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WAZOWNEK and his collaborators have studied the reduction of conjugated systems at the dropping mercury electrode1. They have brought forward evidence to support the following mechanism :
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MACCOLL, A. Reduction Potentials of Conjugated Systems. Nature 163, 178–179 (1949). https://doi.org/10.1038/163178a0
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