. Can. J . Chcm. 61, 2520Chcm. 61, (1983.Benzotriazolc reacts with the aquapcntacyanoferrate(I1) complex, at pH 4.5, producing a mixture of N-coordinated isomers.Characterization based on 'H and "C nmr spcctroscopy yielded an equilibrium constant K = 1.9 + 0.3, favoring the less symmetric N 1-isomer. Two reversible peaks of oxidation. corresponding to the N I and N2 isomers, were observed in the cyclic voltammograms at high scan rates, with Ellz = 0.43 and 0.53 V versus NHE, respectively. The cyclic voltam~nograms at intermediate scan rates were successfully analysed in terms of an isomerization reaction preceding reversible charge-transfer. The kinetic constants of isomerization, kr and kh, were 1.5 and 0.65 s-I, respectively. The limiting dissociative rates, k-L = 5.3 x 10-' s-', measured in the presence of dimethyl sulfoxide, support an intramolecular mechanism for the isomerization reaction.HENRIQUE E. TOMA, ERNESTO GIESBRECHT et RAMON L. ESPINOZA ROJAS. Can. J . Chem. 61, 2520Chem. 61, (1983.Le benzotriazole rCagit avec le complexe F~(CN)~H?O'-h pH 4,5, en produqant une melange des isomeres coordonnCs au Nitrogene. L'equilibre de cette reaction, avec K = 1,9 t-0.3 cn faveur de le NI-isomere, a CtC montrCe par la Spectroscopique 'H et I3C nmr, dans D20. 11 est possible de voir deux pics correspondents a la oxydation des N1 et N2 isomeres, avec E l / ? = 0,43 et 0,53 V versus ENH, dans les voltamogrammes cycliques 3. vClocitCs de balayage plus vite. L'examen thCorique des voltamogrammes cycliques dans conditions de velocitC de balayage intermkdes, a montree une reaction de isomeritation prCcCdent le transfkrement reversible dcs electrons. Les constants cinCtiques de la isomeritation, k, et khr ont CtC calculees comme 1,5 et 0.65 s -' , respectivement. Les constants de substitution limite, k-L = 5.3 x 10-' s-I, obtenus dans la prCsence de dimethyl sulfoxyde, permettent proposer un mechanisme intramolCculaire pour la reaction de isomeritation.