TY - JOUR
T1 - Potential-induced acid-base chemistry of adsorbed species
AU - Mantelli, Harlan
AU - Martinez-Hincapie, Ricardo
AU - Feliu, Juan
AU - Scherson, Daniel Alberto
PY - 2019/11/20
Y1 - 2019/11/20
N2 - The pKa of bicarbonate ion adsorbed on the surface of Pt(111), HCO3 −(ads), in CO2 -saturated KClO4/HClO4 aqueous solutions has been determined by judicious application of a theoretical model originally proposed by Smith and White (Langmuir 1993, 9 (1), 1–3) to explain voltammetric features found for non-redox active alkyl chain monolayers bearing carboxylic moieties irreversibly bound to gold surfaces. The analysis herein presented relied on HCO3 -(ads) and CO3 2-(ads) coverages derived from in situ Fourier transform infrared spectroscopy measurements as a function of potential and pH reported by Martinez-Hincapie et al. (J. Phys. Chem. C 2016, 120 (29), 16191–16199), as input parameters, yielding a pKa for HCO3 −(ads) of ca. 2.6 ± 0.2. This value is significantly smaller than that of HCO3 −(aq) in bulk solutions, a phenomenon associated with the bonding of the species to the electrode surface, a factor that markedly modifies its acid base characteristics.
AB - The pKa of bicarbonate ion adsorbed on the surface of Pt(111), HCO3 −(ads), in CO2 -saturated KClO4/HClO4 aqueous solutions has been determined by judicious application of a theoretical model originally proposed by Smith and White (Langmuir 1993, 9 (1), 1–3) to explain voltammetric features found for non-redox active alkyl chain monolayers bearing carboxylic moieties irreversibly bound to gold surfaces. The analysis herein presented relied on HCO3 -(ads) and CO3 2-(ads) coverages derived from in situ Fourier transform infrared spectroscopy measurements as a function of potential and pH reported by Martinez-Hincapie et al. (J. Phys. Chem. C 2016, 120 (29), 16191–16199), as input parameters, yielding a pKa for HCO3 −(ads) of ca. 2.6 ± 0.2. This value is significantly smaller than that of HCO3 −(aq) in bulk solutions, a phenomenon associated with the bonding of the species to the electrode surface, a factor that markedly modifies its acid base characteristics.
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U2 - 10.1016/j.electacta.2019.134793
DO - 10.1016/j.electacta.2019.134793
M3 - Article
AN - SCOPUS:85072407268
SN - 0013-4686
VL - 324
JO - Electrochimica Acta
JF - Electrochimica Acta
M1 - 134793
ER -