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EPSRC Reference:	GR/M85869/01
Title:	TRANSITION-METAL-HYDROGEN BONDS: STRUCTURE, SPECTROSCOPY AND DYNAMICS
Principal Investigator:	Clark, Professor R
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Project Partners:	UCL
Department:	Chemistry
Organisation:	Kings College London
Scheme:	Standard Research (Pre-FEC)
Starts:	01 January 2001	Ends:	07 July 2003	Value (£):	53,445
EPSRC Research Topic Classifications:	Chemical Structure
EPSRC Industrial Sector Classifications:	Chemicals No relevance to Underpinning Sectors
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Transition-metal hydrides exhibit a uniquely wide range of bonding types and interactions. Largely on account of this diversity they play a pivotal role in organometallic synthesis and catalysis. This programme aims to synthesise small organometallic molecules and adducts exemplifying several of these bonding types, and to submit them to investigation by a range of structural and spectroscopic techniques. This approach will provide a clearer understanding of equilibrium structures and potential energy surfaces, and how these relate to the chemical properties and dynamics of transition-metal hydrides in fundamental processes such as C-H and H-H activation and insertion/elimination reactions. It will also shed light on the ubiquitous occurrence of hydrogen bonding in inorganic chemistry, and on the role it lays in important chemical and catalytic transformations.
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