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The cyclic voltammograms of these systems display quasi-reversible behavior, with AEv/v being increased because of slow electrochemical kinetics. Standard electrochemical rate constants, ( s,h)obs> were obtained from the cyclic voltammograms by matching them with digital simulations. This approach enabled the effects of IR drop (the spatial dependence of potential due to current flow through a resistive solution) to be included in the digital simulation by use of measured solution resistances. These experiments were performed with a non-isothermal cell, in which the reference electrode is maintained at a constant temperature... 

Jfinr.- The easiest way to handle de time in a digital simulation is to set up an array for the variable to be delayed. At each point in time you use the variable at the bottom of the array as the delayed variable. Then each value is moved down one position in the array and the current undelayed value is stuffed into the top of the array. For fixed step sizes and fixed deodtimes, this is easy to program. For variable step sizes and variable deadtimes, the programming is more complex. 

For the purposes of considering diffusion at microelectrodes, it is convenient to introduce two categories of electrodes those to which diffusion occurs in a linear fashion and those to which diffusion occurs in a nonlinear fashion. The former category consists of cylindrical and spherical electrodes. As shown schematically in Figure 12.2A, the lines of flux (i.e., the pathway followed by material diffusing to the electrode) are straight, and the current density is the same at all points on the electrode. Thus, the diffusion problem is one-dimensional (i.e., distance from the electrode surface) and involves solution of the appropriate form of Fick s second law, Equation 12.7 or 12.8, either by Laplace transform methods or by digital simulation (Chap. 20). 

Spatially resolved absorbance spectroelectrochemistry has been used to observe the concentration profile of an absorbing species generated at the surface of a cylinder electrode with a radius of 6 /xm. The observed concentration profiles agreed very closely with those predicted by solution of Equation 12.7 by digital simulation [32]. As with the disk electrode, simple analytical expressions for the current-time and current-voltage relationships of cylinders and bands do not exist. 

Figure 16.4 Cyclic voltammogram of 4.5 mM 2,3-dinitro-2,3-dimethylbutane in N,N-dimethylformamide/0.20 M Bu4NPF6 at a 25-pm-diameter mercury electrode. Curves experimental voltammograms after subtraction of background current. Points digital simulations. Potentials referred to cadmium reference electrode [cadmium amalgam/CdCl2 (sat d) in DMF]. [Reprinted with permission from W.J. Bowyer and D.H. Evans, J. Org. Chem. 53 5234 (1988). Copyright 1988 American Chemical Society.]...

The real power of digital simulation techniques lies in their ability to predict current-potential-time relationships when the reactants or products of an electrode reaction participate in some intervening chemical reaction. These kinetic complications often result in a fairly difficult differential equation (when combined with the conditions for diffusion or convection encountered in electrochemical problems) that resists solution by ordinary means. Through simulation, however, the effect of any number of chemical steps may be predicted. In practice, it is best to limit these predictions to cases where the reactants and products participate in one or two rate-determining steps each independent step adds another dimensionless kinetics parameter that must be varied over the range of... 

The conditions where Eq. (4.236) provides good results have been examined by comparison with those obtained from digital simulation in [79] and it is concluded that this solution gives rise to accurate results in RPV for (k + k2)1 2 > 5 (with t2 being the duration of the second pulse), with the error decreasing as K increases and always less than 5 % for the value of the oxidative limiting current. 

Almost all the analysis of cyclic and linear sweep voltammograms has been done through peak currents and peak potentials. Unless digital simulation and curve-fitting by parameter adjustment is carried out, all the information contained in the rest of the wave is ignored this brings problems of accuracy and precision. Besides this, a kinetic model has to be proposed before the results can be analysed. 

One of the earliest applications of digital simulation to inorganic chemistry was for analysis of isomerization of CpCo(l,3-CgH8) to CpCo(l,5-C8Hg), which proceeds via a simple square scheme (Figure 3). Because the 1,3 and 1,5 isomers have different E1/2 values (-2.27 V and -2.51V, respectively), resolution of the two species in voltammetric curves is possible. Variation of the scan rate produces different currents for the electrogenerated species based on... 

The real situation can be estimated by digital simulation.7,24 It will be performed for example for one-electron transfer process and P = 0.5 and y = O.5.7 In all cases, the apparent current density is standardized to the apparent surface of modified electrode. 

The currently available digital simulation packages make simplifying assumptions regarding the dependence of the rates of the electrode reactions on the applied potential, which they take to be exponential. The transform methods do not make such assumptions, and are therefore sometimes preferable. In this section we will illustrate how we can use the transform method to simulate a linear sweep voltammogram and a cyclic voltammo-gram. And in section 6.12 we will illustrate how to apply the transform to experimental data. 

With a potentiostat the potential at the working electrode is linearly increased from 1.0 to 1.6 V and then decreased back to 0 V. In the first interval 1 is oxidized to the radical cation l+ with a peak potential of p.a = 1-38 V. 1 is stable in this solvent and is reduced in the reverse scan back to 1 at p,c = 1-32 V. The ratio of the current for reduction and oxidation ip c-ip.a = 1 indicates the stability of the radical cation. All of 1, that is formed by oxidation of 1 is reduced back to 1. This behavior is termed chemically reversible. Upon addition of 2,6-lutidine, the radical cation 1 reacts with the nucleophile to afford 2 , which is further oxidized to a dication, which yields the dication with 2,6-lutidine. This can be seen in the decrease of /p,c fp,a and an increase of due to the transition from an le to a 2e oxidation. From the variation of the ratio ip.c-ip,n with the scan rate, the reaction rate of the radical cation with the nucleophile can be determined [9]. This can also be aehieved by digital simulation of the cyclovoltammogram, whereby the current-potential dependence is calculated from the diffusion coefficients, the rate constants for electron transfer and chemical reactions of substrate and intermediates at the electrode/electrolyte interface [10]. With fast cyclovoltammetry [11] scan rates of up to 10 Vs- can be achieved and the kinetics of very short-lived intermediates thus resolved. 

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