International Collaborative Photoionization Study of Heats of Formation and Bond Energies of Organometallic Complexes

在这项由化学系实验物理化学计划资助的奖项中，北卡罗来纳大学教堂山分校的Tomas Baer教授将与他的研究生和本科生一起，在教堂山使用阈值光电子光离子符合(TPEPICO)质谱学技术，并与Thomas Gerber教授在瑞士光源进行成像光电子光离子符合(IPEPICO)测量，来研究气相中金属有机化合物的热化学。该项目还将与匈牙利布达佩斯洛兰德大学的Bálint Sztáray教授和他的学生合作。有机金属物种在许多工业化学环境中是重要的参与者。了解它们的键能等对于建立这些物种如何反应的模型很重要。像贝尔教授这样的工作的目标是提供这些键能的准确和精确的值。除了拟议的研究工作的更广泛的科学影响外，贝尔教授的学生还将大量接触到欧洲正在从事的一些尖端科学--在美国培养一批参与全球事务的新科学家。

In this award, funded by the Experimental Physical Chemistry Program of the Division of Chemistry, Professor Tomas Baer of the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, together with his graduate, and undergraduate students, will investigate the thermochemistry of organometallic complexes in the gas phase using the technique of threshold photoelectron photoion coincidence (TPEPICO) mass spectrometry at Chapel Hill in concert with imaging photoelectron photoion coincidence (iPEPICO) measurements at the Swiss Light Source with Prof. Thomas Gerber. The project will also involve a collaboration with Prof. Bálint Sztáray and his students from Eötvös Loránd University (Budapest, Hungary).Organometallic species are important actors in a number of industrial chemical settings. An understanding of their bond energies, etc. is important to building up models of how these species react. The goal of work like that of Prof. Baer is to provide accurate and precise values of these bond energies.. In addition to the broader scientific impact of the proposed research work, Prof. Baer's students will receive significant exposure to some of the cutting-edge science being pursued in Europe -- training a new cadre of globally-engaged scientists in the United States.