Project Grant 2154620
- The University of Pennsylvania has been awarded a $600,000 Project Grant from the National Science Foundation's (NSF) Mathematical and Physical Sciences (CFDA 47.049) program. The award supports Professor Daniel Mindiola's research on developing well-defined metal complexes that can challenge current paradigms of acid-base chemistry. Specifically, the project aims to explore the deprotonation of un-activated carbon-hydrogen bonds in natural and shale gases, with the goal of converting these...
- 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...
- Professor Karen Goldberg of the University of Pennsylvania will develop new catalytic systems for the selective conversion of natural gas to higher-value chemicals using oxygen as the oxidant under a $575,000 Project Grant from the National Science Foundation's Division of Chemistry. The three-year award, made under the Mathematical and Physical Sciences program (CFDA 47.049), will support the design of transition metal complexes capable of selectively activating and functionalizing alkane C-H...
- The National Science Foundation (NSF), through its Mathematical and Physical Sciences program (CFDA 47.049), awarded a $600,000 project grant to Professor Neil C. Tomson of the University of Pennsylvania. The 3-year project, starting on September 1, 2025, aims to study how iron-based catalysts can selectively activate and functionalize carbon-carbon sigma bonds under mild conditions. This research will lay the groundwork for future technologies that can produce pharmaceuticals, plastics, and...
- The National Science Foundation (NSF) Chemical Catalysis program awarded a $560,760 project grant to the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill (UNC-CH) to study dearomatization reactions catalyzed by transition metal complexes derived from earth-abundant metals such as copper, iron, and nickel. This collaborative research project with the Université Grenoble Alpes in France will advance the understanding of how metal-ligand complex characteristics interface with different reagent...
- The National Science Foundation (NSF) awarded a $575,000 Project Grant under the Mathematical and Physical Sciences (CFDA 47.049) program to The Trustees of Columbia University in the City of New York. The grant supports a 3-year research project led by Professor Gerard Parkin to study the synthesis, structure, and reactivity of alkylperoxide, hydroperoxide, and fluoromethyl compounds of earth-abundant metals like magnesium, calcium, and zinc. This research aims to reduce the chemical industry's...
- This federal Project Grant award from the National Science Foundation's (NSF) Mathematical and Physical Sciences program, with a total funding amount of $575,000, supports the research conducted by Professor Kozlowski at the University of Pennsylvania. The key products and services delivered through this funding include: Developing novel oxidative synthetic methods for complex molecule synthesis, with a focus on designing environmentally benign chemical processes. This involves optimizing...
- The National Science Foundation (NSF) Division of Chemistry awarded a 3-year, $550,000 Project Grant to Professor Eric Schelter and his research group at the University of Pennsylvania. The grant supports research into the organometallic chemistry of cerium, thorium, uranium, and Group IV metal compounds, particularly those containing metal-ligand multiple bonds. The project aims to synthesize new metal-ligand multiply bonded organometallic compounds of these elements, study their...
- The National Science Foundation (NSF) awarded a $620,521 Project Grant under the Mathematical and Physical Sciences program (CFDA 47.049) to Professor T. Brent Gunnoe of the University of Virginia (UVA) to study the development of new catalysts for hydrocarbon functionalization. The research aims to enable more direct and efficient routes for converting chemicals derived from natural gas and petroleum into higher value products, addressing scientific challenges in performing selective and...
- The National Science Foundation (NSF) awarded a $650,151 Project Grant under its Mathematical and Physical Sciences program (CFDA 47.049) to Yale University. The grant, titled "Insights into Alkene Hydrofunctionalization from Mechanistic and Reactivity Studies," supports Professor Patrick Holland's research on developing cobalt catalysts for the efficient transformation of simple chemical feedstocks into more complex molecules. The project aims to improve the mechanistic understanding,...
The National Science Foundation Division of Chemistry awarded a $525,000 Project Grant to The Trustees of the University of Pennsylvania to support research into the activation and functionalization of volatile alkanes under mild conditions with earth-abundant base metals. The grant falls under the Mathematical and Physical Sciences program (CFDA 47.049), which aims to strengthen the nation's scientific enterprise through increased fundamental knowledge and understanding of major problems. Professor Daniel J. Mindiola and his research team at the University of Pennsylvania will study the reactivity of titanium, vanadium, and niobium ions in selectively dehydrogenating methane, ethane, and propane into olefin products at room temperature. They will investigate metal-carbon, nitrogen, phosphorus, and chalcogen multiple bonds and their reactivity with alkanes, with the goal of optimizing conditions for higher catalytic turnover using base metal complexes. The team also plans to synthesize group 4 transition metal bischalcogenides and heterobimetallics. The research has the potential to enable the sustainable production of industrially valuable olefin building blocks from volatile natural gas components on an environmentally-friendly basis.
Mod # | Description | ReasonForModification | Federal Obligation | Date |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Not listed | $525.0k | 7/11/22 |