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 $550,692 to a research team at the University of Illinois at Chicago. The grant supports the development of new reactions using N-alkenylnitrones and N,O-dialkenylhydroxylamines as reactive intermediates to rapidly assemble novel molecules with defined three-dimensional structures. The research aims to improve...
This $575,000 Project Grant award from the National Science Foundation's (NSF) Mathematical and Physical Sciences program (CFDA 47.049) supports a collaborative research project led by Professors Keary Engle of the Scripps Research Institute and Peng Liu of the University of Pittsburgh. The project focuses on developing new chemical reactions using earth-abundant nickel catalysts to efficiently synthesize valuable compounds, including medicinally relevant molecules, agrochemicals, and functional...
This Project Grant award from the National Science Foundation (NSF) Division of Chemistry, under the Mathematical and Physical Sciences program (CFDA 47.049), provides $361,035 from July 15, 2023 to June 30, 2026 to support a collaborative research project between Professor Theodore Betley of Harvard University and Professor Kyle Lancaster of Cornell University. The project aims to synthesize and characterize novel metal-ligand multiple bond systems that can selectively incorporate functionality...
Under a $595,000 Project Grant from the National Science Foundation's Mathematical and Physical Sciences (CFDA 47.049) program, Professor Thomas Lectka of Johns Hopkins University will pursue two complementary strategies to selectively modify specific carbon-hydrogen or carbon-carbon bonds within complex molecular structures. The first approach will utilize hydrogen bonding to direct site-selective functionalization reactions, while the second will leverage metal ion binding to deactivate...
This $700,000 federal Project Grant award from the National Science Foundation's (NSF) Division of Chemistry, under the Mathematical and Physical Sciences (CFDA 47.049) program, supports a collaborative research project led by professors from the University of Wisconsin-Madison, University of Missouri-Kansas City, and Colorado State University. The project focuses on developing new approaches to catalysis and electrochemistry for the synthesis of biaryl molecules, which are useful in polymers...
The National Science Foundation Division of Chemistry awarded a $366,433 Project Grant to Cornell University to conduct collaborative research on the electronic structure and reactivity of transition metal complexes with Professor Theodore Betley of Harvard University and Professor Kyle Lancaster of Cornell University. The overarching goals of the 3-year project, which began on July 15, 2023, are to explore how metal-ligand compositions and changing oxidation levels alter the physical properties...
The National Science Foundation Division of Chemistry awarded $550,000 to the University of Utah under the Mathematical and Physical Sciences federal grant program (CFDA 47.049) to support research transforming amines into complex polycyclic molecules and natural products from June 1, 2023 to May 31, 2026. Professor Andrew G. Roberts and his research team will develop new synthetic methodology using tertiary amines as templates to iteratively form carbon-nitrogen and carbon-carbon bonds,...
This Project Grant award of $785,000 from the National Science Foundation's (NSF) Mathematical and Physical Sciences Federal Grant Program (CFDA 47.049) supports Professor Pier Alexandre Champagne of the New Jersey Institute of Technology (NJIT) in advancing the chemical understanding of reactive sulfur species. The research aims to develop new synthetic donors of reactive sulfur species, use these donors to study the behavior of these species, and apply computational techniques to...
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...
This National Science Foundation (NSF) Project Grant award, provided through the Mathematical and Physical Sciences (CFDA 47.049) program, is supporting Professor Jon Njardarson of the University of Arizona in developing new chemical reaction cascades. These reactions leverage readily available feedstock materials and negatively charged reaction partners to efficiently produce higher-value fine chemical products. The $550,000 award, with a period of performance from September 1, 2025 to August...