Redox Mediated Chiroptical Materials

授予纽约大学詹姆斯·加纳利教授的这一奖项得到了化学部先进材料和加工计划的支持。有了这一奖项，具有电化学和手性性质的铜配合物及其衍生物将被作为分子基开关进行研究。电化学手性材料的合成以及单电子氧化和还原后这些材料的光学性质的测定是该奖项的一部分。这些研究的一个结果将是开发分子开关，以取代液晶中的分子组装。分子开关将使电子设备变得非常高效、轻巧和紧凑。此外，该研究计划将对材料化学特别是电化学手性材料的本科培养和教育产生重大影响。在该奖项下，将合成电化学手性材料，并经单电子氧化和还原后测定其光学性质。从电化学手性材料发展而来的分子开关如果被应用到计算机等电子设备中，将使它们变得高效、轻巧和紧凑。该奖项下的本科生和研究生培训计划将提高材料化学课程的整体标准，并将为该领域提供未来的科学家和工程师。

This award to Professor James Canary of New York University is supported by the Advanced Materials and Processing Program in the Chemistry Division. With this award, copper coordination complexes and their derivatives with electrochemical and chiral properties will be studied as molecule-based switches. Synthesis of electrochemical chiral materials and determination of optical properties of these materials after one-electron oxidation and reductions are parts of this award. One outcome of these studies will be development of molecular switches in place of molecular assemblies as in liquid crystals. Molecular switches will make the electronic devices very efficient, lightweight and compact. In addition, the research program will have substantial impact on undergraduate training and education of students in Materials Chemistry in general and electrochemical chiral materials in particular.Under this award, electrochemical chiral materials will be synthesized and their optical properties determined after one-electron oxidation and reductions. Molecular switches developed from the electrochemical chiral materials if incorporated in electronic devices such as computers will make them efficient, lightweight and compact. Undergraduate and graduate training programs under the award will enhance the overall standard of the Material Chemistry Program and will provide future scientists and engineers in this field.