Scientific paper Electroreduction of Some Substituted Hydrazones on Platinum Electrode in Dimethylformamide Ay^a Demirel Özel,1* Zehra Durmus,1 Ilbrahim Yllmaz,2 Alaaddin ^ukurovall3 and Esma Kili^1 1 Department of Chemistry, Faculty of Science, Ankara University, Ankara, Turkey Faculty of Science, Karamanoglu Mehmetbey University, Karaman 3 Department of Chemistry, Faculty of Arts and Sciences, Firat University, Elazigg, Turkey * Corresponding author: E-mail: aycaozel@gmail.com; Tel.: +90 312 2126720/1269; Fax: +90 312 2232395 Received: 18-12-2008 Abstract The electrochemical behaviors of 4-(1-phenyl-1-methylcyclobutane-3-yl)-2-(2-hydroxybenzylidenehydrazino)thiazole (I), 4-(1-p-xylene-1-methylcyclobutane-3-yl)-2-(2- hydroxybenzylidenehydrazino)thiazole (II), 4-(1-mesytylene-1-methylcyclobutane-3-yl)-2-(2- hydroxybenzylidenehydrazino)thiazole (III), 4-(1-phenyl-1-methylcyclobutane-3-yl)-2-(2-hydroxy-5-bromobenzylidenehydrazino)thiazole (IV), 4-(1-phenyl-1-1-methylcyclobutane-3-yl)-2-(2-hydroxy-3-metoxybenzylidenehydrazino)thiazole (V), 4-(1-phenyl-1-methylcyclobutane-3-yl)-2-(2,4-dihydroxybenzylidenehy-drazino)thiazole (VI) were investigated by cyclic voltammetry (CV), controlled potential electrolysis, and chronoampe-rometry (CA) techniques in the presence of 0.10 M tetrabutylammonium tetrafluoroborate (TBATFB) in dimethylformamide (DMF) at platinum electrode. Hydrazones display two cathodic peaks at about -1.60 V and -2.20 V. Diffusion coefficients and the number of electrons transferred were calculated by using an ultramicro electrode (UME). Standard heterogeneous rate constants for reduction were calculated by Klingler-Kochi technique. Electrochemical reduction mechanism of these hydrazones was also proposed that hydrazones seemed to follow an ECEC mechanism corresponding with irreversible electron transfer steps. Due to the widespread use of hydrazones in drug production, the redox properties of these hydrazones are thought to be useful for enlightening the metabolic fate of the drug containing hydra-zones or its in vivo redox properties or pharmacological activity. Keywords: Hydrazones, thiazoles, electrochemical behavior, voltammetry, dimethylformamide 1. Introduction One important class of heterocyclic compounds which contains one sulfur atom is known as thiazole. This class of compounds is present in many natural and synthetic products with a wide range of pharmacological activities such as antiviral, anticancer, antibacterial, antifungal, anti-parkinsonian activities that can be well illustrated by the large number of drugs in market containing this functional group.1 Thiazole ring also finds applications in other fields such as polymers,2 liquid crystals,3 photonuc-leases,4 fluorescent dyes,5 insecticides6 and antioxidants.7 Thiazoles include different compounds such as hydrazones. In this study, hydrazones containing both thiazole ring and cyclobutane group were investigated. It is a well-known fact that the hydrazone group plays an important role in the anti-microbial activity.8-10 3-substi-tuted cyclobutane carboxylic acid derivatives exhibit antiinflammatory and anti-depressant activities1112 and liquid crystal properties.13 In addition, many of the physiologically active hydrazones find applications in the treatment of diseases like tuberculosis, leprosy and mental disor-der.14 Cyclobutane derivatives are also used in some drugs for above mentioned diseases. For this reason, knowledge of the electrochemical behaviour of the hydrazones may be very helpful for their efficient uses. Elucidation of electrochemical mechanism of the reduction and the oxidation at the electrode surface can be useful to suggest mechanisms for the biochemical behaviour of hydrazones, in ot- her words electroreduction mechanism can serve as models for the biological pathway15 because, their activity in the body depends on reductive processes. The chemical and biological activity of these compounds would vary in different media. A good knowledge of the electrochemical behaviour of hydrazones in dimethylformamide (DMF) is, therefore, of considerable interest. Accordingly, the