Laboratory of electrochemical synthesis

  The Laboratory of Electrochemical Synthesis was organized in 2008 on the basis of the electrochemistry team of the Laboratory of Organometallic Synthesis.

Main research activity

• Electrosynthesis from elemental phosphorus as a basis for creation of new substances, materials and ecologically safe resource-saving technologies. Advantages of this approach consist in activation due to electron transfer at room temperature, as a result difficult processes can occur in mild conditions. Oxidation and reduction are carried out at an electrode without chemical reagents and are ecologically friendly («green chemistry»).
• Nanoelectrochemistry, namely elaboration of methods of electrosynthesis of nanosize catalysts with simultaneous identification of intermediates (metal sigma-complexes) for organic synthesis including perfluoroalkylation and cross-coupling, with the remote purpose of obtaining biologically active compounds and medical products, as well as and creation of fuel elements with low content of expensive platinum.
• Study of redox-switched nanosize molecular devices on the basis of the macrocyclic compounds containing electrochemically active structural blocks.