Electrochemolomic methodology for plant taxonomy

Title : Electrochemolomic methodology for plant taxonomy

Abstract:

A methodology for characterizing vegetal taxonomic groups, based on microextraction-assisted voltammetry of immobilized particles applied to microsamples of vegetal matter is described. It is based on recording the voltammetric response of microparticulate films deposited from ethanol, acetone, etc. extracts of different parts of plants put in contact with aqueous electrolytes. The obtained voltammetric profiles, associated to electroactive metabolites in vegetal matter, define an electrochemolomic response which can be applied for discriminating different taxonomic groups using bivariant and multivariant chemometric techniques. Application of the reported methodology for a set of species of different orders suggests the possibility of correlating electrochemical data with phylogenetic trees (see Domenech-Carbo et al. Electrochemistry-based chemotaxonomy in plants using the voltammetry of microparticles methodology. New Journal of Chemistry, 2015, 39, 7421-7428; Domenech-Carbo et al. Access to phylogeny from voltammetric fingerprints of seeds: the Asparagus case. Electroanalysis, 2017, 29, 643-650).

Biography:

Prof. Antonio Domenech-Carbo, PhD in Chemistry (Univ. Valencia, 1988), is currently Professor at the Department of Analytical Chemistry of the University of Valencia (Spain). He has published more than 215 articles in indexed journals (two for IUPAC’s Pure Appl. Chem.) and several books (among them, Electrochemical Methods in Archeometry, Conservation and Restoration (2009, Springer), Electrochemistry of Porous Materials (2010, Taylor & Francis) and Electrochemistry of Immobilized Particles and Droplets, 2^nd edit. (2014, Springer). He is topical editor of Journal of Solid State Electrochemistry (Springer) and reviewer of ten National Research Agencies and 95 indexed journals. His research is focused on solid state electroanalytical techniques.