Electrolysis of organophosphorus compounds. Study of mechanisms of reduction of various diethyl aroylphosphonates at a dropping mercury electrode

Organic polarography

“…Cleavage at P-P bond was found in a polarographic study of seventeen cyclopolyphosphines, diphosphines, and their mono and disulfides (610). Data for substituted aroylphosphonates were correlated to Hammett constants in electrolysis studies of these compounds (61).…”