Reactions in Organized and Constsricted Systems

这个奖项，在有机动力学计划，是为了支持 圣母大学的J.克里托马斯博士的研究。 研究将集中在光诱导电子转移， 有组织的集会和随后的反应， 光产生的阳离子 所使用的技术将是激光闪光光解， 离子事件是由短暂而强烈的闪光引发的， 并监测产生的短寿命自由基和阳离子 通过快速吸收和发射光谱和传导 方法. 长寿命产品将通过常规的 NMR、IR和电子光谱等分析方法 HPLC和气相色谱法。该研究将探索 产生阳离子的方法，溶剂对 阳离子的反应，增加电荷的方法 分离或减少反反应、光生电子 在鎓盐中的转移，导电聚合物在 电荷分离过程、新的主体系统和光动力学 在聚合物薄膜中。

This award, in the Organic Dynamics Program, is made to support the research of Dr. J. Kerry Thomas at Notre Dame University. The research will focus on photo-induced electron transfer in organized assemblies and the subsequent reactions of the photo-produced cations. The techniques used will be laser flash photolysis, where the ionic events are initiated by short, intense flashes of light, and the short-lived radicals and cations produced are monitored by fast absorption and emission spectroscopy and conduction methods. Long-lived products will be monitored by conventional analytical methods such as NMR, IR and electronic spectroscopy and HPLC and gas chromatography. The research will explore methods of generation of cations, solvent effects on the reactions of the cations, methods of increasing charge separation or decreasing back reaction, photoinduced electron transfer in onium salts, use of conducting polymers in the charge separation process, new host systems, and photodynamics in polymer films.