This Project Grant award from the National Science Foundation's (NSF) Mathematical and Physical Sciences Program (CFDA 47.049) provides $600,000 to the University of Rochester to study anomalous versions of well-understood chemical reactions. The 3-year project (7/1/2025 - 6/30/2028) will focus on exploring the boundaries between electrocyclic and ionic reactivity, developing higher-order cationic electrocyclizations, and investigating nonlinear polyene cyclizations to synthesize complex...
The National Science Foundation (NSF), through its Mathematical and Physical Sciences program (CFDA 47.049), awarded a $234,925 Project Grant to the University of Florida. The funding supports research conducted by Professor Kate Carroll to investigate post-translational protein cysteine modifications and the chemical reactivity of sulfur. The research explores how different cysteine thiol group modifications impact the properties of the sulfur atom, which is essential for understanding the role...
The University of California, Santa Barbara will receive $500,000 from the National Science Foundation Division of Chemistry under the Mathematical and Physical Sciences program (CFDA 47.049) from September 1, 2021 to August 31, 2024. The funding will support the project "Harnessing the Reactivity of Sulfur: From Novel S-Atom Transfer Reagents to Sulfide-Protected Nanoclusters," which aims to advance the understanding of sulfur chemistry through development of new sulfur-transfer...
This National Science Foundation project grant of $550,461 will fund research at the University of California, Davis from July 2022 to June 2025 under the Mathematical and Physical Sciences program (CFDA 47.049). Professor Tantillo of the UC Davis Department of Chemistry will use computational chemistry methods to advance the fundamental understanding of reaction mechanisms and reactivity principles in organic chemistry. Specifically, the research will construct new mechanistic models to explain...
This Project Grant award of $510,759 from the National Science Foundation (NSF) Division of Chemistry supports a research collaboration led by Professors Andrew Mitchell of Illinois State University and Dean Tantillo of UC-Davis. The goal is to develop new chemical reactions with connections to biology, medicine, physics, materials, and environmental sustainability. Key products include: Advancing oxidopyrylium-based [5+2] cycloaddition reactions to construct important heterocyclic small...
The National Science Foundation (NSF) Division of Chemistry awarded a $530,000 Project Grant to the University of California, Berkeley under the Mathematical and Physical Sciences program (CFDA 47.049) to develop new computer simulation models for studying light-driven chemical processes. The three-year grant, effective September 1, 2023, will enable the Neuscamman research group to create advanced tools for accurately simulating the movement of electrons and molecules in response to light...
This Project Grant award from the National Science Foundation's (NSF) Mathematical and Physical Sciences program (CFDA 47.049) provides $600,000 in funding to the University of Delaware to develop new methods for the synthesis of cyclic molecules containing oxygen and nitrogen atoms. The primary focus is on establishing enantioselective copper-catalyzed additions of alkynes to cyclic oxocarbenium and iminium ion intermediates to efficiently produce oxygen and nitrogen heterocycles with...
The National Science Foundation (NSF), through its Mathematical and Physical Sciences (CFDA 47.049) program, awarded a $301,463 project grant to the University of Missouri System's Missouri University of Science & Technology. The grant supports computational chemistry research conducted by Professor Greg Tschumper's group to study non-covalent molecular interactions and their applications for organic semiconductor devices. The project will employ high-accuracy quantum mechanics-based methods...
The National Science Foundation Division of Chemistry awarded a $630,000 Project Grant to The Research Foundation For The State University Of New York to support research titled "CAREER:CAS: MECHANISTIC INVESTIGATION OF PHOTOREDOX REACTIONS" from July 1, 2021 to June 30, 2026. The funding supports mechanistic investigation of photoredox reactions under the NSF's Mathematical and Physical Sciences program (CFDA 47.049), which aims to promote progress in these fields and strengthen the...
This $542,333 federal Project Grant award from the National Science Foundation's (NSF) Mathematical and Physical Sciences program supports research by Professor Eunsuk Kim of Brown University to develop a new class of catalysts capable of efficiently inserting or removing sulfur from molecules. The project will focus on synthesizing and comparing the catalytic activities of two groups of molybdenum-containing catalysts with tridentate and tetradentate ligand frameworks. The goal is to create...