Comins Named Fellow of the American Chemical Society

Dr. Daniel L. Comins, professor of chemistry at North Carolina State University, has been named a Fellow of the American Chemical Society (ACS). Comins is one of 192 distinguished scientists to receive the honor this year. They will be recognized on Aug. 23 during the ACS’ national meeting in Boston.

Comins’ research deals mainly with the development of practical syntheses of pharmaceutically important compounds.

Comins received his bachelor’s degree in chemistry in 1972 from the State University of New York at Potsdam and his Ph.D. in 1977 from the University of New Hampshire. He joined the NC State faculty in 1989. In 1994, Comins received the NC State Alumni Association Outstanding Research Award, and was an NC State Inventors Award Recipient in the years 1993-96, 2000, and 2002-10. Since 1996, Comins has been an associate editor of the Journal of Organic Chemistry. In 1998, he became a Japan Society Promotion of Science (JSPS) Research Fellow. He was a recipient of the 2005 North Carolina ACS Distinguished Lecturer Award and the 2006 NC State Distinguished Service Award.

The  ACS Fellows program began in 2009 to recognize and honor ACS members for their outstanding achievements in and contributions to science, the profession, and the ACS. This year’s group, like the first 163 Fellows named in 2009, represents academe, industry and government.

The department of chemistry is part of NC State’s College of Physical and Mathematical Sciences.

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