Communication
Kazemi-Rad et al.
EXPERIMENTAL
ACKNOWLEDGMENTS
We gratefully acknowledge financial support from
the Islamic Azad University, Rasht Branch, Iran.
All reagents were purchased from Merck and Fluka and
used without further purification. Melting points were obtained in
open capillary tubes and were measured on an Electrothermal IA
9100 apparatus. IR spectra were recorded on KBr pellets on a
Shimadzu FT-IR 8600 spectrophotometer. 1H and 13C NMR spec-
tra were determined on a Bruker DRX-400 Avance instrument at
400 and 100 MHz. Constant current density was passed through
the solution by Coulometer model ZCM761 made in ZAG Chemie
Company.
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