Extended Electronic Effects on Ionizations and Electron Transfer

这项由无机化学、生物无机化学和金属有机化学项目颁发的奖项支持亚利桑那大学的Dennis L.Lichtenberger教授和Nadine E.Gruhn博士的工作，以建立对结构特征的理解，这些结构特征决定了通过分子连接物或桥进行通信的独立分子功能单元的电子性质。这些分子功能单元之间的连接将用光电子能谱(PES)在气相和凝聚相中进行检测。建议的工作集中在有机金属金属-连接剂-金属体系(具有不同刚性水平的各种饱和和不饱和连接物)以及具有集中和稀金属中心的硫醇修饰表面的应用。研究人员可以独一无二地进入美国唯一的PES设施。Lichtenberger博士和Gruhn博士在整个化学社区进行了广泛而成功的合作，并定期接待高中教师和少数民族高中生参加暑期外展计划。

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.