An acetylene black electrode modified by an adsorbed cationic surfactant, cetyltrimethylammonium bromide (CTAB), was developed. The influences of various types of surfactants on the electroreduction of O2 were investigated. It was demonstrated that a cationic surfactant, CTAB, on the surface of the electrode could significantly decrease the overpotential of dioxygen reduction, and the reduction...

Three copper(II)@hemicryptophane complexes with various cavity sizes and shapes, Cu(II)@1, Cu(II)@2 and Cu(II)@3, were synthesized and characterized by near-IR/vis and EPR spectroscopies. The spectroscopic data are consistent with the presence of a trigonal-bipyramidal geometry of the N(4)Cu·H(2)O core, in accord with the energy-minimized structures obtained from DFT calculations. Cyclic voltam...

The mechanism of the electrochemical oxidation of 2,5-dihydroxybenzoic acid and 3,4-dihydroxybenzaldehyde in the presence of 3-hydroxy-1H-phenalene-1-one as a nucleophile has been studied in water/acetonitrile (80/20 v/v) solution using cyclic voltammetry and controlled-potential coulometry methods. The results indicate that the quinones derived from oxidation of 2,5-dihydroxybenzoic acid and 3...

The cyclic voltammetry of tetramethyltetraselenafulvalene (TMTSF) in CH2CI2 is described. Controlled potential coulometry yielded a suspension of (TMTSF)zCIO4 crystals. The incorporation of TMTSF onto a Pt electrode coated with the perfluorinated ion exchange polymer Nation and the electrochemical behavior of the electrode in aqueous NaCIO4 is described and compared to the related compound tetr...

In this work, the possibility of using reactions electrogenerated titrants with phenolic compounds was studied and a method for their coulometric determination in medicaments by galvanostatic coulometry developed. The research objects were: rutin, salicylic acid drugs containing such as «Ascorutin», «Salicylic Paste» Ointment» Russian manufacture. Electrogenerated halogens (Cl2, Br2 I2) hexacya...

Concentration of iron in plasma, total iron-binding capacity (TIBC), and transferrin saturation are often determined by standard spectrophotometric methods, but iron concentration may be quantified by immunoprecipitation or, electrochemically, by controlled-potential coulometry. Because these iron assays do not all measure the same form(s) of iron, we studied subjects in various states of iron ...