This National Science Foundation project grant of $300,000 supports research into electrochemical nickel-catalyzed reductive biaryl coupling reactions from May 1, 2022 to April 30, 2025. The award funds a collaborative team from the University of Missouri-Kansas City, the University of Wisconsin-Madison, and Colorado State University under the Mathematical and Physical Sciences program (CFDA 47.049). Specifically, the team will use analytical, computational and electroanalytical tools to study...
This National Science Foundation (NSF) Project Grant award under the Mathematical and Physical Sciences (CFDA 47.049) program provides $575,000 in funding from July 1, 2024 to June 30, 2027 to support a collaborative research project on nickel-catalyzed organic reactions. Professors Keary Engle of Scripps Research Institute and Peng Liu of the University of Pittsburgh are leading the project, which aims to develop new chemical reactions to streamline the synthesis of valuable compounds,...
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 $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...
Professor Sarah E. Reisman of the California Institute of Technology (Caltech) will use a $900,000 Project Grant from the National Science Foundation's (NSF) Mathematical and Physical Sciences program (CFDA 47.049) to develop new catalytic reactions for the synthesis of natural products. Over three years from July 2022 to June 2025, Reisman and her team will focus on inventing, testing, and refining new carbon-carbon bond forming reactions through two natural product synthesis projects. 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 $200,000 Project Grant award from the National Science Foundation (NSF) Mathematical and Physical Sciences (CFDA 47.049) program will support a postdoctoral research fellowship under the mentorship of Dr. Sarah Reisman at the California Institute of Technology (Caltech). The fellowship, awarded to Dr. Kristen Gardner, aims to develop a novel dual ligand nickel-catalyzed system for enantioselective cross-coupling reactions using unactivated alkyl chlorides. This research seeks to address...
The National Science Foundation (NSF) awarded a $331,854 Project Grant under the Mathematical and Physical Sciences (CFDA 47.049) program to the University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA) to support a computational and experimental research project focused on developing asymmetric iron-catalyzed cross-coupling reactions. The project, led by Dr. Osvaldo Gutierrez, aims to advance the fundamental understanding and design of these reactions, which have significant potential for creating...
This $600,000 Project Grant from the National Science Foundation's Mathematical and Physical Sciences program (CFDA 47.049) supports synthetic and mechanistic studies of nickel-catalyzed 1,2-dicarbofunctionalization of alkenes. The Scripps Research Institute is the primary awardee, with work taking place in La Jolla, California from July 2021 through June 2024. Additionally, a sub-award of $TBD is provided to the University of Pittsburgh to support complementary research activities. This funding...
This $700,000 federal project grant, awarded by the National Science Foundation (NSF) Division of Chemistry under the Mathematical and Physical Sciences Federal Grant Program (CFDA 47.049), supports a collaborative research project on electrochemically-driven, nickel-catalyzed biaryl synthesis. Led by researchers at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, University of Missouri-Kansas City, and Colorado State University, the project focuses on developing analytical and computational tools to...