Purchase of a Laser System for Photoinitiated Charge Transfer Studies

该奖项在无机，生物无机和有机物计划支持研究电荷转移反应的博士。北卡罗来纳州夏洛特大学化学系的保罗·里莱马说。 将合成含有捕光发色团的络合物，主要是β-环糊精。 发色团的光激发促进了电子给体和受体基团之间的电子转移，这一工作将为研究发色团光激发态的猝灭提供基础信息，并与太阳能转换有关。 这是一个本科院校研究（RUI）奖，研究将由本科生进行。

This award in the Inorganic, Bioinorganic, and Organometallic Program supports research on charge transfer reactions by Dr. D. Paul Rillema of the Chemistry Department, University of North Carolina at Charlotte. Complexes, primarily of rhenium, containing light harvesting chromophores will be synthesized. Photoexcitation of the chromophore promotes electron transfer between electron donor and acceptor groups covalently attached to it. The work will yield fundamental information on the quenching of photogenerated excited states, and is relevant to solar energy conversion. This is a Research at Undergraduate Institutions (RUI) award and the research will be conducted by undergraduate students.