ERC Starting Grant · 2025
Conceptual development: modulating and utilizing intrinsic reactivity
This project focuses on fundamental principles of organic reactivity. Achieving broad manipulable selectivity in catalysis is often hindered by limited understanding of the mechanistic generality across various systems. This concept-driven project will offer a new way of thinking, starting by revealing whether each selectivity pattern is incidental on its own or systematic across a family of reactions. Between competing pathways at the transition state (TS), a very under-explored aspect is that each pathway has a distinct sensitivity to changes in the kinetic-thermodynamic relationship—how much can a given change in reaction free energy impact reaction rates. Adjusting the thermodynamic…
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