Voltammetric studies of the electrochemical behaviour of salicylidene-2-aminopyridine at a hanging-mercury-drop-electrode
Electrochemical behaviour of salicylidene-2-aminopyridine has been investigated in 0.1 M tetraethylammonium perchlorate–dimethylformamide solutions by cyclic voltammetric and convolution potential sweep voltammetric methods. It was found that the depolarizer exhibits two well-defined diffusion-controlled irreversible one-electron waves. The cyclic voltammetric characteristics and the convolution, deconvolution, and logarithmic convolution analyses reveal that salicylidene-2-aminopyridine in such conditions follows a set of two one-electron transfer reactions each followed by an irreversible chemical reaction. The values of the first-order rate constant of the irreversible chemical reaction and E1/2 were computed.