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Educational and
professional goals:
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Ability to predict the electrode activity of various functional groups, medium effects on electrode reactions and to propose how to establish a mechanism of an electrode reaction.
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Course description:
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A concise review of electrode reactions of different groups of organic compounds. Substituent effects - the electrochemical Hammett equation. Following reactions of organic radical ions: protonation, dimerization and disproportionation; solvent effects and the ion association. The competition between mechanisms: ECE, DISP and HAT; diagrams of kinetic zones. Kinetics of the electron transfer: theories of Marcus and Savéant. Dissociative electron transfer, stepwise and concerted processes. Bond cleavage in radical anions. Homogeneous redox catalysis in investigations of rate constants for following electrode reactions. Single electron transfer and classic reactions of nucleophilic substitution.
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