Facile routes to multinuclear metal phosphonates and phosphinates: New materials with diverse functions

该奖项是根据2009年美国复苏和再投资法案（公法111-5）资助的。无机、生物无机和有机金属化学项目支持德克萨斯基督教大学Anne Richards教授对新型功能化膦酸和磷酸的研究。这些新化合物被用于系统地探索低聚和聚合主基团金属膦酸盐、双金属膦酸盐和相关膦酸盐。理查兹教授的研究生和本科生致力于了解金属膦酸盐，纵火酸盐和异质金属材料在从单分子磁铁到催化剂，气体吸收剂和光致发光材料的广泛应用中的作用。与乔治城大学和澳大利亚莫纳什大学的科学家合作，帮助表征新材料。理查兹教授还指导一名高中化学老师，并担任TCU化学俱乐部的指导老师，该俱乐部有一个面向高中毕业生的拓展项目。

This award is funded under the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009 (Public Law 111-5). The Inorganic, Bioinorganic and Organometallic Chemistry Program supports the research of Professor Anne Richards of Texas Christian University for the study of novel, functionalized phosphonic and phosphinic acids. These new compounds are employed in the systematic exploration of oligo- and polymeric main group metal phosphonates, bimetallic phosphonates and related phosphinates. Professor Richards' graduate and undergraduate students work to understand the role of the metal phosphinates, arsonates and heterometallic materials in a large range of applications from single molecule magnets to catalysts, gas absorbers, and photoluminescent materials. Collaborations with scientists at Georgetown University and Monash University in Australia aid in the characterization of the new materials. Professor Richards also mentors a high school chemistry teacher and is a faculty advisor to the TCU Chemistry Club, which has an outreach program to high school seniors.