Synthesis and Reactivity of Fluorinated High Oxidation State Complexes

该奖项是根据2009年美国复苏和再投资法案（公法111-5）资助的。这项无机，生物无机和有机化学计划的研究奖支持波士顿大学琳达多勒教授的工作，对通过氧原子与氟化基团结合的过渡金属络合物进行基础和基础研究。 铁、钴、镍和铜等金属已经被人类使用了数千年，但直到现在，我们才努力尽可能有效地利用它们。 Doerrer教授选择研究这些地球上丰富的材料，结合聚四氟乙烯涂层的基团，使它们在苛刻的反应条件下非常稳定。 当存在转移氧或氮原子的高反应性物质时，这些坚固的金属醇盐分子能够比前几代分子更有效地形成新化合物。后者会沿着部分自毁。 对于环境友好的工艺和高效的生产，了解金属化合物与碳基基质反应的基本原理至关重要。 这项研究计划将对参与并通过该计划培训的几位年轻科学家的生活产生深远的影响，包括研究生和本科生。 这些学生将进一步影响在Doerrer实验室工作和访问Doerrer实验室的高中生，并将他们的课堂思想扩展到无机化学前沿的当代研究的未知领域。 这项工作的总体影响将导致对合成高价值碳基化合物的材料和方法的更好理解，这些化合物可用于人类奋进的许多领域。

This award is funded under the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009 (Public Law 111-5). This Research award in the Inorganic, Bioinorganic and Organometallic Chemistry program supports work by Professor Linda Doerrer at Boston University to carry out fundamental and basic studies on transition metal complexes with fluorinated groups bound to them through oxygen atoms. These metals such as iron, cobalt, nickel and copper have been used by humans for millennia but only now are we working to make as efficient use of them as possible. Professor Doerrer has chosen to study these earth abundant materials in combination with Teflon-coated groups that make them very stable under harsh reaction conditions. When in the presence of highly reactive species that transfer oxygen or nitrogen atoms, these robust metal-alkoxide molecules have the ability to form new compounds more efficiently than previous generations of molecules. The latter would partially self-destruct along the way. For environmentally benign processes and efficient production, understanding the fundamentals of the reaction of the metal compound with the carbon-based substrates is critical. This research program will have a profound influence on the lives of several young scientists that participate in and are trained through the program, including graduate and undergraduate students. These students will further influence the high school students who work in and visit the Doerrer lab and see the extension of their classroom-based ideas into the unknown realm of contemporary research at the frontiers of inorganic chemistry. The overall impact of this work will lead to improved understanding of materials and methods for synthesizing high value carbon-based compounds for use in many realms of human endeavor.