Elcctro-Reduction of Dialkyl 2,4,5,7-Tetranitrofluorene-9,9-Dipropionates: Simulation

摘要

Simulations of cyclic voltammograms of 9,9-bis(alkylpropionate)-2,4,5,7-tetranitrofluorenes in N,N-dimethylformamide, using 0.1 M tetrabutylammonium perchlorate as supporting electrolyte at a mercury-bead cathode, from literature (1), were carried out. Both cathodic and anodic peaks were analyzed using two shareware programs CVSIM and ESP 2.4. CVSIM program written in Turbo Pascal was run using Turbo Pascal free downloaded from web. The ESP 2.4 written in DOS was run using DOS. All the simulations were executed on a PC Pentium IV. Our simulations are consistent with an Electrochemical-Electrochemical (EE) type pathway for compound A and Electrochemical-Electrochemical-Chemical (EEC) mechanism for compound B.