Theme: From Homonuclear Metal String Complexes to Heteronuclear Metal String Complexes
Speaker：Prof. SHIE-MING PENG
Host: Research Scientist Shern-Long LEE
Location：Conference Room 103, Office Building
Time：15:30, November 22th, 2018  

About the Speaker:
Prof. SHIE-MING PENG is now the fellow of Academia Sinica and the professor doctoral supervisor of National Taiwan University. He graduated from University of Chicago in 1975 with a Ph. D. degree and did postdoctoral research work at Northwestern University in 1975-1976. Prof. Peng has been working as Professor at National Taiwan University from 1976 and mainly engaging in synthesis and characterization of inorganic chemical metal strings. He has won many international scientific medals, including Taiwan Law Science and Technology Award, Taiwan President Science Award, Japan JSPS Fellow, RSC Fellow, Italian Science and Technology Award and Third World Chemical Awards.  

Talk Abstract:
The study of metal string complexes with 1-D transition metal frameworks began in the early 1990s. Since these complexes provide great insight into multiple metal-metal bonds, and may have potential applications as molecular wires, this field of research has grown in the past 20 years. As such, the electronic structure of the simplest trinuclear complexes, the supporting ligand systems, and single molecular conductance of metal string complexes are discussed. This review will introduce the development of this field and summarize some important results in the newly designed heteronuclear metal string complexes (HMSCs). These molecules may be of great interest in studying the nature of heterometallic electronic effects and molecular electronic applications.