| EPSRC Reference: |
GR/L83585/01 |
| Title: |
ORGANOMETALLIC COMPOUNDS BEARING BULKY GROUPS |
| Principal Investigator: |
Smith, Dr D |
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| Department: |
Chemistry |
| Organisation: |
University of Sussex |
| Scheme: |
Standard Research (Pre-FEC) |
| Starts: |
01 January 1998 |
Ends: |
30 June 2001 |
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147,147
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| EPSRC Research Topic Classifications: |
| Chemical Synthetic Methodology |
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In order to advance knowledge and understanding of inorganic and organometallic chemistry it is necessary to seek to make previously unknown types of compounds and study their properties. The information thus gained can provide new insight into bonding and help to elucidate mechanisms of catalysis by species which are of related types but too reactive to be isolated. In this context the use of bulky silicon-containing ligands has been very fruitful, and especially promising are such ligands in which the bulk is complemented by the presence of donor groups on silicon able to co-ordinate to the attached metal centre. Syntheses of a range of such ligands should provide opportunities for the isolation of new organometallic compounds of the p- and f-block metals and allow the study to be extended to cover the chemistry of the industrially important d-block elements. A further development involves the use of related bidentate (potentially chelating) dicarbanions both to give novel organometallic compounds and to synthesise and characterise siloxane and carbobsilane polymer precursors. Detailed studies will also be made of the mechanism of substitution at sterically hindered silicon centres bearing the new ligands.
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http://www.sussex.ac.uk |