Extended Electronic Effects on Ionizations and Electron Transfer

这个奖项由无机，生物无机和有机化学计划支持教授丹尼斯L。Lichtenberger和Nadine E. Gruhn在亚利桑那大学建立了一个结构特征的理解，确定通过分子连接器或桥梁通信的分离分子功能单元的电子特性。 这些分子功能单元之间的连接将在气相和凝聚相使用光电子能谱（PES）检查。拟议的工作集中在有机金属金属-连接体-金属系统（具有不同刚性水平的各种饱和和不饱和连接体）以及具有浓缩和稀释金属中心的硫醇改性表面的应用上。研究人员有唯一的机会进入美国唯一的-基于PES的设施。Lichtenberger博士和Gruhn博士在整个化学界有着广泛而成功的合作，并定期在夏季外展计划中接待高中教师和少数民族高中学生。

This award by the Inorganic, Bioinorganic, and Organometallic Chemistry Program supports the work of Professor Dennis L. Lichtenberger and Dr. Nadine E. Gruhn at the University of Arizona to build an understanding of structure features that determine the electronic properties of separated molecular functional units that communicate through molecular linkers or bridges. The connections between these molecular functional units will be examined in the gas and condensed phases using photoelectron spectroscopy (PES). The proposed work focuses on the application of organometallic metal-linker-metal systems (with a variety of saturated and unsaturated linkers of differing rigidity levels) as well as thiol modified surfaces with concentrated and dilute metal centers. The researchers have unique access to the only U.S.-based facility for PES. Drs. Lichtenberger and Gruhn have extensive, successful collaborations throughout the chemical community and regularly host high school teachers and minority high school students in a summer outreach program.