International Collaboration in Chemistry: Structural Mechanostereochemistry of Mechanically Interlocked Polymers and Networks

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。美国国家科学基金会化学部的有机和大分子化学项目支持西北大学的Fraser J. Stoddart教授提出的一项建议。该提案是与苏格兰圣安德鲁斯大学的Alexandra M . Z. slavin合作提交的，响应NSF 08-602：美国研究人员与国外同行（ICC）之间的化学国际合作。该团队将把机械联锁分子（mim）的化学性质发展成更高阶的网络材料，并通过一系列物理技术（最重要的是单晶x射线晶体学）来表征这些材料。结构结果将用于通知化学的发展，因为结果反馈到新材料的设计和合成中。这两个团队的结合，以解决多维机械联锁分子的发展代表了该领域的重大进步，将有利于和兴趣广泛的学者在超分子化学领域的工作。所获得的合成材料在各种工业应用中具有巨大的潜力。更广泛的影响将为学生提供一个机会，从事高度跨学科的研究，使他们能够追求重大的科学挑战。西北大学和圣安德鲁斯大学之间有一个精心策划的广泛的学生交换项目，以及pi的定期跨机构访问，这些访问将借助最先进的通信工具，例如视频会议、电话会议和基于网络的数据共享。两个pi都支持他们的机构？这是美国的一项倡议，旨在让代表性不足的群体的学生进入课堂。在西北大学，斯托达特教授管理着一个专注于合成和物理有机化学的研究小组，其博士后来自世界各地，目前包括加拿大、中国、德国、印度、黎巴嫩、墨西哥、苏格兰和土耳其以及美国。他目前的研究生包括亚裔和西班牙裔美国人，以及来自美国和国外的女性。在圣安德鲁斯大学，slain教授运营着一个世界级的x射线衍射设备，该设备具有独特的支持活动（例如，自动结晶设备），与来自英国、欧盟和非欧盟国家的博士后、研究生和本科生高度互动。由于这两个截然不同的实验室之间的合作将获得互补的技能，因此在研究绩效和学术质量以及两组学生的教育和培训方面，增值和增强的经验将达到非常令人振奋的水平。

This award is funded under the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009 (Public Law 111-5).The Organic and Macromolecular Chemistry Program in the Chemistry Division at the National Science Foundation supports a proposal from Professor Fraser J. Stoddart of Northwestern University. This proposal, submitted in response to solicitation NSF 08-602: International Collaboration in Chemistry between US Investigators and their Counterparts Abroad (ICC), is a collaboration with Alexandra M Z. Slawin at St Andrews University in Scotland. The team will develop the chemistry of mechanically interlocking molecules (MIMs) into higher ordered network materials and characterize these materials by a range of physical techniques, most importantly, single crystal X-ray crystallography. The structural results will be used to inform the development of the chemistry as the results are fed back into the design and synthesis of the new materials. The combination of these two teams to tackle the development of multi-dimensional mechanically interlocking molecules represents a significant advance in the area and will be of benefit and interest to a wide range of academics working in the area of supramolecular chemistry. The resultant materials obtained will have enormous potential in a variety of industrial applications.The broader impacts will present an opportunity for students to work on highly interdisciplinary research that enables the pursuit of grand scientific challenges. There is a well-planned and extensive program for exchanging students between Northwestern University and St. Andrews University, as well as regular cross-institutional visits by the PIs that will be aided by state-of-the-art communication aids, e.g., video conferencing, teleconferencing, and web-based data-sharing. Both PIs support their institution?s initiative to bring students into the classrooms from underrepresented groups. At Northwestern University, Professor Stoddart runs a research group focused on synthetic and physical organic chemistry with postdoctoral fellows drawn from all around the world, currently including Canada, China, Germany, India, Lebanon, Mexico, Scotland, and Turkey as well as the US. His present graduate students include Asian and Hispanic Americans, as well as women from the US and abroad. At St. Andrews University, Professor Slawin runs a world-class X-ray diffraction facility with unique support activities (e.g., Automated Crystallization Facility) in a highly interactive manner with postdoctoral, graduate and undergraduate students from the UK, the EU, and non-EU countries. The value-added and enhanced experience, for research performance and academic quality and for the education and training of students in both groups, will be at a remarkably invigorating level because of the complementary skills that will be gained through collaboration between these two very different laboratories.