The University of Texas at Austin received a three-year, $450,000 Project Grant award from the National Science Foundation Division of Chemistry on September 15, 2021 to support research titled "SCAFFOLD-BASED BIOMIMETICS OF FE-HYDROGENASE AND NITROGENASE (FEMOCO): INTERROGATING DYNAMICS, PROTEIN MATRIX EFFECTS, AND CARBIDE MOTIFS." The award is part of NSF's Mathematical and Physical Sciences program (CFDA 47.049), which supports progress in these scientific fields to strengthen the...
The University of Texas at San Antonio received a $483,119 Project Grant award from the National Science Foundation Division of Chemistry on August 1, 2021 to support catalytic cycloaddition reaction research and applications through July 31, 2024. The grant is part of NSF's Mathematical and Physical Sciences program (CFDA 47.049), which aims to advance scientific knowledge and understanding in these fields. Under the award, UTSA researchers will conduct work exploring catalytic cycloaddition...
This Project Grant award, funded by the National Science Foundation (NSF) under the Mathematical and Physical Sciences Federal Grant Program (CFDA 47.049), supports research at the University of Texas at San Antonio (UTSA) focused on developing new catalytic methods for constructing important chemical building blocks. The $463,709 award, which began on April 1, 2025, will enable UTSA professors Oleg Larionov and Michael Doyle, in collaboration with French researchers Nicolas Blanchard and...
The National Science Foundation Division of Chemistry awarded a $450,000 Project Grant to the University of Texas at Austin to support research on Computational Methods for Modeling Reaction Dynamics in Batteries and Catalysts from June 2021 through May 2024. This award falls under the Mathematical and Physical Sciences program (CFDA 47.049), which aims to promote progress in these scientific fields and strengthen the national scientific enterprise through increasing knowledge and enhancing...
The University of Houston was awarded a three-year, $474,114 Project Grant from the National Science Foundation Division of Chemistry under the Mathematical and Physical Sciences program (CFDA 47.049). The grant will support research into "The Synthetic Use of Lewis and Bronsted Acid Catalyzed Electrophilic Deborylations" from June 2021 through May 2024. The Mathematical and Physical Sciences program aims to advance scientific knowledge and understanding in core areas of mathematics...
The University of Texas at Austin received a $548,423 Project Grant from the National Science Foundation's Mathematical and Physical Sciences program (CFDA 47.049) from July 1, 2023 to June 30, 2026. Under this award, UT Austin's Chemistry Department will develop new catalytic methods for converting abundant chemical feedstocks into value-added pharmaceutical and agrochemical products in an enantioselective manner. Graduate students will gain career development experience through internships...
The National Science Foundation awarded a $500,000 Project Grant to the University of Texas at Austin under the Mathematical and Physical Sciences program (CFDA 47.049) to support research investigations of monometallic, bimetallic and dual-anion transition metal hydroxide water oxidation electrocatalysts. The three-year award, issued on August 15, 2021 with a projected completion date of July 31, 2024, will fund the University's work exploring the catalytic properties and mechanisms of...
The National Science Foundation (NSF) awarded a $615,000 Project Grant under the Mathematical and Physical Sciences (CFDA 47.049) federal grant program to the University of Texas at San Antonio (UTSA) and Bristol Myers Squibb (BMS). This 3-year academic-industry collaboration aims to develop new metal-based catalysts that can precisely control carbon-oxygen or carbon-nitrogen bond formation in pharmaceutically relevant compounds. The research will utilize high-throughput experimentation,...
The National Science Foundation (NSF) Directorate for Mathematical and Physical Sciences awarded a $250,000 Project Grant to the University of California, Merced to explore new catalysts for the functionalization of inert small molecules. Under this 2-year grant, Professor Rebeca Arevalo and her students will synthesize and characterize earth-abundant transition metal complexes to catalyze the activation of challenging carbon-hydrogen bonds, with the goal of developing sustainable chemical...
The University of Texas at Austin was awarded a three-year, $450,000 Project Grant from the National Science Foundation under the Mathematical and Physical Sciences program (CFDA 47.049). The grant will support research into boron dipyrromethane photocages for mild and selective light-driven polymer chemistry from September 2021 through August 2024. The funding will enable the development of photolabile protecting groups to enable light-triggered reactions for polymer synthesis and modification,...