This Project Grant award, valued at $550,692.00 and provided by the National Science Foundation's (NSF) Division of Chemistry under the Mathematical and Physical Sciences Federal Grant Program (CFDA 47.049), supports a research team at the University of Illinois at Chicago in developing new chemical reactions using N-alkenylnitrones and N,O-dialkenylhydroxylamines as reactive intermediates. The goal is to rapidly assemble novel molecules with defined three-dimensional structures through...
The University of Notre Dame received a $475,000 Project Grant award from the National Science Foundation Division of Chemistry. The grant is part of the NSF's Mathematical and Physical Sciences program (CFDA 47.049) to promote progress in these fields and strengthen the national scientific enterprise. Under the three-year award beginning in August 2021, the University will conduct research toward iron olefin metathesis, synthesizing and studying the reactivity of iron carbenes. The project aims...
The National Science Foundation awarded a $685,000 Project Grant to the University of Notre Dame under the Mathematical and Physical Sciences program (CFDA 47.049) to support the research project "FORMATION AND REDOX CHEMISTRY OF METAL POLYSULFANIDO COMPLEXES FOR SULFUR TRANSFER REACTIONS" from June 1, 2021 through May 31, 2026. The University of Notre Dame will conduct research on the formation and redox chemistry of metal polysulfanido complexes and their application to sulfur...
The University of Notre Dame received a $480,000 Project Grant award from the National Science Foundation Division of Chemistry. The grant falls under the Mathematical and Physical Sciences program (CFDA 47.049), which aims to advance scientific knowledge and understanding in these fields. Through this three-year award beginning December 2021, the University will conduct research to create metastable clusters and assemblies of molecules and characterize their intermolecular interactions. The...
This federal Project Grant award of $271,440 was provided by the National Science Foundation's (NSF) Division of Chemistry under the Mathematical and Physical Sciences (CFDA 47.049) program. The funding supports Professor Filippo Romiti at the University of Texas at Dallas (UTD) in developing new chemical methods and synthesis strategies for the preparation of biologically active heterodimeric natural products, particularly complex bisindole alkaloids. The key products and services to be...
The National Science Foundation Division of Chemistry awarded a $499,999 Project Grant to the University of Notre Dame under the Mathematical and Physical Sciences program (CFDA 47.049) to support research on organometallic functionalization of colloidal nanocrystal surfaces for catalysis from June 1, 2022 to May 31, 2025. Under this award, Professor Emily Tsui and her research team will study the use of organometallic metal carbonyl fragments coordinated to the surfaces of semiconductor...
This 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), provides $600,000 over 3 years to support research by Professor Alison Frontier at the University of Rochester. The research aims to: Explore and characterize "anomalous" cyclization reactions that lie at the interface between well-defined reaction classes, to improve understanding of these ambiguous,...
The University of Notre Dame received a $491,300 Project Grant award from the National Science Foundation Division of Chemistry on September 1, 2021 to support research titled "SELF-IMMOLATIVE BOLAAMPHIPHILES FOR SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION ACROSS BILAYER MEMBRANES." The award will fund research through August 31, 2024 under the NSF's Mathematical and Physical Sciences program (CFDA 47.049), which aims to promote progress in these scientific fields and strengthen the national scientific...
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...
Professors Olaf Wiest and Paul Helquist at the University of Notre Dame are developing computational methods for the fast and accurate prediction of enantioselectivity in metal-catalyzed reactions under a $620,000 National Science Foundation project grant from the Mathematical and Physical Sciences program (CFDA 47.049). The project will continue work on a virtual screening tool that uses quantum-guided molecular mechanics to predict specific catalysts that will produce desired enantiomeric...