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TTafelequation663●TTTafel,Julius(CourtesyofDr.KlausMüller)(June,,Choindez,Switzerland–Sep.,,Mu-nich,Germany)Tafelwasanorganicchemist(associ-atedwithHermannEmilFischerandLudwigKnorr)andphysicalchemist(workingwith�Ostwald,F.W.)[i–iii].Hestudiedelectrochemistryoforganiccompoundsandtherelationbetweenratesofelectrochemicalre-actionsandapplied�overpotentials[iv].Heisbestrememberedforthe�Tafelequation,anempiricallyfoundrelationconnectingthecurrentgeneratedinanelectrochemicalsystemwiththeappliedoverpotential.Tafelintroducedahydrogen�coulometertomeasurechargespassingthroughelectrochemicalsystems.Also,hedemonstratedthathydrocarbonswithisomerizedstructurescanbegenerateduponelectrochemicalre-ductionoftherespectiveacetoaceticesters(namedTafelrearrangement).Refs.:[i]MüllerK()JResInstCatal,HokkaidoUniv:;[ii]Bock-risJO’M,ReddyAKN,Gamboa-AldecoM()Modernelectrochem-istry,ndedn.Fundamentalsofelectrodics,vol.A.Kluwer,NewYork,p;[iii]EmmertB()BerDeutChemGes:;[iv]TafelJ(