Voltammetric Study of Diethyltin Dichloride and the Electrocatalytic Reduction of Nitrate and Nitrite

Reduction of nitrite on tin-modified noble metal electrodes

“…Nitrite has been important from the viewpoint of electrochemistry because it is oxidized to nitrate and reduced to nitric oxide or other compounds. The electrodes for nitrite reduction have been reported, which contain metals [1][2][3][4][5][6][7][8][9][10], binary metals [11,12], metal complexes or metal oxides , doped diamond [34], and biological materials [35]. Some of these reports contain the reduction of both nitrate and nitrite [4][5][6][7][8][9][10][11][12][26][27][28][29][30][31][32][33][34][35], which indicates that the electrodes having a reduction activity for nitrate is effective for nitrite reduction.…”