The scope of Valentin PARMON’s research embraces the development and investigation of catalysts and catalytic processes for all kinds of applications, in particular, for conversion and accumulation of various kinds of energy, catalysis and photocatalysis in nature and in the use of renewable and unconventional energy sources, as well as clarifying the role of abiogenic catalytic and photocatalytic processes in the forming of the Earth atmosphere composition and biosphere origin.

Valentin PARMON contributed significantly into the development of theory of influence of electronic exchanges over the EPR spectra, developed a theory of the EPR spectra of stable biradicals. He was the first to derive a now classic equation of kinetics with the tunneling of electrons in solid phase with uniform spatial propagation of reagents. He headed the works on revealing the reactions of tunneling of electrons over the solid surface and kinetic isotope effects for the processes of the tunneling of electrons.