Synthesis and Reactivity of Fluorinated High Oxidation State Complexes

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。这个无机、生物无机和有机金属化学项目的研究奖支持波士顿大学的Linda Doerrer教授对通过氧原子与氟化基团结合的过渡金属配合物进行基础和基础研究。这些金属如铁、钴、镍和铜已经被人类使用了几千年，但直到现在我们才开始尽可能有效地利用它们。Doerrer教授选择将这些富含地球元素的材料与聚四氟乙烯涂层基团结合起来进行研究，这使得它们在恶劣的反应条件下非常稳定。当存在转移氧或氮原子的高活性物质时，这些坚固的金属醇氧分子具有比前几代分子更有效地形成新化合物的能力。后者将在一定程度上自我毁灭。对于环保工艺和高效生产，了解金属化合物与碳基衬底反应的基本原理至关重要。该研究项目将对参与并通过该项目接受培训的几位年轻科学家（包括研究生和本科生）的生活产生深远影响。这些学生将进一步影响在Doerrer实验室工作和参观的高中生，并看到他们在课堂上的想法延伸到无机化学前沿的未知当代研究领域。这项工作的总体影响将导致提高对合成高价值碳基化合物的材料和方法的理解，以用于人类努力的许多领域。

This award is funded under the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009 (Public Law 111-5). This Research award in the Inorganic, Bioinorganic and Organometallic Chemistry program supports work by Professor Linda Doerrer at Boston University to carry out fundamental and basic studies on transition metal complexes with fluorinated groups bound to them through oxygen atoms. These metals such as iron, cobalt, nickel and copper have been used by humans for millennia but only now are we working to make as efficient use of them as possible. Professor Doerrer has chosen to study these earth abundant materials in combination with Teflon-coated groups that make them very stable under harsh reaction conditions. When in the presence of highly reactive species that transfer oxygen or nitrogen atoms, these robust metal-alkoxide molecules have the ability to form new compounds more efficiently than previous generations of molecules. The latter would partially self-destruct along the way. For environmentally benign processes and efficient production, understanding the fundamentals of the reaction of the metal compound with the carbon-based substrates is critical. This research program will have a profound influence on the lives of several young scientists that participate in and are trained through the program, including graduate and undergraduate students. These students will further influence the high school students who work in and visit the Doerrer lab and see the extension of their classroom-based ideas into the unknown realm of contemporary research at the frontiers of inorganic chemistry. The overall impact of this work will lead to improved understanding of materials and methods for synthesizing high value carbon-based compounds for use in many realms of human endeavor.