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Electrochemistry department overview
Electrochemistry plays a role in many industrial or research fields. This discipline is interested in chemical reactions that involve an exchange of electrical charges between two substances. Electrochemistry thus opens up new possibilities for specific syntheses and the detection of compounds.
This electrochemistry department, unique in France, offers several benefits for your R&D projects in different scientific fields (materials, organic or mineral chemistry, etc).

Service members

SOURNIA-SAQUET Alix

MOREAU Alain
Equipments
Schematic representation for CV experiments
Potentiostats:
There are three additional potentiostats in the service

METROHM AUTOLAB PGSTAT100 (2002)
Caractéristiques :
Maximum current 250mA
Voltage compliance 100V

METROHM AUTOLAB PGSTATN302 (2012)
Caractéristiques :
Maximum current 2 A
Voltage compliance 30 V

METROHM AUTOLAB VIONIC (2021)
Caractéristiques :
Maximum current 6 A
Voltage compliance 50 V
EIS Frequency jusqu’à 10 MHz
Câblage pour boite à gants
Other materials:
- pH-meter – conductivity meter
- Cells:
- specific cell for working in an inert environment
- cell of different volumes (8ml to 100mL)

Significant choice of electrodes
- Choice of metals (Pt, Au, glassy carbon…)
- Different shapes and surfaces: microdisks of 10 µm with 3mm of diameter, wire or grid of some cm² of area.
- Rotating disk electrodes
- Specific electrodes for the powders: cavity microelectrodes, carbon powder microelectrode
- etc.
Experiments and specificities
- Potentiometric titration, pHmetry, conductivity
- the majority of the electrochemical experiments are made, in aqueous or non aqueous solvents, with ohmic drop compensation
- Voltammetry cyclic or linear sweep voltammetry, normal or differential pulse voltammetry, square wave voltammetry, etc..
- Chrono methods: chronomaperometry , chronopotentiometry
Electrochemical studies on insoluble products with cavity microelectrode or carbon powder microelectrode
Services
The service provides equipment, staff, and know-how necessary for realizing different electrochemical techniques: characterization, kinetic studies, syntheses, and titrations (pHmetry, potentiometry, and conductimetry).
Eventually, the head of the department uses the data obtained and writes the results of scientific articles. She advises you to make an appointment to check the feasibility of your study. Following this interview, she will establish a detailed estimate according to your needs, and then she will propose a schedule of experiments.
The price of the study will depend on used products, the chosen electrochemical technique and, the estimated time to make the measurement.
Examples of the shape of curves obtained according to the different techniques:

Applications of electrochemistry :


