Original scientific paper

Electroreduction of Benzalacetone in N,N -dimethylformamide

Slawomir Filipek ; Department of Chemistry, University of Warsaw, 1 Pasteur Str., 02-093 Warszawa (Poland)
Elžbieta Wagner ; Department of Chemistry, University of Warsaw, 1 Pasteur Str., 02-093 Warszawa (Poland)
Marek K. Kalinowski ; Department of Chemistry, University of Warsaw, 1 Pasteur Str., 02-093 Warszawa (Poland)

Abstract

The electrochemical reduction of benzalacetone (BA) has been
studied at mercury cathodes in N,N-dimethylformamide solutions
by the techniques of cyclic voltammetry and controlled potential
coulometry. The radical anion (BA'-) forms ion pairs with tetraethylammonium cations and then disappears in oligomerization
processes. Atentative structureof the dimer BA- BA"-...
(C2H5)4N+is suggested on the basis of quantum mechanical callations.

Keywords

Hrčak ID:

176013

URI

https://hrcak.srce.hr/176013

Publication date:

30.12.1988.

Visits: 525 *