Development of Metallomesogenic Route to One-Dimensional Conductors

这项研究在威廉姆斯的李帕克教授的实验室进行 学院是由无机，生物无机和有机支持 化学计划下的研究规划补助金。 液晶 钌的络合物将使用吡啶配体制备， 结晶度。 这些金属介晶配合物将被用作 一维导体的构建块。 起初， 两种混合价络合物的共结晶将被尝试作为一种 导体 一维导电材料将被研究为 它们的带隙和导电性。 成功地将过渡金属络合物排列成液体 晶体阵列可以允许这些材料以薄的方式铺设， 薄膜，以作为电路中的分子导线。

This research in the laboratory of Professor Lee Park at the Williams College is supported by the Inorganic, Bioinorganic and Organometallic Chemistry Program under a Research Planning Grant. Liquid crystalline complexes of ruthenium will be prepared using pyridine ligands to confer the crystallinity. These metallomesogenic complexes will then be used as building blocks for one-dimensional conductors. Initially, cocrystallization of two mixed-valent complexes will be tried as a conductor. One-dimensional conducting materials will be investigated as to their bandgap and conductivity. Successfully aligning transition metal complexes into liquid crystalline arrays may allow these materials to be laid down in thin films so as to serve as molecular wires in circuits.