The Chemistry of High-Energy-Content Reactants

该基金由化学有机动力学项目资助，为伊利诺伊大学Gary Schuster教授的研究提供支持。舒斯特的研究主题是高能量中间体的创造、检测和反应行为。这些中间体将通过光化学方法生成，并通过分析其化学和光谱特性进行检测。特别是，一组实验将试图产生，检测和表征一组新的含硼杂环，硼和硼基自由基的次价化合物。这些大部分尚未开发的物质有望具有潜在的实践和理论重要性的不寻常性质。其他实验将探索电子激发的二烯和亲二烯络合物的性质。这些物种似乎经历的反应产生的产物不容易通过常规途径获得。在时间和资源允许的情况下，我们还将研究ylide离子的性质。这些高能量含量的反应物是由酰化物氧化形成的：它们的性质从未在实验中被检验过。

This grant funded by the Organic Dynamics Program in Chemistry provides support for the research of Prof. Gary Schuster at the University of Illinois. The general theme of Schuster's research is the creation, detection and reaction behaviour of high energy-content reactant intermediates. These intermediates will be generated photochemically and examined by analysis of their chemical and spectroscopic properties. In particular, one group of experiments will attempt to generate, detect and characterize a set of novel boron-containing heterocycles, hypovalent compounds of boron and boranyl radicals. These largely unexplored substances are expected to have unusual properties of potential practical and theoretical importance. Other experiments will explore the properties of electronically excited complexes of dienes and dieneophiles. These species appear to undergo reactions that yield products not easily obtained by conventional routes. As time and resources allow, the properties of ylide ions will also be examined. These high-energy-content reactants are formed by oxidation of ylides: their properties have never been examined experimentally.