Acquisition of a UV-Visible-Near IR Spectrophotometer for Optical Intervalence and Related Studies

该项目涉及分析化学和表面化学、无机化学、生物无机化学和有机金属化学的一般领域，并涉及电子转移过程的广泛子领域。Hupp博士是美国国家科学基金会（NSF）授予CHE-8710014的无机、生物无机和有机金属化学项目的资助人，也是分析和表面化学项目的总统青年研究员，他的研究工作集中在两个领域。第一个是开发和表征新的电活性聚合物材料，从中可以制备大尺寸结构阵列。这些组件应该能够对氧化还原位点的分布进行三维控制，并有望应用于成像显示和电催化等技术重要领域。Hupp博士的第二个研究重点是光解和热诱导电子转移反应的机理研究。这些研究与加深对光驱动的能量转换过程的理解有关，特别是那些涉及光合作用的过程。目前的行动为获得分光光度计提供了资金，用分光光度计可以研究Hupp博士感兴趣的电子转移过程中涉及的物种的紫外，可见光和近红外光谱特征。该仪器将对Hupp博士的NSF支持的研究活动非常有用。

This project is in the general areas of analytical and surface chemistry and inorganic, bioinorganic, and organometallic chemistry and addresses the broad subfield of electron transfer processes. Dr. Hupp, who is supported in the Inorganic, Bioinorgaqnic, and Organometallic Chemistry Program under NSF grant CHE-8710014 and who is also a Presidential Young Investigator awardee in the Analytical and Surface Chemistry Program, is focussing his research efforts on two areas. The first involves the development and characterization of new, electroactive polymeric materials from which large dimension structural arrays will be prepared. These assemblies should enable the three dimensional control of redox site distribution and are expected to be applicable in the technologically important areas of imaging displays and electrocatalysis. Dr. Hupp's second research focus centers on mechanistic studies of photolytically and thermally induced electron transfer reactions. These studies are relevant to an enhanced understanding of light-driven energy conversion processes, particularly those involved in photosynthesis. This present action provides funds for the acquisition of a spectrophotometer with which the ultraviolet, visible, and near- infrared spectral characteristics of species involved in electron transfer processes of interest to Dr. Hupp can be studied. This instrument will be extremely useful to both of Dr. Hupp's NSF- supported research activities.