RUI: Formation of Organic Ketenes and their Bonding to Late-Transition Metal Complexes

有了这个新的RUI奖，有机和大分子化学项目支持了位于密苏里州吉拉多角的东南密苏里州立大学化学系Jin K. Gong博士的工作。本研究将探讨晚期过渡金属烯酮配合物的制备、光谱表征和反应。它将强调了解其他配体的变化如何影响烯酮的键合模式，它可能通过其C=C或C=O双键结合，但也将探索从过渡金属的CO2配合物制备烯酮。这项工作将使本科生参与有机金属化学的研究，使他们获得制备和表征空气敏感的烯酮配合物的经验，并为他们将来在研究生院或工业界的工作提供有价值的培训。

With this New RUI award, the Organic and Macromolecular Chemistry Program is supporting the work of Dr. Jin K. Gong in the Department of Chemistry in South East Missouri State University in Cape Girardeau, Missouri. The research will investigate the preparation, spectroscopic characterization, and reactions of ketene complexes of the late transition metals. It will emphasize understanding how changes in the other ligands affect the bonding mode of the ketene, which may be bound via its C=C or C=O double bond, but will also explore the preparation of ketenes from CO2 complexes of the transition metals. The work will involve undergraduate students in research in organometallic chemistry, give them experience in preparing and characterizing air sensitive ketene complexes, and provide valuable training for their future work in graduate school or industry.