Elektrochemisches Verhalten der Nitrophenole und ihrer Reduktionsprodukte an Graphitelektroden/ Electrochemical Behavior of the Nitrophenols and Their Reduction Products at Graphite Electrodes
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- 1 July 1981
- journal article
- Published by Walter de Gruyter GmbH in Zeitschrift für Naturforschung B
- Vol. 36 (7) , 840-845
- https://doi.org/10.1515/znb-1981-0712
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.Keywords
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