New Inorganic Radical Reactions

Christopher C.博士 马萨诸塞州化学系康明斯 技术研究所，是由无机，生物无机， 化学系的有机化学课程 教师早期职业发展奖研究激进的债券形成 无机化合物的反应，并有助于几个方面， 麻省理工学院的教学计划这项研究的主要部分是针对 设计和合成新的金属配合物， 清洁自由基反应与各种无机基板。示例 包括Ti（III）-氨基物质，其将与较早反应 过渡金属氧代络合物，以产生异金属桥连氧代 化合物并与氮络合物形成金属-氮-金属单元。 教学计划有几个目标，包括设计一门新课程 在无机化学中，它是基于诺贝尔讲座，该机构 一个非正式的研讨会系列，并作为一个本科学术服务 顾问. 在许多化合物中，每个电子都与另一个电子成对。在某些情况下， 然而，这种配对是不完全的，含有一个或多个碳原子的化合物， 更多的未成对电子被称为“自由基”。虽然激进分子 非常被动，它们还没有被广泛探索， 无机物的前体。本研究的目的是 制备稳定的含自由基的金属，并利用它们开发新的 无机化合物的重要类别的路线。教学部分 该项目旨在提高化学品的有效性 在麻省理工学院的一个教育项目，主要是无机化学。

Dr. Christopher C. Cummins, Chemistry Department, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, is supported by the Inorganic, Bioinorganic, and Organometallic Chemistry Program of the Chemistry Division under a Faculty Early Career Advancement Award to study radical bond-forming reactions of inorganic compounds and to contribute to several aspects of the MIT teaching program. A major portion of the research is directed toward the design and synthesis of new metal complexes that will undergo clean radical reactions with a variety of inorganic substrates. Examples include Ti(III)-amido species which will react with early transition-metal oxo-complexes to yield heterometallic bridging oxo compounds and with nitrido complexes to form metal-nitrogen-metal units. The teaching plan has several goals including the design of a new course in inorganic chemistry which is based on Nobel Lectures, the institution of an informal seminar series, and service as an undergraduate academic advisor. In many chemical compounds each electron is paired with another. In some, however, this pairing is not complete and compounds which contain one or more unpaired electrons are called `radicals`. While radicals are known to be very reactive, they have not been extensively explored as precursors for inorganic substances. The purpose of this study is to prepare stable metal containing radicals and utilize them to develop new routes to important classes of inorganic compounds. The teaching portion of the project is designed to improve the effectiveness of the chemical education program, mostly in inorganic chemistry, at MIT.