This $600,000 National Science Foundation project grant supports collaborative research on electrochemical nickel-catalyzed reductive biaryl coupling between researchers at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, University of Missouri-Kansas City, and Colorado State University. The team will use analytical, computational, and electroanalytical tools to study the mechanistic details of these reactions and identify factors that enable lower-cost, more sustainable synthesis of chemicals useful in...
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 three-year, $180,149 project grant from the National Science Foundation's Mathematical and Physical Sciences program (CFDA 47.049) supports collaborative research on electrochemical nickel-catalyzed reductive biaryl coupling between researchers at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, University of Missouri-Kansas City, and Colorado State University. The team will use analytical, computational, and electroanalytical tools to study the mechanistic steps of these reactions and identify factors...
This Project Grant award from the National Science Foundation's (NSF) Mathematical and Physical Sciences program, with a total funding of $700,000 and a period of performance from May 1, 2025 to April 30, 2028, supports a collaborative research project focused on developing new approaches to catalysis and electrochemistry for the synthesis of biaryl molecules. The research team, consisting of professors from the University of Wisconsin-Madison, University of Missouri-Kansas City, and Colorado...
This Project Grant award of $350,000 from the National Science Foundation's (NSF) Mathematical and Physical Sciences program (CFDA 47.049) supports collaborative research by professors at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, University of Missouri-Kansas City, and Colorado State University. The goal is to study new approaches to catalysis and electrochemistry for the synthesis of biaryl molecules, which are useful in polymers and agriculture. The researchers will use analytical and computational...
This $525,000 National Science Foundation project grant supports research at the University of California, Irvine to develop new nickel-catalyzed stereospecific cross-electrophiile coupling reactions from 2022-2025. Professor Elizabeth Jarvo and her team are studying nickel catalysis mechanisms to establish ligand features necessary to support one- and two-electron redox steps in cross-electrophiile coupling reactions. Their work seeks to provide useful late-stage functionalization strategies...
This $575,000 Project Grant award from the National Science Foundation's (NSF) Mathematical and Physical Sciences program (CFDA 47.049) supports a collaborative research project led by Professors Keary Engle of the Scripps Research Institute and Peng Liu of the University of Pittsburgh. The project focuses on developing new chemical reactions using earth-abundant nickel catalysts to efficiently synthesize valuable compounds, including medicinally relevant molecules, agrochemicals, and functional...
This $575,000 federal Project Grant, awarded by the National Science Foundation (NSF) under the Mathematical and Physical Sciences (CFDA 47.049) program, supports the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill in developing new sustainable nickel-catalyzed coupling methods for the stereoselective synthesis of complex organic molecules. The 3-year project, led by Professor Simon Meek, focuses on creating efficient, site- and stereo-controlled multicomponent reactions using simple carbonyl-type...
This $525,000 Project Grant from the National Science Foundation's Division of Chemistry, under the Mathematical and Physical Sciences program (CFDA 47.049), will fund research at Boston College on metalloradical catalysis for selective radical reactions from July 1, 2022 to June 30, 2025. Professor Peter Zhang and his team will develop new catalytic systems using earth-abundant transition metals like cobalt to mediate one-electron radical reactions as a more sustainable alternative to...
This Project Grant from the National Science Foundation Division of Chemistry, under the Mathematical and Physical Sciences program (CFDA 47.049), provides $131,882 to support collaborative research on electrocatalytic synthesis of heterocycles from biomass-derived furanics via immobilized first-row transition metal catalysts. Professors Yujie Sun of Vanderbilt University and De-En Jiang of the University of California, Riverside will develop electrocatalysts using coordinatively unsaturated...