Electrochemistry and In-situ Spectroelectrochemistry Studies of Carbazole and 9-Ethylcarbazole

摘要

Mechanisms of electron transfer of carbazole (CZ) and 9-ethylcarbazole (ECZ) were studied by electrochemistry and in-situ spectroelectrochemistry. The result indicated that the electrochemical reaction mechanism of ECZ was the same as that of CZ. Both of them undergo ECE process: the initial step is removal of one electron to generate very reactive cation radical, this species then proceeded by deprotonation-coupling reaction to form the corresponding dimer, which was oxidized continuously.