Symposium 10
Molecular Electrochemistry: in its own right and in service to related research areas

Sponsoring Division: Division 6, Molecular Electrochemistry

Molecular electrochemistry is a fundamental co-operative discipline helping to understand chemical processes at a molecular level in all (even newly emerging) branches of electrochemistry. Every day special organic or organometallic molecules are appearing as promising catalysts, pharmaceuticals, biorelevant compounds, units for new materials or building blocks for sensors. The detailed investigation of single molecules with defined structure enables extension of the frontiers of research to more complicated molecular assemblies. This symposium emphasizes the important role of molecular electrochemistry in its own right, as well as its contributions to many emerging and challenging research areas.

Topics include but are not limited to:
- Electrosynthesis and structure-property relationships, including bond activation by ET, new mechanisms, electrocatalysis, stereospecific electrode reactions, combination of electrochemistry with other techniques, correlation of experimental data with theoretical calculations
- Electrochemistry of organic and biological molecules, including electrochemical studies of aromaticity, electron delocalization, molecules with multiple redox centers, models of active centers in biomolecules, redox metabolic and degradation pathways, electrochemical probes and markers, DNA damage
- Electrochemistry of inorganic and organometallic molecules, including complex catalysts, units for supramolecular devices and molecular wires, electronic conductivity, units for new materials
- Electrochemistry of macromolecules and molecular assemblies, including investigation of dendrimers, host-guest relationship, molecular approach to modified surfaces, membranes, sensors and electrochemical recognition, nanoparticles and clusters

Symposium organizers:
Lin Zhuang, (Coordinator) WuhanUniversity, China
lzhuang@whu.edu.cn
Ole Hammerich, University of Copenhagen, Denmark
o.hammerich@kemi.ku.dk
Takayuki Homma, Waseda University, Japan
t.homma@waseda.jp
Jiri Ludvik, J. Heyrovsky Institute of Physical Chemistry, Czech Republic
jiri.ludvik@jh-inst.cas.cz