Reactive metal-organics embracing the rare earth and alkaline earth metals (Old ID 21968)
Role
Principal Investigator
Description
With abundant, but until recently neglected, rare earth resources, Australia is positioned to become a major supplier of these strategic elements as the world faces a shortage created by a Chinese monopoly and much reduced exports. Advancing the chemistry of highly reactive rare earth metal-organic compounds including syntheses from the free metals and alloys will provide a knowledge base and breakthrough science to underpin future applications in chemical manufacture, catalysis, new materials and recycling. Steric and electronic manipulation of rare earth coordination behaviour will transform their syntheses and reactions.
Date
05 Feb 2016 - 30 Jun 2019
Project Type
GRANT
Keywords
Lanthanoids;Synthesis;Organometallic Chemistry;Catalysis;main group
Funding Body
Australian Research Council (ARC)
Amount
392100
Project Team
N/A