| EPSRC Reference: |
GR/L23666/01 |
| Title: |
WATER AS A MEDIUM FOR ORGANIC ELECTROSYNTHESIS |
| Principal Investigator: |
Utley, Professor J |
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| Department: |
Chemistry |
| Organisation: |
Queen Mary University of London |
| Scheme: |
Standard Research (Pre-FEC) |
| Starts: |
01 December 1996 |
Ends: |
30 November 1999 |
Value (£): |
158,195
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| EPSRC Research Topic Classifications: |
| Chemical Synthetic Methodology |
Electrochemical Science & Eng. |
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The project will involve the preparation of electroactive organic substrates made water-soluble by the use of hydrophilic protecting groups based on available (cheap) surfactants. These will be designed to be resistant to the conditions of the desired electrochemical conversion (reduction or oxidation) but cleavable by change of polarity of pH. Useful electrosynthesis conversions (electrohydrodimerisation, side-chain oxidation, Diels-Alder reactions via electrogenerated quinodimethanes, electropolymerisations, carbonyl reduction, phenolic coupling) will be thus persued, in water. Similarly, the preparative electrochemistry of electroactive organics encapsulated in cyclodextrins and other hosts will be explored with a view to modifying reaction pathways and their stereochemistry. Possibilities for redox catalysis using water-soluble mediators will be examined. Conditions for the most promising examples will be optimised for yield, selectivity, current efficiency, ease of isolation of products and developed for flow-cell operation on a larger scale. Where appropriate stereochemical features and key mechanistic and kinetic parameters will be established (e.g. the lifetimes of key intermediates and requirements for redox catalysis) using both steady and non-steady state voltammetric and chronoamperometric methods.
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