knowledge of the electrochemical reduction of these hydrazo-nes is a prerequisite to understand their mechanism in both chemical and biological processes.1617 Also, electrochemical methods can be used to generate intermediates. The reduction of several hydrazones has been investigated successfully by electrochemical techniques. The first systematic study on the electrochemical reduction of hydrazones was published by Lund several decades ago.18 Since then, electrochemical behavior of hydrazones has been investigated in both protic19-40 and aprotic solvents.39-56 Under aqueous conditions, the reduction consists of two-electron, two-proton transfer, which converts the C=N-NH to CH-NH-NH group.18,23,28 In aprotic solvents, where hydrolysis of the iminic moiety is hampered, various studies of the electroreduction of imi-nes have appeared in the literature.39-56 Electrochemical reduction of various imines was studied by Andrieux et al. in acetonitrile and DMF medium.46 They claimed that, according to the structure of the imine and the solvent, the reduction was either a two-electron transfer or two one-electron transfers. Isse et al. investigated the electrochemical reduction of the Schiff bases in DMF. The reduction process involves self-protonation reactions. The two-electron reduction product is formed together with the conjugate base of the Schiff bases.44 Kononenko et al. claimed that the first wave observed in the electrochemical reduction of imine group of Schiff bases in DMF was an irreversible two-electron transfer reaction and overall process is controlled by diffusion of the depolarizer to the electro-de.57 Fry and Reed investigated the electrochemical reduc- tion of several imines in DMF containing tetraethylammo-nium bromide using cyclic voltammetry, coulometry and polarogaphy.45 They indicated that an irreversible two-electron reduction occurred and that a radical anion formed in the first step followed rapid proton abstraction and a second electron transfer. Therefore, it is essential to elucidate the electrochemical reduction of hydrazones containing cyclobutane, 2-aminothiazole and Schiff base characteristic. The investigated hydrazones have not been studied at platinum electrode and polarographically at mercury electrode so far. In this study, the electrochemical behavior of some substituted hydrazones in DMF at platinum electrode was investigated using electrochemical techniques. The hydrazones are given in Table 1. The diffusion coefficient, the number of electrons transferred, standard heterogeneous rate constants (^s), adsorption properties and the reduction mechanisms of these hydrazones were investigated using cyclic voltammetry, chronoamperometry and IR spectroscopy. 2. Experimental 2. 1. Reagents Hydrazones were prepared as described in the litera-ture.58-63 The hydrazones were purified by recystallization from ethanol until a sharp melting point was obtained (Table 2). The structures of these hydrazones were elucidated by using IR, 1H-NMR and magnetic susceptibi-lity.58-63 No impurities on thin layer chromotography (TLC) plates and 1H-NMR spectra were observed. All chemicals were of analytical reagent grade (Merck and Sigma). Stock solutions of each hydrazone were prepared at a concentration of 5.0 x 10-3 M in 0.1 M TBATFB/ DMF. Voltammetric working solutions were prepared by diluting the stock solutions to obtain the desired concentrations. The supporting electrolyte of tetrabutylammo- Table 1. The Chemical Structures and the Names of the Hydrazones Investigated General formula Hyd- Names R R1 R2 R3 razone I 4-(1-phenyl-1-methylcyclobutane-3-yl)-2-(2-hydroxybenzylidenehydrazino)thiazole benzene H H H II 4-(1-^-xylene-1-methylcyclobutane-3-yl)-2-(2-hydroxybenzylidenehydrazino)thiazole ^-xylene H H H III 4-(1-mesytylene-1-methylcyclobutane-3-yl)-2-(2-hydroxybenzylidenehydrazino)thiazole mesytylene H H H IV 4-(1-phenyl-1-methylcyclobutane-3-yl)-2-(2-hydroxy-5-bromobenzylidenehydrazino)thiazole benzene H H Br V 4-(1-phenyl-1-1-methylcyclobutane-3-yl)-2-(2-hydroxy-3-metoxybenzylidenehydrazino)thiazole benzene OCH3 H H VI 