“…12,18,28 The mechanism has been modified from the first version, proposed by Fleischmann and Liler, 29 where insoluble oxygen-containing Pb(IV) intermediates were proposed, through ones involving the presence of several soluble intermediates such as the oxygen-containing Pb(IV) species proposed by Chang and Johnson, 30 and the oxygen-containing Pb (III) intermediate suggested by Velichenko et al, 31 who afterwards proved the existence of both oxygen-Pb(III) and oxygen-Pb(IV) soluble intermediates 32 : According to this mechanism, the first stage is the transfer of the first electron with the formation of oxygen-containing species ОН • ads. adsorbed on the electrode surface, which are formed by the anodic ionization of water (15). Then, in the subsequent chemical stage ( 16), these species react with lead ions to form an oxygencontaining intermediate Pb(III) of the Pb(OH) 2+ type, which is oxidized with the transfer of the second electron.…”