Discovery Projects - Grant ID: DP1093516

Funding Activity

Website
http://dataportal.arc.gov.au/NCGP/Web/Grant/Grant/DP1093516

Funding Status
Closed

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Funded Activity Summary

One coordinate carbon and boron: Universal progenitor ligands. Compounds with bonds between metals and carbon (organometallic chemistry) underpin innumerable important industrial processes from fine chemicals to bulk agrochemical and polymer synthesis. Yet the simplest example, a single atom of carbon bound to a metal has only recently been discovered and is poorly understood. Australia's fledgling boron fine chemicals industry similarly benefits from metal-based processes. However, compounds with a single boron atom bound to a metal remain unknown. This proposal addresses metal-carbon and metal-boron chemistry from the most basic perspective, that of a single atom of boron or carbon, including the development of novel synthetic approaches and skills for the characterisation of such curious species.

Funded Activity Details

Start Date: 01-01-2010

End Date: 31-12-2013

Funding Scheme: Discovery Projects

Funding Amount: $480,000.00

Funder: Australian Research Council

Research Topics

ANZSRC Field of Research (FoR)

Main Group Metal Chemistry | Inorganic Chemistry | Transition Metal Chemistry | Organometallic Chemistry

ANZSRC Socio-Economic Objective (SEO)

Vocational education and training | Higher education | Chemical sciences |

Other Keywords

Chemical sciences | Higher education | Inorganic Chemistry | Main Group Metal Chemistry | Organometallic Chemistry | Transition Metal Chemistry | Vocational education and training

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