The Chemistry of High-Energy-Content Reactants

这笔由化学有机动力学项目资助的赠款为伊利诺伊大学的加里·舒斯特教授的研究提供了支持。舒斯特研究的总主题是高能反应物中间体的产生、检测和反应行为。这些中间体将以光化学的方式产生，并通过分析它们的化学和光谱性质进行检测。具体地说，一组实验将试图产生、检测和表征一组新的含硼杂环、低价硼化合物和硼自由基化合物。这些在很大程度上未被探索的物质有望具有潜在的实际和理论重要性的不同寻常的性质。其他实验将探索双烯和亲二烯分子的电子激发络合物的性质。这些物种似乎经历了一些反应，产生了不容易通过传统路线获得的产品。在时间和资源允许的情况下，还将检查叶立德离子的性质。这些高能反应物是由叶立德氧化形成的：它们的性质从未经过实验检验。

This grant funded by the Organic Dynamics Program in Chemistry provides support for the research of Prof. Gary Schuster at the University of Illinois. The general theme of Schuster's research is the creation, detection and reaction behaviour of high energy-content reactant intermediates. These intermediates will be generated photochemically and examined by analysis of their chemical and spectroscopic properties. In particular, one group of experiments will attempt to generate, detect and characterize a set of novel boron-containing heterocycles, hypovalent compounds of boron and boranyl radicals. These largely unexplored substances are expected to have unusual properties of potential practical and theoretical importance. Other experiments will explore the properties of electronically excited complexes of dienes and dieneophiles. These species appear to undergo reactions that yield products not easily obtained by conventional routes. As time and resources allow, the properties of ylide ions will also be examined. These high-energy-content reactants are formed by oxidation of ylides: their properties have never been examined experimentally.