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Journal of Organic & Inorganic Chemistry
ISSN: 2472-1123 Chemistry 2019 Page 16
2nd Edition of EuroSciCon Conference on Chemistry
February 19-20, 2019 | Prague, Czech Republic
The chemistry of graphene is growing rapidly in last decade and broad
range of graphene derivates was prepared. Nevertheless, only two
stoichiometric derivates are currently known: hydrogenated and fluorinated
graphene (graphane and fluorographene). Compared to graphene, these
materials exhibit significantly different properties, e.g. higher reactivity as
well as large differences in physical properties. Especially fluorographene
can be applied as a substrate for nucleophilic substitution reactions, which
significantly extend the possible chemical modifications of graphene.
Currently, the chemistry of the other 2D materials starts to be explored.
However,thechemistryofinorganic2Dmaterialslikepnictogensandtransition
metal dichalcogenides is not well known and only several procedures were
already reported. In comparisonwith graphene, new synthetic protocols have
to be applied because the chemistry of these materials is extremely variable.
In the case of transition metal dichalcogenides, the formation of the M-X-C
bond (M is a metal, X is any chalcogenide) can be used as a starting point
for exploring their chemistry and for further derivatisation. The chemistry of
layered pnictogens is significantly different. In this case, various reactions
including nucleophilic substitution can be applied, however, the bonding
through the oxygen functionalities on pnictogen surface is observed in many
cases
The chemistry of graphene and its
inorganic analogues
Zdenek Sofer
University of Chemistry and Technology
Prague, Czech Republic
Biography
Zdenek Sofer is an Associated Professor at the
University of Chemistry and Technology Prague
since 2013. He received his PhD also at University
of Chemistry and Technology Prague, Czech
Republic, in 2008. During his PhD, he spent one
year in Forschungszentrum Julich (Peter Grünberg
Institute, Germany) and later, one Postdoctoral stay
at University Duisburg-Essen, Germany. His research
interests include nanomaterials graphene-based
materials and other 2D materials, its chemical
modifications, reactivity and applications in
electrochemistry, separation and electronic. He is
a Member of Editorial board of FlatChem. He has
published over 300 articles, which received over
5000 citations (h-index of 35).
Zdenek Sofer, J Org Inorg Chem 2019, Volume: 5
DOI: 10.21767/2472-1123-C1-019