Molecular electrochemistry

Pickett, C. J. Azametallic Electrochemistry. In Molecular Electrochemistry of Inorganic, Bioinorganic and Organo-metallic Compounds Pombeiro, A. J. L. McCleverty, J. A.Eds., NATO ASI Series C 1993, 385, 357-380. 

The precise control of the electrode potential and measure of the current response is one of the requirements of molecular electrochemistry, that is, the segment of electrochemistry where attention is focused primarily on the molecular changes brought about by electron transfer to or from an electrode. Another requisite is thus that the electrode material does not appreciably interfere chemically in the course of the electrochemical process. What is then sought after is an innocent electrode behaving simply as an electron source or sink. 

Chapters 4 and 5 are devoted to molecular and biomolecular catalysis of electrochemical reactions. As discussed earlier, molecular electrochemistry deals with transforming molecules by electrochemical means. With molecular catalysis of electrochemical reactions, we address the converse aspect of molecular electrochemistry how to use molecules to produce better electrochemistry. It is first important to distinguish redox catalysis from chemical catalysis. In the first case, the catalytic effect stems from the three-dimensional dispersion of the mediator (catalyst), which merely shuttles the electrons between the electrode and the reactant. In chemical catalysis, there is a more intimate interaction between the active form of the catalyst and the reactant. The differences between the two types of catalysis are illustrated by examples of homogeneous systems in which not only the rapidity of the catalytic process, but also the selectivity problems, are discussed. 

Lever ABP (1992) In Molecular electrochemistry of inorganic, bioinorganic and organometal-lic compounds. Proceedings NATO Advanced Research Workshop, Sintra, Portugal... 

A. J. L. Pombeiro, C. Amatore, (Eds.), Trends in Molecular Electrochemistry Marcel Dekker/FontisMedia, New York/Lausanne, 2004. 

Such equivalence raises the following question in the molecular electrochemistry of these compounds in the absence of other possible mechanistic complications, related usually to pH or ion-pairing of the countercations, can it be expected that symmetry equivalent metal centers will be reduced simultaneously or will the interactions between adjacent metal centers induce a stepwise reduction. (The problem of pure electron transfer reactions to and from molecules containing at least... 

The cross-checking information originating from both electrosynthesis reactions and molecular electrochemistry has allowed one to introduce unambiguous and important... 

More importantly, the association of synthesis and molecular electrochemistry has allowed one to discover new and original chemical approaches in the preparation of organozinc compounds as well as to develop original chemical reactions concerning the selective activation of functionalized substrates54-56. 

Owing to the silicon hypervalency and the cage structure, silatranes are of considerable interest from the standpoint of molecular electrochemistry. However, little work has been devoted to electrochemistry of silatranes279-281. 

Amatore C, Arbault S, Maisonhaute E, Szunerits S, Thouin L (2004) In Amatore C, Pombeiro AJL (eds) Trends in molecular electrochemistry. Marcel Dekker, New York, pp 385—412... 

Saveant JM (2006) Elements of molecular electrochemistry an electrochemical approach to electron transfer chemistry. Wiley-Interscience, New York... 

Lemos M.A.N.D.A., Pombeiro A.J.L., in Molecular Electrochemistry of Inorganic, Bioinorganic and Organometallic Compounds (Edited by A.J.L. Pombeiro, J.A. McCleary), Kluwer Academic Publ., Netherlands, 477-482... 

Laboratory of Molecular Electrochemistry, University of Rennes, Rennes, France... 

Jacques Simonet Laboratory of Molecular Electrochemistry, University of Rennes, Rennes, France Eberhard Steckhan Kekule-Institut fiir Organische Chemie und Biochemie der Universitat Bonn, Bonn, Germany... 

Tuck, D. G. Molecular Electrochemistry of Inorganic, Bioinorganic, and Organometallic Compounds Kluwer New York, 1993. 

M. Marcacchio, F. Paolucci and S. Roffia, Supramolecular Electro-chmistry of Coordination Compounds and Molecular Devices, in Trends in Molecular Electrochemistry, A. J. Pombeiro, C. Amatore, (ed.), Fontis Media, Lausanne, Marcel Dekker, New York, 2004, 223-281. 

E. Alessio, S. Daff, M. Elliot, E. lengo, L. A. Jack, K. G. Macnamara, J. M. Pratt and L. J. Yellowlees, Chapter 11, Spectroelectrochemical Techniques in Trends in Molecular Electrochemistry, A. J. L. Pombeiro and C. Amotore (ed.), Fontis Media and Marcel Dekker, Netherlands, 2004. 

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