Coupled electron-transfer reactions: one species is oxidised (loses electrons; oxidation number increases) while another is reduced (gains electrons). The basis of electrochemistry, metabolism, and combustion.
Oxidation-reduction (redox)
Related concepts
- Electron
- Standard electrode potential (E°)
- Methane combustion
- Galvanic cell
- Electrolytic cell
- Elementary charge (e)
- Oxidation state (oxidation number)
- Anode and cathode
- Standard hydrogen electrode (SHE)
- Faraday's laws of electrolysis
- Nitric acid (HNO₃)
- Swern / Dess–Martin oxidations
- Baeyer–Villiger oxidation
- NAD(P)H / FAD(H₂) redox cofactors
- Chapman mechanism (stratospheric ozone)
- Biogeochemical cycle
- Maillard reaction
- Haber–Bosch ammonia synthesis