The solvent effect on the electrocatalytic cleavage of carbon-halogen bonds on Ag and Au

Electrochimica Acta

Volumn 158, Issue , 2015, Pages 427-436

  Arnaboldi, Serena ^a   Gennaro, Armando ^b   Isse, Abdirisak Ahmed ^b   Mussini, Patrizia Romana ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MILAN   (Italy)

^b UNIVERSITY OF PADOVA   (Italy)

Author keywords

carbon halogen bond; Dissociative electron transfer; electrocatalysis; reductive cleavage; solvent effect

Indexed keywords

CARBON; CHLORINE COMPOUNDS; ELECTROCATALYSIS; ELECTRODES; ELECTROLYTES; ELECTRON TRANSITIONS; PHOTODISSOCIATION; SILVER;

CARBON-HALOGEN BOND; CATALYTIC ELECTRODES; DISSOCIATIVE ELECTRON TRANSFERS; DOUBLE LAYER STRUCTURE; EXPERIMENTAL PROTOCOLS; REDUCTIVE CLEAVAGE; SOLVENT EFFECTS; SUPPORTING ELECTROLYTE;

SOLVENTS;

EID: 84922373551     PISSN: 00134686     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.electacta.2015.01.169     Document Type: Article

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