{"id":12486,"date":"2025-03-28T10:22:56","date_gmt":"2025-03-28T17:22:56","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dornsife.usc.edu\/chemistry\/?p=12486"},"modified":"2025-07-22T12:13:45","modified_gmt":"2025-07-22T19:13:45","slug":"symposium-honoring-g-k-surya-prakash-for-pioneering-contributions-in-organofluorine-chemistry-and-organic-synthetic-methodology","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dornsife.usc.edu\/chemistry\/2025\/03\/28\/symposium-honoring-g-k-surya-prakash-for-pioneering-contributions-in-organofluorine-chemistry-and-organic-synthetic-methodology\/","title":{"rendered":"Symposium Honoring G. K. Surya Prakash for Pioneering Contributions in Organofluorine Chemistry and Organic Synthetic Methodology"},"content":{"rendered":"\n\n\n\n\n  \n    \n\n\n\n\n\n\n<div\n  class=\"cc--component-container cc--article-hero \"\n\n  \n  \n  \n  \n  \n  \n  >\n  <div class=\"c--component c--article-hero\"\n    \n      >\n\n    \n<div class=\"inner-wrapper\">\n          \n<div class=\"f--field f--image\">\n\n    \n    \n    \n    \n    \n    \n              \n      <img\n                            data-src=\"https:\/\/dornsife.usc.edu\/chemistry\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/88\/2023\/10\/usc-chemistry-surya-prakash-500x432.jpg\"\n                    data-sizes=\"(min-width:1200px) 75vw, (min-width:768px) 83vw, 100vw\"          class=\"lazyload\"\n        \n                  role=\"none\"\n        \n        \n                                      \/>\n\n    \n    \n  \n  \n\n<\/div>\n  \n      <div class=\"image-caption\">\n          \n<div class=\"f--field f--description\">\n\n    \n  G. K. 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K. Surya Prakash for his\u00a0<b><i>Pioneering Contributions in Organofluorine Chemistry and Organic Synthetic Methodology<\/i><\/b><i>\u00a0<\/i>at the<span class=\"x_x_apple-converted-space\"><b>\u00a0<\/b><\/span>2025 American Chemical Society Spring Meeting<span class=\"x_x_apple-converted-space\">\u00a0in San Diego, CA. The symposium with 25 presentations were well attended with contributions from 16 of his students and postdocs from US, Canada, China and Europe from Academia, Industry and National Labs. The Symposium was followed by a Banquet, which was also well attended. At the Banquet, USC alumnus, Dr. Pradeep Iyer established an annual $1000 Graduate Student Award in Surya Prakash\u2019s name in the Division of Fluorine Chemistry.<\/span><\/p>\n\n\n\n<\/div>\n\n\n  <\/div><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The ACS Division of Fluorine Chemistry and the ACS Division of Organic Chemistry had organized a two-day Symposium (March 24 -25, 2025) honoring Professor G. K. Surya Prakash for his\u00a0Pioneering Contributions in Organofluorine Chemistry and Organic Synthetic Methodology\u00a0at the\u00a02025 American Chemical Society Spring Meeting\u00a0in San Diego, CA. The symposium with 25 presentations were well attended with contributions from 16 of his students and postdocs from US, Canada, China and Europe from Academia, Industry and National Labs. The Symposium was followed by a Banquet, which was also well attended. At the Banquet, USC alumnus, Dr. Pradeep Iyer established an annual $1000 Graduate Student Award in Surya Prakash\u2019s name in the Division of Fluorine Chemistry.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":106,"featured_media":7468,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[375,10,8],"tags":[272,71,22],"class_list":["post-12486","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-375","category-awards-and-announcements","category-featured","tag-american-chemical-society-acs","tag-surya-prakash","tag-usc-dornsife"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.1.1 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Symposium Honoring G. K. 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