The electrochemistry of organic sulfur compounds. Part II. Cathodic reduction of 1,2-dithiolylium ions, redox analogy to the tropylium-bitropenyl system.

✍ Scribed by Carl Th. Pedersen; Vernon D. Parker

• Book ID: 104236482
• Publisher: Elsevier Science
• Year: 1972
• Tongue: French
• Weight: 185 KB
• Volume: 13
• Category: Article
• ISSN: 0040-4039
• DOI: 10.1016/s0040-4039(01)84433-6

✦ Synopsis

We have observed that cathodic reduction of several 1,2-dithiolylium ions (I) in acetonitrile at a platinum electrode is accompanied by the formation of the dimers (II). This reaction is remarkably efficient with coulometric n 1.