Design of late transition metal catalysts for organic transformations

过渡金属配合物在合成和催化中起着重要的作用，但反应中间体往往太不稳定而不能分离。建议的研究将致力于了解后过渡金属配合物的基本相互作用。通过研究具有新的和不同的配体框架的化合物，可以表征新类型的物种，这可以为有机金属化学中的键合和反应机制提供有价值的见解。这可以通过谨慎地选择金属和配体而导致从根本上新型的过渡金属介导的转化。

Transition metal complexes play an important role in synthesis and catalysis but reaction intermediates are often too unstable to be isolated. The proposed studies will be directed towards understanding fundamental interactions of late transition metal complexes. By studying compounds with new and diverse ligand frameworks, new types of species can be characterized which can provide valuable insight into bonding and reaction mechanisms in organometallic chemistry. This can lead to fundamentally new types of transition metal-mediated transformations through a prudent selection of metal and ligand.