Main-Group Metal Silicides

这一女性职业发展奖是在无机化学、生物无机化学和有机金属化学项目中颁发给阿克伦大学化学系的克莱尔·A·特西尔博士。由于杂质的存在，商业上可获得的主族金属硅化物并不是进一步功能化的有用起始材料。特西尔博士将通过低温方法制备纯硅化物，研究它们的反应性和官能化，并确定商业可用材料中的哪些杂质会阻碍或加速反应。固体核磁共振和X射线衍射法将用于表征。这项研究的长期目标是合成新型聚硅烷和金属硅化合物，作为碳化硅和固态过渡金属硅化物的前驱体。在这里开展的工作将使特西尔博士能够扩大她的实验室的研究领域，并建立一个独立的研究计划。

This Career Advancement Award for Women is made in the Inorganic, Bioinorganic, and Organometallic Chemistry Program to Dr. Claire A. Tessier of the Chemistry Department, University of Akron. Due to impurities, commercially available main-group metal silicides have not proved to be useful starting materials for further functionalization. Dr. Tessier will prepare pure silicides by low temperature routes, study their reactivity and functionalization, and determine which impurities in commercially available materials impede or accelerate reactions. Solid state NMR and X-ray diffraction will be used in characterization. The long term goal of the research is to synthesize novel polysilanes and metal-silicon compounds which might serve as precursors to silicon carbide and solid state transition-metal silicides. The work undertaken here will enable Dr. Tessier to expand research areas in her laboratory and establish an independent research program.