Teaching Main Group Compounds to Activate Catalytically Relevant Bonds

该项目旨在产生新的，地球丰富的主族化合物，最终目标是开发这些作为有毒/昂贵的后过渡金属络合物的可持续替代品，这些络合物目前是许多化学计量和催化合成转化的核心。该项目预计将产生化学的重大基础和应用进展，使用创新的合成和计算方法，以及一个多学科的合作团队。预期成果包括建立学术和工业研究能力、知识、国际研究网络和训练有素的劳动力。成功应该看到大量的经济，环境和社会效益流向澳大利亚。

The project aims to generate novel, earth abundant main group compounds, with the ultimate objective of developing these as sustainable replacements for toxic/expensive late transition metal complexes, that are currently central to numerous stoichiometric and catalytic synthetic transformations. The project expects to generate major fundamental and applied advances in chemistry, using innovative synthetic and computational approaches, and a multidisciplinary collaborative team. Expected outcomes include building of academic and, later, industrial research capacity, knowledge, an international research network, and a highly trained workforce. Success should see substantial economic, environmental and societal benefits flowing to Australia.