Inorganic Coordination Chemistry for Precursor Development

博士项目将专注于开发新的主族无机和配位络合物，探索其特性并评估选定的例子作为半导体材料电沉积的前体，包括例如硒化锡，碲化锡，锑化镓和锑化铟。主要的重点是拓宽涉及这些元素的配位化合物的可用类别，其中包括一系列中性第15族和第16族配体，以建立它们的结构和光谱特性，并且对于选定的例子，与电化学研究人员合作，以寻求足够的稳定性，溶解度和合适的氧化还原特性，以允许目标材料的电沉积。除了培养合成无机化学方面的技能外，还将培养惰性气氛技术方面的专门知识。将有机会获得一系列关键表征技术的实践经验，包括单晶X射线衍射、多核NMR、IR、拉曼和紫外可见光谱。

The PhD project will focus on the development of new main group inorganic and coordination complexes, exploring their properties and evaluating selected examples as precursors for the electrodeposition of the semiconducting materials, including for examples tin selenide, tin telluride, gallium antimonide and indium antimonide. The main focus with be to broaden the available classes of coordination compounds involving these elements with a range of neutral group 15 and group 16 ligands, to establish their structural and spectroscopic properties, and for selected examples, to collaborate with electrochemistry researchers to seek sufficient stability, solubility and suitable redox properties to allow electrodeposition of the targeted materials. In addition to developing skills in synthetic inorganic chemistry, expertise in inert atmosphere techniques will be developed. There will be opportunities to gain hands-on experience in a range of key characterisation techniques, including single crystal X-ray diffraction, multinuclear NMR, IR, Raman and UV-visible spectroscopy, as appropriate.