{"term":{"id":"01960","title":"electrode reaction","longtitle":"IUPAC Gold Book - electrode reaction","doi":"10.1351\/goldbook.E01960","code":"E01960","status":"current","definitions":[{"id":1,"text":"For an electrode process at a given potential the current is controlled by the kinetics of a number of steps which include the transport of reactants to and from the interface and the interfacial reaction itself. The latter, which is called the electrode reaction, must always include at least one elementary step in which charge is transferred from one phase to the other, but may also involve purely chemical steps within the interfacial region.","links":[{"term":"electrode process","url":"https:\/\/goldbook.iupac.org\/\/terms\/view\/E01959"},{"term":"interface","url":"https:\/\/goldbook.iupac.org\/\/terms\/view\/I03082"},{"term":"interfacial region","url":"https:\/\/goldbook.iupac.org\/\/terms\/view\/I03087"}],"sources":["PAC, 1980, 52, 233. 'Electrode Reaction Orders, Transfer Coefficients and Rate Constants. Amplification of Definitions and Recommendations for Publication of Parameters' on page 235 (https:\/\/doi.org\/10.1351\/pac198052010233)"]}],"altoutputs":{"html":"https:\/\/goldbook.iupac.org\/terms\/view\/E01960\/html","xml":"https:\/\/goldbook.iupac.org\/terms\/view\/E01960\/xml","plain":"https:\/\/goldbook.iupac.org\/terms\/view\/E01960\/plain"},"citation":"Citation: 'electrode reaction' in IUPAC Compendium of Chemical Terminology, 5th ed. International Union of Pure and Applied Chemistry; 2025. Online version 5.0.0, 2025. 10.1351\/goldbook.E01960","license":"The IUPAC Gold Book is licensed under Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike CC BY-SA 4.0 International (https:\/\/creativecommons.org\/licenses\/by-sa\/4.0\/) for individual terms.","collection":"If you are interested in licensing the Gold Book for commercial use, please contact the IUPAC Executive Director at executivedirector@iupac.org .","disclaimer":"The International Union of Pure and Applied Chemistry (IUPAC) is continuously reviewing and, where needed, updating terms in the Compendium of Chemical Terminology (the IUPAC Gold Book). Users of these terms are encouraged to include the version of a term with its use and to check regularly for updates to term definitions that you are using.","accessed":"2026-05-11T19:11:47+00:00"}}