High surface area tungsten oxide (WO x ) based electrodes containing centers of Pt, Sn or Ru were synthesized. The WO x electrodes were found to display good capacitive behavior and relatively high specific capacitance values of up to 180 F gThe oxidation behavior of particularly HCOOH and (COOH) 2 , using the WO x electrodes containing Pt and Sn centers (Pt/WO x and Sn/ WO x , respectively), was studied in detail in aqueous solutions at high potentials, i.e. at which O 2 is evolved. Both HCOOH and (COOH) 2 appear to be oxidized following 1st order kinetics. The (COOH) 2 oxidation reaction is faster than the HCOOH reaction using otherwise the same experimental conditions. The reaction mechanism of both the HCOOH and (COOH) 2 oxidation was found to most likely involve the adsorptive interaction of the two organics with the anode surface. The WO x based anodes appear to be promising catalysts for the anodic oxidation of both (COOH) 2 and HCOOH. #