Center: NSF Center for Synthetic Organic Electrochemistry

NSF Award Search · 01002627DB NSF RESEARCH & RELATED ACTIVIT · $19,800,000 · view on nsf.gov ↗

Abstract

The ability to use electrons as chemical reagents in oxidation reactions (removing electrons) or reduction reactions (adding electrons) has long held the potential to revolutionize the way in which we synthesize everything from pharmaceuticals to new materials to agricultural products. The approach offers a simple, clean way to access new chemistry that is not available with other methods. Yet in spite of this potential and growing interest, there remain very few cases where the approach is viable at useful scales and across a range of substrates. For this reason, the CSOE team brings together synthetic chemists, surface chemists, electroanalytical chemists, theorists, materials scientists, and chemical engineers to understand the detailed processes that are central removing electrons from and adding electrons to molecules. In this way, the discoveries, new methodologies, and techniques developed in CSOE enable safer and more selective ways to build molecules in both academia and industry. Other broader impacts include graduate and postdoctoral training in team science and entrepreneurship and outreach efforts to K-12 students and science centers. Chemistry is one of our Nation’s largest and most productive industries, and the CSOE is committed to recruiting and training the talented work force needed for it to thrive. The mission of the NSF Center for Synthetic Organic Electrochemistry (CSOE) is to make synthetic organic electrochemistry mainstream through the invention

Key facts

NSF award ID
2503773
Awardee
Missouri University of Science and Technology (MO)
SAM.gov UEI
Y6MGH342N169
PI
Shelley D Minteer
Primary program
01002627DB NSF RESEARCH & RELATED ACTIVIT
All programs
Artificial Intelligence (AI), CAS-Critical Aspects of Sustainability, Advanced Manufacturing, Sustainable Chemistry, REU SUPP-Res Exp for Ugrd Supp, COMPUTATIONAL SCIENCE & ENGING
Estimated total
$19,800,000
Funds obligated
$3,800,000
Transaction type
Cooperative Agreement
Period
09/01/2025 → 08/31/2030