Reversible Addition of Olefins and Other Molecules to Heavier Main group Molecules and Related Reactions

化学合成(SYN)项目的这一奖项支持加州大学戴维斯分校的菲利普·P·鲍尔教授开展不饱和分子与多个键合的较重主基和过渡金属物种的可逆反应的基础研究。这些研究集中在含有多个键的小分子如何在可逆过程中与一组迄今尚未得到很好研究的元素相互作用。要研究的小的不饱和(即多键)分子的例子包括乙烯、乙炔、一氧化碳和二氧化碳。这些分子在工业催化循环中非常重要，工业催化循环通常使用钛、铑或铂等过渡金属化合物作为催化剂。研究将集中在铝或硅等丰富而廉价的元素上，这些元素的使用可能会达到更好的催化效果，同时节省能源。此外，该奖项还支持几名本科生、研究生和博士后研究员在许多实际研究技能以及独立科学思维方面的培训。

This award in the Chemical Synthesis (SYN) program supports work by Professor Philip P. Power at the University of California, Davis to carry out fundamental studies on the reversible reactions of unsaturated molecules with multiple bonded heavier main group and transition metal species. These studies focus on how small molecules containing multiple bonds interact in reversible processes with a group of elements that have not been well studied up to now. Examples of the small unsaturated (that is, multiple bonded) molecules to be studied include ethylenes, acetylenes, carbon monoxide and carbon dioxide. These molecules are of great importance in industrial catalytic cycles which usually use transition metal compounds of metals such as titanium, rhodium or platinum as catalysts.The studies will focus on abundant and inexpensive elements such as aluminum or silicon whose use may achieve better catalysis together with energy savings. In addition, the award supports the training of several undergraduate and graduate students and postdoctoral fellows in numerous practical research skills as well as in independent scientific thinking.