Project Grant X829066010

This $157,667 project grant awarded by the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) under the Science to Achieve Results (STAR) Research Program (CFDA 66.509) will develop new models, methods, and software tools to enable greater sustainability and circularity in the U.S. chemicals industry. Key activities include creating an open-access model of the current U.S. chemicals industry, developing innovative methods for discovering novel circular chemical reaction networks, and designing frameworks for...

This Project Grant from the National Science Foundation Division of Chemistry, under the Mathematical and Physical Sciences program (CFDA 47.049), provides $353,295 to the University of Tennessee from August 1, 2022 to July 31, 2025. The funding supports research by Dr. Sirius Laursen and students to develop inexpensive, earth-abundant catalysts from non-noble metal intermetallic compounds for the conversion of waste from biomass processing into valuable diols and olefins. Through quantum...

This three-year, $480,000 Project Grant from the National Science Foundation's Division of Chemistry and Mathematical and Physical Sciences program will support the development of sustainable catalysts and dehydrocoupling chemistry at Arizona State University. Principal Investigator Ryan J. Trovitch will study trends in earth-abundant metal catalysts to synthesize value-added chemicals and polymers more efficiently. Initial work will target precursors for semiconductor manufacturing. The project...

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....

This Project Grant awarded by the National Science Foundation (NSF) Division of Chemistry, under the Mathematical and Physical Sciences (CFDA #47.049) Federal Grant Program, will support a collaborative effort between Professor Robert Waymouth of Stanford University and researchers from IBM Almaden Laboratories. The $660,000 award, with a performance period from September 1, 2024 to August 31, 2027, aims to develop and explore new catalysts and catalytic methods for transforming bio-sourced...

This $1,000,000 Project Grant from the National Science Foundation's Division of Chemistry, under the Mathematical and Physical Sciences program (CFDA 47.049), supports research at New York University to develop methods for converting lignin from pulp and paper waste into useful chemical feedstocks. Principal Investigator Tianning Diao aims to establish a microscopic reverse biosynthesis process using titanium-mediated depolymerization and electrocatalytic methods, drawing inspiration from...

This Project Grant award, funded by the National Science Foundation (NSF) Division of Chemistry under the Mathematical and Physical Sciences grant program (CFDA 47.049), supports Professor Abigail G. Doyle at the University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA) in developing novel synthetic reactions that use visible light and photocatalysts to access high-energy, polar reactive intermediates. The $630,000 award will fund the development of several key transformations, including a desaturation...

Under a $293,308 Project Grant awarded by the National Science Foundation (NSF) Division of Chemistry through the Mathematical and Physical Sciences program (CFDA 47.049), Purdue University is conducting research to develop new chiral catalysts for enantioselective photoredox-catalyzed carbon-carbon bond-forming reactions. The project aims to design efficient photochemical reactions to synthesize specific enantiomers of chiral organic molecules, which have important applications in...

This $650,000 Project Grant awarded by the National Science Foundation's (NSF) Mathematical and Physical Sciences program (CFDA 47.049) funds an industrial-academic collaboration between Princeton University and the Merck Catalysis Laboratory. The goal is to develop new sustainable catalytic methods for the large-scale synthesis of pharmaceutical drugs using earth-abundant metals like iron, cobalt, and nickel instead of rare precious metals. The research aims to identify viable catalytic...

This $369,285 National Science Foundation Division of Chemistry Project Grant supports the development of novel nonaqueous solvents known as "water-like ionic liquids" for use in enzymatic carbon-carbon bond formation reactions. Principal investigators Dr. Hua Zhao of the University of Northern Colorado and Dr. Gary Baker of the University of Missouri-Columbia, along with collaborator Dr. Katie Mitchell-Koch of Wichita State University, are designing dual-functionalized ionic liquids...