Abstract
The kinetics and the mechanism of electrode reactions of metal complexes, which include rapid processes of reorganisation of outer and inner coordination spheres, are examined, and criteria for distinguishing between outer-sphere and inner-sphere mechanisms of the electrochemical stage are discussed. Published data provide the basis for a consideration of the mechanism of simple electrode reactions, uncomplicated by change in the composition of the inner coordination sphere of the reactant complexes, and of more complicated reactions, in which the composition of the inner coordination sphere of the complexes is partly or completely changed. Consideration is given mainly to electrode reactions of complexes containing electrochemically inactive ligands.
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