US-Russia Cooperative Research: Designing Gold(I) Complexes for New Materials

该奖项在国际项目和无机、生物无机和有机金属化学项目中支持缅因大学的Alice E. Bruce博士和莫斯科国立大学（俄罗斯）的Dmitri Lemenovskii博士的合作研究。该项目的目标是设计出在液晶等新材料中有用的金复合物。含棒状分子的有机金化合物将被合成并进行结构表征。将研究由化合物形成的液相和固相中的晶格效应。这两个小组在研究的合成方面经验丰富，但将利用缅因大学在测试新材料物理特性方面的能力。莫斯科国立大学的化学家们将开发出通过激光光解金化合物来沉积金属金的方法。这是两位首席研究员之间的第一个合作研究项目。该奖项将使缅因大学和莫斯科国立大学之间的研究生交流成为可能。

This award in International Programs and the Inorganic, Bioinorganic, and Organometallic Chemistry Program supports collaborative research by Dr. Alice E. Bruce of the University of Maine and Dr. Dmitri Lemenovskii of Moscow State University (Russia). The goal of the project is to design gold complexes that will be useful in new materials, such as liquid crystals. Organogold compounds containing rod-shaped molecules will be synthesized and structurally characterized. Lattice effects in liquid and solid phases formed from the compounds will be studied. Both groups are experienced in the synthetic aspects of the research, but will take advantage of the University of Maine's capabilities in testing physical properties of new materials. Chemists at Moscow State University will develop methods to deposit metallic gold by laser photolysis of the gold compounds. This is the first collaborative research project between the two principal investigators. The award will enable an exchange of graduate students between the University of Maine and Moscow State University.