Interactions of the Cage Compounds ?RA1NR'! with Transition Metal Carbonyl Complexes

该奖项是妇女研究机会项目下的研究计划拨款。这项研究项目将在这笔拨款下进行规划，涉及使用铝和氮的笼状化合物来模拟用作催化剂支撑的活化金属氧化物表面的一些特征。这些笼状化合物在电子性质、配位数低、活性位点多等方面与表面相似。本研究的目的是诱导和表征笼形化合物与过渡金属羰基配合物的多重相互作用。对笼型过渡金属化合物的反应化学和光化学进行了研究。这些均相系统将提供有趣的对比催化剂的化学过渡金属化合物支撑在金属氧化物表面。期望从这项工作中更好地理解表面效应与异相物质的催化活性之间的关系。

This award is a Research Planning Grant under the Research Opportunities for Women Program. The research project which will be planned under this grant involves the use of cage-like compounds of aluminum and nitrogen to simulate some of the features of activated metal oxide surfaces which are used as catalyst supports. These cage compounds resemble the surfaces in electronic properties, low coordination number, and multiplicity of active sites. The goal of the research is to induce and characterize multiple interactions of the cage compounds with transition metal carbonyl complexes. The reaction chemistry and photochemistry of the cage-transition metal compounds will be examined. These homogeneous systems will provide interesting contrasts to the chemistry of catalysts composed of transition metal compounds supported on metal oxide surfaces. A better understanding of the relationship between surface effects and the catalytic activity of the heterogeneous species is expected to result from the work.