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<journal-title><![CDATA[Portugaliae Electrochimica Acta]]></journal-title>
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<article-title xml:lang="en"><![CDATA[Electrochemical and Spectroscopic Studies of Pyridazine Derivatives]]></article-title>
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<institution><![CDATA[,Université de Metz Faculté de Sciences Laboratoire d´Ingénierie Moléculaire et Biochimie]]></institution>
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<self-uri xlink:href="http://scielo.pt/scielo.php?script=sci_arttext&amp;pid=S0872-19042004000100002&amp;lng=en&amp;nrm=iso"></self-uri><self-uri xlink:href="http://scielo.pt/scielo.php?script=sci_abstract&amp;pid=S0872-19042004000100002&amp;lng=en&amp;nrm=iso"></self-uri><self-uri xlink:href="http://scielo.pt/scielo.php?script=sci_pdf&amp;pid=S0872-19042004000100002&amp;lng=en&amp;nrm=iso"></self-uri><abstract abstract-type="short" xml:lang="en"><p><![CDATA[This work reports on cyclic voltammetry and spectroscopic UV-Vis investigations of some pyridazine derivatives 1-8 in dimethylformamide. In the electrochemical study, monochlorinated pyridazines 2-8 exhibit two reductions but in the case of dichlorinated derivative 1 an additional wave is seen for the reduction of the second carbon-chloride bond. The electronic absorption spectra display an intramolecular charge transfer band &#960;-&#960;* in the UV region of which depend substantially on the nature of both donor and acceptor moieties. These results indicate the &#960;-electron delocalization in the conjugated system]]></p></abstract>
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<kwd lng="en"><![CDATA[pyridazines]]></kwd>
<kwd lng="en"><![CDATA[electrochemistry]]></kwd>
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</front><body><![CDATA[ <p align="center"><b >Electrochemical and Spectroscopic Studies of Pyridazine Derivatives</b> </p>     <p >&nbsp;</p>            <p align="center"><b>L.M.C. Vieira,</b><sup>a</sup><b> A.M. Fonseca,</b><sup>    a,</sup><b  ><sup><a name="top1"></a><a href="#1">*</a></sup>M.M.M. Raposo,</b><sup>a</sup><b>    G. Kirsch</b><sup>b</sup><b ></b></p>       <p>&nbsp;      </p>      <p align="center"><sup>a</sup>Departamento de Química, Universidade do Minho, Campus de Gualtar, </p>      <p align="center">4710-057, Braga, Portugal.</p>      <p align="center"><sup>b</sup>Laboratoire d´Ingénierie Moléculaire et Biochimie Pharmacologique, Faculté de Sciences, Université de Metz, 57012 Metz, France. </p>        <p>&nbsp; </p>        <p align="center">Received 15 September 2003; Accepted in revised form 6 November    2003</p>     <p >&nbsp; </p>      ]]></body>
<body><![CDATA[<p><b>Abstract</b></p>      <p>This work reports on cyclic voltammetry and spectroscopic UV-Vis investigations of some pyridazine derivatives <i>1-8</i> in dimethylformamide. In the electrochemical study, monochlorinated pyridazines <i >2-8</i> exhibit two reductions but in the case of dichlorinated derivative <i >1</i> an additional wave is seen for the reduction of the second carbon-chloride bond. The electronic absorption spectra display an intramolecular charge transfer band &#960-&#960</span></span>* in the UV region of which depend substantially on the nature of both donor and acceptor moieties. These results indicate the &#960-electron delocalization in the conjugated system.       <p>&nbsp; </p>      <p><b >Keywords:</b> pyridazines; electrochemistry; electronic spectra; donor-&#960; -bridge-acceptor systems.</p>        <p>&nbsp;</p>      <p>Texto completo disponível apenas em PDF.</p>      <p>Full text only in PDF format.</p>          <p>&nbsp; </p>        <p>&nbsp; </p>      <p><b >References</b></p>      ]]></body>
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