U.S.-Korea Cooperative Research On Metal Promoted Reactions of Boron Hyrides

小行星9320834 该奖项提供资金，允许博士拉里G。宾夕法尼亚大学化学系的Sneddon教授与高丽大学化学系的Sang Ook Kang教授一起进行为期36个月的关于金属促进的硼氢化反应的合作研究项目。 这项合作研究的重点是开发新的高产率合成路线，用于构建重要的多面体硼化合物。 本研究将着重开发过渡金属试剂和催化剂，类似于有机和有机金属化学中使用的试剂和催化剂，以活化多面体硼化合物进行反应。 多面体硼化合物由于其独特的化学和物理性质，在学术界和工业界都有很大的研究兴趣。 这些化合物具有许多重要的性质，这些性质引起了潜在的应用，如燃烧速率调节剂、中子捕获癌症剂、高温聚合物和陶瓷前体。 由于缺乏通用的合成方法，这一领域的进一步研究受到严重阻碍。 该项目的大部分合成部分将在韩国进行，Kang教授最近发现了几种新试剂，这些试剂具有促进新型硼氢化物反应的潜在应用。 该项目的成功将在很大程度上取决于PI实验室提供的复杂表征技术。 合作者是该提案领域备受尊敬的研究人员。 该项目与美国的目标有关-韩国合作科学计划，旨在通过科学信息，思想，技能和技术的交流以及通过互利问题的合作来提高美国和韩国科学家和工程师之间的合作水平。 韩国对该项目的参与得到了韩国科学和工程基金会的支持。 该项目增加了一个 国际合作方面的PI的研究下，美国国家科学基金会批准号CHE-9001063。 ***

9320834 Sneddon This award provides funds to permit Dr. Larry G. Sneddon, Department of Chemistry, University of Pennsylvania, to pursue with Professor Sang Ook Kang, Department of Chemistry, Korea University, for 36 months, a program of cooperative research on metal promoted reactions of boron hydrides. The focus of this cooperative research is the development of new, high yield synthetic routes for the construction of important polyhedral boron compounds. This research will emphasize the development of transition metal reagents and catalysts, similar to those employed in organic and organometallic chemistry, to activate polyhedral boron compounds for reaction. Because of their unique chemical and physical properties, polyhedral boron compounds are of great academic and industrial interest. These compounds have a number of important properties that give rise to potential applications as burn rate modifiers, neutron-capture cancer agents, high temperature polymers, and ceramic precursors. Further research in this area has been seriously hampered by the lack of general synthetic procedures. Much of the synthetic part of the project will be performed in Korea, where Professor Kang has recently discovered several new reagents which have potential applications to promote new types of boron hydride reactions. Success of the project will depend greatly on the sophisticated characterization techniques available in the PI's laboratory. The collaborators are highly respected researchers in the field of the proposal. This project is relevant to the objectives of the U.S.-Korea Cooperative Science Program which seeks to increase the level of cooperation between U.S. and Korean scientists and engineers through the exchange of scientific information, ideas, skills, and techniques and through collaboration on problems of mutual benefit. Korean participation in the project is supported by the Korea Science and Engineering Foundation (KOSEF). This project adds an international cooperative dimension to the PI's research under NSF Grant No. CHE-9001063. ***