EPR and polarography of nitroazoles. 5. First step in the electrochemical reduction of 2-substituted 5(6)-nitrobenzimidazole using a rotating platinum ring-disk electrode

Using a rotating platinum ring-disk electrode, the electrochemical reduction of 2-substituted 5(6)-nitrobenzimidazoles at the platinum disk in acetonitrile and the oxidation of their radical anions at the ring were studied. During the reduction molecular hydrogen forms by a bimolecular reaction of two primary radical anions. The correlating of electrochemical quantities with the _I, _R, and substituent constants are evidence that E₁^2/ddepends on substituent resonance and induction effects to about the same extent, whereas i_lim^d, n, and E₁^2/rdepend predominantly on the resonance effect.For Communication 4, see [1].Translated from Khimiya Geterotsiklicheskikh Soedinenii, No. 6, pp. 827–832, June, 1985.