Electrolysis with organic compounds

Electrolysis of fluorosulfuric acid produces either S20 E2 [13709-32-5] (24) or SO2E2 [13036-75 ] plus OE2 (25), depending on specific conditions. Various reactions of fluorosulfuric acid with inorganic compounds are shown in Table 2, and with organic compounds in Table 3. 

Electrolysis of Organic Compounds with Use of Ion-Exchange Membranes... 

Heinz W. Sternberg Many organic compounds have been reduced at 90-100°C. with lithium in ethylenediamine (L. Reggel, R. A. Friedel, I. Wender, /. Org. Chem. 22, 891 (1957)). Recovery and analysis of the reaction products showed that carbon-carbon bonds were not broken in this reaction. We therefore do not think that any carbon-carbon bonds are broken during electrolysis which is carried out under even milder conditions (35°C.) than the chemical reduction (90°-100°C.). 

Johnson et al. (Houk et al. 1998 Johnson et al. 1999) studied the incineration of 4-chlorophenol and benzoquinone using quaternary metal-oxide anodes (Ti, Ru, Sn, and Sb). They demonstrated that this type of electrode is stable and electrochemi-cally active for the oxidation of organic compounds when it is used in the absence of a soluble supporting electrolyte, with a Nation membrane as solid-state electrolyte however, the electrolysis time for complete COD and TOC removal was excessively long and current efficiency was low. 

Two-phase electrolysis — Electrolysis of two-phase systems, esp. of two liquid phases. The usual case is that an organic compound is dissolved in a nonaqueous solvent and that solution, together with an aqueous electrolyte solution is forced to impinge on an electrode. The electrolysis reaction of the dissolved organic compound can proceed via a small equilibrium concentration in the aqueous phase, or it can proceed as a reaction at the three-phase boundary formed by the aqueous, the nonaqueous phase, and the electrode metal. A very effective way of delivering a two-phase mixture to an electrode is the use of a - bubble electrode. 

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