Organometallic Chemistry at the Edge of Polycyclic Aromatic Carbon Compounds

密苏里大学哥伦比亚分校化学系保罗·R·夏普博士因其在多环芳香碳化合物边缘的有机金属化学方面的工作而得到国家科学基金会化学部无机、生物无机和有机金属化学项目的支持。具体地说，多环芳烃和金属环络合物的化学将作为一种手段，通过以过金属化萘、冠烯和冠轮烯为基础的逐步生长方法来构建碳纳米管。碳纳米管将通过在分子水平上的特殊设计来构建。这些纳米管将为其他研究人员提供探索一维导电系统新的电子性质的机会。它们还将在纳米电子设备、场发射器、储氢和非线性光学等领域找到应用。研究生和博士后助理将接受从分子级化学到纳米级的令人羡慕的培训。

Dr. Paul R. Sharp, Department of Chemistry, University of Missouri at Columbia, is supported by the Inorganic, Bioinorganic and Organometallic Chemistry program of the Division of Chemistry, National Science Foundation, for his work on the organometallic chemistry at the edge of polycyclic aromatic carbon compounds. Specifically, the chemistry of polycyclic aromatic yne and metallacycle complexes will be developed as a means to construct carbon nanotubes by a step-growth approach based on permetalated naphthalenes, coronenes, and coroannulenes. Carbon nanotubes will be constructed by special design at the molecular level. These nanotubes will provide other researchers opportunities to explore novel electronic properties of one-dimensional conducting systems. They will also find applications in such areas as nanoscale electronic devices, field emitters, hydrogen storage, and non-linear optics. Graduate students and post-doctoral associates will receive enviable training from the molecular scale chemistry to the nanoscale dimension.