title: New chemical insights using weakly supported voltammetry: the reductive cleavage of Aryl-Br bonds is reversible.
abstract: Cyclic voltammetry carried out at a wide range of supporting electrolyte concentrations and compositions can elucidate additional kinetic and mechanistic details of the electrochemical reduction of aryl halides. The cleavage of the C-Br bond is reversible, driven by H abstraction and the second electron transfer. This is a new chemical insight, as the cleavage of such bonds has usually been regarded as irreversible.
authors.affiliation: Department of Chemistry, Oxford University, United Kingdom.
authors.forename: Yijun
authors.initials: Y
authors.lastname: Wang
authors.forename: Edward O
authors.initials: EO
authors.lastname: Barnes
authors.forename: Richard G
authors.initials: RG
authors.lastname: Compton