Abstract Title
Exploring Electron-Sink Behaviors in Molecular Iron Phosphide Clusters
Additional Funding Sources
The project described was supported by the Boise State University Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry.
Abstract
The Colson lab has begun exploring electron-sink behavior in multi-nuclear organometallic cluster materials. Such behavior could enable applications in areas such as advanced electronics, flow batteries, or flow capacitors. Large organometallic clusters containing transition metals and main group elements are known to exhibit multivalency, or the ability to undergo multiple electrochemical reduction events without fragmenting. However, the synthesis of such high nuclearity clusters is complicated by broad and often unpredictable product distributions. As an alternative strategy, we are investigating the synthesis and characterization of multivalent species produced through the assembly of smaller iron phosphide clusters.
This poster will describe our efforts to prepare discrete molecular iron phosphide clusters and characterize them using various analytical methods including Infrared Spectroscopy, X-ray Diffraction and Electrochemical Techniques. Ongoing efforts to install molecular functionality capable of driving supramolecular assembly will also be presented.
Exploring Electron-Sink Behaviors in Molecular Iron Phosphide Clusters
The Colson lab has begun exploring electron-sink behavior in multi-nuclear organometallic cluster materials. Such behavior could enable applications in areas such as advanced electronics, flow batteries, or flow capacitors. Large organometallic clusters containing transition metals and main group elements are known to exhibit multivalency, or the ability to undergo multiple electrochemical reduction events without fragmenting. However, the synthesis of such high nuclearity clusters is complicated by broad and often unpredictable product distributions. As an alternative strategy, we are investigating the synthesis and characterization of multivalent species produced through the assembly of smaller iron phosphide clusters.
This poster will describe our efforts to prepare discrete molecular iron phosphide clusters and characterize them using various analytical methods including Infrared Spectroscopy, X-ray Diffraction and Electrochemical Techniques. Ongoing efforts to install molecular functionality capable of driving supramolecular assembly will also be presented.
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