Reduction of water-soluble substrates in micellar solutions using photochemically generated nineteen-electron organometallic complexes
Abstract
Nineteen-electron organometallic complexes were generated photochemically in the benzene phase of micellar and reverse micellar solutionsl methylviologen and ferricyanide were reduced in order to demonstrate that these powerful reducing agents can be used to reduce water-soluble substrates contained in the aqueous phase.