The tropylium cation in methylene dichloride solution is reduced by a one-electron step at the D.M.E. and the rotating platinum electrode with the same half-wave potential. The tropyl radicals thus formed dimerise irreversibly, electrolysis in an e.s.r. spectrometer showed that this reaction is very fast, and large-scale amperostatic electrolysis proved the formation of bitropyl.
P. H. Plesch and A. Stasko, J. Chem. Soc. B, 1971, 2052 DOI: 10.1039/J29710002052
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