The electrochemical oxidation of catechol has
been studied in the presence of p-nitroaniline as a nucleophile
in aqueous media at the surface of glassy carbon
electrode, using cyclic voltammetry. The products of
electrosynthesis have been purified and characterized by
Fourier-transform infrared (FT-IR), 1H nuclear magnetic
resonance (NMR), 13C NMR, and distortionless enhancement
by polarization transfer (DEPT), and the mechanism
of anodic oxidation was deduced from voltammetric and
spectroscopic data.
