NSF Org:	CHE Division Of Chemistry
Recipient:	PRESIDENT AND TRUSTEES OF BATES COLLEGE
Initial Amendment Date:	July 10, 1997
Latest Amendment Date:	July 10, 1997
Award Number:	9709880
Award Instrument:	Standard Grant
Program Manager:	Raymond Mackay CHE  Division Of Chemistry MPS  Directorate for Mathematical and Physical Sciences
Start Date:	August 1, 1997
End Date:	January 31, 1999 (Estimated)
Total Intended Award Amount:	$18,000.00
Total Awarded Amount to Date:	$18,000.00
Funds Obligated to Date:	FY 1997 = $18,000.00
History of Investigator:	Rachel Austin (Principal Investigator) raustin@barnard.edu
Recipient Sponsored Research Office:	Bates College 2 ANDREWS ROAD LEWISTON ME  US  04240-6030 (207)786-8375
Sponsor Congressional District:	02
Primary Place of Performance:	Bates College 2 ANDREWS ROAD LEWISTON ME  US  04240-6030
Primary Place of Performance Congressional District:	02
Unique Entity Identifier (UEI):	D77HU977E973
Parent UEI:
NSF Program(s):	SYNTHETIC INORGANIC
Primary Program Source:	app-0197
Program Reference Code(s):	9161, 9221, AMPP
Program Element Code(s):	196600
Award Agency Code:	4900
Fund Agency Code:	4900
Assistance Listing Number(s):	47.049

ABSTRACT

This research in the laboratory of Professor Rachel Austin at Bates College is supported by the Inorganic, Bioinorganic and Organometallic Chemistry Program under a Research Planning Grant. The photochemistry of metalloporphyrins in large-pore alumino silicates (MCM-41) will be studied to provide background for the potential development of photoactivated catalysts that will insert oxygen into hydrocarbons. MCM-41 will be characterized by SEM and X-ray diffraction as a means of ascertaining the quality of the material. SEM and NMR studies will determine whether metalloporphyrins are embedded in the MCM-41 channels or located on the surface. The long-term goal of this research is to develop a heterogeneous catalyst that will insert an O-atom into unreactive hydrocarbon bonds. The advantage of the MCM-41 will be to immobilize the reactive metalloporphyrin.

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