4-(1-phenyl-1-methylcyclobutane-3-yl)-2-(2,4-dihydroxybenzylidenehydrazino)thiazole benzene H OH H nium tetrafluoroborate (TBATFB) was purchased from Fluka (21796-4) and used without further purification. The DMF used was a dry (water < 0.01 %) batch of Fluka (40248) kept on beads of a molecular sieve. Tablo 2. Melting Points and Elemental Analysis Results of Hydrazones. I II III IV V VI Melting 194 168 225 201 159 173 Points (°C) Elemental C 69.39 C 70.56 C 71.19 C 57.02 C 67.15 C 66.47 Analysis (69.79) (71.14) (71.08) (56.69) (67.03) (66.03) Results, H 5.82 H 6.44 H 6.71 H 4.56 H 5.89 H 5.58 Calculated (Found), % (4.82) (5.89) N 11.56 N 10.73 (6.60) N 10.36 (4.41) N9.50 (6.10) N 10.68 (5.64) N8.15 (11.25) (10.84) (10.40) (9.67) (10.54) (8.22) S8.82 S8.19 S 7.91 S7.25 S 11.07 S8.45 (9.12) (8.29) (7.72) (7.44) (10.87) (8.18) 2. 2. Apparatus Voltammetric measurements were carried out with BAS100 B/W Electrochemical Analyzer. Platinum electrode (BAS MF-2013, 1.6 mm diameter) and 100 pm-ul-tramicro platinum electrode (BAS MF-2150) were used as a working electrode. The electrodes were polished before each use with 1 pm, 0.3 pm and 0.05 pm alumina slurries made from dry Buehler alumina and ultra pure water (18 MQcm) on polishing microcloth. Polished Pt electrode was then sonicated in a mixture of 50:50 (v/v) methanol/DMF. A platinum wire was used as the auxiliary electrode (BAS MW-1032). The reference electrode was a silver wire in contact with 0.01 M AgNO3 in dimethylformamide. All solutions were deaerated for 10 min. with pure argon. All the measurements were taken at room temperature, 21 ± 1 °C. In all voltammetric measurements, the background currents were automatically subtracted from originally obtained currents. IR spectra were obtained from Mattson 1000 FTIR Spectrometer. 2. 3. Method The number of electrons transferred and diffusion coefficients were determined by ultramicro electrode CV technique of Baranski.64 Also, the data obtained from bulk electrolysis were used to calculate the number of electrons transferred. For this purpose, coulometric studies were carried out on a BAS 100 B/W instrument with a working electrode of reticulated vitreous carbon electrode (MF-2077) in DMF containing 0.1 M TBATFB. A three-electrode circuit was used including the Ag /Ag+ electrode as a reference and coiled platinum wire (23 cm) (MW-1033) as a counter electrode. The solution was mixed with a magnetic stirrer. The applied potentials were 50 mV more negative than each peak potential. The heterogeneous rate constants were calculated according to Klingler-Kochi method.65 3. Results and Discussion 3. 1. Characterization of the Electrode Reaction Fig. 1 displays the cyclic voltammograms of 5.0 x 10-3 M hydrazone derivatives listed in Table 1 in 0.1 M TBATFB/ DMF system at a scan rate of 0.1 V/s together with the voltammogram of the blank solution. The cyclic voltammograms of the hydrazones revealed two cathodic and two anodic peaks as shown in Fig. 1. The peak potentials are listed in Table 3. The voltammetric reduction of hydrazones in DMF containing 0.1 M TBATFB gives rise to two cathodic peaks. There are no redox peak couples. But, the voltammograms, reversed after the first(A) and second(B) peaks, showed that the first and second catho-dic peaks are related to first(D) and second(C) anodic peaks, respectively. Fig. 1. Cyclic voltammograms of I, II, III, IV, V, and VI in DMF containing 0.1 M TBATFB on Pt electrode at a scan rate of 0.10 Vs-1(vs. Ag/Ag+). The data obtained from Fig. 1 and listed in Table 3 were used to investigate the relation between the reduction potentials and the substituent effect. It was observed that the cathodic and anodic peak potentials of hydrazo- Table 3. Cyclic Voltammetric Data for the Reduction of Hydrazones I to VI Hydrazone I Hydrazone II Hydrazone III v, V/s EDD/V ECB/v Ecc/V v, V/s eCA/v e:,B/V eP.B/V EPc/V v, V/s EP,A/V EPfl/V EPB/V EPc/V 0.1 -1.59 -0.33 -2.17 -1.00 0.1 -1.59 -0.31 -2.17 -1.11 0.1 -1.59 -0.32 -2.16 -1.00 0.5 -1.64 -0.29 -2.26 -0.92 0.5 -1.64 -0.28 -2.34 -1.01 0.5 -1.71 -0.29 -2.26 -0.89 1.0 -1.68 -0.28 -2.37 -0.89 1.0 -1.67 -0.26 -2.45 -0.89 1.0 -1.73 -0.27 -2.35 -0.85 Hydrazone IV Hydrazone V Hydrazone VI v, V/s Ec./V pji EIDIV e;B/v v, V/s Ec./V pji e:D/v e^b/v Eac/V v, V/s pA EPfl/V EPB/V EPc/V 0.1 -1.53 -0.25 -2.04 -1.03 0.1 -1.58 -0.31 -2.15 -1.07 0.1 -1.64 -0.43 -2.18 -1.11 0.5 -1.69 -0.20 -2.20 -0.93 0.5 -1.71 -0.25 -2.35 -0.89 0.5 -1.66 -0.39 -2.25 -0.99 1.0 -1.72 -0.18 -2.25 -0.89 1.0 -1.73 -0.24 -2.39 -0.87 1.0 -1.68 -0.37 -2.28 -0.92 HO J ^ Js-»H—N*=CH—^ ^ J?