Charging transition metals with activating alkanes

该项目旨在设计带正电荷的金属络合物，并用它们来探索结合的活化烷烃配体的化学。将廉价、丰富的烷烃转化为更有价值的产品是化学上的一项重大探索，而烷烃与金属结合的络合物有望在烷烃的转化中发挥关键作用。该项目打算使用活化的金属结合烷烃将通常惰性的烷烃转化为具有所需官能团的化合物。这应该使在室温下在溶液中稳定合成烷烃络合物成为现实。这些廉价、丰富的烷烃可以转化为更有价值的产品，给工业带来好处。

The project aims to engineer positively charged metal complexes and use them to explore the chemistry of bound activated alkane ligands. The transformation of cheap, plentiful alkanes into more valuable products is a major quest in chemistry, and complexes of alkanes bound to metals are expected to play a key role in transformations of alkanes. The project intends to use the activated metal bound alkane to transform the normally inert alkane into compounds with desirable functional groups. This should make the synthesis of alkane complexes stable at room temperature in solution a realistic possibility. These cheap, plentiful alkanes can be turned into more valuable products, bringing benefits to industry.