meetings. At least one author of each paper must be a member of the American Chemical Society, unless all the authors are not chemists or engineers residing in the United States.

Organic Division Requirements and Policies: The Organic Division has the following bylaw and policies pertaining to ORAL and POSTER PRESENT A­TIONS submitted for presentation at National ACS Meetings.

1. Under no circumstances should a paper appear in print in a journal other than as a communica­tion to the editor before presentation. Respon­sibility for ensuring that this policy is not vio­lated rests solely with the author(s). If a manu­script is accepted for publication before a Meeting, the author(s) should specifically re­quest the editor to arrange publication in an is­sue that is circulated after the ACS Meeting.

2. Submit abstracts using the Online Abstract Submittal System OASys. at www.acs.org/meetings. Include required 1,000 word description of oral or poster presentation (Div. Bylaw VIII.lb) in online submission via OASys. If you do not have web access, contact the Program Chair before April 2, 2001.

3. Slides and Oral Presentation. Each meeting room will be equipped with projection facilities for 2" x 2" slides and overhead transparencies. Since the time allotted to each oral presentation is only 20 minutes it is suggested that no more than tern black-on-white slides be used. The material on the slides should be presented hori­zontally.

4. Poster Sessions. Boards (4'x6') will be available for each poster session. Minimize text and maximize the number of figures, schemes, and structures. The contents must be readable from at least four feet.

222 National Meeting, Chicago, Illinois August 26-31, 2001

Deadline: Online submittals by April 9, 2001.

Symposia Scheduled for Chicago

• Arthur C. Cope A ward and A.C. Cope Scholar Awards. Organizer: L. McElwee-White, Liberal Arts and Sciences, University of Florida, Gainesville, FL 32611-7300, orgn@chem.ufl.edu.

• Nakanishi Prize. Organizer: Peter B. Dervan, Department of Chemistry, 164-30, California Insti­tute of Technology, Pasadena, CA 91125, der­van@caltech.edu.

• Tetrahedron Prize for Creativity in Organic Synthesis Symposium. (Elsevier Science Ltd). Or­ganizers: Harry H. Wasserman, Dept. of Chemistry, Yale University, PO Box 208107, New Haven, CT 06520-8107, harry.wasserman@yale.edu. Stan S. Hall, Department of Chemistry, Rutgers Uni­versity, Newark, NJ 07102, stan­hall@worldnet.att.net.

• Technical Achievements in Organic Chemistry Awards Symposium.

• Practical Organic Synthesis: Applications from the Pharmaceutical Industry. (Cosponsored with Division of Medicinal Chemistry) Organizer: Ah­med F. Abdel-Magid, Chemical Development, R. W. Johnson Pharmaceutical Research Institute, Welsh and McKean Roads, Spring House, PA 194 77, AMAGID@prius.jnj.com.