Novel Metalloles Containing Heavy Group 14 Elements

无机，生物无机和有机化学计划的这一奖项支持密苏里大学圣路易斯分校的Janet Braddock-Wilking教授的研究，以研究含有较重的第14族元素的新型复合物的制备：硅，锗和锡，作为循环系统的一部分。 这些化合物，称为金属茂，将与过渡金属单元偶联，过渡金属单元直接与第14族元素结合或通过含磷键连接到环状单元。 过渡金属与含第14族的金属茂的偶联提供了一种合并两种亚基的独特化学、电子和光学性质以产生具有显著性质的新络合物和材料的方法，所述新络合物和材料将使它们自身适用于电子器件、化学传感器、以及金属的催化剂介导的有机分子的转化。这项研究计划的支持将使研究生和本科生，包括代表性不足的群体，例如妇女，在有机金属化合物的制备中所涉及的合成和表征技术方面。

This award in the Inorganic, Bioinorganic, and Organometallic Chemistry Program supports the research of Professor Janet Braddock-Wilking at the University of Missouri-St. Louis to investigate the preparation of novel complexes that contain the heavier Group 14 elements: silicon, germanium, and tin, as part of a cyclic system. These compounds, known as metalloles, will be coupled with transition metal units either bound directly to the Group 14 element or through a phosphorus-containing linkage attached to the cyclic unit. The coupling of transition metals with the Group 14-containing metalloles provides a way to merge the unique chemical, electronic, and optical properties of both subunits to produce new complexes and materials with remarkable properties that will lend themselves to applications in electronic devices, chemical sensors, and catalysts for the metal-mediated transformations of organic molecules.The support of this research plan will enable the professional training of graduate and undergraduate students including underrepresented groups, such as women, in the synthetic and characterization techniques involved in the preparation of organometallic compounds.