Project Grant 2348052
- North Carolina State University was awarded a $500,000 Project Grant from the National Science Foundation Division of Chemistry to support research entitled "Versatile Synthesis of Chlorophylls and Bacteriochlorophylls for Fundamental Studies in Photosynthesis" from July 1, 2021 to June 30, 2024. The grant was awarded under the Mathematical and Physical Sciences program (CFDA #47.049), which aims to promote progress in these scientific fields and strengthen the national scientific...
- The National Science Foundation (NSF) awarded a Project Grant under the Biological Sciences (CFDA 47.074) program to Michigan State University to conduct collaborative research on optimizing photosynthesis. The $227,149 grant, awarded on August 15, 2025, will run through July 31, 2028. The research aims to provide new insights into how lipids in plant thylakoid membranes, the site of photosynthesis, control and fine-tune the harvesting of sunlight by light-harvesting complex II (LHCII)...
- This Project Grant award from the National Science Foundation (NSF)'s Mathematical and Physical Sciences program (CFDA 47.049) provides $365,000 in funding to Macalester College to develop a class of organic dye compounds that can interact with near-infrared light. The goal is to unlock design principles for organic dyes that can harvest solar energy outside the visible light spectrum and/or serve as imaging agents for living tissue. The research activities in synthesis and photophysical...
- The National Science Foundation (NSF) has awarded a $450,000 Project Grant under the Mathematical and Physical Sciences program (CFDA 47.049) to the University of Louisiana at Lafayette (ULL), operating through its Office of Research. This 3-year collaborative research grant, beginning September 15, 2023, will support an investigation into the initial charge separation mechanism in Photosystem I, a critical component of photosynthesis in plants, algae, and bacteria. The research team, led by...
- The National Science Foundation (NSF) awarded a $575,000 project grant under its Mathematical and Physical Sciences (MPS) program to the University of Wisconsin-Madison to study the use of light in organic synthesis. Under this 3-year award effective July 1, 2024, Professor Tehshik Yoon and his team will design novel photocatalysts that can interact directly with small molecules to control how they react and form more complex products. The research aims to transform discovery in pharmaceutical...
- The U.S. National Science Foundation (NSF) awarded a $426,000 project grant under the Mathematical and Physical Sciences (CFDA 47.049) program to The Regents of the University of California, San Francisco (UCSF) to conduct collaborative research on developing novel protein-based materials for photosynthetic energy transduction. The multi-year project, led by Professors Michael Therien and David Beratan of Duke University and William DeGrado of UCSF, aims to design and construct protein-based...
- This $369,786 Project Grant award from the National Science Foundation (NSF) Chemical Structure, Dynamics & Mechanisms-B (CSDM-B) program and the Established Program to Stimulate Competitive Research (EPSCoR) supports research conducted by Carsten Milsmann of the Department of Chemistry at West Virginia University. The goal of this 2-year project, with a completion date of Jul 31, 2027, is to develop new synthetic routes to molecular transition metal photosensitizers based on...
- This $463,149 National Science Foundation Division of Chemistry project grant supports research at Illinois State University exploring the synthesis, characterization, and reactivity of novel porphyrinoid architectures with extended conjugation pathways. Professor Timothy Lash and his students are developing new synthetic routes to fused aromatic ring porphyrin-like systems such as carborporphyrins, hydroxyporphyrinoids, and tripryolic porphyrins. These unique molecules have altered...
- The National Science Foundation (NSF) Chemical Synthesis Program awarded a $575,000 Project Grant to the University of Kansas Center for Research Inc. to develop new photochemical reactions for creating valuable and structurally complex molecules efficiently and selectively. The project, titled "Exploiting Mechanistic Knowledge to Develop Selective and Robust Synthetic N,π*-Star Photochemistry," aims to (1) generate reactive ylides from strained rings through light-induced sensitized...
- Professor Kutateladze of the University of Denver will use a $575,000 National Science Foundation Project Grant from the Mathematical and Physical Sciences program (CFDA 47.049) to further develop photoassisted approaches for the synthesis of complex heterocyclic molecules with potentially useful therapeutic properties. Over a three-year period from September 2023 through August 2026, his research aims to expand the synthetic photochemistry toolbox, specifically excited state intramolecular...
This $574,999 Project Grant award from the National Science Foundation's (NSF) Mathematical and Physical Sciences (MPS) program will support a study led by Professor Jonathan S. Lindsey of North Carolina State University on synthesizing the key pigments involved in photosynthesis - chlorophylls and bacteriochlorophylls. The objectives are to streamline a recently developed synthetic route, explore a dehydrogenation approach to access different photosynthetic tetrapyrroles, and demonstrate methods for late-stage derivatization of these pigments. The research aims to fill important technical and intellectual gaps in the photosynthetic sciences by developing robust synthetic capabilities for these valuable macrocycles. No sub-awards are planned under this grant, which has a performance period from July 1, 2024 to June 30, 2027.
Mod # | Description | ReasonForModification | Federal Obligation | Date |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Not listed | $575.0k | 3/22/24 |