Synthesis of Transition-metal-encapsulating Silicon Cages

2012 Fiscal Year Final Research Report

• Project/Area Number: 23655058
• Research Category: Grant-in-Aid for Challenging Exploratory Research
• Allocation Type: Multi-year Fund
• Research Field: Inorganic chemistry
• Research Institution: National Institute of Advanced Industrial Science and Technology
• Principal Investigator: SHIMADA Shigeru 独立行政法人産業技術総合研究所, 環境化学技術研究部門, 研究グループ長 (40357207)
• Co-Investigator(Kenkyū-buntansha): IGARASHI Masayasu 独立行政法人産業技術総合研究所, 環境化学技術研究部門, 研究員 (30552145)
• Project Period (FY): 2011 – 2012
• Keywords: 有機金属化学

Research Abstract

Transition-metal-encapsulating silicon cage materials are expected as new high-performance electronic materials. In order to provide chemical synthetic methods for such materials, we tried to synthesize molecular precursors for the silicon cages. A number