Redox Active Inorganic Materials from Fullerene and Metal Cluster Building Blocks

无机，生物无机和有机物计划的资助 资助了艾伦·L.巴尔奇大学 加州戴维斯分校。 富勒烯氧化成单氧物种 将被研究，氧化物种将被用来形成 电聚合薄膜，其反应性和导电性 将被研究。 一族平面三角形金（I）配合物， 显示出显著的溶致发光性质，并且与Ag（I）类似， Hg（II）和Tl（I）将用于构建超分子物种。 的 通过这些三角形的柱的电子转移的可能性 将通过检查它们的光电导特性来测试团簇。 研究了金与金属离子形成电荷转移络合物的可能性。 团簇（电子供体）和富勒烯（电子受体）将是 试探富勒烯与卟啉的共结晶已经 产生了一类有趣的化合物，其中富勒烯嵌套在 卟啉。 该项目涉及新型无机材料， 新的氧化还原活性或发光。 富勒烯与三角金（I） 复合物将用作构建新材料的前体， 例如超分子阵列和分子共晶。 富勒烯薄膜 将被探索为新的高导电材料。 一种新形式的 发光称为溶致发光，这是光发射在 将研究先前辐照过的物质的溶解。 的 假设这是由电子的长距离分离引起的 从它原来的位置在一列三角形的黄金单位将是 测试. 理解这种电荷分离对于我们的 了解天然能量储存和转换装置， 沿着这些路线开发新材料。 从以下来源获得的信息： 富勒烯或三角形金前体类将具有 影响其他类是如何发展和他们的组合可能导致 全新的材料。 可以部分包裹 将用于开发新的色谱方法， 根据富勒烯分子的各种形状将其分离， 可能会使不寻常的富勒烯更容易开发。

This grant in the Inorganic, Bioinorganic and Organometallic Program funds the research of Professor Alan L. Balch of the University of California at Davis. The oxidation of fullerenes to mono-oxo species will be studied and the oxidized species will used to form electropolymerized thin films, whose reactive and conductive properties will be studied. A family of flat triangular gold(I) complexes, which exhibit remarkable solvoluminescence properties, and analogs with Ag(I), Hg(II) and Tl(I) will be used to construct supramolecular species. The possibility of electron transfer through columns of these triangular clusters will be tested by examining their photoconductive properties. The possibility of charge-transfer complexes forming between the gold clusters (electron donors) and fullerenes (electron acceptors) will be probed. Co-crystallization of fullerenes with porphyrins has already yielded an interesting class of compounds in which the fullerene nests in the porphyrin. This project is concerned with new inorganic materials that exhibit novel redox activity or luminescence. Fullerenes and triangular gold(I) complexes will be used as precursors for constructing the new materials, such as supramolecular arrays and molecular co-crystals. Fullerene films will be explored as new highly conductive materials. A new form of luminescence called solvoluminescence, which is light emitted upon the dissolution of a previously irradiated substance, will be studied. The hypothesis that this results from a long range separation of an electron from its original site in a column of triangular gold units will be tested. Understanding such charge separations is fundamental to our understanding of natural energy storage and transduction devices and developing new materials along these lines. Information gained from either fullerene or triangular gold precursor classes will have an impact on how the other class is developed and their combination may lead to entirely new materials. Porphyrin complexes that can wrap partially around fullerenes will be used to develop new ways of chromatographically separating fullerene molecules according to their various shapes, which may make unusual fullerenes more available for development.