Catalysts grafting on carbone electrodes: towards cleener and more efficient chiral electrochemical reactions (GrefOrgCat)

INSA ROUEN Normandie is a public engineering school involved in the fundamental research in the Normandie region. The research laboratories from INSA ROUEN Normandie are working on cutting edge research program in Chemistry, process, mathematics, computer science…

The GrefOrgCat project, funded by the Normandie region is dedicated to the covalent grafting of chiral organic catalysts onto carbon electrodes, with the aim of achieving cleaner electrochemical reactions combining the advantages of asymmetric organocatalysis and electrosynthesis.

The position will be held in the e-CatCH group (Heterocycles team, COBRA laboratory) located near Rouen. The e-CatCH group has a long-standing and well-recognized experience in organocatalysis and asymmetric synthesis and, since recently, has ventured in the field of electrosynthesis.

The recruited PDRA will be in charge of:

• Setting up the reaction conditions
• Purification of the obtained compounds using regular purification techniques (flash chromatography, crystallization and so on…)
• Analysis and characterization of the products using HPLC, GC, NMR, MS, IR…
• Grafting on electrodes and analyses by cyclic voltammetry
• Writing of the reports and publications

Before the end of the project, the PostDoc will have to:

-Synthesize organocatalysts

-Set-up the conditions for the covalent garfting on electrodes

-Study the grafted electrodes by CV

-Apply grafted electrode to electrochemical asymmetric transformations (study of the parameters, scope...)