Project Grant 2441131
- This National Science Foundation (NSF) award, under the Mathematical and Physical Sciences (CFDA 47.049) program, provides $575,000 to the University of California, Davis (UC Davis) to study the development of new silicon-based molecules and their use as catalysts for efficient organic synthesis and renewable polymer production. The 3-year project, led by Professor Annaliese Franz, aims to design innovative multi-functional silanol ligands with unique properties that can enable the creation of...
- This $650,000 Project Grant awarded by the National Science Foundation's (NSF) Mathematical and Physical Sciences program (CFDA 47.049) funds an industrial-academic collaboration between Princeton University and the Merck Catalysis Laboratory. The goal is to develop new sustainable catalytic methods for the large-scale synthesis of pharmaceutical drugs using earth-abundant metals like iron, cobalt, and nickel instead of rare precious metals. The research aims to identify viable catalytic...
- The National Science Foundation (NSF) Division of Chemistry awarded a $799,799 five-year CAREER grant to Dr. Prokopchuk at Rutgers University-Newark. The grant, titled "CAREER: CAS: Modulating Ligand-based C-H and N-H Bond Strengths for Sustainable Synthesis and Catalysis", aims to design redox-active organic and organometallic systems capable of efficiently transferring protons, electrons, and hydrogen atoms. This research will impact the development of sustainable methods for...
- The National Science Foundation's (NSF) Mathematical and Physical Sciences program awarded a $675,000 Project Grant to the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill (UNC-CH) to study fundamental catalytic reactions for small molecule building blocks and commodity polymers using earth-abundant cobalt catalysts. Professors Erik Alexanian and Aleksandr Zhukhovitskiy will develop a photochemical carbonylation platform to enhance the sustainability of carbonylation processes, which currently rely...
- The National Science Foundation (NSF) awarded a $250,000 Project Grant under the Mathematical and Physical Sciences program (CFDA 47.049) to Scripps College in Claremont, CA. The grant, led by Professor Anna Wenzel, will support research on the use of copper and silver catalysts for the addition of nitrogen-hydrogen and phosphorus-hydrogen bonds to alkenes, which has significant implications for the pharmaceutical and agrochemical industries. The project aims to develop asymmetric catalytic...
- The National Science Foundation (NSF) is providing a $600,000 Project Grant under the Mathematical and Physical Sciences program (CFDA 47.049) to the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) for a 4-year research project led by Professor Alexander Radosevich. The project aims to develop inexpensive, earth-abundant chemical catalysts capable of enabling novel bond-making and bond-breaking reactions. Specific research areas include using proton-coupled electron transfer (PCET) to activate C-H...
- 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...
- The National Science Foundation (NSF) awarded a $575,000 Project Grant under the Mathematical and Physical Sciences (CFDA 47.049) program to The Trustees of Columbia University in the City of New York. The grant supports a 3-year research project led by Professor Gerard Parkin to study the synthesis, structure, and reactivity of alkylperoxide, hydroperoxide, and fluoromethyl compounds of earth-abundant metals like magnesium, calcium, and zinc. This research aims to reduce the chemical industry's...
- The National Science Foundation's (NSF) Mathematical and Physical Sciences Federal Grant Program awarded a $750,000 CAREER grant to Professor Ivan A. Moreno-Hernandez of Duke University. The project, titled "HARNESSING CHEMISTRY AND DISORDER TO ACTIVATE OXYGEN ELECTROCATALYSIS," aims to study strategies for improving iridium oxide-based nanocrystal electrocatalysts for the oxygen evolution reaction. The research will employ the synthesis and manipulation of metal oxide nanocrystals...
- This Project Grant award from the National Science Foundation's (NSF) Mathematical and Physical Sciences program (CFDA 47.049) is supporting Professor Neil C. Tomson of the University of Pennsylvania in studying the selective activation and functionalization of carbon-carbon bonds using metal catalysts. The $600,000 award, with a period of performance from September 1, 2025 to August 31, 2028, will allow Professor Tomson's team to explore how tailor-made iron complexes can split strong...
The National Science Foundation (NSF) Chemical Synthesis Program in the Division of Chemistry awarded a $526,443 CAREER grant to Professor Alexandra Strom of Smith College to conduct research on developing new iron-catalyzed reactions of carbonyl electrophiles. The goal of this 5-year project is to create novel chemical transformations using earth-abundant iron catalysts, enabling more efficient synthesis of pharmaceuticals, agrochemicals, and other important molecules. The research will explore functionalization of carbonyl groups and umpolung reactivity, advancing fundamental knowledge in sustainable catalysis. In addition to the research objectives, the project will engage undergraduate researchers at Smith College, the largest women's college in the U.S., through coursework, a proposal writing project, and an annual workshop to prepare them for scientific careers. This grant supports key priorities of the NSF's Mathematical and Physical Sciences (CFDA 47.049) program, which funds fundamental and applied research across mathematics, physics, chemistry, and astronomy.
Mod # | Description | ReasonForModification | Federal Obligation | Date |
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| Not listed | $440.6k | 7/9/25 | ||
| Not listed | $85.8k | 12/26/24 |