MRI: Acquisition of a Single Crystal Diffractometer for Teaching and Research at Rutgers University

该奖项由主要研究仪器和化学研究仪器计划支持。罗格斯大学新不伦瑞克分校正在购买一台单晶X射线衍射仪（SCXRD），以支持Alan Goldman教授及其同事Edward Arnold，Jing Li，Weiwei Xie和Jianyuan Zhang。一般来说，X射线衍射仪允许准确和精确地测量分子的完整三维结构，包括键距和角度，并提供关于分子相对于相邻分子的空间排列的准确信息。这里描述的研究影响了许多领域，包括有机和无机化学，材料化学和生物化学。该仪器是本科生和研究生以及普林斯顿大学、纽约城市大学和特拉华州大学等其他区域机构的合作者的教学、研究和研究培训的一个组成部分。该衍射仪的获奖旨在加强各级的研究和教育。它特别影响了过渡金属基催化剂的发展，用于简单有机分子的转化和结晶固态无机和无机-有机杂化材料的表征。该仪器还用于确定非中心对称超导体的结构以及量子材料中拓扑和磁性的相互作用，并研究HIV多蛋白前体和逆转录酶的分子机制。该仪器还为研究人员提供服务，这些研究人员研究金属富勒烯衍生物中的内嵌金属簇控制，用作分子量子比特，以及设计分子有机金属催化剂和超分子结构，用于与能源相关的转换和功能材料。该奖项反映了NSF的法定使命，并通过使用基金会的知识价值和更广泛的影响审查标准进行评估，被认为值得支持。

This award is supported by the Major Research Instrumentation and the Chemistry Research Instrumentation programs. Rutgers University-New Brunswick is acquiring a single crystal X-ray diffractometer (SCXRD) to support Professor Alan Goldman and colleagues Edward Arnold, Jing Li, Weiwei Xie and Jianyuan Zhang. In general, an X-ray diffractometer allows accurate and precise measurements of the full three-dimensional structure of a molecule, including bond distances and angles, and provides accurate information about the spatial arrangement of a molecule relative to neighboring molecules. The studies described here impact many areas, including organic and inorganic chemistry, materials chemistry, and biochemistry. This instrument is an integral part of teaching as well as research and research training of undergraduate and graduate students as well as collaborators from other regional institutions such as Princeton University, City University of New York and the University of Delaware. The award of this diffractometer is aimed at enhancing research and education at all levels. It especially impacts the development of transition-metal-based catalysts for transformations of simple organic molecules and the characterization of crystalline solid-state inorganic and inorganic-organic hybrid materials. The instrumentation is also used for determining the structures of non-centrosymmetric superconductors and interplay of topology and magnetism in quantum materials and studying molecular mechanisms of HIV polyprotein precursors and reverse transcriptase. The instrument also serves researchers investigating endohedral metal cluster control in metallofullerene derivatives for use as molecular qubits and those designing molecular organometallic catalysts and supramolecular structures for energy-related transformations and functional materials.This award reflects NSF's statutory mission and has been deemed worthy of support through evaluation using the Foundation's intellectual merit and broader impacts review criteria.