RUI: Synthetis and Spectroelectrochemistry of Metal Complexes of Acetylenic Ketones and Esters

南伊利诺伊大学(主要是本科院校)的Michael J Shaw获得了无机化学、生物无机化学和金属有机化学项目的支持，该项目旨在研究影响金属介导的反应的因素，这些反应是从炔烃中生成杂环芳香化合物。将合成各种含酮和酯的d6金属配合物(包括各种光谱标记物)。这些将被用来探索感兴趣的反应的许多方面。研究的主要部分将是光谱电化学研究和表面归一化入射傅里叶变换红外光谱。(SNIFTIRS)。这些强大的技术将被用来检测和表征寿命在几秒或更短的反应中间体。在这个程序中主要感兴趣的过程类型被广泛用于实际目的，但反应的详细过程还没有被很好地理解。这项研究将带来的实验技术的强大组合将极大地促进理解反应序列中的中间步骤，从而提高转化的有效性。这个项目还将提供一个特殊的工具，介绍本科生进行研究，使用各种复杂的，但经过良好测试和实验容易掌握的方法。该项目的成功不仅将对有机金属转化的技术应用产生影响，还将对一些学生的教育发展产生影响，一些学生将接受培训，成为未来的科学教师。

Michael J Shaw of the Southern Illinois University (a primarily undergraduate institution) is supported the Inorganic, Bioinorganic, and Organometallic Chemistry Program for investigation of the factors that influence metal-mediated reactions that produce heterocyclic aromatic compounds from alkynes. A variety of d6-metal complexes involving acetylenic ketones and esters (including a variety of spectroscopic labels) will be synthesized. These will be used to probe a number of aspects of the reactions of interest. The main part of the research will be spectro-electrochemical investigations and surface normalized incident Fourier transform infrared spectroscopy. (SNIFTIRS). These powerful techniques will be used to detect and characterize reaction intermediates with life-times of a few seconds or less.The type of process that is of principal interest in this program is widely used for practical purposes, but the detailed course of the reaction is not well understood. The powerful combination of experimental techniques that this study will bring to bear on the process will greatly facilitate understanding the intermediate steps in the reaction sequence, leading to improved effectiveness of the transformation. This project will also provide an exceptional vehicle for introducing undergraduate students to research, using a variety of sophisticated, but well-tested and experimentally tractable methodologies. Success in this project will have impact both on the technological use of organometallic transformations, but also on the educational development of a number of students, some training to be future science teachers.