—NH-N=CK—^ H< > OCH, HO tX-il, :> 1.00 V). This is highly typical for the quasi-reversible reaction complicated by a chemical reaction. It is also observed from Table 3 that the peak potentials show a negative shift as the scan rate is increased. The fact that Epc values show a negative shift at higher scan rates is a clear indication of an irreversible beha-viour.66,67 This was also verified by the decrease of the current function (ipc/v1'2) with increasing scan rate (v) graphs. This is a further proof that a chemical step takes place after the electron transfer process. The simplest way to understand whether the hydrazone derivatives investigated make a strong adsorption on to the electrode surface is the appearance of another peak at more positive or negative potentials than the reduction peak. There were no such pre- or post- peaks observed for any of the hydrazones investigated which indicated the absence of strong adsorption. Also, the fact that the slopes of log (ipc/ ^A) vs. log (v/ V/s) were less than 0.5 for both the first and the second peak was further verification of this situation.68 Therefore, it can conveniently be claimed that the reactions investigated are not controlled by adsorption phenomenon. The linearity of ipc v^. v1/2 graphs indicates that the reactions are diffusion controlled.67 3. 2. Determination of the Number of Electrons Transferred and the Diffusion Coefficients The number of electrons transferred during the reduction of hydrazone I to VI and the diffusion coefficients were calculated by both cyclic voltammetry at ultramicro electrode and Chronoamperometry.64 n and D values were calculated according to the equations below. (1) (2) Here, i is limiting steady-state current, C is the concentration, S is the slope of the chronoamperometric i vs t1/2 plot for hydrazones. ns, Ds and Cs are the same values obtained for ferrocene-ferrocenium reference redox couple. The experimental values of n and D for all hydrazones are given in Table 4. In order to determine the limiting steady-state currents for hydrazones, linear sweep voltam-metry was also used. The number of electrons transferred during the reduction of hydrazone I to VI was also determined by bulk electrolysis. The number of electrons transferred calculated with the use of UME was in good accordance with the number of electrons determined from bulk electrolysis (Table 4). The diffusion coefficients obtained are given in Table 4. The fact that the diffusion coefficients of all the hydrazo-nes are similar proves the fact that they diffuse to the electrode surface in a similar manner due to their closely related structures. 3. 3. Klingler-Kochi Method for Determination of the Heterogeneous Electron-Transfer Standard Rate Constants The heterogeneous electron-transfer standard rate constants are found from cyclic voltammogram data in the different scan rates. In general, as the scan rate is increa- Table 4. Diffusion Coefficients, Number of Electrons, Heterogeneous Standard Rate Constants for Hydrazones I to VI in Dimethylformamide at Pt Electrodea The number of Number of electrons Total number Diffusion Standard rate constants, e n electrons transferred calculated at reticulated of electrons coefficients (D), (ks), cm/s o N a per molecule determined vitreous carbon calculated by cm2/s ± ts/VN ra d at ultramicro Pt electrode by Bulk Bulk D ± ts/VN y H electrode by UME-CV Electrolysis, n Electrolysis, nT technique of Baranski, n Peak A Peak B Peak A Peak B I 2.01 ± 0.07 0.93 ± 0.01 1.98 ± 0.03 1.00 ± 0.30 3.13 ± 0.17 3.28 x 10-6 ± 0.02 x 10-6 1.35 x 10-5 ± 0.65 x 10-5 II - 1.29 ± 0.06 1.92 ± 0.10 1.10 ± 0.22 2.63 ± 0.11 3.22 x 