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)提供资金的。无机化学、生物无机化学和金属有机化学项目的这一研究奖支持波士顿大学的Linda Doerrer教授开展具有氟化基团的过渡金属络合物的基础和基础研究。这些金属，如铁、钴、镍和铜，已经被人类使用了数千年，但直到现在，我们才努力尽可能有效地利用它们。Doerrer教授选择结合特氟龙涂层基团来研究这些富含地球的材料，这些基团使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种时，这些坚固的金属醇盐分子比前几代分子更有效地形成新化合物的能力。后者将在此过程中部分自毁。对于环境友好的工艺和高效的生产，了解金属化合物与碳基基质反应的基本原理是至关重要的。这一研究计划将对几位参与该计划并通过该计划接受培训的年轻科学家的生活产生深远影响，其中包括研究生和本科生。这些学生将进一步影响在Doerrer实验室工作和访问的高中生，并看到他们基于课堂的想法延伸到无机化学前沿的当代研究的未知领域。这项工作的总体影响将导致对合成高价值碳基化合物的材料和方法的更好理解，这些化合物用于人类的许多领域。

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.