organic chemistry research proposal pdf

Information regarding Organic Research Proposals

An original research proposal is required of Ph. D. candidates in organic chemistry. Recognition and development of original and meaningful research problems is an important aspect of the work of a Ph.D. scientist. This requirement is intended to help you develop your skills in selecting a research problem and writing a research proposal. The proposal will be your property and should represent the best independent research idea that you have had to date. For this reason, to be acceptable, your proposal must not be closely related to, or an obvious extension of, current work at Wisconsin.

When and How to Submit Proposals

You should submit a proposal in the Fall semester of your third year of graduate work. Third-year students cannot delay submission of their proposal until the Spring semester without the consent of their major professor. Discuss this with your major professor.

A one-page summary providing the context for the scientific problem and the specific aims of the research is due two Mondays before Thanksgiving. The organic faculty will evaluate these summaries for approval.  If a revised written proposal is required, this may be submitted after these deadlines.  When your specific aims (Summary) have been accepted, you must provide a complete written proposal, which is due the Monday of exam week.   You may prepare and submit your proposal in advance of the deadlines to allow time for revision or replacement .

Completion of the Research Proposal is required for advancement to candidacy (the other requirements are the Research Preliminary Exam and 6 semesters in residence). It is therefore important to submit a proposal as early as possible. This will maximize your chances of successfully completing the proposal in time to qualify for candidacy and pay lower fees at the earliest possible time.

After review by the faculty, your proposal will either be accepted, returned for revision, or rejected. If your proposal is acceptable, it will be approved for oral defense. If it is returned for revision, your major professor will provide a summary of critical comments to help you in preparing a satisfactory version. If it is rejected, you will have to develop a new proposal. If there is time, corrected or new proposals may be submitted for the current round of oral exams, or they may be submitted for a subsequent round.Students who do not pass this requirement in the fall semester will have a second opportunity in the spring semester.  Timelines for spring:  deadline for the summary of three Mondays prior to the last week of classes; final due date for the written proposal on the Monday of the last week of classes.

Proposal Revision

A proposal revision must be accompanied by the letter you received from your advisor outlining the issues you need to consider, and a covering letter describing the changes that you have made in the write up and how you addressed the comments you received. A good format is to copy the comments into your letter, and describe your revisions below each comment. For example:

--> Criticism : "The synthesis of compound 4 in the original proposal is likely to fail because the proposed aryl bromide 7 contains an ester group that is unlikely to survive formation of a Grignard reagent."

Response : In the revised proposal a new synthesis of 4 is presented that avoids the problem pointed out in the review of the original proposal. In the revised synthesis, the Grignard reagent is formed from an aryl bromide that contains a protected primary alcohol. After the Grignard reaction, the primary alcohol is deprotected, oxidized to the acid and esterified.

--------------- Criticism : "The key proposed experiments require that nucleic acid analogues such as 9 form duplexes with natural DNA strands. How can we be confident that such hetero-duplexes will form?"

Response : The revised proposal contains references to the work of Jones et al. (refs. 4-6), who have shown that nucleic acid analogues very similar to 9 do indeed form duplexes with complementary DNA strands.

The Oral Examination

Only approved proposals may be defended orally in the first weeks of January. The examining committee consists of several faculty members including your major professor as an observer. The oral exam is typically 45 minutes and you should plan to present the essential aspects of your proposal in about 15-20 minutes, with only minimal background and introductory material. An informal chalkboard presentation is strongly preferred, although complicated structures or apparati can be presented in hard copy handouts or molecular models.

Research proposals are graded on a Pass/Conditional Pass/Fail basis. Conditional Pass requires additional work, specified by the examining committee, which may involve a written report or a repeat the oral examination at a later date.

Evaluation of Proposals

All faculty members will receive a copy of your proposal for evaluation in four categories as listed below.

Criteria for Evaluation:

   1. Presentation: Is the proposal understandable, does it comply with the required format in explicitly stating the Specific Aims and Hypotheses, does it clearly describe the significance of the problem and the proposed solution, does it include pertinent references to the literature?

   2. Scientific Merit: Is the proposal worth doing, does it lead to new and nontrivial results, does it overlap excessively with work under way at Wisconsin?

   3. Practicality: Does the proposal constitute a research problem (desirable) or a research program (undesirable); would an advanced student or postdoctoral fellow be expected to make substantial progress in a reasonable amount of time?

   4. Technical Competence: Will it work? Are theoretical arguments sound, will the experiments lead to conclusive and observable results, has the student overlooked reasonable alternatives, will synthetic steps work, are the analogies appropriate?