10-6 ± 0.76 x 10-6 1.18 x 10-5± 0.14 x 10-5 III 2.04 ± 0.10 0.75 ± 0.17 2.06 ± 0.01 0.87 ± 0.03 3.10 ± 0.10 3.07 x 10-6 ± 0.65 x 10-6 9.66 x 10-6 ± 0.18 x 10-6 IV 1.82 ± 0.04 0.95 ± 0.11 - - 2.67 ± 0.24 2.47 x 10-6 ± 0.23 x 10-6 3.64 x 10-6 ± 0.20 x 10-6 V - 0.46 ± 0.01 1.91 ± 0.20 - 2.71 ± 0.13 3.19 x10-6 ± 0.15 x 10-6 3.10 x 10-6 ± 0.23 x 10-6 VI 1.68 ± 0.20 - - - 3.09 ± 0.30 3.23 x 10-6 ± 0.30 x 10-6 2.38 x 10-6 ± 0.13 x 10-6 a at 95% confidence level; t: 3.18; s: standard deviation; N = 4 sed, Epc and the peak width values (Ep/2), show a change which affects the value of ks. The results, obtained from the formulas below, showed that the ks vs v1/2 plot had a plateau at high scan rates. In our case, this plateau starts as the scan rate exceeds ~2.0 Vs-1. The average ks values in this plateau at 21 °C, which are independent of v, are tabulated in Table 4. The fact that these ks values are ks < 2 x 10-5v1/2 is another indication of irreversible behavior.65 3. 4. Mechanistic Studies In Table 6, the number of total electrons transferred was found as 3 for all the hydrazones investigated. It was determined that there were 2 electron transfer in the first and a one electron transfer in the second peak. Thus, it was concluded that all the hydrazones follow the same reduction mechanism. The first reduced center in these hydrazones is the -N=CH- double bond which accepts two electrons to form the corresponding dianion (b). The 2e- reduction of -CH=N-NH- group which occur at peak(A) was though to take place as depicted in Step 1(Fig. 3). The formed dianion (b) would be strong base enough to abstract protons from parent molecule (a) and a chemical reaction would occur (Step 2). In 1964, Nicholson and Shain solved some complex differential equations by using Fick's First Law, Nernst Equation, Randles-Sevcik Equation and found out the relation between the peak current, scan rate and the chemical reactions.66 Several expressions including different parameters such as ipc/v1/2C were applied to electrode reactions and it was found that successive chemical reactions had affected the shape of the voltammograms and the reaction rate. One of these parameters is the graph of cur- rent function (ipc/v1/2C) values against scan rate (v). Here, ipc / ^A is the cathodic peak current; v1/2 is the square root of scan rate and C/ M is the concentration of hydrazones. As it is obvious in the figure below, if an exponential decrease is met towards increasing scan rates, this indicates that the electron transfer is followed by a chemical reaction (Fig. 4). For the first cathodic peak, the current function (ipc/v1/2C) values were plotted against the scan rate (v) in order to apply the Nicholson-Shain criteria,66 to elucidate the reaction mechanism taking place at the first peak and the plot obtained is given in Fig. 4. As shown in figure, the fact that the current function decrease exponentially towards the higher scan rates is an indication that the electron transfer is followed by a chemical reaction as shown in Step 2 and the corresponding mechanism to the peak(A) was suggested EC type (Step 1, Step 2). In absence of chemical complications, this graph would be expected to be a nearly horizontal line.66 To ensure that a conjugate base is formed as a result of a homogeneous chemical reaction, voltammetric experiments were also performed with the addition of acetic acid. There were various concentrations of acetic acid added to 0.1 M TBATFB/ DMF solutions of the hydrazones to see whether any changes in the resulting voltammograms occur (Fig. 5). As seen from the figure, the addition of certain amount of acetic acid to 5.0 x 10-3 M solution of hydrazone I resulted an increase in peak(A) and a decrease in peak(B). This suggested us that the second reduction peak belongs to the reduction of the conjugate base of hydrazone.42, 44 This behaviour provides a first indication that the second peak is attributable to the reduction of the conjugate base (d), which is the conjugate base form of parent molecule in solution as indicated in Fig. 6. The chemical reaction occurring after first reduction (Step 2) was thought to be a proton transfer step from OH groups in the non reduced molecules in the solution. Step 1 ÌÌO HO-^^pi (a) (b) HO' Step 2 H,C R Step 3 HjC R Step 4 H3' NH-N-C=< _L (d) o^R' NH-N-C (0 ■N J^NH-N-C (0 Fig. 3. The proposed reduction mechanism for hydrazones I, II, III, IV, V, VI. NH-N-i (0 Fig. 4. (ipc/v1/2C) versus scan rate v(V/s) plot of the first cathodic peak for ^.0 x 10-3 M I in DMF containing 0.1 M TBATFB. One e- transfer reaction in the second peak (Step 3) was most probably due to the reduction of product (d) formed as a result of the chemical reaction which took place after the first reduction. Fig. 7 shows the change of the current function of Fig. 5. Cyclic voltammograms of 5.0 x 10 3 M hydrazone I in DMF containing 0.1 M TBATFB at Pt electrode at v = 0.1 V/s: (a) hydrazone I alone; (b) after addition of mole acid/ mole hydrazone ratio of 1:4; (c) after addition of mole acid/ mole hydrazone ratio of 1:1; (d) after addition of mole acid/ mole hydrazone ratio of 2:1. Fig. 6. The formation of conjugate base after a proton transfer step from non reduced molecules in solution. peak (B) with the scan rate for hydrazone I. The decreasing trend in the resulting curve is the clear indication of the proceeding chemical reaction. The chemical step was thought to be the formation of a dimeric product (f) as a result of the combination of the radicalic species (e) after the electron transfer (Step 4). This is a mechanism suggested for similar molecules in literature.41'42'44'48'53 It is well-known that dimeri-zation is an irreversible chemical reaction often involved in the electrodic processes with dianion derivatives.66 Fig. 7. (ipc/v1'2C) versus scan rate v(V/s) plot of the second cathodic peak for 5.0 X 10-3 M I in DMF containing 0.1 M TBATFB. 4. Conclusions This work has demonstrated that investigated hydra-zones have two reduction and two oxidation peaks at platinum electrode in DMF. Based on the results obtained, the proposal of an electrode reaction mechanism pathway for these hydrazones can conveniently be claimed as ECEC mechanism. The electrochemical reduction occurs through acceptance of three electrons by successive two and one-electron irreversible peaks followed by chemical reactions. Epc - Ep/2c values were found to be 45-120 mV for each peak which is in good agreement with those given in literature for EC systems.66 In order to test the validity of the proposed mechanism controlled-potential preparative electrolysis was carried out at the potential of the second peak for hydrazone I and the reduction products were isolated. At the end of the electrolysis, the catholyte was poured into 200 mL of water and the reduction products were extracted with toluene. The toluene phase was dried over MgSO4 and concentrated by rotary evaporation of the solvent. The reduction products were purified by column chromatography on silica gel using toluene/petroleum ether/ethanol/ triethylamine (1 : 0.5 : 0.05 : 0.05) mixture. The isolated products were characterized with IR spectroscopy. The resulting spectrum showed that some of the characteristic bands of the parent hydrazone were disappeared (for instance C=N stretching band at 1625 cm-1). This was taken as a further evidence for the proposed mechanism. The electrochemical characteristics of these compounds investigated may be of use in future research on their action mechanism as well as pharmacokinetic and pharmacodynamic purposes in biological media, if they find use as drugs. 5. 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Povzetek S ciklično voltametrijo, elektrolizo s kontroliranim potencialom in kronoamperometerijo smo raziskovali elektrokemij-ske lastnosti šestih različnih spojin (hidrazonov)v prisotnosti 0.1 M tetrabutilamonijevega tetrafluroborata. V območju med -1.60 V in -2.20 V smo opazili dva katodna vrhova. Z uporabo ultramikro elektrode smo določili difuzijske koeficiente in število prenesenih elektronov. Z metodo Klingler-Kochi smo izračunali konstante hitrosti. Predvidevamo, da proces elektrokemijske redukcije preiskovanih hidrazonov sledi ECEC mehanizmu