US-Netherlands Cooperative Studies of Excited State Optical Activity

该奖项支持密苏里大学圣路易斯分校的詹姆斯·P·里尔教授与荷兰莱顿州立大学化学系的哈里·P·J·M·德克斯教授的合作研究。他们正在通过使用一种新的时间分辨圆偏振发光(CPL)装置，对手性和外消旋混合物进行几个相关的项目。Dekkers教授在莱顿建造了这样的装置，并在手性有机体系中的发光测量方面提供了实验经验，而Riehl教授在理论分析和水基稀土配合物的立体化学方面拥有专业知识。这两位调查员的兴趣和技能非常契合。这个项目集中在一个新兴的光谱学领域，它可能会对一些重要的问题产生重大影响，包括基础和应用。拟议的合作应进一步发展时间分辨CPL实验的实验和理论基础。对手性稀土元素中的分子能量交换和构象动力学也应该有更好的理解。

This award supports Professor James P. Riehl of the University of Missouri at St. Louis for collaborative research with Professor Harry P. J. M. Dekkers of the Department of Chemistry, State University of Leiden, The Netherlands. They are pursuing several related projects on chiral and racemic mixtures through the use of a new time-resolved circularly polarized luminescence (CPL) apparatus. Professor Dekkers has built such an apparatus in Leiden, and offers experimental experience in measurements of luminescence in chiral organic systems, while Professor Riehl has expertise in theoretical analysis and some experimental work on the stereochemistry of aqueous lanthanide complexes. The interests and skills of the two investigators mesh very well. This project focuses on an emerging area of spectroscopy that may have a significant impact on a number of significant problems, both fundamental and applied. The proposed collaboration should further develop the experimental and theoretical underpinnings of time resolved CPL experiments. A better understanding of molecular energy exchange and conformational dynamics in chiral lanthanides should also result.