Metal-Oxide Based Solids and Clusters

该奖项在无机，生物无机和有机化学 计划继续支持复杂金属合成研究 由锡拉丘兹化学系的乔恩·祖别塔博士 大学 有机成分将采用水热法引入 形成四种一般类型的不寻常固体的方法：微孔固体 具有沸石规模空腔;层状混合价态过渡金属 含有机铵阳离子的氧化物;钒和钼 含共价键合的有机配体的氧代磷酸盐;和 含氧化物的配位络合物。 这些开放框架和 层状结构将通过低温方法制备， 生物矿化模型虽然系统地综合这些 材料一直难以捉摸，这项研究的长期目标是 能够“设计”两类金属氧化物：层状和沸石 氧钒和氧钼磷酸盐和有机膦酸盐，和 层状和三维的钒氧化物和钼氧化物。 基于金属氧化物的固相化合物在催化中是重要的， 吸附、分子电子学、能量存储、光学材料，以及 陶瓷. 化学成分和结构的变化影响广泛 属性的范围。 引入有机物的新合成方法 预计这些基团将导致化合物的范围扩大， 通过补偿电荷、引导结构生长或 连接官能团。

This award in the Inorganic, Bioinorganic, and Organometallic Chemistry Program continues support for research on synthesis of complex metal oxides by Dr. Jon Zubieta of the Chemistry Department, Syracuse University. Organic components will be introduced using hydrothermal methods to form unusual solids of four general types: microporous solids with zeolite scale cavities; layered mixed-valence transition metal oxides containing organo-ammonium cations; vanadium and molybdenum oxophosphates containing covalently-bonded organic ligands; and vanadium oxides containing coordination complexes. These open-framework and layered structures will be prepared by low-temperature methods based on the model of biomineralization. While systematic synthesis of such materials has been elusive, the long-term goal of this research is to enable `design` of two classes of metal oxides: layered and zeolitic oxovanadium and oxomolybdenum phosphates and organophosphonates, and layered and three-dimensional vanadium oxides and molybdenum oxides. Metal oxide based solid phase compounds are important in catalysis, sorption, molecular electronics, energy storage, optical materials, and ceramics. Variations in chemical composition and structure effect a wide range of properties. New synthetic approaches to introducing organic groups are expected to result in compounds with an expanded range of properties by compensating charge, directing structural growth, or connecting functional groups.