Electrochemical and photoelectronic spectral study of compounds with high ionization potentials: Anodic oxidation of vinyl triflates in aprotic solvents

Abstract Microelectrodes can be used to measure redox half‐wave potentials in aprotic solvents containing no purposely added supporting electrolyte. By employing an electrode of sufficiently small size, the accessible potential range in solution is considerably extended. The electrochemical oxidation of vinyl (enol) triflates, which are oxidized at high electrode potentials, can therefore be studied using an ultramicroelectrode. Oxidation and …