SYNTHESES, QUANTUM CHEMICAL MODELING, AND SPECTROSCOPIC PROPERTIES OF WIRELIKE, LUMINESCENT MONO- AND BI-METALLIC RHENIUM() CARBYNE COMPLEXES BY JING YANG B., Chemistry, Beijing Normal University, P., Chemistry, Beijing Normal University, P. China, 2000 DISSERTATION Submitted in Partial Fulfillment of the Requirements for the Degree of DOCTOR OF PHILOSOPHY CHEMISTRY The University of New Mexico Albuquerque, New Mexico May 2006 UMI Number: 3220899 INFORMATION TO USERS The quality of this reproduction is dependent upon the quality of the copy submitted. Broken or indistinct print, colored or poor quality illustrations and photographs, print bleed-through, substandard margins, and improper alignment can adversely affect reproduction. In the unlikely event that the author did not send a complete manuscript and there are missing pages, these will be noted.
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ProQuest Information and Learning Company 300 North Zeeb Road P. Box 1346 Ann Arbor, MI 48106-1346 Jing Yang Candidate Chemistry Department This dissertation is approved, and it is acceptable in quality and form for publication on microfilm: Approved by the Dissertation Committee:. Watut— Dean, Graduate School APR 2 1 2006 Date Copyright by Jing Yang, 2006 All Rights Reserved ili Dedicated to my Husband, Shenghong, my sons, David and Kevin, and my parents. IV ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS I would like to thank to my advisor, Dr.
Since I enrolled to his class, and then joined into this group, he kept giving me warm and helpful guidance and encouragements both on my class learning and research. Whenever I meet any problem, he always lavished his time and effort to carefully teach me. His preciseness, sagacity, acuity and endless enthusiasm on research make a good example to me to be a great scientist. At the same time, he also guided me how to be a nice person with his excellent personality.
All above made me feel comfortable and confident to study abroad. I always tell my friends that I am so lucky to have this nice advisor. I also very enjoyed and will cherish forever the time when I worked with the enthusiastic group members. I want to thank Ted for his unselfish helps when I was a novice in the lab.
He taught me most of the spectroscopic experiments I have done. Many thanks should go to Dr. Luke Emmert, who taught me with great patience for the time- resolved infrared measurements, and the operation and maintenance of lasers in use. He also pointed out many important issues that I ignored.
I happily worked with Jason on the luminescence measurements. His experience on the spectroscopic studies was a rich database for me. Ryan helped me to solve many problems about the calculations on the cluster. Wacholtz and Dr.
Basemen gave some helpful discussions. All of my group members are truly wonderful and warmhearted people, and I really appreciate it. My family deserves a place here as well. My husband, Shenghong, takes care of me with his pure and interminable love.
I am also grateful to the love, encouragement and support from my parents, Hongzhi Yang and Zhufen Cai, and my younger sister, Hui Yang. I can’t imagine that I would have been able to finish my long way of pursuing without their love and strong support. Finally, I would like to thank everybody at Chemistry Department of University of New Mexico because all of you enriched my life and made my experience here extraordinary. vi SYNTHESES, QUANTUM CHEMICAL MODELING, AND SPECTROSCOPIC PROPERTIES OF WIRELIKE, LUMINESCENT MONO- AND BI-METALLIC RHENIUM(E) CARBYNE COMPLEXES BY JING YANG ABSTRACT OF DISSERTATION Submitted in Partial Fulfillment of the Requirements for the Degree of DOCTOR OF PHILOSOPHY CHEMISTRY The University of New Mexico Albuquerque, New Mexico May 2006 SYNTHESES, QUANTUM CHEMICAL MODELING, AND SPECTROSCOPIC PROPERTIES OF WIRELIKE LUMINESCENT MONO- AND BI-METALLIC RHENIUM() CARBYNE COMPLEXES By Jing Yang B., Chemistry, Beijing Normal University, P., Chemistry, Beijing Normal University, P., Chemistry, The University of New Mexico, U.