Presidential Young Investigator Award/Metal Complexes of    Polyhedral Siloxane Ligands
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This five year continuing grant is for the support of Professor                 Feher as a Presidential Young Investigator. The major project                   for which these funds will be used is aimed at understanding at                 the molecular level the way in which an important group of                      heterogeneous catalysts function.                                                                                                                               The major thrust of the research program is the development of                  new methods and strategies for modeling reaction processes that                 occur on silica-supported metal oxide catalysts. The model                      compounds which have been chosen, and some of which have been                   synthesized already, are large polyhedral siloxane ligands                      which approximate the coordination environments of surface                      catalytic sites. Current studies are focused on a new class of                  compounds called polyhedral oligometallasilsesquioxanes                         (POMSS), which are designed to model the chemistry of isolated                  metal atoms coordinated to three surface hydroxyl groups. A                     large number of examples of POMSS will be synthesized with                      different metals, the oxides of which are used as catalysts.                    Spectral data for these will be compared with data which have                   been reported from surface studies, both to test the validity                   of spectral assignments from actual surface studies and the                     validity of the compounds as models. Examination of the                         chemical reactivities of POMSS and studies of reaction                          mechanisms for these compounds are expected to provide a more                   detailed description of the reaction processes that can occur                   on a silica surface.
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