The rates of isomerization and coupling of the radical anions produced on electroreduction of several dialkyl maleates [methyl (DMM), ethyl (DEM), n-butyl (DBM)] in N,N-dimethylformamide solutions were investigated at the rotating ring-disk electrode (RRDE). Digital simulation methods were employed to obtain appropriate working curves and techniques were established to obtain both the first order isomerization constant (kD and the second order dimerization constant (k2) from collection efficiency measurements. The measured kl values; DMM, 2.2; DEM, 6.0; and DBM, 6.7 (sec -1) show an increasing isomerization rate with increasing size of alkyl substituent (R). The coupling rates decrease with irmreasing R; the k2 values are: DMM, 1.9 • 105; DEM, 9.1 • 104; and DBM, 6.9 • 104 (M -x sec-D. Comparison of these results to previous measurements of the coupling rates of the corresponding trans-species (i.e., fumarates) indicate that the c/s-radical anions couple about two thousand times faster than do the trans.The rotating ring-disk electrode has been useful in the investigation of the kinetics of electrode reactions, even for rather complicated mechanisms involving parallel reaction paths and higher order reactions [see (1-6) and references therein]. A particularly interesting electrochemical reaction scheme involves the difference in behavior upon reduction of the cisand trans-isomeric dialkyl fumarates and dialkyl maleates.