Under a $595,000 Project Grant from the National Science Foundation's Mathematical and Physical Sciences (CFDA 47.049) program, Professor Thomas Lectka of Johns Hopkins University will pursue two complementary strategies to selectively modify specific carbon-hydrogen or carbon-carbon bonds within complex molecular structures. The first approach will utilize hydrogen bonding to direct site-selective functionalization reactions, while the second will leverage metal ion binding to deactivate...
Through a $575,000 National Science Foundation (NSF) Mathematical and Physical Sciences (CFDA 47.049) award, Cornell University will investigate ways of utilizing more abundant 1st row transition metals as alternatives to expensive precious metals commonly used in catalytic chemistry. The primary objective is to develop methods for modifying 1st row transition metal compounds with ligands to provide the chemical reactivity and covalency typically associated with 2nd and 3rd row transition...
This $125,000 two-year project grant from the National Science Foundation Division of Chemical, Bioengineering, Environmental, and Transport Systems will support research and education activities under the Engineering program (CFDA 47.041). The University of Massachusetts Amherst, in collaboration with the University of Texas at El Paso, will establish an atomic-scale understanding of the interplay between structure, chemistry, catalytic activity, and mechanisms in transition metal...
This Project Grant award from the National Science Foundation (NSF) Division of Chemistry, under the Mathematical and Physical Sciences program (CFDA 47.049), provides $361,035 from July 15, 2023 to June 30, 2026 to support a collaborative research project between Professor Theodore Betley of Harvard University and Professor Kyle Lancaster of Cornell University. The project aims to synthesize and characterize novel metal-ligand multiple bond systems that can selectively incorporate functionality...
The National Science Foundation (NSF) Division of Chemistry awarded a $375,000 project grant under the Mathematical and Physical Sciences (CFDA 47.049) program to support a collaborative research effort between the University of Michigan and the University of Colorado Boulder. The grant, awarded from July 1, 2024 to June 30, 2027, aims to study the role of surface-bound ligands on metal catalysts in the direct synthesis of hydrogen peroxide, an important industrial chemical. The research team,...
Cornell University received a three-year $435,381 Project Grant from the National Science Foundation's Mathematical and Physical Sciences program to apply and develop high-resolution imaging approaches for quantifying adsorption behaviors of molecules involved in electrochemical hydrodechlorination reactions on single palladium nanoparticles. The research aims to generate fundamental knowledge to improve the efficiency of electrochemical dechlorination of chlorophenols, a class of aquatic...
The National Science Foundation (NSF) awarded a $176,349 Project Grant under the Integrative Activities program (CFDA 47.083) to the University of Iowa to develop borenium-based ligands that enable tandem catalytic reactions with transition metals. This innovative research aims to create multifunctional metallo-boron complexes capable of performing two distinct catalytic transformations using a single metal catalyst, which could lead to more efficient and cost-effective methods for...
The National Science Foundation (NSF) awarded a $595,000 Project Grant under its Mathematical and Physical Sciences (CFDA 47.049) program to Professor Hairong Guan and his research group at the University of Cincinnati. The 3-year grant, which commenced on September 1, 2024, will support the team's work to study the catalytic properties of cobalt hydrides and their applications in chemical synthesis for pharmaceuticals, energy, and materials. Key objectives include elucidating the mechanistic...
Through a $497,704 Project Grant award from the National Science Foundation's Chemical Catalysis program (CFDA 47.049 Mathematical and Physical Sciences), Professor Ming-Yu Ngai of Purdue University is conducting research to develop new sustainable catalytic processes leveraging first-row transition metals. The project aims to expand understanding of radical migration mechanisms and enable site- and stereoselective functionalization of carbohydrates and other small molecule building blocks....
This three-year, $481,116 National Science Foundation project grant supports research into size-selective catalysis using earth-abundant metals and specially designed macrocyclic ligand families. Funded under the NSF's Mathematical and Physical Sciences program (CFDA 47.049), the work builds on previous studies demonstrating the potential of macrocyclic N-heterocyclic carbene ligands for size-selective catalysis. Professor Steven T. Diver of the University at Buffalo will further develop this...