CAREER: Studies of Catalytic Carbon Dioxide Reduction, Metallodithiolene Chemistry and Community Outreach to Build the Chemical Workforce

职业：催化二氧化碳还原、金属二硫烯化学和社区外展研究以建设化学劳动力

• 批准号: 0845829
• 负责人: James Donahue
• 金额: $ 57万
• 依托单位: Tulane University
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 项目类别: Standard Grant
• 财政年份: 2009
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2009-07-01 至 2015-06-30
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=0845829&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: CAREER; Studies; Catalytic; Carbon; Dioxide

This award by the Inorganic, Bioinorganic and Organometallic Chemistry Program and the Experimental Program to Stimulate Competitive Research (EPSCoR) to Professor James P. Donahue of Tulane University addresses the synthetic and thermodynamic challenges of reducing carbon dioxide (CO2). Carbon dioxide is a greenhouse gas that threatens our social, economic and environmental security because of its potential to induce climate change through global warming. The ability to transform even a small percentage of anthropogenic CO2 to chemical fuels that can be transported and stored would be beneficial. A key transformation in CO2 reduction, and the most energy intensive step, is the transformation to carbon monoxide (CO). The Donahue laboratory utilizes unique, bioinorganic-inspired approaches to catalytic CO2-to-CO reduction. The broader impacts of this work include the possible development of new insights into how nature has modified (and presumably lowered) the kinetic barrier that prevents CO2 from being easily utilized as a chemical feedstock for fuels, pharmaceuticals, and plastics. Undergraduate students from local small colleges that do not have access to research facilities are engaged in Professor Donahue's laboratories. Additionally, the chemistry demonstration series has been re-instated in New Orleans grade schools. The undergraduates involved in this project fulfill the requirements of a new public service degree requirement at Tulane Univeristy while sparking curiosity in chemistry at the grade school and middle school levels.

该奖项由无机、生物无机和有机金属化学项目以及刺激竞争研究实验项目 (EPSCoR) 授予杜兰大学 James P. Donahue 教授，解决了减少二氧化碳 (CO2) 的合成和热力学挑战。二氧化碳是一种温室气体，威胁着我们的社会、经济和环境安全，因为它有可能通过全球变暖引发气候变化。如果能够将一小部分人为二氧化碳转化为可以运输和储存的化学燃料，那将是有益的。二氧化碳减排的一个关键转变，也是能源最密集的步骤，是转变为一氧化碳 (CO)。 Donahue 实验室利用独特的生物无机启发方法将二氧化碳催化还原为二氧化碳。这项工作的更广泛影响包括可能对大自然如何改变（并可能降低）阻碍二氧化碳被轻易用作燃料、药品和塑料化学原料的动能屏障产生新的见解。来自当地小型学院的本科生无法使用研究设施，他们在多纳休教授的实验室工作。此外，化学演示系列已在新奥尔良小学恢复。参与该项目的本科生满足了杜兰大学新的公共服务学位要求，同时激发了小学和初中学生对化学的好奇心。