CAREER: Metal-Metal Multiply Bonded Redox-active Scaffolds for Transition Metals

这个职业奖在无机，生物无机和有机化学计划支持教授约翰F。Berry在威斯康星州-麦迪逊大学研究金属-金属多重键合基团与其他金属原子的相互作用。将合成一类新的配位化合物，其特征在于过渡金属和富电子金属-金属多键合基团之间的异金属相互作用。从金属-金属多键合基团的电子密度的捐赠将使用多种物理方法进行探测，目的是发现这些化合物促进的多电子氧化还原反应性的新途径。化学信息将被收集和组装成教学上有用的数据为基础的练习，以计算机为基础的动手学习模块的形式，作为补充研究生和本科生的课程。这些数据还将以在线互动网站或维基的形式向整个化学界展示。异金属相互作用在生命所必需的多电子生物过程中非常重要，从能量转换的角度来看也具有工业重要性。发现通过使用分子氧或过氧化氢起作用的新的氧化转化与改善工业规模氧化化学的环境影响有关。

This CAREER award in the Inorganic, Bioinorganic and Organometallic Chemistry program supports work by Professor John F. Berry at the University of Wisconsin - Madison to study the interaction of metal-metal multiply bonded groups with other metal atoms held in close proximity. A new class of coordination compounds will be synthesized that feature heterometallic interactions between a transition metal and an electron-rich metal-metal multiply bonded group. Donation of electron density from the metal-metal multiply bonded group will be probed using multiple physical methods with the aim of discovering new avenues for multi-electron redox reactivity promoted by these compounds. Chemical information will be collected and assembled into pedagogically useful data-based exercises in the form of computer-based hands-on learning modules as supplements to graduate and undergraduate coursework. These data will also be presented to the entirety of the chemical community in the form of an online interactive website or wiki.Heterometallic interactions are important in multi-electron biological processes that are essential to life and are also of industrial importance from the standpoint of energy conversion. The discovery of new oxidative transformations that function via the use of molecular oxygen or hydrogen peroxide is relevant to improving the environmental impact of industrial-scale oxidative chemistry.