Project Grant 1947053

This Project Grant award from the National Science Foundation (NSF) Directorate for Mathematical and Physical Sciences (CFDA 47.049) provides $124,862 to the University of Rhode Island (URI) Research Office Division to advance the applications of organic photocatalysts in organic synthesis. Professor Lorenzo Mosca and his research group at URI will design and study fluorous (fluorine-containing) photocatalysts with improved resistance to photodegradation and enhanced recovery, enabling more...

Under a $293,308 Project Grant awarded by the National Science Foundation (NSF) Division of Chemistry through the Mathematical and Physical Sciences program (CFDA 47.049), Purdue University is conducting research to develop new chiral catalysts for enantioselective photoredox-catalyzed carbon-carbon bond-forming reactions. The project aims to design efficient photochemical reactions to synthesize specific enantiomers of chiral organic molecules, which have important applications in...

This Project Grant award, funded by the National Science Foundation (NSF) Division of Chemistry under the Mathematical and Physical Sciences grant program (CFDA 47.049), supports Professor Abigail G. Doyle at the University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA) in developing novel synthetic reactions that use visible light and photocatalysts to access high-energy, polar reactive intermediates. The $630,000 award will fund the development of several key transformations, including a desaturation...

This Project Grant award from the National Science Foundation's Mathematical and Physical Sciences program (CFDA 47.049) provides $249,999 to Rowan University to support research on the development of photocatalytic conditions to generate cyclic compounds, heterocycles, and desulfonylation methods using aryl tosylates. The goal is to provide fundamental knowledge on visible-light-mediated, single-electron-transfer methods and resulting divergent mechanisms dependent upon photocatalyst selection....

This $292,130 National Science Foundation project grant supports research at Loyola University of Chicago and the University of Connecticut to develop heavy atom-free photocatalysts for chemical reactions. The grant is funded through the NSF's Mathematical and Physical Sciences program (CFDA 47.049), which aims to strengthen the nation's scientific enterprise through research in these fields. Specifically, the grant provides three years of funding until June 2026 for a collaborative research...

This collaborative research project, funded by the National Science Foundation (NSF) Division of Chemistry under the Mathematical and Physical Sciences program (CFDA 47.049), supports a three-year investigation into photocatalytic activity descriptors of atomically dispersed cobalt sites on graphitic carbon nitride. Awarded on September 1, 2025, with $300,000 in total federal obligations through August 31, 2028, the project is led by Professor Gonghu Li (University of New Hampshire), Professor...

This Project Grant award, provided by the National Science Foundation (NSF) under the Mathematical and Physical Sciences (CFDA 47.049) program, supports the development of nucleophilic cobalt photocatalysts by Dr. Spencer Pitre at Oklahoma State University. The $283,515 award will fund research to leverage cobalt complexes that mimic the reactivity of vitamin B12 in order to generate carbon radicals from non-traditional precursors using visible light photochemistry. The goal is to expand the...

The National Science Foundation Division of Chemistry awarded a three-year $250,000 Project Grant to the University of Connecticut under the Mathematical and Physical Sciences program (CFDA 47.049) to support collaborative research on the development of heavy atom-free photocatalysts for chemical reactions. The University of Connecticut, in collaboration with Loyola University-Chicago, will employ computational modeling to design and optimize metal- and halogen-free catalysts that can be...

This $462,226 federal Project Grant awarded by the National Science Foundation (NSF) Division of Chemistry will support Professor Rory Waterman of the University of Vermont in studying more efficient ways to form chemical bonds using metal compounds activated by light, a process called photocatalysis. The key objectives are to investigate a new photocatalysis phenomenon discovered in Prof. Waterman's group, develop photocatalytic approaches to forming carbon-element bonds (e.g. phosphorus,...

This three-year, $480,000 Project Grant from the National Science Foundation's Division of Chemistry and Mathematical and Physical Sciences program will support the development of sustainable catalysts and dehydrocoupling chemistry at Arizona State University. Principal Investigator Ryan J. Trovitch will study trends in earth-abundant metal catalysts to synthesize value-added chemicals and polymers more efficiently. Initial work will target precursors for semiconductor manufacturing. The project...