Inorganic Chemistry of the Suboxides of Carbon and Nitrogen

在无机、生物无机和有机金属化学专业的这个项目中，将研究两种高能分子——一氧化碳和一氧化二氮的化学性质。过氧化碳将被用作富碳小分子的独特来源，这些小分子被认为是费托合成中非石化衍生碳化合物的基石。在温和的条件下，在有机化合物的选择性氧化中，一氧化碳将被用作氧气的来源。过氧化碳将作为碳碎片的来源，用于形成碳化物、烯基乙烯和烯基烯等金属配合物。将寻找合适的金属体系，以化学计量和催化方式激活氧化亚氮向有机部分的氧转移反应。在温和的、动力学控制的条件下，氧化亚氮也可用作制备有趣的氧配合物的试剂。这种反应被认为是非常干净的，因为氧化亚氮分解的唯一副产物是二氮。

In this project in the Inorganic, Bioinorganic and Organometallic Chemistry Program the chemistry of two high-energy molecules, carbon suboxide and nitrous oxide, will be investigated. Carbon suboxide will be used as a unique source of the small carbon-rich molecules which are believed to serve as building blocks for non-petrochemically derived carbon compounds in the Fischer-Tropsch synthesis. Carbon suboxide will be used as a source of oxygen in the selective oxidation of organic compounds under mild conditions. Carbon suboxide will be used as a source of carbon fragments for the formation of metal complexes of such species as carbide, ketenylidene and ketene. Suitable metal systems will be sought for the activation of nitrous oxide toward oxygen transfer reactions to organic moieties in both stoichiometric and catalytic fashions. Nitrous oxide will be used also as a reagent for preparing interesting oxo-complexes under mild, kinetically controlled conditions. Such reactions are expected to be very clean, since the only by-product of nitrous oxide decomposition is dinitrogen.