U.S.-Mexico Collaborative Research Metal Complexes of Heteroatom-Containing Pentadienyl Ligands

这个美国-墨西哥奖将支持教授 犹他州大学的理查德·恩斯特在一个 与M教授的研究合作。Angeles Paz-Sandoval of the Centro de Investigacion y de Estudios Avanzados del I.P.N.（CINVESTAV）在墨西哥 市 研究的目的是研究 含氧和含氮化合物的掺入 将配体转化为过渡金属配合物。 该奖项将允许扩大目前的 国内对一般配体的研究 到非常有希望的含氧和氮的 类似物 墨西哥方面将主要关注 新配体的制备，和 将这些结合到金属配合物中，而 在犹他州， 将这些配体结合到其它金属中 复合物，研究潜在有用的反应 化学，并研究这些 通过各种物理方法合成化合物， 包括单晶X射线衍射。 作为 金属硫化物已经被证明非常 可用于金属膜沉积和反应 化学，预计类似的实际 应用将从氧气和 含氮类似物。

This U.S.-Mexico award will support Professor Richard Ernst of the University of Utah in a research collaboration with Professor M. Angeles Paz-Sandoval of the Centro de Investigacion y de Estudios Avanzados del I.P.N. (CINVESTAV) in Mexico City. The purpose of the research is to study the incorporation of oxygen and nitrogen containing pentadienyl ligands into transition metal complexes. This award will allow the expansion of a current domestic effort studying general pentadienyl ligands to the very promising oxygen and nitrogen containing analogues. The Mexican side will focus primarily on the preparation of the new ligands, and incorporation of these into metal complexes, while in Utah additional efforts will be made to incorporate these ligands into other metal complexes, to study potentially useful reaction chemistry, and to study the natures of these compounds by a variety of physical methods, including single crystal x-ray diffraction. As metal pentadienyl compounds have already proven very useful in metal film depositions and reaction chemistry, it is expected that similar practical applications will develop from the oxygen and nitrogen containing analogues.