Synthesis and Chemistry of Zintl Metal Carbonylates

该奖项由无机、生物无机和有机金属化学项目颁发，以支持莱斯大学Kenton Whitmire博士的研究。主要研究了主族/过渡金属团簇的合成、结构和反应性。工作将集中在重族元素（铊、铟、铅、锡、铋和锑）与第八族过渡金属（铁、钴、钌和锇）聚集在一起。本研究的目标是合成新的金属团簇化合物，以探索现有键合理论的局限性，研究这些配合物的反应性，以期建立其稳定性和结构/功能关系，并确定其结构如何改变。键合和反应模式随过渡金属和主族元素的变化而变化。主族元素与过渡金属的基本相互作用是化学、材料科学和催化学中一个相当重要的课题。主族/过渡金属合金具有有趣的电子和磁性能，而主族元素化合物在商业催化过程中经常用作促进剂。

This award is made in the Inorganic, Bioinorganic and Organometallic Chemistry Program in support of the research of Dr. Kenton Whitmire at Rice University. The research deals with the synthesis, structure, and reactivity of main group/transition metal clusters. Work will focus on the heavy main group elements (thallium, indium, lead, tin, bismuth and antimony) clustered with Group VIII transition metals (iron, cobalt, ruthenium and osmium). The goals of the research are to synthesize new metal cluster compounds which will probe the limitations of current bonding theories, to study the reactivity of these complexes with a view to establishing stability and structure/function relationships, and to determine how structure, bonding and reactivity patterns vary as a function of transition metal and main group element. %%% The fundamental interactions of main group elements and transition metals is a topic of considerable importance to chemistry, materials science and catalysis. Main group/transition metal alloys have interesting electronic and magnetic properties while main group element compounds are often used as promoters in commercial catalytic processes.