Metal Complexes for Activation and Scission of Small, Multiply-Bonded Molecules

这项工作的直接结果是一系列金属络合物，能够选择性地断裂存在于一些具有化学重要性的小分子中的强键。这将对工业产生重大影响，因为它为目前昂贵和危险的生产含氮和磷化合物的工艺提供了更便宜和更安全的替代方案，这些化合物对化工和农业至关重要。它还将为化学界提供构建具有不寻常和奇异配体的金属络合物的新途径，从而极大地受益于化学界。这些结果将导致新的消费产品和潜在的下游应用，如一氧化氮/二氧化氮转换器和二氧化碳排放控制。

The immediate outcome of this work is a series of metal complexes capable of selectively cleaving the strong bonds present in a number of small molecules of chemical importance. This will have a significant impact on industry by providing cheaper and safer alternatives to currently expensive and hazardous processes for producing nitrogen and phosphorus containing compounds esential to the chemical and agricultural industries. It will also greatly benefit the chemical community by providing novel routes to constructing metal complexes with unusual and exotic ligands. These outcomes will lead to new consumer products and potential downstream applications such as nitric oxide/nitrogen dioxide converters and carbon dioxide emission controls.