US-UK Cooperative Education and Research: Structural Investigations of Main Group Heterocyclic Rings and Cages

该奖项支持一项关于衍射教育和先进衍射方法在化学研究中的应用的合作研究和教育项目。扬斯敦州立大学的艾伦·d·亨特博士将与苏格兰圣安德鲁斯大学的j·德里克·伍林斯博士和亚历山大·斯拉文博士一起度过第一次休假。本次合作的目标是：(1)研究固态主要基团无机和有机金属环笼配合物的结构和键合，并确定其在溶液中的光谱性质；(2)编写各种晶体学教材。这位美国研究者是一名晶体学家，为这次合作带来了衍射方法方面的专业知识。这是由苏格兰集团在主要集团无机和有机金属化学方面的专业知识，他们优秀的晶体学设施和不同的教学方法来补充的。该项目将促进对新型主基团有机金属和配位配合物的合成和表征的理解，并产生新的衍射方法教材。

0084330HunterThis award supports a collaborative research and education project on the scholarship of diffraction education and utilization of advanced diffraction methods in chemical research. Dr. Allen D. Hunter of Youngstown State University will spend a first-time sabbatical working with Dr. J. Derek Woollins and Alexander Slawin of St. Andrews University in Scotland. The objectives of this collaboration are: (1) to conduct research on structures and bonding of main group inorganic and organometallic ring and cage complexes in solid state and determine their spectroscopic properties in solution; and (2) prepare a variety of teaching materials in crystallography. The US investigator is a crystallographer and brings to this collaboration expertise in diffraction methods . This is complemented by the Scottish group's expertise in main group inorganic and organometallic chemistry, their excellent crystallography facilities, and different approach to teaching diffraction methods. The project will advance understanding of the synthesis and characterization of novel main group organometallic and coordination complexes, and result in new teaching materials on diffraction methods.