Design of ecologically safe and science intensive electrochemical processes

This review discusses the results of and prospects for studies aimed at design of new science intensive, environmentally safe technologies for the synthesis of organophosphorus compounds by halogenation of α-olefins, including modification of rapeseed oil; it also considers methods for the production of some other intermediates for chemical industry. New synthetic applications have been developed, using combined methods of classical organic chemistry and electrochemistry, for processes based on electrochemical generation of catalysts (mediators)—complexes of metals in low oxidation states, halogen complexes, etc. Selective electrochemical procedures are suggested for the synthesis of triphenylphosphine, trialkylphosphates, and nanosized transition metal phosphides from white phosphorus.