Project Grant 2535182
- The National Science Foundation (NSF) Chemical Catalysis program awarded a $675,000 Project Grant to Professors Erik Alexanian and Aleksandr Zhukhovitskiy at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill (UNC-CH). The grant, which runs from September 1, 2025 to August 31, 2028, supports their research on developing a photochemical carbonylation platform using earth-abundant cobalt catalysts. This work aims to enhance the sustainability of carbonylation reactions, which currently rely on...
- The National Science Foundation's Division of Chemistry awarded a $515,013 Project Grant to the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill to study the reaction chemistry of aromatic building blocks. The grant, which runs from August 1, 2023 to July 31, 2026, supports Professor Jeffrey Johnson's research team as they seek to develop new chemical reactions that generate highly functionalized and useful products from simpler and abundant feedstock chemicals. The research aims to convert achiral...
- The National Science Foundation (NSF) Division of Chemistry awarded a $550,000 Project Grant under the Mathematical and Physical Sciences (CFDA 47.049) program to the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill (UNC-CH) for a 3-year project. The objective is to establish light-activated reactions that form transition metal hydride complexes, which are critical for producing fuels and commodity chemicals. The research activities will study the electronic structure and photochemistry of...
- The National Science Foundation awarded a $249,988 Project Grant to the University of North Carolina at Greensboro under the Mathematical and Physical Sciences program (CFDA 47.049) to develop new photocatalysts for green oxidation processes. Professor Shabnam Hematian and her research team will study catalytic processes using light and oxygen to generate value-added chemicals from hydrocarbons. Specifically, the team will develop oxo-bridged heterobinuclear systems containing different metal...
- The National Science Foundation (NSF) Division of Chemistry awarded a $700,000 Project Grant under the Mathematical and Physical Sciences program (CFDA 47.049) to support a collaborative research effort focused on developing new approaches to catalysis and electrochemistry for the synthesis of biaryl molecules. 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...
- This Project Grant award from the National Science Foundation's (NSF) Mathematical and Physical Sciences Program (CFDA 47.049) is supporting Professor Dmitry Peryshkov at the University of South Carolina to develop metal-free reagents and catalysts for the functionalization of organic compounds. The $508,998 award, running from August 1, 2025 to July 31, 2028, will focus on designing ambiphilic phosphines decorated with boron cluster groups to mimic the behavior of transition metal catalysts....
- This $600,000 Project Grant from the National Science Foundation Division of Chemistry, under the Mathematical and Physical Sciences program (CFDA 47.049), supports research at Northwestern University to develop new atom-efficient catalytic transformations using earth-abundant metals. Professor Tobin Marks and his research group will discover, understand, and optimize f-element and d(0)-transition metal catalysts for three types of critical organic reactions, with the goal of making catalytic...
- This $575,000 federal Project Grant, awarded by the National Science Foundation (NSF) under the Mathematical and Physical Sciences (CFDA 47.049) program, supports the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill in developing new sustainable nickel-catalyzed coupling methods for the stereoselective synthesis of complex organic molecules. The 3-year project, led by Professor Simon Meek, focuses on creating efficient, site- and stereo-controlled multicomponent reactions using simple carbonyl-type...
- The National Science Foundation (NSF) Chemical Catalysis Program awarded a $570,000 Project Grant to Professor Alexander Miller at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. The 3-year grant, effective October 1, 2025 through September 30, 2028, supports research into developing switchable and tunable organometallic catalysts that can respond to external cationic stimuli to control the outcomes of organic transformations. The project aims to synthesize compact organometallic catalysts with...
- Through a $497,704 Project Grant award from the National Science Foundation's Chemical Catalysis program (CFDA 47.049 Mathematical and Physical Sciences), Professor Ming-Yu Ngai of Purdue University is conducting research to develop new sustainable catalytic processes leveraging first-row transition metals. The project aims to expand understanding of radical migration mechanisms and enable site- and stereoselective functionalization of carbohydrates and other small molecule building blocks....
The National Science Foundation (NSF) Chemical Catalysis program awarded a $560,760 project grant to the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill (UNC-CH) to study dearomatization reactions catalyzed by transition metal complexes derived from earth-abundant metals such as copper, iron, and nickel. This collaborative research project with the Université Grenoble Alpes in France will advance the understanding of how metal-ligand complex characteristics interface with different reagent combinations to promote challenging arene cyclopropanation reactions. The expected outcomes will provide the chemical community with new chiral building blocks derived from the dearomatization of heterocyclic and carbocyclic arenes, with potential applications in materials science and chemical biology. The project is being conducted under the NSF's Mathematical and Physical Sciences program (CFDA 47.049) and runs from January 1, 2026 through December 31, 2029.
Mod # | Description | ReasonForModification | Federal Obligation | Date |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Not listed | $560.8k | 9/10/25 |