Rotating Ring-Disk Electrode Method for the Detection of Solution Phase Superoxide as a Reaction Intermediate of Oxygen Reduction in Neutral Aqueous Solutions

Zhange Feng, Nicholas S. Georgescu, Daniel Alberto Scherson*

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Abstract

A method is herein described that allows for solution phase superoxide generated via the reduction of dioxygen in neutral aqueous solutions at a rotating disk electrode to be oxidized at a concentric Au ring electrode bearing a covalently linked monolayer of 3-mercapto-1-propanol, a modified surface that blocks the oxidation of solution phase of hydrogen peroxide. Experiments were performed in which the potential of a glassy carbon disk electrode was linearly scanned in the oxygen reduction region and the ring voltage was poised at a value at which superoxide oxidation ensued yielded bell-shaped ring currents. This behavior is consistent with changes in the relative rates constant for the processes involved in the mechanism of oxygen reduction on this carbonaceous material induced by the applied potential which so far had remained undetected using other techniques.

Original languageEnglish
Pages (from-to)1088-1091
Number of pages4
JournalAnalytical chemistry
Volume88
Issue number2
DOIs
Publication statusPublished - 2016 Jan 19
Externally publishedYes

ASJC Scopus subject areas

  • Analytical Chemistry

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