Project Grant 1645765

This National Science Foundation project grant of $300,000 supports research into electrochemical nickel-catalyzed reductive biaryl coupling reactions from May 1, 2022 to April 30, 2025. The award funds a collaborative team from the University of Missouri-Kansas City, the University of Wisconsin-Madison, and Colorado State University under the Mathematical and Physical Sciences program (CFDA 47.049). Specifically, the team will use analytical, computational and electroanalytical tools to study...

This Project Grant award of $538,791 from the National Science Foundation's Engineering program (CFDA 47.041) will fund research by the University of Colorado to develop novel electrocatalysts for converting bio-derived carboxylic acids, such as lactic acid, into alcohols like propylene glycol. The goal is to create a more sustainable alternative to current petrochemical-based processes for manufacturing high-volume commodity chemicals. The project will explore using...

This $431,454 Project Grant award from the National Science Foundation's (NSF) Division of Chemistry was provided to The Johns Hopkins University and the University of Massachusetts, Lowell to study the design of catalytic materials for electrochemical synthesis of organonitrogen compounds. The overarching goal is to develop a fundamental understanding of electrochemical carbon-nitrogen coupling using metal-organic frameworks called boron imidazolate frameworks (BIFs) as the catalyst platform....

This Project Grant award from the National Science Foundation's Engineering program (CFDA 47.041) provides $402,669 to the University of South Florida to develop iron- and copper-based hybrid Mie-resonator photocatalysts for carbon-carbon (C-C) and carbon-nitrogen (C-N) cross-coupling reactions. The research aims to create inexpensive and energy-efficient alternatives to the current high-temperature and palladium-based methods used in the chemical and pharmaceutical industries. The project...

This $1,000,000 Project Grant from the National Science Foundation's Division of Chemistry, under the Mathematical and Physical Sciences program (CFDA 47.049), will support catalytic carbonylation and C-H functionalization reactions research using rhenium complexes at North Carolina State University. Professor Elon Ison and his team will pursue examination of C-H bond activation by rhenium(III) acetate complexes, understanding mono- and double carbonylation reactions with rhenium complexes,...

This Project Grant from the National Science Foundation Division of Chemistry, under the Mathematical and Physical Sciences program (CFDA 47.049), provides $550,000 to The Trustees of the University of Pennsylvania from July 1, 2023 to June 30, 2026. The award will support research at the University of Pennsylvania aimed at developing new base metal complexes capable of efficiently activating aliphatic C-H bonds through two complementary objectives. First, ligand scaffolds will be created to...

This $456,907 project grant from the National Science Foundation's Mathematical and Physical Sciences program will fund research into metal-free bond activation using redox-active carborane clusters. Principal Investigator Dmitry Peryshkov of the University of South Carolina will synthesize cluster compounds of boron, carbon, phosphorus and hydrogen that can donate and accept electrons to cycle through two-electron redox states. The compounds' redox activity will be utilized to enable bond...

New Iridium, Inc. received a $1 million cooperative agreement award from the National Science Foundation under the Technology, Innovation, and Partnerships program (CFDA 47.084) to develop light-driven chemical processes for converting captured carbon dioxide into terephthalic acid. Specifically, the company will work to mature photocatalysis technology to activate carbon dioxide for production of the commodity chemical at bench and engineering scales. Through high-throughput experimentation and...

This $180,000 Project Grant award from the National Science Foundation's (NSF) Mathematical and Physical Sciences (CFDA 47.049) program supports a collaborative research project on electrochemical nickel-catalyzed reductive biaryl coupling. Professors from the University of Wisconsin-Madison, University of Missouri-Kansas City, and Colorado State University are studying new approaches to catalysis and electrochemistry for the synthesis of biaryl molecules used in polymers and agriculture. The...

This $575,000 project grant awarded by the National Science Foundation's (NSF) Division of Chemistry under the Mathematical and Physical Sciences program (CFDA 47.049) supports research at Emory University to develop practical methods for conducting synthetic organic transformations using low catalyst loadings. The goal is to create highly efficient catalysts, such as rhodium and ruthenium-based catalysts, that can be used in extremely low amounts to enable over 100,000 reaction cycles while...