The electrochemistry of potassium heptacyanorhenate(lI1) in aqueous solution was studied by cyclic and by rotating disk voltammetry at planar microelectrodes. The results are consistent with a single, reversible electron transfer: Re(CN): + e*Re(CN)$-with Eb = 643 mV us. NHE. A single protonation equilibrium is observed:Re(CN);-+ HC&Re(CN),H3-with pK = 1.31 determined from combined voltammetric and pH data. TheRe-CN bond appears to be kinetically inert, and none of the cyano complexes in other oxidation states of Re claimed in the literature was found in the potential range -2 V to + I V.Introduction. ~ Cyano complexes of rhenium in the oxidation states 0 to VI have been claimed since more than thirty years [l] [2], and the literature is summarized in a review by Gr@h 131. In a more recent paper by Grij'th et al. [4], the existence of many of these species has been questioned, and only two of them, uiz. Re (CN