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Cyclic voltammetry was used to provide the electrochemical evidence of catalytic catechol oxidation by ruthenium organometallics of chloro-substituted 2’-hydroxychalcones and to get partial insight into the mechanistic process. The catalytic properties of organometallics were measured in methanol, ethanol, and acetonitrile and the solvent effect was confirmed. The assignation of peaks in cyclic voltammograms was made systematically by characterizing all individual components of the catalytic mixture. The cathodic peak arising from electrochemical reduction of catalytically formed quinone near − 0.4 V vs. Ag/AgCl evolves over time and can be used for kinetic measurements. The formation of new peak at + 0.1 V vs. Ag/AgCl indicates that catechol oxidation to quinone proceeds via semiquinone formation in the presence of ruthenium organometallics. The kinetic profile of the catechol oxidation in the presence of ruthenium organometallics differs from each other and the rates of oxidation are well correlated with spectrophotometric measurements. Several advantages of electrochemistry over spectrophotometry were addressed. The obtained results demonstrate that electrochemistry can be used as a comparative method to spectrophotometry to measure the catalytic catechol oxidation and provide useful qualitative and quantitative data on kinetics and mechanism of catechol oxidation.
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This work was supported by the Federal Ministry of Education and Science of Bosnia and Herzegovina (grant no. 05-39-2619-1/18).
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Zahirović, A., Kahrović, E. Electrochemical evidence for catechol oxidation by ruthenium(II) organometallics of 2’-hydroxychalcones. Monatsh Chem 152, 1193–1200 (2021). https://doi.org/10.1007/s00706-021-02842-3
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