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Coordination of NO to the divalent tetrasulfonated phthalocyanine complex [Co(TSPc)]4 results in a complex formally represented as [(NO )Coin(TSPc)]4 kf= 142M-1s-1, KA 3.0 x 105 M-1). When adsorbed to a glassy carbon electrode, [Co(TSPc)]4- catalyzes the oxidation and reduction of NO with catalytic currents detectable even at nanomolar concentrations. Electrochemistry of the same complex in surfactant films has also been studied.905 Bent nitrosyl complexes of the paramagnetic trivalent tropocoronand complex Co(NO)(TC) ((189), R = NO) have also been reported.849... 

FIGURE 17.4 Relationship of catalytic current, obtained with CYP2B4 biosensor after addition of ami-nopyrine, with increasing concentrations of aminopyrine. (From [222], with permission.)... 

If substrate concentration in the bulk is large enough, it remains constant toward time and space ([S] c=0 = C ), and the catalytic current is controlled by the enzymatic reaction. Then... 

This is no longer true when substrate diffusion interferes in the kinetic control as discussed next. From equations (5.15) to (5.18), one obtains a relationship between the concentration of substrate at the electrode surface and the catalytic current ... 

All these experiments were carried out at such low scan rates that the outside diffusion layer of the cosubstrate (on the order of 105 A) is much larger than the film thickness. An experimental test for knowing whether this condition is fulfilled is that the plateau of S-shaped catalytic current then observed is much larger than the reversible cosubstrate peak observed in the absence of substrate i icat. Under these conditions, the concentration profiles within the film (bottom of Figure 5.30) do not depend on time. 

Figure 2.26 (a) Scheme for an electrostatically self-assembled multilayer (PAHOs)4(Apo-COx)3(COx) electrode, (b) Catalytic current response to p-d-glucose concentration for self-assembled nanostructured thin films of PAH-Os/COx/(PAH-Os/(ApoGOx)3 and (PAH-Os/ApoCOx)3/PAH-Os/COx, where ApoCOx is FAD-free glucose oxidase. Taken from Ref [219]. 

Figure 12.5 (a) Layer-by-layer deposition of glucose oxidase and the polyallylamine Os3 +n + -polypyridine polyelectrolyte on the electrode, (b) Typical catalytic current responses for different glucose concentrations obtained by self-assembled nanostructured thin films based on different architectures (i) PAH/Os/GOx, (ii) cysteamine/GOx/PAH-Os, (iii) PAH/GOx/ -Os, and (iv) (PAH-Os)2/(GOx)i. All measurements were performed in 0.1 M tris buffer at pH 7.5. Part (b) Reproduced with permission from Ref. 34a. Copyright Wiley-VCH Verlag GmbH Co. KGaA. 

It is relevant to ask how often the routine measurement procedures currently used in laboratory medicine provide results that are traceable to high-level calibrators and reference measurement procedures (Lequin personal communication). It turns out that primary reference measurement procedures and primary calibrators are only available for about 30 types of quantity such as blood plasma concentration of bilirubins, cholesterols and sodium ion. International reference measurement procedures from the International Federation of Clinical Chemistry and Laboratory Medicine (IFCC) and corresponding certified reference material from BCR are available for the catalytic activity concentration of a few enzymes such as alkaline phosphatase and creatine kinase in plasma. For another 25 types of quantity, such... 

Immobilized HRP on gemini surfactant-polyvinyl alcohol composite film The immobilized HRP presented good bioelectrocatalytic activity to the reduction of H202, N02 , 02, and trichloroacetic acid. For H202 the catalytic current was linear to its concentration (0.195-97.5 M) [45]... 

Catalytic currents of the first type sometimes called regeneration currents show an increase with increasing concentration of the oxidant. At low concentration of the oxidant, increase of the limiting current as a function of concentration of the oxidant, is first nonlinear, but becomes linear above a certain concentration of the oxidant. As oxidizing agents hydrogen peroxide, chlorate, UO, and hydroxylamine were used. 

If the concentration of Z is much larger than that of O, the chemical reaction is pseudofirst order. The reduction of Ti(IV) in the presence of oxalate and hydroxy-lamine follows this pattern of catalytic chemical reactions in electrochemistry (-> catalytic currents). The typical features of the EC reactions (under conditions of cyclic voltammetry) are reflected in increasing cathodic... 

The kinetic behaviour of electrochemical biosensors is most commonly characterized using the dependence of the steady-state amperometric current on the substrate concentration. This type of analysis has some limitations because it does not allow for a decoupling of the enzyme-mediator and enzyme-substrate reaction rates. The additional information required to complete the kinetic analysis can be extracted either from the potential dependence of the steady-state catalytic current or from the shift of the halfwave potential with substrate concentration [154]. Saveant and co-workers [155] have presented the theoretical analysis of an electrocatalytic system... 

The description of the kinetics is simplified considerably by the fact that often the three rate constants, kij, k. , and kiv, are all large, allowing for the application of the steady-state approximation for the concentration of B, that is, —d[B]/dt = 0 [124], The system is conveniently discussed by introduction of three dimensionless parameters (1) the kinetic parameter X, Eq. (49) (2) the competition parameter a, Eq. (50) and (3) the concentration excess factor y, Eq. (51). In addition, it is convenient to introduce the catalytic efficiency CAT, Eq. (52), where ip,cat is the peak current during LSV observed for the catalytic system and ip rev is the peak current observed for P in the absence of A [see Fig. 18(a)]. The product ip,revK then is the maximum possible catalytic current. 

Promoter Catalytic current (/aA) Promoter charge at pH 7,0 Concentration of promoter used (mAf)... 

In eq. 2, ic is the catalytic current, n is the number of electrons transferred, F is the Faraday constant, A is the area of the electrode, [cat] is the concentration of the catalyst, D is the diffusion coefficient of the catalyst, k is the apparent rate constant, [S] is the concentration of the substrate under investigation, and y is the order of the rate-determining reaction in substrate S. From eq. 2 it can be seen that the square root dependence of the catalytic current on CO2 concentration (Figure 2 curve A) and its linear dependence on catalyst concentration (Figure 2 curve B) are consistent with a rate-determining step that is first order in catalyst and first order in COj. Within the margins of experimental error, the rate determined under... 

Figure 2. The left-hand graph is a plot of the catalytic current vs. the square root of the CO2 concentration for a 2.0 x 10 M solution of [Pd(etpC)(CH3CN)]BF4)2 in acidic DMF (0.04 M HBF4). The right-hand graph is a plot of the catalytic current vs catalyst concentration for an acidic DMF solution (0.04 M HBF4) saturated with CO2 at 620 mm Hg (0.18 M).

Figure 13. (A) Chronoamperometric response of Mb/Au/ITO electrode at -0.4 V in pH 7.0 phosphate buffer while successively injecting 10 pM H202. (B) Plot of catalytic current vs. H202 concentration. Inset Linear calibration curve of 1/i vs. 1/Ch2o2. Reproduced from [44], copyright 2005, with permission from Elsevier.

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