Electrochemical investigation of some ruthenium-carborane complexes at a glassy carbon electrode

Ruthenium complexes of some carboranes were examined using cyclic voltammet ry, chronoamperometry, chronopotentiometry, and digital simulation techniqu es derived from convolution-deconvolution voltammetry. The complexes under consideration are of the type X-RuC2B8H10 (X = hexamethylbenzene, para-cyme ne); all relevant electrochemical and chemical parameters were deduced and a mechanism is proposed.