Solar-driven Catalysis

该奖项由2009年《美国复苏和再投资法案》(公法111-5)资助。这笔赠款将启动一个新的项目，设计能够收集太阳能的催化剂，并将其传递给金属中心，以提高反应速度或产生理想的选择性效果。具体地说，配体被设计成与金属直接共轭，以便能量可以通过键快速转移。这种化学将有助于环境友好的化学合成方法，因为反应只需要阳光来驱动，而且它们可能导致只有以这种方式才能实现的有用的选择性。有了这一早期概念探索性研究补助金(AGERGE)奖，有机和高分子化学计划正在支持德克萨斯农工大学化学系的Kevin Burgess教授的研究。伯吉斯教授的研究工作围绕催化反应在合成方法学中的应用而展开。如果成功，这些反应将对制药和农业行业的合成产生影响。

This award is funded under the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009 (Public Law 111-5).This grant will initiate a new project on the design of catalysts that can harvest solar energy and relay this to the metal centers to promote the rate of reactions or to induce desirable selectivity effects. Specifically, ligands are designed to be in direct conjugation with the metal so that energy may be transferred fast through bonds. Such chemistry will contribute to environmentally benign methods for chemical synthesis as the reactions need only sunlight to drive them, and they may lead to useful selectivities that could only be achieved in this manner. With this Early-concept Grants for Exploratory Research (EAGER) award, the Organic and Macromolecular Chemistry Program is supporting the research of Professor Kevin Burgess of the Department of Chemistry at Texas A & M University. Professor Burgess' research efforts revolve around the development of catalytic reactions for application in synthetic methodology. If successful, these reactions will have an impact on synthesis in the pharmaceutical and agricultural industries.