Metallaboratranes: Soft Scorpionates and Masked Metal Bases

所有的分子金属化合物都涉及一个金属被一组电子供体（？配体？）。这些配体的设计和操作及其与金属（？化学化学（Chemistry）支持金属的所有应用，无论是在生物，制药，材料或工业应用。该提议解决了直径相反-角色反转，其中金属中心充当配体的电子供体。这种罕见的情况只是最近才在这个研究小组中牢固地建立起来，但有望成为更广泛的新配位化学的一部分，其局限性将在拟议的工作中进行。

All molecular metal compounds involve a metal surrounded by a group of electron donors (?ligands?). The design and manipulation of these ligand sets and their interactions with metals (?coordination chemistry?) underpins ALL applications of metals, be they in biological, pharmaceutical, materials or industrial applications. This proposal addresses the diametric opposite - the role-reversal wherein a metal centre acts as an electron donor to a ligand. This rare situation has only recently been firmly established in this research group, but promises to be part of a wider new coordination chemistry, the limits of which will be pursued in the proposed work.