Electro-Catalysis at Chemically Modified Solid Surfaces

This book documents Professor Jacques Simonet's contribution to building new electrode materials and their related catalytic reactions. Research includes synthesis of new alloys of palladium, discovery of new composite electrodes (including gold- and silver-graphene) and the creation of new materials through judicious cathodic or anodic doping. Additionally, studies demonstrate the malleability and reactivity of previously unused precious and semi-precious metals for the creation of 2D and 3D catalytic materials. Studies key to innovative research show how transition metals may reversibly cathodically insert small size electro-active molecules such as CO2 and O2, and be applied to methods of depollution brought by carbon and nitrogen oxides.

Written for practical use, Simonet has provided both theory and tools needed for those aiming to recreate and develop his experiments in electrochemical catalysis and surface modifications. This full publication of research gives graduate and post-graduate students of chemistry, electrochemistry and catalysis an in-depth insight into key historical and modern developments in the field.

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Contents:

• How to Modify Solid Electrodes for Generating New Interfacial Processes — Another Approach in Electrochemical Catalysis
• Palladized Silver as Cathode Material: Catalytic One-Electron Scission of Carbon–Halogen Bonds
• A Disordered Copper–Palladium Alloy Electrode: Catalytic Scission of Carbon–Halogen Linkages
• Electro-Catalysis by Subnanomolar Metal Layers: Immobilization of Redox Marked Radicals onto Carbon
• Electro-Chemical Generation of Silver Nanoparticles: Catalytic Reactions at Solid Conductor Interfaces
• The Carbon–-Bromine Bond Scission: Activation and Immobilization of Free Radicals at Solid Surfaces
• Cathodic Reduction of Aryl Halides in Organic Carbonates for Achieving Aryl–Aryl Couplings
• Large Immobilization of Organic Bielectrophilic Species at Carbon Surfaces
• 1,3-Dibromopropane: Electro-Catalytic Reactivity in the Presence of Transition Metals — A Source of Nanoparticles
• Electro-Chemical Doping of Glassy Carbon by Deposition of Graphene Layers
• Electro-Chemical Carboxylation of Carbons
• Cathodic Immobilization of Functionalized Alkyl Chains at Polarized Glassy Carbon
• Grafting at Solid Surfaces via Trimethylsilyl Derivatives
• Cathodic Corrosion Induced by Free Alkyl Radicals at Silvered Carbon Substrates
• Silver-Graphene and Gold-Graphene Electrodes: Two New Catalytic Materials
• Anodic Coupling of Aromatic Ethers: The Synthesis of Ionophoric Redox Materials Deposited at Solid Surfaces
• Attachment of Pyridines at Electrode Surfaces
• The Insertion of Electrolytes into Platinum and Palladium Under Cathodic Super-Dry Conditions
• The Electro-Chemical Insertion of π-Acceptors in Platinum and Palladium: Reactive Organo-Metallic Phases
• Cathodic Carboxylation of Metals in Thick {M—CO2}n Layers: Electro-Chemical Sequestration of CO2

Readership: Graduate and post-graduate students and researchers of chemistry, electrochemistry and catalysis.

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