Advancing Chemistry with the Lanthanide and Actinide Elements Final Report, September 2013

Evans, William John¹ 

[1] Univ. of California, Irvine, CA (United States)

关键词: lanthanide;    actinide;    catalysis;    chemical reactivity;    C-H activation;    bismuth;   

DOI  :  10.2172/1147800
RP-ID  :  Final Report
PID  :  OSTI ID: 1147800

学科分类：化学（综合）

美国|英语

来源: SciTech Connect

【 摘 要 】

The objective of this research is to use the unique chemistry available from complexes of the lanthanides and actinides, as well as related heavy metals such as scandium, yttrium, and bismuth to advance chemistry in energy-related areas. The lanthanides and actinides have a combination of properties in terms of size, charge, electropositive character, and f valence orbitals that provides special opportunities to probe reactivity and catalysis in ways not possible with the other metals in the periodic table. We seek to discover reaction pathways and structural types that reveal new options in reaction chemistry related to energy. Identification of new paradigms in structure and reactivity should stimulate efforts to develop new types of catalytic processes that at present are not under consideration because either the transformation or the necessary intermediates are unknown. This project is one half of my laboratory???s DOE research which was split 50:50 between Catalysis and Heavy Element Chemistry programs in 2010. Hence, this report is for a half-project.