This $350,000 Project Grant award from the National Science Foundation's (NSF) Division of Chemistry, under the CFDA 47.049 Mathematical and Physical Sciences program, supports a collaborative research effort led by the University of Wisconsin-Madison, University of Missouri-Kansas City, Colorado State University, and University of Missouri to study new approaches to catalysis and electrochemistry for the synthesis of biaryl molecules. The research team will use analytical and computational...
This Project Grant awarded by the National Science Foundation (NSF) under the Mathematical and Physical Sciences program (CFDA 47.049) provides $180,000.00 to support a collaborative research project focused on developing new catalytic approaches for the electrochemical synthesis of biaryl molecules. Led by researchers at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, University of Missouri-Kansas City, and Colorado State University, the project aims to use analytical and computational tools to understand...
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 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 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 $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...
This $431,454 Project Grant award from the National Science Foundation's (NSF) Division of Chemistry under the Mathematical and Physical Sciences program will support collaborative research led by Professors V. Sara Thoi of Johns Hopkins University and Fanglin Che of the University of Massachusetts, Lowell. The research aims to design and develop new metal-organic catalytic materials for the electrochemical synthesis of commercially valuable organonitrogen compounds, such as urea, acetamide, and...
This $350,000 federal Project Grant awarded by the National Science Foundation's Division of Chemistry and Chemical Catalysis Program funds a collaborative research project to develop catalytic materials for the electrochemical synthesis of organonitrogen compounds. The principal investigators, Professor V. Sara Thoi of Johns Hopkins University and Professor Fanglin Che of the University of Massachusetts, Lowell, will study the use of boron imidazolate frameworks (BIFs) as catalysts to couple...
The National Science Foundation Division of Industrial Innovation awarded a $550,000 Project Grant to the University of Wisconsin-Madison through the Engineering federal grant program (CFDA 47.041) to support research titled "ELECTROCHEMICAL TECHNOLOGIES FOR PHARMACEUTICAL SYNTHESIS VIA NICKEL-CATALYZED ARYL-ALKYL CROSS-COUPLING." This three-year award beginning in August 2021 will fund the development of electrochemical technologies for pharmaceutical synthesis using...
This Project Grant from the National Science Foundation Division of Chemistry, under the Mathematical and Physical Sciences program (CFDA 47.049), provides $131,882 to support collaborative research on electrocatalytic synthesis of heterocycles from biomass-derived furanics via immobilized first-row transition metal catalysts. Professors Yujie Sun of Vanderbilt University and De-En Jiang of the University of California, Riverside will develop electrocatalysts using coordinatively unsaturated...