Synthesis and Characterization of Transition Metal Trihydrogen Complexes

该奖项由无机、生物无机和有机金属化学项目颁发，研究领域为有机金属化学。该项目的目标是为最近发现的三氢阳离子过渡金属配合物提供额外的直接实验证据，建立这些配合物的结构，并合成此类配合物的其他例子。结构信息将通过结合溶液和固体核磁共振光谱、变温红外光谱、x射线和中子衍射获得。该项目的结果将与工业上重要的氢化反应相关，并将为关注化学键的理论家提供新的挑战。

This award from the Inorganic, Bioinorganic and Organometallic Chemistry Program is in the area of organometallic chemistry. The goals of the project are to provide additional direct experimental evidence for the recently discovered transition metal complexes of the trihydrogen cation, to establish the structures of these complexes, and to synthesize additional examples of such complexes. Structural information will be obtained by a combination of solution and solid state NMR spectroscopy, variable temperature IR spectroscopy, and X-ray and neutron diffraction. The results of this project will be relevant to industrially important hydrogenation reactions and will provide new challenges to theoreticians who are concerned with chemical bonding.