Proposals Involving Asymmetric Synthesis

Proposals involving asymmetric synthesis often contain no testable hypothesis - either the reaction works or it doesn't. The entire proposal boils down to a question of estimating small energy differences between diastereomeric transition states. One can speculate about the geometries and energies of the transition states, but, fundamentally, there is no hypothesis to be tested.

Developing asymmetric reactions often involves an Edisonian approach of trial and error. The ultimate goal is extremely important, but the pathway to achieving that goal involves a series of successes and failures that can only be rationalized after the fact. Even though the results of the proposal would be publishable if the project was successful, the lack of a compelling scientific hypothesis makes the proposal a poor subject for an oral exam.

If you wish to submit a proposal involving asymmetric synthesis, you should first discuss the matter with your research advisor.

Format of the Proposal

Formulate your proposal using the following outline.

A. Specific Aims

• Specific Research . State the specific research that the proposal is intended to accomplish. (This should require only a couple of sentences, not a paragraph.)
• Ask clear specific questions
• If more than one hypothesis, state each hypothesis individually

Understand the difference between

• broad, long-term objectives e.g., "understand factors governing protein folding" (hard to quantify progress in achieving this objective)
• specific aims e.g., "study the influence of intramolecular hydrogen bonding on the solution conformation of diamide X " (easy to quantify progress in achieving this objective). The specific aims comprise a list of items needed to pursue the broad, long-term objectives.

B. Background and Significance

• BRIEFLY sketch the BACKGROUND for the proposal
• Critically EVALUATE the existing knowledge
• Specifically identify the GAPS the project is intended to fill
• State CONCISELY the importance of the research by RELATING the Specific Aims to the Broad, Long-Term Objectives.
• Use this section of the research proposal to demonstrate your understanding of the subject and justify the need for the proposed research. State clearly why the information to be obtained is useful; that is, what you can do with the information after you get it.
• Background discussions should avoid fanning the flames of scientific controversies. Be strictly scientific and unbiased and let the data speak for you.

C. Experimental Design and Methods

In this section, you should outline the experimental design and procedures you will use to accomplish the Specific Aims of the project. The experimental approach should be outlined clearly and in sufficient detail that the plan can be evaluated by the reviewers (faculty members).

• Number the experimental designs and methods in this section to correspond to the numbers in Specific Aims, item A. Use sub-numbering within this section when describing several methods applicable to the same Specific Aim.
• Show reaction sequence diagrams for syntheses of unknown compounds.
• Provide precedent for new synthetic transformations by citing the closest analogy in the literature. Justify why the new reaction is better than existing methods.
• Discuss CONTROL EXPERIMENTS
• Explain how the data are to be collected , analyzed , and interpreted .
• Discuss potential difficulties and limitations of the proposed procedures and alternative approaches to achieve the aims.
• Mathematical derivations, theoretical principles, history of the problem, unusual techniques, and esoteric instruments should not be discussed, but leading references should be provided.

The Experimental Design and Methods section is an important part of the Research Plan. You have said in the Specific Aims what you propose to do; now you are telling the reviewers how you propose to do it. Explain why the particular approach that you describe was chosen to attack the problem that you plan to research. Convince the reviewers that you can do what you propose.

Try to convince the reviewer that you have not merely gone to the library but that you really understand and know how to carry out the research and are familiar with the techniques and their shortcomings.

D. Notes and References

Be thorough, relevant, and current.

Use JACS format followed by the title of the article.

Choose wisely what you will include. Your choice of citations tells the reviewer about your quality as a scientist - your ability to evaluate the work of others and to distinguish the important from the mundane.

• Your research proposal, including all schemes and figures, must not exceed 5 pages. .
• Font size must be at least 10 pt, graphics figure must be large enough to be legible.
• Number all pages and compounds.
• In synthetic schemes, place reagents over reaction arrows, rather than in footnotes to the scheme. This makes the schemes easier to read, and avoids footnote numbering errors.

Planning the Research Proposal

Before you begin to write your research proposal, you should be able to write down satisfactory answers to the following questions:

• What is to be done? What is the hypothesis to be tested or question(s) to be answered?
• Is the work original?
• Why is the work worth doing ? (Significance)
• What is the long-range goal?
• What are the specific objectives?
• Do the specific objectives lead toward accomplishment of the long-range goal?
• Is the methodology "state of the art"?
• What are the expected results?

Writing the Research Proposal

Here are some questions the reviewers will be asking as they read your proposal:

• Do you show originality of thought?
• Do you plan ahead - and do so with ingenuity?
• Do you think logically and clearly?
• Are you up to date in all matters relevant to your project?
• Do you have good analytical skills?
• Do you recognize limitations, pitfalls?
• What are your contingency plans in case you hit a "snag"?
• How meticulous are you? How much care do you give to detail?

