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EPSRC Reference:	GR/N28221/01
Title:	SYNTHETIC UTILITY OF METAL SULFIMIDE SYSTEMS
Principal Investigator:	Kelly, Professor P
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Department:	Chemistry
Organisation:	Loughborough University
Scheme:	Standard Research (Pre-FEC)
Starts:	01 November 2000	Ends:	31 October 2003	Value (£):	147,616
EPSRC Research Topic Classifications:	Chemical Synthetic Methodology
EPSRC Industrial Sector Classifications:	Chemicals Environment
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The proposal aims to extend our knowledge of the reactivity of sulfimides towards metal centres, an aspect of their chemistry which, prior to our recent preliminary studies, had been surprisingly neglected. This oversight is made all the more apparent by the fact that the general chemistry sulfides has been much studies (thanks to the important properties of many derivatives and the synthetic utility of simple examples such as Ph2,SNH) and that the compounds themselves are isoelectronic with sulfoxides (which have a rich and synthetically important coordination chemistry). In this work we will extend our knowledge of the simple coordination chemistry of Ph2SnH and its derivatives. Work by us thus far in this area has shown that complexes of 1 often show unexpected properties in terms of isomerism or strong H-bonding interactions and we intend to build upon such observations (by, for example, using H-bonding from the sulfimide ligand to generate extended array structures or using the thermal decomposition of the complexes to generate metal nitrides). One very important recent result came with the discovery than platinum can activate nitriles towards nucleophic attack by sulfimides and we will aim to exploit this discovery by using the products of such reactions as sources of new heterocycles, generated via a range of reactions. In addition we will investigate ways of generatin a new class of sulfimide - the disulfimides - which will have the potential to act as highly derivatisable (and hence highly metal-specific) chelating ligands.
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