Coupling of Single Electron Transfer with Acid-Base Reactions

Coupling of Single Electron Transfer with Acid-Base Reactions 

FIGURE 2.34. a Reductive cyclic voltammetry of an aromatic hydrocarbon (e.g., anthracene) in an aprotic solvent (e.g., DMF) upon successive additions of a weak acid (e.g., phenol), b Thermodynamics of the combined addition of two electrons and two protons. 

COUPLING OF ELECTRODE ELECTRON TRANSFERS WITH CHEMICAL REACTIONS 

On the oxidation side, the primary radical is symmetrically stabilized by addition of a base, or nucleophile, or by expulsion of an acid, in the general 

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