This Project Grant from the National Science Foundation Division of Chemistry, under the Mathematical and Physical Sciences program (CFDA 47.049), provides $221,000 to Professor Karl Scheidt of Northwestern University to develop new catalytic transformations for accessing saturated heterocycles through August 1, 2022 to July 31, 2023. The funding supports research aiming to facilitate access to chiral heterocyclic compounds through new bond-forming reactions, enabling the efficient and sustainable construction of high value-added molecules and materials with broad impact on pharmaceutical research, material science, and biomedical research. By merging new photocatalytic strategies with established catalysis platforms, Professor Scheidt's research group seeks to expand the compatibility and applicability of transformations developed earlier. Results from this work are expected to facilitate improved design and rapid synthesis of target compounds via catalysis and expand the number and classes of heterocycles accessible using oxidative, photocatalytic Prins strategies.
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