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、生物无机和有机金属化学项目的资助，研究影响由炔烃产生杂环芳香族化合物的金属介导反应的因素。将合成各种涉及乙炔酮和酯的d6-金属配合物（包括各种光谱标记）。这些将用于探讨感兴趣的反应的一些方面。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)。这些强大的技术将用于检测和表征寿命为几秒钟或更短的反应中间体。在本计划中主要感兴趣的过程类型广泛用于实际目的，但反应的详细过程尚未得到很好的了解。本研究将在该过程中引入的强大的实验技术组合将极大地促进对反应序列中间步骤的理解，从而提高转化的有效性。该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处理的方法。这个项目的成功既会对有机金属转化的技术应用产生影响，也会对一些学生的教育发展产生影响，培养他们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.