Inorganic Chemistry of the Suboxides of Carbon and Nitrogen

在这个项目中，无机化学、生物无机化学和金属有机化学计划将研究两个高能分子--次氧化碳和一氧化二氮的化学。次氧化碳将被用作富碳小分子的独特来源，这些小分子被认为是费托合成中非石化衍生碳化合物的基石。在温和的条件下，次氧化碳将被用作有机化合物选择性氧化的氧气来源。次氧化碳将被用作碳碎片的来源，以形成碳化物、亚乙烯酮和乙烯酮等金属络合物。将寻求合适的金属体系，以化学计量和催化两种方式激活一氧化二氮向有机部分的氧转移反应。一氧化二氮也将被用作试剂，在温和的、动力学控制的条件下制备有趣的氧代络合物。这样的反应预计会非常干净，因为一氧化二氮分解的唯一副产品是氮气。

In this project in the Inorganic, Bioinorganic and Organometallic Chemistry Program the chemistry of two high-energy molecules, carbon suboxide and nitrous oxide, will be investigated. Carbon suboxide will be used as a unique source of the small carbon-rich molecules which are believed to serve as building blocks for non-petrochemically derived carbon compounds in the Fischer-Tropsch synthesis. Carbon suboxide will be used as a source of oxygen in the selective oxidation of organic compounds under mild conditions. Carbon suboxide will be used as a source of carbon fragments for the formation of metal complexes of such species as carbide, ketenylidene and ketene. Suitable metal systems will be sought for the activation of nitrous oxide toward oxygen transfer reactions to organic moieties in both stoichiometric and catalytic fashions. Nitrous oxide will be used also as a reagent for preparing interesting oxo-complexes under mild, kinetically controlled conditions. Such reactions are expected to be very clean, since the only by-product of nitrous oxide decomposition is dinitrogen.