New Frontiers in Dehydrobenzoannulene Chemistry: Synthesis, Reactivity, & Materials Studies

本项目探索脱氢苯环的制备、性质和化学。这些分子与巴克敏斯特富勒烯等物质几乎全碳组成有关。与富勒烯不同，脱氢苯环的结构可以变化很大，合理设计的结构可以通过全合成来实现。这项研究项目的目的是制备和研究形状新颖的脱氢苯环化合物，以回答基本的科学问题，并探索所得大分子的材料性质。通过该奖项，有机化学和高分子化学计划继续支持俄勒冈大学尤金分校的迈克尔·M·黑利教授的研究和教育活动。Haley教授的研究探索了大分子、富碳脱氢苯环的制备和性质。这些新型大分子的直径可达几个纳米，并提供了包括但不限于非线性光学特性在内的新型性能的前景。除了与博士和博士后科学家的合作外，黑利教授的研究项目还包括化学专业的本科生。

This project explores the preparation, properties and chemistry of dehydrobenzannulenes. These molecules are related to such substances as buckminsterfullerenes in having an almost all-carbon composition. Unlike fullerenes, dehydrobenzannulenes can vary in structure quite radically and rationally designed structures are accessible by total synthesis. The aim of this research project is to prepare and study dehydrobenzannulenes with novel shapes in order to answer fundamental scientific questions as well as to explore the materials propertied of the resultant macromolecules.With this Award, the Organic and Macromolecular Chemistry Program continues its support for the research and educational activities of Professor Michael M. Haley of the University of Oregon, Eugene. Professor Haley's research explores the preparation and properties of macromolecular, carbon-rich dehydrobenzannulenes. These novel macromolecules can be as large as several nanometers in diameter and offer the prospect of novel properties including, but not limted to nonlinear optical properties. In addition to his work with doctoral and postdoctoral scientists, Professor Haley also includes undergraduate students of chemistry in his research programs.