Shannon Stahl, University of Wisconsin-Madison, $150,000 “Oxidation/Epoxidation Methods Without the Use of Chlorinated Solvents: Chemoselective Aerobic Alcohol Oxidation Catalyzed by Earth-Abundant Metals”
Wei Zhang, University of Massachusetts-Boston, $25,000 “Greener Grignard Reactions”
Charles Liotta, Georgia Tech University, $150,000 “Green and Effective Continuous Catalytic Homo-Nazarov Cyclization Towards Multi-Step Synthesis of Heteroaromatic Ring-Fused Clyclohexanones”
David Cole-Hamilton, University of St. Andrews, $150,000 “Amide Hydrogenation to Amines”
Robert Crabtree, Yale University, $160,000 “Atom Economic Alcohol Activation and Amide Synthesis Using Base-Metal Catalysts Heterogenized on Titania Nanoparticles”
Michael Krische, University of Texas-Austin, $129,000 “Byproduct-Free Synthesis of Chiral Amines via C-C Bond Forming Transfer Hydrogenation and Hydrogen Auto-Transfer”