Chemistry of Transition Metal/Main Group Element Complexes

该项目的重点是无机，生物无机和 有机化学课程是结构，键合和 过渡金属/主族元素化合物的反应性。 大部分的工作利用作为模板的手性化合物 络合物，其以光学活性形式容易获得。 这有利于机械测试和应用的 不对称合成的发现。具体目标包括： 合成和研究（1）卤代烷配合物， 未知种类的化合物;（2）不饱和的络合物 有机硅配体，例如亚甲硅烷基、二亚甲硅烷基和亚甲硅烷基 络合物;和（3）磷酰、酰胺和亚砜络合物。它 活化烷基的一般方法可能 卤化物和硫化物的不对称氧化将是 开发 磷的分子化学基础研究 硅是重要的，因为这些主要用途 材料科学中发现的族元素（光致抗蚀剂， 陶瓷、复合材料等），通常与金属结合。

The focus of this project in the Inorganic, Bioinorganic and Organometallic Chemistry Program is structure, bonding and reactivity in transition metal/main group element compounds. Much of the work utilizes as a template a chiral rhenium complex, which is readily available in optically active form. This facilitates mechanistic tests and application of the findings in asymmetric synthesis. Specific goals include the synthesis and study of (1) alkyl halide complexes, a virtually unknown class of compounds; (2) complexes of unsaturated organosilicon ligands, such as silylene, disilene and silene complexes; and (3) phosphido, amide and sulfoxide complexes. It is probable that general methods for the activation of alkyl halides and for asymmetric oxidation of sulfides will be developed. Basic research on the molecular chemistry of phosphorus and silicon is important because of the many uses which these main group elements find in materials science (photoresists, ceramics, composits, etc.), often in combination with a metal.