US-UK Cooperative Education and Research: Structural Investigations of Main Group Heterocyclic Rings and Cages

0084330Hunter该奖项支持一个关于衍射教育的学术研究和在化学研究中使用先进的衍射方法的合作研究和教育项目。扬斯敦州立大学的艾伦·D·亨特博士将与苏格兰圣安德鲁斯大学的J·德里克·伍林斯博士和亚历山大·斯拉文博士一起度过第一次休假。这项合作的目标是：(1)研究主要基团无机和有机金属环笼配合物的固态结构和成键，并测定它们在溶液中的光谱性质；(2)准备各种结晶学教材。这位美国研究员是一名结晶学家，他将衍射方法方面的专业知识带到了这次合作中。此外，苏格兰集团在主要组别无机和有机金属化学方面的专业知识、卓越的结晶学设备以及不同的衍射法教学方法也是相辅相成的。该项目将增进对新型主族有机金属和配位络合物的合成和表征的理解，并产生新的衍射法教材。

0084330HunterThis award supports a collaborative research and education project on the scholarship of diffraction education and utilization of advanced diffraction methods in chemical research. Dr. Allen D. Hunter of Youngstown State University will spend a first-time sabbatical working with Dr. J. Derek Woollins and Alexander Slawin of St. Andrews University in Scotland. The objectives of this collaboration are: (1) to conduct research on structures and bonding of main group inorganic and organometallic ring and cage complexes in solid state and determine their spectroscopic properties in solution; and (2) prepare a variety of teaching materials in crystallography. The US investigator is a crystallographer and brings to this collaboration expertise in diffraction methods . This is complemented by the Scottish group's expertise in main group inorganic and organometallic chemistry, their excellent crystallography facilities, and different approach to teaching diffraction methods. The project will advance understanding of the synthesis and characterization of novel main group organometallic and coordination complexes, and result in new teaching materials on diffraction methods.