Catalytic reduction of 1,2-dihaloethanes by electrochemically generated $C60n−$ $(n=2$ and 3) Available to Purchase

1,2-Dihaloethanes were catalytically reduced by electrochemically generated $C60n−$ (⁠$n=2$ or 3) anions in 0.1 M tetrabutlammonium hexafluorophosphate in benzonitrile under cyclic voltammetry and rotating disk electrode (RDE) voltammetry conditions at platinum electrodes. The second-order catalytic rate constants, determined by the RDE voltammetry under pseudo-first-order conditions against the 1,2-dihaloethanes, largely increase in the order: $1,2-dichloroethane<1,2-dibromoethane<1,2-diiodoethane.$ Alkanes, alkenes and monohalogenated alkanes were products of the electrocatalyses.