Organosilicon Intermediates and Related Systems: A Molecular Beam Approach

通过这个新的奖项，有机和大分子化学项目支持杜兰大学化学系Mark Fink和Mark Sulkes教授的工作。这个研究项目将涉及使用分子束来研究短寿命有机硅中间体和相关的高能分子。待研究的中间体包括14族碳类似物和双键和三键主基团。本研究的独特推力来自分子束光谱学和合成/机械有机金属化学的跨学科合作。综合使用这些组合方法将提供有关活性主基团物种的重要新数据，并将补充通常用于研究这些中间体的方法。该提案的广泛影响包括在一个跨越物理、无机和有机化学界限的跨学科项目中培训本科生和研究生。该研究将为学生准备当今重要的跨学科企业，如材料化学和环境化学。

With this new award the Organic and Macromolecular Chemistry Program supports the work of Professors Mark Fink and Mark Sulkes of the Chemistry Department at Tulane University. This research project will involve the use of molecular beams to investigate short-lived organosilicon intermediates and related energetic molecules. Intermediates to be studied include group 14 carbene analogs and doubly and triply bonded main group species. The unique thrust of this research arises from an interdisciplinary collaboration combining molecular beam spectroscopy and synthetic/mechanistic organometallic chemistry. Comprehensive use of these combined methods will provide significant new data on reactive main group species and will complement methods customarily used to study these intermediates.The broader impacts of this proposal involve the training of undergraduates and graduate students in an interdisciplinary project that crosses the boundaries between physical, inorganic, and organic chemistry. The research will prepare students for important present day interdisciplinary enterprises such as materials chemistry and environmental chemistry.