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Sen Zhang & Robert Gilliard Awarded PRF Grants

Sen Zhang and Robert Gilliard Awarded American Chemical Society Petroleum Research Fund Grants

In the Zhang Group the ACS PRF grant will support research on developing single-atom catalysts for the selective oxidation of methane to methanol.

In the Gilliard Group the ACS PRF grant will support the development of low-valent and cationic bismuth complexes for energy-relevant bond activation. Recently, they synthesized the first example of a carbene-bismuthinidene, which was highlighted in ChemistryViews.

 

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