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Ligand design for developing f-element photochemistry
Ligand design for developing f-element photochemistry
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Yik, Brandon J.
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La Pierre, Henry S.
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Overall, this thesis describes the synthesis and characterization of ligand architectures to study f-element photochemistry. Chapter 1 provides a general overview of photocatalysis and uses and need to develop photochemistry in the lanthanides. Chapter 2 describes efforts into developing new lanthanide starting materials to advance the field in general, but to also provide a wider set of materials available to use in facilitating discoveries across the f-block. These new starting materials involve the synthesis and characterization of diethyl ether adducts of trivalent lanthanide iodides. Chapter 3 of this thesis describes the work done on the synthesis of an anionic phenylpyridine ligand to develop lanthanide analogs of commonly used photocatalysts and photosensitizers in the organic methodology community. The synthesis and characterization of the ligand salt and metalation to yield Cp*2Sm(ppy) is described. Two appendices are also included which describe synthesis and metalation studies of two other ligand sets, a triamine pincer ligand and an imidophosphorane ligand, that will be used in studying the photochemistry of the lanthanides.
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2019-04-30
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