Use of an electrochemically-induced proton-coupled electron transfer reaction to control dimerization in a ureidopyrimidone 4 H-bond array

Abstract

Cyclic voltammetric and spectroelectrochemical evidence is presented showing that the H-bonded dimer formed from a ureidopyrimidone derivative containing a phenylenediamine redox couple can be reversibly broken apart at mM concentrations in CH₂Cl₂ by an electrochemically induced proton-coupled electron transfer reaction.