Japan STA Program: Synthesis of Organosilicon Compounds viaTransition Metal Catalysis

该奖项将提供补充支持，使威斯康星大学麦迪逊分校的Robin Tan博士能够与田中正人博士在日本筑波的国家工业化学实验室进行为期24个月的合作研究。Tan和Tanaka将利用Tan在硅化学方面的专业知识来合成新的有机硅化合物。随着未来光刻技术的应用，新的有机硅化合物可以用来开发新的聚合物材料。Tan和Tanaka提出了一种利用低价金属络合物作为催化剂合成有机硅物种的新方法。通过改变起始的硅和不饱和有机化合物，它们将能够形成许多新型的有机硅化合物，这些化合物将作为合成硅基聚合物材料的重要起始原料。田中博士在硅基聚合物材料和实验室现有仪器方面的经验将补充田博士在合成有机金属化合物方面的经验。

This award will provide supplementary support to enable Dr. Robin Tan of the University of Wisconsin, Madison, to conduct collaborative research with Dr. Masato Tanaka for 24 months at the National Chemical Laboratory for Industry in Tsukuba, Japan. Tan and Tanaka will utilize Tan's expertise in silicon chemistry to synthesize new organosilicon compounds. With future applications for lithography, new organosilicon compounds can be used to develop new polymeric materials. Tan and Tanaka propose a new method to synthesize organosilicon species by utilizing low valent metal complexes as catalysts. By varying the starting silicon and unsaturated organic compounds, they will be able to form many novel organosilicon compounds which will serve as important starting materials in the synthesis of silicon-based polymeric materials. Dr. Tanaka's experience in silicon-based polymeric materials and the instrumentation available in his laboratory will complement Dr. Tan's experience in synthesizing organometallic compounds.