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Information • Textbooks • Media • Resources
Redox Redux: Recommendations for Improving Textbook and IUPAC Definitions
Ed Vitz
Department of Chemistry, Kutztown University, Kutztown, PA 19530
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March 2002
Vol. 79 No. 3
p. 397
Abstract
It is suggested that writers avoid defining oxidation (and related terms) as "transfer of electrons" in favor of a definition involving change of oxidation state. The latter formal definition would include reactions like NO3 + CO ==> NO2 + CO2, which are known to proceed via an atom transfer mechanism, and it would allow treatment of redox reactions without commitment to a particular mechanism.
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*  Citation
 Vitz, Ed. J. Chem. Educ. 2002 79 397.
*  Keywords
 Electrochemistry; General Chemistry; Mechanisms; Redox Reactions
*  History
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Last Updated:		 January 31, 2002
June 9, 2005
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