The electrochemical reaction of nitrate in N,N-dimethylformamide.
Polarography, cyclic voltammetry and controlled-potential coulometry were used to study N,N-dimethylformamide solutions of nitrate. Nitrate is reversibly reduced in a one-electron step to NO(2). The diffusion coefficient of nitrate was polarographically estimated to be 4.6 x 10(-6) cm(2)/sec. Polarography in dimethylformamide was found to be a convenient method of analysis for nitrate in a solid fertilizer.
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Department of Chemistry, Box 44370, University of Southwestern Louisiana, Lafayette, Louisiana 70504, U.S.A.
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