ARI-R2: Partial Renovation of Kenan Chemistry Laboratories

该奖项是根据2009年美国复苏和再投资法案（公法111-5）资助的。该项目的目标是改造四个湿合成实验室（约。7300平方米（英尺）在北卡罗来纳州查佩尔山大学。这些实验室为无机化学的五名教师提供研究空间。 改造需要更换所有现有的实验室工作台，通风柜和学生食堂。每个实验室将升级到现有HVAC系统容量允许的最大通风柜数量。由于该设施的年龄（建于1971年），石棉和汞减排将需要。五名教师受到升级是非常知名的研究人员，其中两人是美国国家科学院的成员。目前，他们正在进行NSF资助的项目，包括质子耦合电子转移的机理研究、金属催化的二烯和烯烃聚合、寻找和开发新的四电子给体配体、用于对映选择性催化和分离的手性多孔材料以及电子结构、分子结构和氧化还原电位之间的相互关系。该项目将加强研究基础设施。该部门拥有大量的化学专业（635）和学生人数不足的少数民族的显着比例。该小组约有45名研究生和博士后，10名本科生。所有参与这些项目的学生的培训将受益于升级后的设施。

This award is funded under the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009 (Public Law 111-5). The goal of this project is to renovate four wet synthetic laboratories (ca. 7300 sq. ft.) at the University of North Carolina Chapel Hill. These laboratories provide research space to five faculty members in inorganic chemistry. The renovation entails replacement of all current lab benches, fume hoods, and student carrels. Each laboratory will be upgraded to the maximum number of fume hoods allowable by the capacity of the existing HVAC system. Due to the age of the facility (constructed in 1971), asbestos and mercury abatement will be required.The five faculty members affected by the upgrade are highly renowned researchers, with two of them being members of the National Academy of Sciences. They have significant levels of extramural funding and currently work on NSF-funded projects including mechanistic studies of proton coupled electron transfer, metal-catalyzed diene and olefin polymerizations, finding and exploiting new four-electron donor ligands, chiral porous materials for enantioselective catalysis and separations, and the interrelationship between electronic structure, molecular structure and redox potential.The project will enhance infrastructure for research. The Department boasts a large number of chemistry majors (635) and a significant percentage of students from underrepresented minorities. The group has about 45 graduate students and postdocs, and 10 undergraduate students. The training of all of the students engaged in these programs will benefit from the upgraded facilities.