Novel Metalloles Containing Heavy Group 14 Elements

无机化学、生物无机化学和金属有机化学项目的这一奖项支持密苏里大学圣彼得堡分校珍妮特·布拉多克-威尔金教授的研究。Louis研究了含有较重的第14族元素：硅、锗和锡的新型络合物的制备，作为环系的一部分。这些化合物称为金属化合物，它们将与过渡金属单元偶联，要么直接与第14族元素结合，要么通过与环状单元相连的含磷键连接。过渡金属和14族金属化合物的偶联提供了一种将两个亚基的独特的化学、电子和光学性质结合在一起的方法，以产生具有显著性质的新的络合物和材料，它们将被应用于电子器件、化学传感器和金属介导的有机分子转化的催化剂。这项研究计划的支持将使研究生和本科生，包括未被代表的基团，如妇女，在合成有机金属化合物的合成和表征技术方面进行专业培训。

This award in the Inorganic, Bioinorganic, and Organometallic Chemistry Program supports the research of Professor Janet Braddock-Wilking at the University of Missouri-St. Louis to investigate the preparation of novel complexes that contain the heavier Group 14 elements: silicon, germanium, and tin, as part of a cyclic system. These compounds, known as metalloles, will be coupled with transition metal units either bound directly to the Group 14 element or through a phosphorus-containing linkage attached to the cyclic unit. The coupling of transition metals with the Group 14-containing metalloles provides a way to merge the unique chemical, electronic, and optical properties of both subunits to produce new complexes and materials with remarkable properties that will lend themselves to applications in electronic devices, chemical sensors, and catalysts for the metal-mediated transformations of organic molecules.The support of this research plan will enable the professional training of graduate and undergraduate students including underrepresented groups, such as women, in the synthetic and characterization techniques involved in the preparation of organometallic compounds.