U.S.-Mexico Collaborative Research Metal Complexes of Heteroatom-Containing Pentadienyl Ligands

这一美国-墨西哥奖项将支持犹他大学的Richard Ernst教授与墨西哥城Avanzados del I.P.N.(CInvestav)的中央调查中心(Centro de Investigacion y de EStudios del I.P.N.)的M.Angeles Paz-Sandoval教授开展研究合作。本研究的目的是研究含氧和含氮的戊二烯配体与过渡金属络合物的结合情况。这一奖项将使目前国内研究一般戊二烯配体的努力扩展到非常有希望的含氧和含氮类似物。墨西哥方面将主要专注于新配体的制备，并将其纳入金属络合物，而在犹他州，将进一步努力将这些配体纳入其他金属络合物，研究潜在有用的反应化学，并通过各种物理方法研究这些化合物的性质，包括单晶X射线衍射。由于金属戊二烯化合物已被证明在金属薄膜沉积和反应化学中非常有用，预计含氧和含氮类似物也将开发出类似的实际应用。

This U.S.-Mexico award will support Professor Richard Ernst of the University of Utah in a research collaboration with Professor M. Angeles Paz-Sandoval of the Centro de Investigacion y de Estudios Avanzados del I.P.N. (CINVESTAV) in Mexico City. The purpose of the research is to study the incorporation of oxygen and nitrogen containing pentadienyl ligands into transition metal complexes. This award will allow the expansion of a current domestic effort studying general pentadienyl ligands to the very promising oxygen and nitrogen containing analogues. The Mexican side will focus primarily on the preparation of the new ligands, and incorporation of these into metal complexes, while in Utah additional efforts will be made to incorporate these ligands into other metal complexes, to study potentially useful reaction chemistry, and to study the natures of these compounds by a variety of physical methods, including single crystal x-ray diffraction. As metal pentadienyl compounds have already proven very useful in metal film depositions and reaction chemistry, it is expected that similar practical applications will develop from the oxygen and nitrogen containing analogues.