Effect of Comproportionation on Voltammograms for Two-Electron Reactions with an Irreversible Second Electron Transfer
作者:Mark W. Lehmann、Dennis H. Evans
DOI:10.1021/ac990066g
日期:1999.5.1
Many organic and organometallic compounds are reduced or oxidized in two steps with the addition or removal of the second electron occurring with greater difficulty than the first. In such EE reactions, a comproportionation reaction can occur in solution near the electrode by which the final product exchanges an electron with the reactant to form two molecules of the intermediate species. Normally, this comproportionation reaction has little or no effect in voltammetry. In this paper, a substantial effect of comproportionation is predicted for the case where the second electron-transfer reaction is irreversible. In steady-state voltammetry, the normally symmetric, sigmoid-shaped second wave is predicted to rise more sharply near its base than is observed in the absence of comproportionation and, in the limit of a very fast comproportionation reaction, an “onset potential” develops at which the current at the second wave increases abruptly from the limiting current of the first plateau. Experimental examples of these effects are presented for the reduction of tetracyanoquinodimethane in acetonitrile by steady-state microelectrode voltammetry, normal-pulse voltammetry, and cyclic voltammetry.
许多有机化合物和有机金属化合物的还原或氧化过程分为两个步骤,第二个电子的添加或移除比第一个步骤更加困难。在此类 EE 反应中,电极附近的溶液中会发生比例反应,最终产物与反应物交换一个电子,形成两个分子的中间产物。通常情况下,这种配比反应对伏安法影响很小或没有影响。本文预测在第二电子转移反应不可逆的情况下,比例反应会产生很大影响。据预测,在稳态伏安法中,通常对称的西格玛形第二波在其基点附近会比不发生比例反应时上升得更快,而且在发生极快比例反应的情况下,会出现 "起始电位",此时第二波的电流会从第一高原的极限电流突然增加。通过稳态微电极伏安法、正态脉冲伏安法和循环伏安法对四氰醌二甲烷在乙腈中的还原反应,介绍了这些效应的实验实例。