Projects

“Chirality-sensitive Nuclear Magnetoelectric Resonance”

European Research Council

1 500 000 EUR, 2022-2027

The NMER project aims to lift the blindness of nuclear magnetic resonance (NMR) spectroscopy to molecular chirality by observation of chirality-sensitive magnetoelectric effects, which enables the identification of enantiomers directly without requiring chemical shift reagents or chiral solvents. Direct chiral NMR effects are very small and have not been previously detected; thus, the project will utilize several unique new strategies, such as hyperpolarization techniques and novel instrumentation, to dramatically enhance the chirality-sensitive NMR signals and then implement them in the several major areas of NMR spectroscopy.

Three postdoctoral positions are open in the European Research Council (ERC) Starting Grant project “Chirality-sensitive Nuclear Magnetoelectric Resonance” (NMER) at the University of Warsaw, Poland:

position #1  – construction of transceivers operating at frequencies of 10-400 MHz and usage of them for measurements of nuclear magnetic resonance,

position #2 – development and optimization of the hyperpolarization of chiral molecules,

position #3 – computations of tensors of nuclear interactions (nuclear magnetic shielding, spin-spin coupling).

Application deadline: January 26th, 2023

“Determination of the molecular structure by means of spin-spin interactions in an electric field”

National Science Centre in Poland, 2018/31/B/ST4/0257

181 500 EUR, 2019-2022

“New method for direct chirality discrimination: nuclear magnetic resonance in a time-dependent electric field”

National Science Centre in Poland, 2015/19/D/ST4/0095

80 000 EUR, 2015-2019