Organotransition metal chemistry and catalysis

近年来，有机过渡金属化学取得了巨大的发展，许多新化合物被报道，并在有机合成、催化和材料科学等各个领域得到了广泛的应用。在最近的资助周期中，我们的研究涉及的主题多种多样，包括以前从未见过的新化合物的合成，催化烯烃聚合以获得具有潜在非常有用性能的新材料，以及与女王大学癌症研究实验室的科学家合作，有机金属化合物作为抗癌药物的利用。在接下来的几年里，我们的研究将再次涉及合成以前从未制备过的化合物，以及研究它们作为有趣的新催化剂的潜在应用。我们还将发现新的催化剂来影响新的有机合成，我们将利用低温核磁共振波谱来检测重要催化反应中的活性中间体。

Organotransition metal chemistry has under gone enormous growth in recent years, with many new compounds being reported in addition to numerous applications to a variety of fields such as organic synthesis, catalysis and materials science. Our research in the recent funding cycle has involved topics as diverse as the synthesis of new compounds which have never previously seen the light of day, catalytic alkene polymerization to give new materials with potentially very useful properties and, in collaboration with scientists in the Cancer Reseach Labs at Queen's, utilization of organometallic compounds as anti-cancer drugs. In the next few years, our research will again involve the synthesis of compounds never previously prepared, as well as studies of their potential applications as interesting new catalysts. We shall also discover new catalysts for effecting novel organic syntheses, and we shall utilize low temperature nuclear magnetic resonance spectroscopy to detect reactive intermediates in important catalytic reactions.