MRI: Acquisition of a Single Crystal Diffractometer for Teaching and Research at Rutgers University

该奖项由主要研究仪器项目和化学研究仪器项目支持。罗格斯大学新不伦瑞克分校正在购买一台单晶X射线衍射仪(SCXRD)，以支持艾伦·戈德曼教授及其同事爱德华·阿诺德、李静、谢伟伟和张建元。通常，X射线衍射仪可以准确和精确地测量分子的完整三维结构，包括键距离和角度，并提供关于分子相对于邻近分子的空间排列的准确信息。这里描述的研究影响到许多领域，包括有机和无机化学、材料化学和生物化学。该工具是本科生和研究生以及普林斯顿大学、纽约城市大学和特拉华大学等其他区域机构的合作者的教学、研究和研究培训的组成部分。授予该衍射仪的目的是加强各级的研究和教育。它尤其影响了简单有机分子转化的过渡金属催化剂的发展，以及晶态固态无机和无机-有机杂化材料的表征。该仪器还用于确定非中心对称超导体的结构以及量子材料中拓扑和磁性的相互作用，并研究HIV多蛋白前体和逆转录酶的分子机制。该仪器还服务于研究用作分子量子比特的金属富勒烯衍生物中的面内金属团簇控制的研究人员，以及那些为与能量相关的转换和功能材料设计分子有机金属催化剂和超分子结构的研究人员。该奖项反映了NSF的法定使命，并通过使用基金会的智力优势和更广泛的影响审查标准进行评估，被认为值得支持。

This award is supported by the Major Research Instrumentation and the Chemistry Research Instrumentation programs. Rutgers University-New Brunswick is acquiring a single crystal X-ray diffractometer (SCXRD) to support Professor Alan Goldman and colleagues Edward Arnold, Jing Li, Weiwei Xie and Jianyuan Zhang. In general, an X-ray diffractometer allows accurate and precise measurements of the full three-dimensional structure of a molecule, including bond distances and angles, and provides accurate information about the spatial arrangement of a molecule relative to neighboring molecules. The studies described here impact many areas, including organic and inorganic chemistry, materials chemistry, and biochemistry. This instrument is an integral part of teaching as well as research and research training of undergraduate and graduate students as well as collaborators from other regional institutions such as Princeton University, City University of New York and the University of Delaware. The award of this diffractometer is aimed at enhancing research and education at all levels. It especially impacts the development of transition-metal-based catalysts for transformations of simple organic molecules and the characterization of crystalline solid-state inorganic and inorganic-organic hybrid materials. The instrumentation is also used for determining the structures of non-centrosymmetric superconductors and interplay of topology and magnetism in quantum materials and studying molecular mechanisms of HIV polyprotein precursors and reverse transcriptase. The instrument also serves researchers investigating endohedral metal cluster control in metallofullerene derivatives for use as molecular qubits and those designing molecular organometallic catalysts and supramolecular structures for energy-related transformations and functional materials.This award reflects NSF's statutory mission and has been deemed worthy of support through evaluation using the Foundation's intellectual merit and broader impacts review criteria.