Electrochemical oxidation of vaska complexes, [Ir,(CO)XL2]
Abstract
Electrochemical oxidation of complexes of the type [Ir(CO)XL2](X = monoanionic ligand, L = tertiary phosphine) in 0·1M Bu4NClO4–CH2Cl2 proceeds on Pt-electrodes as a diffusion controlled, irreversible one electron process, indicating that in the redox addition processes atom transferability plays a more important role than the redox properties of the complex.