Discovery Projects - Grant ID: DP0986980

Funding Activity

Website
http://dataportal.arc.gov.au/NCGP/Web/Grant/Grant/DP0986980

Funding Status
Closed

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Funded Activity Summary

Lighting up the charged brigade: laser spectroscopy of protonated and metal-containing complexes. Increasingly, the design of new pharmaceuticals uses computer modeling to account for the shapes of molecules and how they interact with their surroundings. The strongest forces between molecular components are those that involve charged chemical species known as ions. In this project, we will develop advanced laser-based techniques to study in unprecedented detail how molecules respond to the presence of nearby charge, or to acquiring charge themselves. Understanding the nature of these attractions, and the structural changes that they induce eventually results in more accurate computer models. This has relevance to fields that include the architecture of proteins, recognition of signaling molecules in the brain, and drug development.

Funded Activity Details

Start Date: 01-01-2009

End Date: 31-12-2013

Funding Scheme: Discovery Projects

Funding Amount: $260,000.00

Funder: Australian Research Council

Research Topics

ANZSRC Field of Research (FoR)

Structural Chemistry | Chemical Spectroscopy | Physical Chemistry (Incl. Structural) | Quantum Chemistry

ANZSRC Socio-Economic Objective (SEO)

Chemical sciences |

Other Keywords

Chemical Spectroscopy | Chemical sciences | Physical Chemistry (Incl. Structural) | Quantum Chemistry | Structural Chemistry

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