RUI: Changes in Molecular Electronic Environments upon Complex Formation - The First Steps toward Reaction?

在本项目中，由化学系实验物理化学计划资助，Helen O。Leung和Mark D.阿默斯特学院的马歇尔和他们的本科研究生将研究一系列货车德瓦耳斯络合物的微波光谱。 在这些研究中包括的复合物，其中一个合作伙伴是一个反应，开壳物种。 这些研究的最终目标是探索原子或分子的电子环境在开始反应时如何变化。 这些研究的结果将引起化学家的广泛兴趣。除了建议的研究可能产生更广泛的科学影响外，梁教授和马歇尔教授将为他们的本科研究生提供一个富有挑战性的机会，进行高难度的研究，他们将在国家专业会议上发表研究结果，并在科学文献中发表。

In this project, funded by the Experimental Physical Chemistry Program of the Chemistry Division, Prof. Helen O. Leung and Prof. Mark D. Marshall of Amherst College and their undergraduate research students will investigate the microwave spectra of a series of van der Waals complexes. Included in these studies are complexes where one of the partners is a reactive, open-shell species. The ultimate goal of these studies is to probe how the electronic environment of an atom or molecule changes as it begins to react. The results of these studies will be of broad interest to chemists.Besides the potential broader scientific impact of the proposed research, Prof. Leung and Prof. Marshall will provide their undergraduate research students with a challenging opportunity to perform difficult research, the results of which they will present at national professional meetings and publish in the scientific literature.