Data Derived from Formal Potentials

Thermodynamic Data Derived from Standard and Formal Potentials... 

Whereas the reduction potentials for the three metal ions range from +0.19V vs NHE(Cu) to +1.58V(Au), the potentials for oxidation of OH in their presence are -0.79V vs NHE(Cu), -0.30V(Ag), and -0.19V(Au). This is compatible with the proposition that oxidation occurs via the facilitated removal of an electron from OH and formation of an M-OH covalent bond. The only exception to the close agreement between gas-phase and redox-derived M-OH bond energies is the Cu-OH bond energy from aqueous redox data. This may be due to an inaccurate formal potential for the CuOH/Cu, OH couple (a value of 0.0V vs NHE rather than -0.36V would result in a more consistent bond-energy estimate). 

Hope et al. (116) presented a combined volumetric sorption and theoretical study of the sorption of Kr in silicalite. The theoretical calculation was based on a potential model related to that of Sanders et al. (117), which includes electrostatic terms and a simple bond-bending formalism for the portion of the framework (120 atoms) that is allowed to relax during the simulations. In contrast to the potential developed by Sanders et al., these calculations employed hard, unpolarizable oxygen ions. Polarizability was, however, included in the description of the Kr atoms. Intermolecular potential terms accounting for the interaction of Kr atoms with the zeolite oxygen atoms were derived from fitting experimental results characterizing the interatomic potentials of rare gas mixtures. In contrast to the situation for hydrocarbons, there are few direct empirical data to aid parameterization, but the use of Ne-Kr potentials is reasonable, because Ne is isoelectronic with O2-. 

A comparison of experimental and simulated cyclic voltammograms obtained from oxidation of cis-Mn microparticles mechanically adhered to a GC electrode in [C2mim][N(T 2] and simulated data is shown in Fig. 14.12. Once again, aside from the larger magnitudes of the measured currents in the ionic liquid medium, the voltammetric characteristics obtained under dissolved or solid-state conditions are almost identical. The formal potentials ( j j and 2)7 and the ratio of equilibrium constants KJK ) Ki = kflk, K2 = kfi/k yi, kf and kfi are the rate constants of the forward reactions described in Fig. 14.13. k and bi are the rate constants of the backward reactions) derived from the voltammetric data were identical under dissolved and adhered solid-state conditions, as shown in Table 14.2. 

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Additional disproportionation and cross-redox reactions associated with the redox system described in Fig. Il.l.ld (Eqs. II.l.l and II.1.2) are difficult to monitor directly by cyclic voltammetry but still may have subtle effects on cyclic voltammetric data. These so-called thermodynamically superfluous reactions [15] can be derived from the voltammetric data because the equilibrium constant data can be calculated from the formal potentials and protonation equilibrium constants. For the resolution of this type of complex reaction scheme, data obtained over a wide range of conditions and at different concentrations are required. 

Because of these difficulties we turn to inversion procedures which are valid in the semiclassical limit since this approximation has proved to be applicable for most of the atomic and molecular collisions. Solutions of the second step, the determination of the potential, are treated in Section IV.B.2. In general, the input information will be the phase shifts or the deflection function. Only in the high energy approximation can the potential be derived directly from the cross section. For a detailed discussion of these procedures see Buck (1974). The possibilities of determining the phase shifts or the deflection function from the cross section are treated in Section IV.B.3. The advantage of such procedures and the general requirements on the data are discussed in Section IV.B.4. The emphasis will be on procedures which have been applied to real data. Extensions to non-central or optical interaction potentials are available. Most of them, however, are still in a formal state, so that a direct application to molecular physics is not obvious. Two exceptions should be mentioned. One is a special inversion procedure for optical potentials derived by a perturbation formalism (Roberts and Ross,... 

A standard potential vs. pH diagram correlates the thermodynamics of the aquocobalamin (4+)-Bi2r (23)-Bi2s (40") system (see Fig. 5). The interconversion between the different oxidation states of B -derivatives can usually be monitored effectively by UV-vis spectroscopy, and the relevant data were obtained from potentiostatic measurements, which were followed by UV-vis spectroscopy [90,94], Within the pH range - 1 to 11 and applied potentials = 0.5 V and -1.2 V vs. SCE, seven solution cobalamins are thermodynamically predominant spanning a range of the three formal oxidation states of Bi2 [90]. 

Figure 11.25. Photocurrent dependence on the Gibbs free energy of electron transfer for the photo-oxidation of ferrocene derivatives (a) and photoreduction of quinone-type molecules (h) at the water/DCE interface. AG ( is evaluated from Equation (11.47), employing the formal redox potentials summarised in Table 11.1 and the applied Galvani potential difference. A deconvolution of the photocurrent relaxation in the presence of the electron acceptors was performed in order to estimate the flux of election injection g. The second-order rate constant for the photoninduced heterogeneous electron transfer is also calculated assuming values of 1 nm for dec and 5 x 10 s for A ,. The trends observed in both set of data were rationahsed in terms of a single solvent reorganisation energy and activation-less limit for the rate constant. Reprinted with permission from refs.[101] and [60]. Copyright (2002/2003) American Chemical Society.

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