International Collaborative Photoionization Study of Heats of Formation and Bond Energies of Organometallic Complexes

在这个由化学系实验物理化学项目资助的奖项中，北卡罗来纳大学教堂山分校的托马斯·贝尔教授与他的研究生和本科生，将利用教堂山的阈值光电子光离子符合（TPEPICO）质谱技术以及瑞士光源的成像光电子光离子符合（iPEPICO）测量，与Thomas Gerber教授一起研究气相有机金属配合物的热化学。该项目还包括与Bálint Sztáray教授及其来自Eötvös Loránd大学（匈牙利布达佩斯）的学生合作。有机金属物种是许多工业化学环境中的重要角色。了解它们的键能等对于建立这些物质如何反应的模型很重要。像Baer教授那样的工作目标是提供这些键能的精确值。除了拟议的研究工作的更广泛的科学影响外，贝尔教授的学生还将有机会接触到欧洲正在追求的一些前沿科学——在美国培养一批新的从事全球工作的科学家骨干。

In this award, funded by the Experimental Physical Chemistry Program of the Division of Chemistry, Professor Tomas Baer of the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, together with his graduate, and undergraduate students, will investigate the thermochemistry of organometallic complexes in the gas phase using the technique of threshold photoelectron photoion coincidence (TPEPICO) mass spectrometry at Chapel Hill in concert with imaging photoelectron photoion coincidence (iPEPICO) measurements at the Swiss Light Source with Prof. Thomas Gerber. The project will also involve a collaboration with Prof. Bálint Sztáray and his students from Eötvös Loránd University (Budapest, Hungary).Organometallic species are important actors in a number of industrial chemical settings. An understanding of their bond energies, etc. is important to building up models of how these species react. The goal of work like that of Prof. Baer is to provide accurate and precise values of these bond energies.. In addition to the broader scientific impact of the proposed research work, Prof. Baer's students will receive significant exposure to some of the cutting-edge science being pursued in Europe -- training a new cadre of globally-engaged scientists in the United States.