Abstract
The polarographic waves of deoxybenzoins are in principle similar to the reduction waves of acetophenone. In acidic media the protonised form is reduced and the rate of the protonation (in which also acids other than hydroxonium ion participate) limits the wave-height. Even when this reaction is a “surface reaction”, the wave height is governed primarily by changes in chemical reactivity in the protonation reaction rather than by structural changes in adsorptivity. Alkyl groups R in deoxybenzoins of the type C6H5COCHRC6H5 exert predominantly a polar effect on half-wave potentials.
Part II: This Journal 33, 3090 (1968)
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Zuman, P., Turcsanyi, B., Mills, A.K. (1970). Polarographic Reduction of Aldehydes and Ketones. III. Effects of Alkyl Groups in the Side Chain on the Half-Wave Potentials of Deoxybenzoins and Some Other Alkyl Aryl Ketones. In: Zuman, P. (eds) Topics In Organic Polarography. Springer, Boston, MA. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4684-1812-5_5
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