International Collaboration in Chemistry: Structural Mechanostereochemistry of Mechanically Interlocked Polymers and Networks

国际化学合作：机械互锁聚合物和网络的结构力立体化学

• 批准号: 0924620
• 负责人: J Fraser Stoddart
• 金额: $ 75万
• 依托单位: Northwestern University
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 项目类别: Standard Grant
• 财政年份: 2009
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2009-08-15 至 2012-07-31
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=0924620&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: International; Collaboration; Chemistry; Structural; Mechanostereochemistry

This award is funded under the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009 (Public Law 111-5).The Organic and Macromolecular Chemistry Program in the Chemistry Division at the National Science Foundation supports a proposal from Professor Fraser J. Stoddart of Northwestern University. This proposal, submitted in response to solicitation NSF 08-602: International Collaboration in Chemistry between US Investigators and their Counterparts Abroad (ICC), is a collaboration with Alexandra M Z. Slawin at St Andrews University in Scotland. The team will develop the chemistry of mechanically interlocking molecules (MIMs) into higher ordered network materials and characterize these materials by a range of physical techniques, most importantly, single crystal X-ray crystallography. The structural results will be used to inform the development of the chemistry as the results are fed back into the design and synthesis of the new materials. The combination of these two teams to tackle the development of multi-dimensional mechanically interlocking molecules represents a significant advance in the area and will be of benefit and interest to a wide range of academics working in the area of supramolecular chemistry. The resultant materials obtained will have enormous potential in a variety of industrial applications.The broader impacts will present an opportunity for students to work on highly interdisciplinary research that enables the pursuit of grand scientific challenges. There is a well-planned and extensive program for exchanging students between Northwestern University and St. Andrews University, as well as regular cross-institutional visits by the PIs that will be aided by state-of-the-art communication aids, e.g., video conferencing, teleconferencing, and web-based data-sharing. Both PIs support their institution?s initiative to bring students into the classrooms from underrepresented groups. At Northwestern University, Professor Stoddart runs a research group focused on synthetic and physical organic chemistry with postdoctoral fellows drawn from all around the world, currently including Canada, China, Germany, India, Lebanon, Mexico, Scotland, and Turkey as well as the US. His present graduate students include Asian and Hispanic Americans, as well as women from the US and abroad. At St. Andrews University, Professor Slawin runs a world-class X-ray diffraction facility with unique support activities (e.g., Automated Crystallization Facility) in a highly interactive manner with postdoctoral, graduate and undergraduate students from the UK, the EU, and non-EU countries. The value-added and enhanced experience, for research performance and academic quality and for the education and training of students in both groups, will be at a remarkably invigorating level because of the complementary skills that will be gained through collaboration between these two very different laboratories.

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。国家科学基金会化学部的有机化学和高分子化学项目支持西北大学弗雷泽·J·斯托达特教授的提议。这项提案是应NSF 08-602：美国研究人员与海外同行在化学领域的国际合作(ICC)的邀请而提交的，是与苏格兰圣安德鲁斯大学的Alexandra M.Z.Slawin合作的。该团队将把机械互锁分子(MIMs)的化学发展成更高有序的网络材料，并通过一系列物理技术来表征这些材料，最重要的是单晶X射线结晶学。结构结果将被用来指导化学的发展，因为结果将反馈到新材料的设计和合成中。这两个团队联合起来解决多维机械互锁分子的开发代表着该领域的重大进展，并将对在超分子化学领域工作的广泛学者有利和感兴趣。所获得的材料将在各种工业应用中具有巨大的潜力。更广泛的影响将为学生提供一个从事高度跨学科研究的机会，使他们能够追求重大的科学挑战。西北大学和圣安德鲁斯大学之间有一个计划良好的广泛的学生交换计划，以及私人投资机构的定期跨机构访问，这些访问将得到最先进的通信辅助手段的帮助，例如视频会议、电话会议和基于网络的数据共享。两位PI都支持他们的机构--S倡议将代表人数不足的群体的学生带进教室。在西北大学，斯托达特教授领导着一个专注于合成和物理有机化学的研究小组，博士后研究员来自世界各地，目前包括加拿大、中国、德国、印度、黎巴嫩、墨西哥、苏格兰、土耳其和美国。他目前的研究生包括亚裔和西班牙裔美国人，以及来自美国和海外的女性。在圣安德鲁斯大学，斯拉文教授与来自英国、欧盟和非欧盟国家的博士后、研究生和本科生以高度互动的方式运营着世界级的X射线衍射设施，该设施具有独特的支持活动(例如自动结晶设施)。由于这两个完全不同的实验室将通过合作获得互补的技能，因此，在研究业绩和学术质量以及教育和培训两个小组的学生方面，增值和增强的经验将处于非常令人振奋的水平。