Publications
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2019
Cyril Fersing, Louise Basmaciyan, Clotilde Boudot, Julien Pedron, bastien Hutter, Anita Cohen, Caroline Castera-Ducros, Nicolas Primas, Michèle Laget, Magali Casanova, Sandra Bourgeade-Delmas, Mélanie Piednoel, Alix Sournia-Saquet, Valère Belle Mbou, Bertrand Courtioux, Elisa Boutet-Robinet, Marc Since, Rachel Milne, Susan Wyllie, Alan H. Fairlamb, Alexis Valentin, Pascal Rathelot, Pierre Verhaeghe, Patrice Vanelle, and Nadine Azas”
Nongenotoxic 3‑Nitroimidazo[1,2‑a]pyridines are NTR1 substrates that display potent in vitro antileishmanial activity
ACS Med. Chem. Lett. (2019), 10(1), 34-43
Sanaa Semlali, Benoit Cormary,* Maria L. De Marco, Jérôme Majimel, Alix Saquet, Yannick Coppel, Mathieu Gonidec, Patrick Rosa and Glenna L. Drisko
Effect of solvent on silicon nanoparticle formation and size: a mechanistic study
Nanoscale . (2019), 11, 4696-4700
Jean-François Nierengarten* Iwona Nierengarten, Michel Holler, Alix Sournia-Saquet, Béatrice Delavaux-Nicot,* Enrico Leoni, Filippo Monti, and Nicola Armaroli
Dinuclear Copper(I) Complexes Combining Bis(diphenylphosphanyl)acetylene with 1,10-Phenanthroline Ligands
Eur. J. Inorg. Chem. (2019), 22, 2665-2673
Isabelle Sasaki,* Silvia Amabilino, Sonia Mallet-Ladeira, Marine Tassé, Alix Sournia-Saquet, Pascal G. Lacroix and Isabelle Malfant*
Further studies on the photoreactivities of ruthenium-nitrosyl complexes with terpyridyl ligands.
New J. Chem. (2019), 43(28) , 11241–11250.
Bianca X. Valderrama-García, Israel González-Méndez, Alix Sournia-Saquet, Marine Tasse, Kathleen I. Moineau-Chane Ching and Ernesto Rivera
Electrosynthesis of thin films of polythiophenes containing pyrene groups and flexible spacers, useful in the preparation of graphene polymer composites
MRS Advances(2019), 4(59-60); 3233-3242
2020
jeremy Cottes, Alix Saquet, Ludovic Palayret, Olivier Husson, Robin beghin, Deonie Allen, Javier Scheiner, Cédric cabanes et Maritxu Guiresse
Effects of soils redox potential (Eh) and pH on growth of sunflower and wheat
Archives of Agronomy and Soil Science, (2020), 66, 473-487
Isabelle M. Dixon,* Sylvain Rat, Alix Sournia-Saquet, Gábor Molnár, Lionel Salmon and Azzedine Bousseksou*
On the Spin-State Dependence of Redox Potentials of Spin Crossover Complexes
Inorg. Chem. (2020), 59, 18402−18406
Julien Pedron,Clotilde Boudot,Jean-Yves Brossas, Emilie Pinault, Sandra Bourgeade-Delmas, Alix Sournia-Saquet, Elisa Boutet-Robinet, Alexandre Destere, Antoine Tronnet, Justine Bergé, Colin Bonduelle, Céline Deraeve, Geneviève Pratviel, Jean-Luc Stigliani, Luc Paris, Dominique Mazier, Sophie Corvaisier, Marc Since, Aurélie Malzert-Fréon, Susan Wyllie, Rachel Milne, Alan H. Fairlamb, Alexis Valentin, Bertrand Courtioux, and Pierre Verhaeghe
New 8‑Nitroquinolinone Derivative Displaying Submicromolar in Vitro Activities against Both Trypanosoma brucei and cruzi
ACS Med. Chem. Lett. (2020),11, 464−472
Cyril Fersing , Clotilde Boudot,, Romain Paoli-Lombardo, Nicolas Primas, Emilie Pinault, Sebastien Hutter, Caroline Castera-Ducros, Youssef Kabri , Julien Pedron , Sandra Bourgeade-Delmas , Alix Sournia-Saquet, Jean-Luc Stigliani, Alexis Valentin, Amaya Azqueta, Damian Muruzabal, Alexandre Destere, Susan Wyllie, Alan H. Fairlamb, Sophie Corvaisier, Marc Since, Aurélie Malzert-Freon, Carole Di Giorgio, Pascal Rathelot, Nadine Azas, Bertrand Courtioux, Patrice Vanelle, Pierre Verhaeghe ,*
Antikinetoplastid SAR study in 3-nitroimidazopyridine series: Identification of a novel non-genotoxic and potent anti-T. b. brucei hitcompound with improved pharmacokinetic properties
European Journal of Medicinal Chemistry (2020), 206, 112668
Cyril Fersing, Clotilde Boudot, Caroline Castera-Ducros a Emilie Pinault , Sebastien Hutter, Romain Paoli-Lombardo, Nicolas Primas, Julien Pedron, Line Seguy, Sandra Bourgeade-Delmas, Alix Sournia-Saquet, Jean-Luc Stigliani, Jean-Yves Brossas, Luc Paris, Alexis Valentin, Susan Wyllie, Alan H. Fairlamb , Elisa Boutet-Robinet, Sophie Corvaisier, j-Marc Since , Aurélie Malzert-Fréon, Alexandre Destere, Dominique Mazier, Pascal Rathelot, Bertrand Courtioux, Nadine Azas, Pierre Verhaeghe, *, Patrice Vanelle
8-Alkynyl-3-nitroimidazopyridines display potent antitrypanosomal activity against both T. b. brucei and cruzi
European Journal of Medicinal Chemistry (2020), 202, 112558
Edinilton Muniz Carvalho, Tercio de Freitas Paulo, Alix Sournia Saquet, Bruno Lopes Abbadi, Fernanda Souza Macchi, Cristiano Valim Bizarro, Rafael de Morais Campos, Talles Luann Abrantes Ferreira,·Nilberto Robson Falcão do Nascimento, Luiz Gonzaga França Lopes, Remi Chauvin,·Eduardo Henrique Silva Sousa, Vania Bernardes‑Génisson
Pentacyanoferrate(II) complex of pyridine‑4‑and pyrazine‑2‑hydroxamic acid as source of HNO: investigation of anti‑tubercular and vasodilation activities
Journal of Biological Inorganic Chemistry (2020), 25, 887–901
2021
Chongwei Zhu, Albert Poater, Carine Duhayon, Brice Kauffmann, Alix Saquet, Arnaud Rives, Valérie Maraval,* and Remi Chauvin*
Carbo-mer of Barrelene: A Rigid 3D-Carbon-Expanded Molecular Barrel
Chem. Eur. J. (2021), 27, 44378
Cabanes, J., Odnoroh, M., Duhayon, C., Bijani, C., Sournia-Saquet, A., Poli, R., & Labande, A.
Oxidation-promoted synthesis of ferrocenyl planar chiral rhodium(III) complexes for C–H functionalization catalysis
Mendeleev Commun., . (2021), 31(5), 620–623
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