The University of Washington was awarded a $500,000 Project Grant from the National Science Foundation Division of Chemistry under the Mathematical and Physical Sciences federal grant program (CFDA 47.049) to support research titled "NEW CATALYTIC TRANSFORMATIONS FOR THE SYNTHESIS OF ALKENES AND ORGANOBORON COMPOUNDS" from July 15, 2021 to June 30, 2024. The grant funding will support the University's research efforts to advance the synthesis of alkenes and organoboron compounds...
This $350,000 Project Grant award, funded by the National Science Foundation (NSF) Division of Chemistry under the Mathematical and Physical Sciences program (CFDA 47.049), supports a collaborative research project focused on the development of new electrochemical catalytic methods for the synthesis of biaryl molecules. The principal investigators from the University of Wisconsin-Madison, University of Missouri-Kansas City, and Colorado State University will use a combination of experimental and...
This $700,000 Project Grant award was provided by the National Science Foundation (NSF) under the Mathematical and Physical Sciences Federal Grant Program (CFDA 47.049) to support research on electrochemical nickel-catalyzed reductive biaryl coupling. Professors Daniel Weix and Shannon Stahl of the University of Wisconsin-Madison, Professor Mohammad Rafiee of the University of Missouri-Kansas City, and Professor Robert Paton of Colorado State University are collaborating on this project to...
This Project Grant award from the National Science Foundation's (NSF) Division of Chemistry, under the Mathematical and Physical Sciences (CFDA 47.049) Federal Grant Program, provides $551,717 in funding to the University of Washington for a 3-year project period from August 1, 2024 to July 31, 2027. The project, led by Professor Frantisek Turecek, focuses on developing new chemical reactions for crosslinking biomolecular ions representing components of proteins and nucleic acids. The research...
The University of Washington was awarded a $465,556 Project Grant from the National Science Foundation Division of Chemistry under the Mathematical and Physical Sciences program (CFDA 47.049). The grant will fund research from July 2021 through June 2024 to advance mechanistic discovery for materials synthesis across scales using atomically precise cluster building blocks. The work will leverage nanoscale building blocks to synthesize new materials from the atomic to the macroscale. Insights...
The National Science Foundation (NSF) Division of Chemistry awarded a $575,000 Project Grant titled "DEVELOPING NEW CATALYTIC REACTIVITY OF EARTH-ABUNDANT ORGANOCHALCOGEN COMPLEXES" to the University of Washington under the Mathematical and Physical Sciences (CFDA 47.049) program. This grant supports Professor Forrest Michael's research to develop new, more sustainable catalysts based on readily available chalcogen (sulfur, selenium, tellurium) compounds, as an alternative to...
This $575,000 Project Grant from the National Science Foundation's Division of Chemistry, under the Mathematical and Physical Sciences program (CFDA 47.049), will fund research at the University of California, San Diego to synthesize and study the reactivity of unusual main group elements stabilized by transition metal isocyanide complexes, from July 1, 2023 to June 30, 2026. Specifically, Professor Joshua S. Figueroa will manipulate boron monofluoride and diphosphorus molecules, which are...
This Project Grant award, funded by the National Science Foundation's (NSF) Mathematical and Physical Sciences Program (CFDA 47.049), supports collaborative research by professors at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, University of Missouri-Kansas City, and Colorado State University to study new approaches to catalysis and electrochemistry for the synthesis of biaryl molecules. The $180,000 award will be used to develop analytical and computational tools to understand the fundamental...
This $780,000 federal Project Grant award from the National Science Foundation's (NSF) Division of Chemistry under the Mathematical and Physical Sciences Federal Grant Program (CFDA 47.049) supports Professor Brandi Cossairt of the University of Washington in her research to discover new nanomaterials with unique properties. Specifically, the funding will enable Cossairt and her team to study how "magic-sized clusters" can be used to synthesize semiconductor nanocrystals with...
The National Science Foundation (NSF) awarded Purdue University a $575,000 Project Grant under the Mathematical and Physical Sciences (CFDA 47.049) federal grant program. The grant supports Professor Christopher Uyeda's research on developing multi-metallic catalysts to improve the efficiency and sustainability of chemical processes used in medicine, agriculture, and polymer chemistry. Key activities include designing new ligands that can bind multiple metals to create more active and...