U.S.-Korea Cooperative Research On Metal Promoted Reactions of Boron Hyrides

9320834 Sneddon该奖项提供资金，以允许宾夕法尼亚大学化学系Larry G.Sneddon博士与韩国大学化学系Sang Ook Kang教授进行为期36个月的关于金属促进的硼氢化物反应的合作研究计划。这项合作研究的重点是开发新的、高产量的合成路线，用于构建重要的多面体硼化合物。这项研究将侧重于开发过渡金属试剂和催化剂，类似于有机和有机金属化学中使用的试剂和催化剂，以激活多面体硼化合物进行反应。多面体硼化合物因其独特的化学性质和物理性质，引起了学术界和工业界的广泛关注。这些化合物具有许多重要的性质，可用作燃速调节剂、中子捕集抗癌剂、高温聚合物和陶瓷前驱体。由于缺乏通用的合成程序，这一领域的进一步研究受到了严重阻碍。该项目的大部分合成部分将在韩国进行，康教授最近在韩国发现了几种新的试剂，这些试剂可能会应用于促进新型的硼氢化物反应。该项目的成功将在很大程度上取决于PI实验室提供的复杂的表征技术。合作者是该提案领域备受尊敬的研究人员。该项目与美韩合作科学计划的目标相关，该计划旨在通过交流科学信息、想法、技能和技术以及通过在互利问题上的合作来提高美国和韩国科学家和工程师之间的合作水平。韩国参与该项目得到了韩国科学与工程基金会(KOSEF)的支持。该项目增加了国际合作的层面，国际和平研究所的研究在美国国家科学基金会补助金编号。车-9001063。***

9320834 Sneddon This award provides funds to permit Dr. Larry G. Sneddon, Department of Chemistry, University of Pennsylvania, to pursue with Professor Sang Ook Kang, Department of Chemistry, Korea University, for 36 months, a program of cooperative research on metal promoted reactions of boron hydrides. The focus of this cooperative research is the development of new, high yield synthetic routes for the construction of important polyhedral boron compounds. This research will emphasize the development of transition metal reagents and catalysts, similar to those employed in organic and organometallic chemistry, to activate polyhedral boron compounds for reaction. Because of their unique chemical and physical properties, polyhedral boron compounds are of great academic and industrial interest. These compounds have a number of important properties that give rise to potential applications as burn rate modifiers, neutron-capture cancer agents, high temperature polymers, and ceramic precursors. Further research in this area has been seriously hampered by the lack of general synthetic procedures. Much of the synthetic part of the project will be performed in Korea, where Professor Kang has recently discovered several new reagents which have potential applications to promote new types of boron hydride reactions. Success of the project will depend greatly on the sophisticated characterization techniques available in the PI's laboratory. The collaborators are highly respected researchers in the field of the proposal. This project is relevant to the objectives of the U.S.-Korea Cooperative Science Program which seeks to increase the level of cooperation between U.S. and Korean scientists and engineers through the exchange of scientific information, ideas, skills, and techniques and through collaboration on problems of mutual benefit. Korean participation in the project is supported by the Korea Science and Engineering Foundation (KOSEF). This project adds an international cooperative dimension to the PI's research under NSF Grant No. CHE-9001063. ***