Abstract
The electrochemical reduction of the isomeric nitrophenols at graphite electrodes is investigated in aqueous solutions with pH = 1-13 and is compared with the electro-chemical oxidation of their reduction products. o-Nitrophenol and p-nitrophenol are reduced to the corresponding amines, as the observed oxidation peaks in their cyclic voltammograms can be simulated by those of o-and p-aminophenol. m-Nitrophenol is reduced to m-hydroxylaminophenol, as its oxidation peak appears at much more negative » potential than that of m-aminophenol, within the potential range of the oxidation of phenylhydroxylamine. The pH-dependence of the reduction potentials of the nitrophenols at the graphite electrodes is discussed in comparison with that at a hanging mercury drop electrode.

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