Electron transfer and bond breaking. examples of passage from a sequential to a concerted mechanism in the electrochemical reductive cleavage of arylmethyl halides

Article abstract of DOI:10.1021/ja00043a039

A systematic investigation of the kinetics of the electrochemical reduction of a series of 11 arylmethyl halides in acetonitrile and N′N′-dimethylformamide reveals a striking change in the reductive cleavage mechanism as a function of the energy of the π*