ELECTROLYSIS OF EMULSIONS OF ORGANIC-COMPOUNDS ON HYDROPHOBIC ELECTRODES

Suspensions of some water-insoluble organic compounds, such as alcohol s, amines, activated olefines, and dibromobenzene, were electrolyzed e fficiently on a hydrophobic electrode prepared by composite-plating ni ckel with tetrafluoroethylene oligomer (TFEO) particles. This result s uggests a useful method for suspension electrolysis from a practical a spect and a hypothesis (organic droplet-collecting effect) that the hy drophobic electrode surface is covered by thin films of the organic co mpounds and consequently the electrolysis of water (oxygen and hydroge n evolution) is suppressed.