CONSIDER THAT THE WAY YOU WRITE YOUR PROPOSAL TELLS THE REVIEWERS A LOT ABOUT YOU - as a scientist and as a person.

Be Accurate

• Provide correct information to maintain your credibility
• Convey correctly the information you provide
• Don't use words incorrectly
• Don't call something a fact unless it is a fact

Be Clear: Use a logical sequence of presentation.

• The reviewer should be able to understand easily what you wrote, and perceive easily how you moved from point A to point B
• Don't use JARGON. Terminology limited to a specific field may be unfamiliar - and irritating - to a reviewer who is not in that field
• Start each paragraph with an informative TOPIC SENTENCE.
• Avoid irrelevant information - you may confuse the reader
• Think about what the reader needs (wants) to know in relation to this section of this proposal about this subject (project)

Be Consistent

• Number all pages and compounds
• Text should agree with information given in Schemes and Figures
• Terminology and abbreviations should be the same throughout. Do not use different words for the same thing just for literary reasons. Use of different terms for the same thing may create ambiguities. Ambiguities slow the reader down.
• Verb tenses should be uniform throughout the document.

Be Brief (Concise but Complete). In expository writing, the reader wants the maximum information in the minimum number of words. AVOID REDUNDANCY AND UNNECESSARY WORDS.

• They waste your space (you have a page limitation).
• They waste the reviewer's precious time.
• They may irritate or confuse the reviewer.

Think About Style and Tone

• Use simple words, short direct sentences, and short paragraphs that begin with informative topic sentences . Don't begin a paragraph with unimportant words. (This will maximize the IMPACT of your paragraph.)
• Avoid modifiers that do not add to the critical essence of what you want to say.
• Replace "opinion" modifiers with quantitative modifiers (e.g. replace " most or many " with "68-70%")
• Don't overstate your case. Avoid superlatives unless you are sure "it" really is the " first " or " best ". Otherwise, you sacrifice your objectivity and credibility.
• Try to be positive (mood and tone are "contagious")

For further tips on writing research proposals and grant applications, see:

• L. Reif-Lehrer Writing a Successful Grant Application , Jones and Bartlett: Boston, 1989 (much of the information contained in this handout was taken from Reif-Lehrer's book, as modified for our specific application)
• ACS Style Guide , 2 nd edition, Janet S. Dodd, Editor; American Chemical Society: Washington DC, 1997.
• William Strunk and E. B. White, The Elements of Style , 3 rd edition, MacMillan: New York, 1979.
• Robert Schoenfeld, The Chemist's English , 2 nd edition, VCH Press: Weinheim, 1986.

Checklist for Research Proposals

• Cover page giving name, title, submission date and research advisor.
• Pages numbered
• No more than 5 pages long (excluding references)
• Compounds numbered and compound cross references checked
• Titles of papers cited
• Graphics and text font size reasonable (>= 10 pt)
• Minimal use of R, L, M, X and Y groups

Rev: 8/2014

Original Research Proposal – Organic

General layout for 4th year orp.

Overview . The goal of the ORP is to have students come up with an independent research proposal. Your ORP should focus on a big picture problem in chemistry. You should pull from multiple areas outside of your area of expertise (synthesis, catalysis, electrochemistry, photochemistry, chemical biology, polymer/materials) to address a contemporary and unsolved problem . Each specific aim should be independent on each other (this will be one of the metrics we will use to assess the ORP). The scope of the project should be that of a postdoctoral fellowship – something that can be accomplished in 2-3 years by one postdoc.

Specific Aims PreORP . You must first submit a one-page, single spaced description of the Specific Aims of your proposal (see formatting requirements below). Consider it an executive summary of your planned proposal. It should include significance (how it fits into the broader field and how it advances the field), innovation, and summary of research plan broken up into 2-3 specific aims. The aims should all focus on solving the problem you laid out, but should be independent of each other (e.g. if Aim 1 fails, Aim 2 is still feasible). This must be approved before writing the full proposal.

An excellent guide for writing specific aims can be found here .

ORP. Once your Specific Aims are approved, you must submit a max 12 page double spaced proposal (see formatting requirements below). It should contain the following sections: Significance, Innovation, and Research Plan. The research plan should be broken up into each of your specific aims, and should describe how you will accomplish them. At the end of each specific aim, you should describe potential problems and how you will address them. Include a concluding paragraph indicating what will be accomplished if the proposal is successful.

