Do you know that any reducing agent will not produce any cations or anions in the solution after reducing metal ions (such as Fe3+)?
In principle, any reducing agent that gasses out would match your requirement. If you use a carbon-containing agent that forms CO2 as a product, you wouldn't leave ions behind, but that's not applicable in all scenarios since the material you want to reduce must, electrochemically, match that.
My material is very sensitive to ionc background and electrochemical scenario gonna give electroconductivity by ions. And hydrolysis on the electrode surface would give a trouble to the material due to theprotonation or deprotonation
Are boron-containing reducing agents an option in the solvent you use? Of course they are also quite aggressive, so if your material is that sensitive, that might also cause issues, but at least you could avoid ions.
Hi Jurgen, could it be possible to find out a water soluble boron-cobtaining reducing agent?
Ah, with water you may mostly have the problem that water itself gets reduced by most boron agents.
Probably your university library has a copy of the Houben/Weyl, there is a big table of normal potentials for organic substances:
https://www.thieme-connect.de/products/ebooks/lookinside/10.1055/b-0038-160423
Maybe you find one in that book that matches your requirements?
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