Metallacarborane-Based Precursors for Electroactive Materials.
Abstract
This project was concerned with the design, preparation, and study of organometallic complexes containing transition metals, hydrocarbon rings, and boron-carbon (carborane) ligands, that can serve as precursors to new families of materials having useful electronic, magnetic, and/or optical properties. The work focused on three primary objectives: (1) design and synthesis of suitable metallacarborane building-block complexes; (2) development of methods for assembling large systems via linking, coupling, stacking, and fusion, and for chemically modifying the products; and (3) probing the electronic structures and properties of polymetallic species and developing correlations between properties and molecular structure. Efficient synthetic strategies were developed for preparing a variety of stacked and/or linked multisandwich and multidecker complexes, and for modifying these via introduction of functional groups at specified locations. In addition, the electronic and magnetic properties of a number of selected species were investigated in detail, with particular interest on electron-delocalization and communication between metal centers. jg p.2
Document Details
- Document Type
- Technical Report
- Publication Date
- Jul 31, 1995
- Accession Number
- ADA299521
Entities
People
- Russell N. Grimes
Organizations
- University of Virginia