Presidential Young Investigator Award: Chemistry of Metal-Oxo Complexes

这项由无机化学、生物无机化学和有机金属化学项目颁发的总统青年研究人员奖是在有机金属化学领域。该项目的重点是具有金属-配体多键的化合物，特别是金属-氧配合物。目标是在基础水平上了解影响金属-配体多重键的强度、稳定性和反应性的电子和几何因素。最近发现的新型低价Re-氧化合物，以及对它们的电子结构和反应化学的研究，为末端氧配体的特殊性质提供了新的线索。从Re-氧化合物中得到的信息将用于设计高活性的金属-氧配合物。这是一个具有重大意义的新领域。金属氧化物被广泛用作催化剂、催化剂载体和有机化合物选择性转化的试剂。许多酶反应涉及金属氧基物种，而金属氧基是许多重要的固态材料的基本构件。

This Presidential Young Investigator Award from the Inorganic, Bioinorganic and Organometallic Chemistry Program is in the area of organometallic chemistry. The focus of the project is compounds with metal-ligand multiple bonds, in particular metal-oxo complexes. The goal is to understand at a fundamental level the electronic and geometric factors that influence the strength, stability and reactivity of metal-ligand multiple bonds. The recent discovery of novel low-valent rhenium-oxo compounds, together with studies of their electronic structure and their reaction chemistry, has thrown new light on the unusual properties of terminal oxo ligands. The information derived from the rhenium-oxo compounds will be used in designing highly reactive metal-oxo complexes. This is a new field of substantial importance. Metal oxides are widely used as catalysts, catalyst supports and as reagents for selective transformations of organic compounds. A number of enzymatic reactions involve metal-oxo species, and the metal-oxo group is a fundamental building block of many important solid-state materials.