PhD fellowship in Organosilicon Electrochemistry

“Synthesis and physico-chemistry of hypervalent silicon and low-coordinated silicon (germanium) organic compounds”

Organometallic and Physical Chemistry

French MENRT fellowship with international co-tutelle

Closure date for applications 31 July 2009

The work within a 3 years PhD program aims theoretical and experimental study of the title compounds focusing on their redox chemistry. Synthetic part implies the synthesis of “heavy alkenes” – disilenes, digermenes, the compounds with the double bond M=Z (M and Z being the elements of the group IV or V: Si, Ge, As, P and N), their precursors and model compounds.

Various transient species will then be generated via homo- and heterogeneous electron transfer – cation and anion radicals, free radicals, biradicals as well as formally closed-shell species – silylenes, germylenes, silanones and silanethiones in view of their study by electrochemical and spectroscopic methods (NMR, ESR, UV-Vis etc). The experiments will be supported by theoretical modeling (HF-DFT) and computer simulation of physico-chemical properties and mechanisms.

Motivated and research-minded autonomous candidates with a taste for organometallic and physical chemistry are strongly encouraged.

To apply:

Applications are to be sent to Prof. Viatcheslav Jouikov at

vjouikov@univ-rennes1.fr

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