This presentation will delineate the progression of the ACS Organic Division's website (organicdivision.org) from a simply crafted site to one of significant complexity and broad content over the approximately 20 years of its existence. A brief explanation of how certain resources (for laboratory chemists) came to be associated with Organic Division's site will be offered. The bulk of the presentation will focus on how this website initiated, motivated, and enabled a serious investigation into the history of the National Organic Chemistry Symposium (NOS), which was published in the Journal of Organic Chemistry whose readers are primarily experimental chemists, not historians. In addition, this presentation will involve a discussion of the resources on the site that may well serve those interested in the history of the development of modern organic chemistry.

ORGN's website:  A resource for the study of the history of chemistry and an inspiration to study the history of chemistry

248th National Meeting (2014)

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