Formatting requirements : Times New Roman, Arial, or Helvetica. Font size 11 pt. Margins 1 in. Font color: black. Total length of document: Maximum 1 page single spaced for Specific Aims PreORP; 15 pages max double spaced for ORP. Alignment – Justify (i.e. straight edges like in journal articles). Figures should help to communicate the ideas in the proposal. Use ACS 1996 Template in Chemdraw.

Saving Files

For the ORP document: Last Name_ORP Year For the ORP Prep Proposal: Last Name_PreORP Year For the ORP Resubmission: Last Name_ORP Year_Resubmit#

Example: WilkersonHill_ORP2020 for the first draft  and WilkersonHill_ORP2020_Resubmit2 for the resubmit

4th year ORP Grading Rubric

Each proposal is reviewed by two faculty members who are not the student’s advisor. Anonymized feedback is returned to students within two months of submission. Proposals are graded Pass or Fail. A failed proposal may be revised and resubmitted up to one month after student notification.

Student name:

Proposal title:

Overall Impact

Reviewers will provide an overall impact score to reflect their assessment of the likelihood for the project to exert a sustained, powerful influence on the research field(s) involved, in consideration of the following three scored review criteria.

Scored Review Criteria

Reviewers will consider each of the three review criteria below in the determination of scientific and technical merit, and give a separate score for each.

Final Ranking

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In this module, we focus on writing a research proposal, a document written to request financial support for an ongoing or newly conceived research project. Like the journal article (module 1), the proposal is one of the most important and most utilized writing genres in chemistry. Chemists employed in a wide range of disciplines including teaching (high school through university), research and technology, the health professions, and industry all face the challenge of writing proposals to support and sustain their scholarly activities. Before we begin, we remind you that there are many different ways to write a successful proposal”far too many to include in this textbook. Our goal is not to illustrate all the various approaches, but rather to focus on a few basic writing skills that are common to many successful proposals. These basics will get you started, and with practice, you can adapt them to suit your individual needs. After reading this chapter, you should be able to do the following: ◾ Describe different types of funding and funding agencies ◾ Explain the purpose of a Request for Proposals (RFP) ◾ Understand the importance of addressing need, intellectual merit, and broader impacts in a research proposal ◾ Identify the major sections of a research proposal ◾ Identify the main sections of the Project Description Toward the end of the chapter, as part of the Writing on Your Own task, you will identify a topic for the research proposal that you will write as you work through this module. Consistent with the read-analyze-write approach to writing used throughout this textbook, this chapter begins with an excerpt from a research proposal for you to read and analyze. Excerpt 11A is taken from a proposal that competed successfully for a graduate fellowship offered by the Division of Analytical Chemistry of the American Chemical Society (ACS). As is true for nearly all successful proposals, the principal investigator (PI) wrote this proposal in response to a set of instructions. We have included the instructions with the excerpt so that you can see for yourself how closely she followed the proposal guidelines.

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Chemistry Research Proposal: A Way to Your Desired Academic Heights

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The highest degree in organic chemistry opens up horizons of opportunities for those who have reached the top of a career in science. To climb to a PhD in chemistry degree is almost like the northern slopes of Everest since it requires a certain preparation and the ability to concentrate on achieving an important goal without losing sight of other aspects. However, this work is your entry fee and a decisive part of your PhD application.

Writing a research proposal in chemistry is mandatory on the way to the top of the PhD, which is of paramount importance, being an entry point. In addition, such a proposal in organic chemistry and in any other science-related field is a request document, the basis for the possibility of receiving a grant for any scientific study. This work is a grant application, funding for a project that you consider important and can change the current understanding of science.

Research Proposal in Chemistry: In-Depth Exploration Preparedness

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Structure and Key Stages of Research Proposal for PhD in Chemistry

The structure of a research proposal may differ depending on your institution and specific program requirements. However, every research proposal organic chemistry for a PhD comprises some essential sections that stay the same as they aid in organizing your paper and substantiating its significance.

• Introduction, where you need to define the research areas in chemistry you intend to work with and state a specific study issue to describe in your chemistry proposal. It also includes the main goals of your research and what you plan to achieve.
• The literature review includes a review of existing investigations and literature related to your chemistry topic to demonstrate your comprehension of the subject area and key trends, identify gaps in existing knowledge, and justify the importance of your PhD research.
• Objectives and research questions express the aims of your PhD work clearly and distinctly. Here, you must formulate and describe specific study questions you will address within the scope of the study.
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• Expected results and research significance is the part where you talk about the results you expect to achieve and how these results can affect organic chemistry science.
• Resources and budget with a clear indication of the necessary resources required for the successful execution of your project. It may involve laboratory equipment, materials, and other tools. Also, here, you need to give a rough estimate of the costs.
• The bibliography lists all the sources you reference in your research proposal in organic chemistry. Keep the list accurate and current.

