Strategies for Tailoring the Redox Properties of d6/d8-Electron Platinum and Palladium Complexes

无机化学、生物无机化学和金属有机化学项目的这一奖项支持辛辛那提大学的威廉·康尼克教授制备过渡金属双电子试剂并阐明控制其外层电子转移反应的因素。这些研究有望提供制定战略所需的知识，以调整合作两电子转移反应的热力学和动力学。多电子转移反应是化学合成和催化中许多最重要的挑战的核心，包括能量转换和存储。我们将研究两类可逆的双电子转移试剂。一组物理实验将被用来确定电子结构、配体流动性、氧化还原热力学和电子转移速率。研究活动将汇集由高中生、本科生、研究生、博士后研究员和康尼克教授组成的研究团队。将与辛辛那提公立学校的一名高中教师合作开发一个化学网站。

This award in the Inorganic, Bioinorganic and Organometallic Chemistry program supports work by Professor William Connick at the University of Cincinnati to prepare transition metal two-electron reagents and elucidate the factors that govern their outer-sphere electron-transfer reactions. These studies are expected to provide the knowledge needed to develop strategies for tailoring the thermodynamics and kinetics of cooperative two-electron transfer reactions. Multielectron transfer reactions are central to many of the most important challenges in chemical synthesis and catalysis, including energy conversion and storage. Two classes of reversible two-electron transfer reagents will be investigated. A battery of physical experiments will be used to determine electronic structures, ligand fluxionality, redox thermodynamics, and rates of electron transfer. The research activities will bring together a research team composed of high school students, undergraduate students, graduate students, a postdoctoral researcher, and Professor Connick. A chemistry web site will be developed in collaboration with a Cincinnati Public Schools high school teacher.