Special Issue "Electrochemical Behavior of the Nonbenzenoid Aromatic Hydrocarbon Azulene and Its Derivatives 2022"
A special issue of Symmetry (ISSN 2073-8994). This special issue belongs to the section "Chemistry: Symmetry/Asymmetry".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: 30 November 2023 | Viewed by 4126
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Interests: physical chemistry; organic electrochemistry
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Interests: organic chemistry; syntheses, properties and reaction mechanisms; azulenes; diazenes; heteroaromatics
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Special Issue Information
Dear colleagues,
The blue nonbenzenoid aromatic hydrocarbon azulene is a naphthalene isomer. However, these two hydrocarbons are essentially different. While naphthalene enjoys biaxial symmetry, azulene has only one x-axis symmetry. This peculiarity gives to azulene system an asymmetrical charge distribution with important consequences. From these consequences the presence of significant dipole moment and remarkable chemical, electronic, or optical behavior can be noticed. Therefore, for this system many technical applications have been found. The capture or release of an electron ensures the generation of anion or cation radicals stabilized by cyclopentadienyl or tropylium structures, and they can thus serve as raw materials in electrochemical reactions. The following areas of research are expected to be addressed:
- Electrochemically studied azulene compounds with technical applications: synthesis and chemical behavior;
- Electrochemical behavior of azulene compounds of interest;
- In silico approaches for prediction of the electrochemical properties of azulene derivatives;
- Modified electrodes based on azulene compounds of interest;
- Homogeneous and heterogeneous recognition based on azulene derivatives.
Dr. Eleonora Mihaela Ungureanu
Dr. Alexandru C. Razus
Guest Editors
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Keywords
- azulene derivatives
- synthesis
- chemical behavior
- electrochemical properties
- DFT calculations
- modified electrodes based on azulene derivatives
- molecular recognition
Planned Papers
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The blue nonbenzenoid aromatic hydrocarbon azulene is a naphthalene isomer. However, these two hydrocarbons are essentially different. While naphthalene enjoys biaxial symmetry, azulene has only one x-axis symmetry. This peculiarity gives to azulene system an asymmetrical charge distribution with important consequences. From these consequences the presence of significant dipole moment and remarkable chemical, electronic, or optical behavior can be noticed. The following areas of research are expected to be addressed:
- Electrochemically studied azulene compounds with technical applications: synthesis and chemical behavior;
- Electrochemical behavior of azulene compounds of interest;
- In silico approaches for prediction of the electrochemical properties of azulene derivatives;
- Modified electrodes based on azulene compounds of interest;
- Homogeneous and heterogeneous recognition based on azulene derivatives.
Dr. Eleonora Mihaela Ungureanu
Dr. Alexandru C. Razus
Guest Editors