The essence of this work is to highlight the essentials of your project and reveal its value. As you progress through the project and your questions evolve, the answers will gradually take shape. As a result of your work, you will create a research structure that revolves around the goal, confirming your ability to organize and develop this process competently. In addition, comparable methods and structures find application in biology research proposal writing since the same basic principles underlie scientific investigation covering different areas.

PhD in Organic Chemistry: a Plan, Strategy, Tactics, and Achievements

Approaching the pursuit of a PhD in organic chemistry with a well-crafted strategy and accepted proposal will lead to a clear roadmap in your scientific journey in organic chemistry. This plan will encompass the research itself and the subsequent structure of your dissertation on the given subject. The video we posted here provides practical advice on all the nuances you need to consider when preparing and conducting a scientific study. We recommend watching it.

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It’s worth noting that any research proposal follows specific stylistic guidelines and features commonly associated with academic institutions and research centers. We can break down the main elements of the writing style within this context into the following key aspects:

• The writing style should maintain a formal and scholarly tone. Employ precise terminology and technical language aligning with the field of organic chemistry.
• State the essence clearly and clearly, avoiding unnecessary words and phrases. In the research proposal chemistry, focusing on conveying the key information is crucial.
• Refrain from utilizing first-person (I) or second-person (you) pronouns. Adopting a third-person perspective (researcher, author, etc.) fosters objectivity and professionalism in your writing. This is to underline the research’s value and avoid personal viewpoints at the same time.
• Adhere to an academic structure with well-defined sections: introduction, literature review, objectives and inquiries, methodology, expected outcomes, and bibliography.

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Research Proposal Activities in an Advanced Inorganic Chemistry Lecture at the Undergraduate Level

With cutting edge research comes the expectation that funding is needed. Particularly in the sciences, grant funds can cover the cost of instrumentation, conference travel, summer stipends and the like. At the undergraduate level, it is essential to instill into the students the importance of finding and applying to funding opportunities (particularly for those who wish to pursue graduate degrees). While the Georgia College (GC) chemistry program currently does not have a formal "technical writing class", here are discussed several activities that seek to expose undergraduate students to proposal writing and bettering their technical writing skills. La investigación y diseminación de proyectos científicos novedosos requieren fondos monetarios. Particularmente en las ciencias, estos fondos pueden cubrir los costos de instrumentación, viajes a conferencias, estipendios de verano y otros. A nivel pre-doctoral, es esencial inculcar a los estudiantes la importancia de la adquisición de fondos monetarios (particularmente para aquellos estudiantes que desean estudiar a nivel de doctorado). Mientras que el programa de química de Georgia College (GC) no posee un curso de escritura técnica, en este artículo se discuten algunas actividades que exponen a estudiantes pre-doctorales a la escritura de propuestas y el mejoramiento de sus habilidades en escritura técnica. Palabras clave: Escritura de propuestas; química inorgánica avanzada; propuesta investigativa; investigación a nivel pre-doctoral; seminario integrador

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In the case of General Chemistry, many engineering students only take a one semester class with​ ​ important topics such as kinetics and equilibrium being given limited coverage. Considerable time is spent covering materials already covered​ ​ in other courses such as General Physics and Introduction to Engineering. Moreover, most GChem courses are oriented toward health science majors and lack a materials focus relevant to engineering. Taking an atoms first approach, we developed and now run a one-semester course in general chemistry for engineers emphasizing relevant materials topics. Laboratory exercises integrate practical examples of materials science enriching the course for engineering students. First-semester calculus and a calculus-based introduction to engineering course are prerequisites, which enables teaching almost all the topics from a traditional two semester GChem course in this new course with advance topics as well. To support this course, an open access textbook in LibreText, formerly ChemWiki was developed entitled ​ General Chemistry for Engineering. Many of the topics were supported using Chemical Excelets and Materials Science Excelets, which are interactive Excel/Calc spreadsheets. The laboratory includes data analysis and interpretation, calibration, error analysis, reactions, kinetics, electrochemistry, and spectrophotometry. To acquaint the students with online collaboration typical of today's technical workplace Google Drive was used for data analysis and report preparation in the laboratory. Updated course website: https://sites.google.com/view/ssinex/home/chm-2000 *************************** A follow-up paper, "Modernizing the Engineering Curriculum: A Community College Approach to Integrate Materials", was published in J. Materials Education 40 (3-4), 125-132 (2018).

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