U.S-Mexico Research: Studies on (Group 14, Si, Ge, Sn) Metal Complexes

这一美国-墨西哥奖项将支持德克萨斯大学埃尔帕索分校的基思·帕内尔教授与墨西哥瓜纳华托大学的豪尔赫·塞万提斯教授合作进行研究。合作的目标是合成新的含有直接与金属原子键合的Si-Sn键和Ge-Sn键的过渡金属络合物，并研究它们的光化学性质，对碱的反应活性，结构和质谱学性质。研究人员还建议合成一系列金属取代的低聚硅氧烷，用于研究氧化还原和导电性能，并将其应用于聚合物硅氧烷材料中。金属络合物的合成以及合作工作的光化学和结构方面的工作将在埃尔帕索进行，而碱诱导迁移、低聚硅基硅氧烷前体的合成、质谱学模拟将在瓜纳华托进行。

This U.S.-Mexico award will support Professor Keith Pannell of the University of Texas at El Paso in a research collaboration with Professor Jorge Cervantes of the Universidad de Guanajuato, Mexico. The objective of the collaboration is to synthesize new transition metal complexes containing Si-Sn and Ge-Sn bonds directly bonded to the metal atom, and study their photochemistry, reactivity toward base, structures and mass spectrometric properties. The researchers also propose to synthesize a series of metal substituted oligosilyl-siloxanes for study of redox and conductivity properties, and incorporation into polymeric siloxane materials. The synthesis of metal complexes, and photochemical, and structural aspects of the collaborative work will be performed in El Paso, while base-induced migrations, oligosilyl- siloxane precursor synthesis, and mass spectral simulations will be performed in Guanajuato.