Project Grant N629091612054

This $456,907 project grant from the National Science Foundation's Mathematical and Physical Sciences program will fund research into metal-free bond activation using redox-active carborane clusters. Principal Investigator Dmitry Peryshkov of the University of South Carolina will synthesize cluster compounds of boron, carbon, phosphorus and hydrogen that can donate and accept electrons to cycle through two-electron redox states. The compounds' redox activity will be utilized to enable bond...

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 $345,943 National Science Foundation Project Grant through the Integrative Activities program (CFDA 47.083) supports the development of heterobimetallic catalysts for the facile hydrodenitrogenation of aromatic nitrogen-containing compounds present in petroleum feedstocks and gasoline. Principal Investigator Virginia Montiel-Palma of Mississippi State University will design catalyst candidates incorporating two metals to react with and cleave carbon-nitrogen bonds in these compounds under...

This $550,000 Project Grant from the National Science Foundation Division of Chemistry, under the Mathematical and Physical Sciences program (CFDA 47.049), supports research at Texas A&M University from August 1, 2022 to July 31, 2025. Professor François Gabbaï and his team will investigate the synthesis and coordination chemistry of novel ambiphilic ligands featuring a carbenium ion positioned next to a phosphine- or carbene-based metal-binding site. When coordinated to late transition...

The National Science Foundation (NSF) Division of Chemistry awarded a $575,000 Project Grant to Trustees of Indiana University, doing business as Indiana University, to conduct research on a new class of molecules and solids derived from diatomic analogs of cyanide, known as cyaphide (CP) and cyarside (CAS) ions. The primary objectives of this 3-year project are to develop novel organometallic compounds containing these functional groups and explore their use in enhancing magnetic...

The National Science Foundation (NSF) Division of Chemical, Bioengineering, Environmental, and Transport Systems awarded a $500,000 Project Grant to the South Dakota School of Mines and Technology for the "ECO-DESIGN OF HYDROGENATION CATALYSTS FOR OXYANION REDUCTION: THE OVERLOOKED ROLES OF NITROGEN-CONTAINING GROUPS ON THE CATALYST SUPPORTS" project. This 3-year research effort aims to characterize the structure and performance of palladium (Pd) nanoparticle catalysts immobilized on...

This Project Grant award from the National Science Foundation (NSF), under the Mathematical and Physical Sciences program (CFDA 47.049), supports research led by Professor Scott E. Denmark at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. The $800,000 award will fund a 4-year project to develop new catalytic methods for the stereoselective synthesis of pharmaceutically-relevant heterocyclic compounds. The research aims to use selenium-based catalysts to efficiently construct important ring...

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...

Professor EunSuk Kim of Brown University was awarded a three-year, $450,223 Project Grant from the National Science Foundation Division of Chemistry under the Mathematical and Physical Sciences program (CFDA 47.049). The grant will support research investigating iron-sulfur clusters as biological sensors through synthetic modeling studies. Specifically, the grant will fund mechanistic investigations of how 4Fe-4S clusters react with nitric oxide and the characterization of novel iron nitrosyl...

This Project Grant award of $350,000 from the National Science Foundation's (NSF) Mathematical and Physical Sciences program (CFDA 47.049) supports collaborative research on electrochemical nickel-catalyzed reductive biaryl coupling. Professors Weix, Stahl, Rafiee, and Paton from the University of Wisconsin-Madison, University of Missouri-Kansas City, and Colorado State University are developing analytical and computational tools to understand the fundamental principles underlying these...