Synthetic Studies in Homogeneous Catalysis and Organometallic Chemistry

无机化学、生物无机化学和金属有机化学项目的这一奖项支持斯坦福大学化学系的詹姆斯·P·科尔曼教授的研究，该研究的主题是“均相催化和有机金属化学中的合成研究”，目的是合成和研究金属卟啉配合物。本论文的工作将集中在：1)分子电化学催化剂，用于氧的多电子还原；2)氧和一氧化碳与铁卟啉结合的平衡和动力学研究；3)多键金属-金属卟啉二聚体的合成。这项研究探索了生物细胞中氧结合能产生部位的化学模型。所产生的模型化合物将加深我们对生物氧气还原的理解，这可能会导致有用的电化学设备，通过将电子有效地传递到空气中的氧气来产生能量。氧结合络合物在分离空气中的氧方面也可能有实际应用。

This award in the Inorganic, Bioinorganic and Organometallic Chemistry Program supports research by Professor James P. Collman of the Department of Chemistry of Stanford University on `Synthetic Studies in Homogeneous Catalysis and Organometallic Chemistry` to synthesize and study metalloporphyrin complexes. The work will focus on: 1) Molecular electrochemical catalysts for the multi-electron reduction of dioxygen, 2) Equilibrium and kinetic studies of dioxygen and carbon monoxide binding to iron porphyrins, and 3) The synthesis of multiply bonded metal-metal porphyrin dimers. This research explores chemical models of oxygen-binding energy producing sites in biological cells. The model compounds produced will enhance our understanding of biological oxygen reduction, which may lead to useful electrochemical devices to generate energy by efficiently passing electrons to oxygen in the air. Oxygen-binding complexes may also have practical applications in separating oxygen from air.