Organic Electrochemistry

Ole Hammerich is an associate professor in the Department of Chemistry, University of Copenhagen, Denmark, where he received his Ph.D. in 1974 and has taught since 1975. His research interests include kinetics and mechanisms of organic radical ion reactions, charge-transfer complexes, and electropolymerization. He is the author or coauthor of more than 110 articles, papers, and book chapters and was, together with Henning Lund, the editor of the fourth edition of Organic Electrochemistry. He was also, with Jens Ulstrup, editor of Bioinorganic Electrochemistry. He served as the National Secretary for Denmark and as the Molecular Electrochemistry chairman in the International Society of Electrochemistry. He is a member of the Danish Electrochemical Society and the Electrochemical Society. Bernd Speiser is an "au erplanma iger Professor" in the Institut fur Organische Chemie, Universitat Tubingen, Germany, where he teaches courses in organic chemistry and molecular electrochemistry. He received his doctoral degree in Tubingen in 1981 and finished his habilitation in 1990. He was a Heisenberg fellow of the Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft from 1992-1996. His research focuses on the elucidation of reaction mechanisms of organic, organometallic, and inorganic compounds with experimental methods and computer simulations. He has published more than 140 papers, communications, and book chapters. He was the founding chair of Division 6 ("Molecular Electrochemistry") in the International Society of Electrochemistry and is a member of the Electrochemical Society, the International Society of Electrochemistry, the Society of Electroanalytical Chemistry, the Gesellschaft Deutscher Chemiker (GDCh), and DECHEMA Gesellschaft fur chemische Technik und Biotechnologie.

FUNDAMENTALS AND METHODS

Basic Concepts
Christian Amatore

Techniques for Studies of Electrochemical Reactions in Solution
Ole Hammerich and Bernd Speiser

In Situ Spectroelectrochemistry of Organic Compounds
Peter Rapta, Evgenia Dmitrieva, Alexey A. Popov, and Lothar Dunsch

Surface Techniques
Mohamed M. Chehimi and Jean Pinson

Application of Digital Simulation
Bernd Speiser

Theoretical Calculation of Reduction Potentials
Junming Ho, Michelle L. Coote, Christopher J. Cramer, and Donald G. Truhlar

GENERAL PREPARATIVE ASPECTS

Preparative Electrolysis on the Laboratory Scale
Jakob Joerissen and Bernd Speiser

Application of Ionic Liquids, Emulsions, Sonication, and Microwave Assistance
John D. Watkins and Frank Marken

Combinatorial Electrochemistry and Miniaturization
Kevin D. Moeller

Relations between Micro- and Macrophenomena
Christian Amatore

ELECTRON TRANSFERS AND CONCERTED PROCESSES

Influence of Molecular and Medium Effects on Two-Electron Processes
Kevin Lam and William E. Geiger

Electrochemically Driven Supramolecular Devices
Paola Ceroni, Alberto Credi, and Margherita Venturi

Proton-Coupled Electron Transfers
Cyrille Costentin, Marc Robert, and Jean-Michel Saveant

Dissociative Electron Transfers
Cyrille Costentin, Marc Robert, and Jean-Michel Saveant

Electron Transfer-Catalyzed Reactions
Kazuhiro Chiba and Yohei Okada

ORGANIC ELECTROCHEMICAL REACTION TYPES

Cleavages and Deprotections
Ole Hammerich

Reductive Coupling
James H.P. Utley, R. Daniel Little, and Merete Folmer Nielsen

Oxidative Coupling
Hans J. Schafer

Oxidative Substitution and Addition Reactions
Ole Hammerich and James H.P. Utley

Fluorination
Toshio Fuchigami and Shinsuke Inagi

ELECTROCHEMICAL CONVERSIONS OF ORGANIC COMPOUNDS

Electrochemistry of Fullerenes, Derivatives, and Related Compounds
Frederic Melin, Lourdes E. Echegoyen, and Luis Echegoyen

Aliphatic and Aromatic Hydrocarbons: Reduction
Jurgen Heinze

Oxidation of Hydrocarbons
Ole Hammerich

Activation of the Carbon-Halogen Bond
Armando Gennaro, Abdirisak Ahmed Isse, and Patrizia Romana Mussini

Aliphatic and Aromatic Halides: Conversions
Dennis G. Peters

Oxygen-Containing Compounds: Alcohols, Ethers, and Phenols
Robert Francke, Thomas Quell, Anton Wiebe, and Siegfried R. Waldvogel

Sulfur-, Selenium-, and Tellurium-Containing Compounds
Richard S. Glass

Aliphatic Nitrogen-Containing Compounds: Amines, Amino Alcohols, and Amino Acids
Osamu Onomura

Aromatic Nitrogen-Containing Compounds
Jan S. Jaworski

Reduction of Nitro Compounds and Related Substrates
Ole Hammerich

Reduction Aldehydes, Ketones, and Azomethines
Jiri Ludvik

Reductions of Carboxylic Acids and Derivatives
Rolf Breinbauer and Martin Peters

Oxidation of Carboxylic Acids and Derivatives
Hideo Tanaka, Manabu Kuroboshi, and Sigeru Torii

Heterocyclic Compounds
Fructuoso Barba and Belen Batanero

Organoelemental Compounds
Jun-Ichi Yoshida, Toshiki Nokami, and Seiji Suga

Organometallic Compounds as Tools in Organic Electrosynthesis
Anny Jutand

STEREOCHEMICAL AND BIOLOGICAL ASPECTS

Electrosynthesis of Bioactive Materials
Randi K. Gbur and R. Daniel Little

Stereochemistry of Organic Electrode Processes
Toshio Fuchigami and Shinsuke Inagi

Electroenzymatic Synthesis
Christina Kohlmann and Stephan Lutz

Electrochemical Modeling of Biological Processes
Richard D. Webster

SURFACE CONFINED SYSTEMS

Electrochemistry of Conducting Polymers
Jurgen Heinze

Surface-Bound and Immobilized Molecules
Jean Pinson

SPECIAL APPLICATIONS

Electrogenerated Bases and Nucleophiles
James H.P. Utley, Merete Folmer Nielsen, and Peter B. Wyatt

Electrocatalytic Hydrogenation
Jean Lessard