Effect of Comproportionation on Voltammograms for Two-Electron Reactions with an Irreversible Second Electron Transfer
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Abstract
Many organic and organometallic compounds are reduced or oxidized in two steps with the addition or removal of the second electron occurring with greater difficulty than the first. In such EE reactions, a comproportionation reaction can occur in solution near the electrode by which the final product exchanges an electron with the reactant to form two molecules of the intermediate species. Normally, this comproportionation reaction has little or no effect in voltammetry. In this paper, a substantial effect of comproportionation is predicted for the case where the second electron-transfer reaction is irreversible. In steady-state voltammetry, the normally symmetric, sigmoid-shaped second wave is predicted to rise more sharply near its base than is observed in the absence of comproportionation and, in the limit of a very fast comproportionation reaction, an “onset potential” develops at which the current at the second wave increases abruptly from the limiting current of the first plateau. Experimental examples of these effects are presented for the reduction of tetracyanoquinodimethane in acetonitrile by steady-state microelectrode voltammetry, normal-pulse voltammetry, and cyclic voltammetry.
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