Osmium complexes polymers

X10 cm /s. This is over 1,000 X smaller than the Hiffusion coefficient for this osmium complex diffusing freely in the acetonitrile solvent (obtained from the limiting current at the naked Pt electrode), and the observed PD corresponds to a very low permeability of the polymer film to luch bulky permeants. 

FIGURE 12.5 Structure of the osmium redox polymer, OsPVI, formed by coordination of an [Os(2,2 -bipyridine)2Cl]+ complex to polyvinylimidazole in a usually 1 9 ratio. 

Figure 2.5 Schematic representation of the Au/MPS/PAH-Os/solution interface modeled in Refs. [118-120] using the molecular theory for modified polyelectrolyte electrodes described in Section 2.5. The red arrows indicate the chemical equilibria considered by the theory. The redox polymer, PAH-Os (see Figure 2.4), is divided into the poly(allyl-amine) backbone (depicted as blue and light blue solid lines) and the pyridine-bipyridine osmium complexes. Each osmium complex is in redox equilibrium with the gold substrate and, dependingon its potential, can be in an oxidized Os(lll) (red spheres) or in a reduced Os(ll) (blue sphere) state. The allyl-amine units can be in a positively charged protonated state (plus signs on the polymer...

A similar polymer, composed of osmium complexed with bis-dichlorobipyridine, chloride, and PVI in a PVI—poly(acrylamide) copolymer (Table 2, compound 3), demonstrated a lower redox potential, 0.57 V vs SHE, at 37.5 °C in a nitrogen-saturated buffer, pH 5 109,156 adduct of this polymer with bilirubin oxidase, an oxygen-reducing enzyme, was immobilized on a carbon paper RDE and generated a current density exceeding 9 mA/cm at 4000 rpm in an O2-saturated PBS buffer, pH 7, 37.5 °C. Current decayed at a rate of 10% per day for 6 days on an RDE at 300 rpm. The performance characteristics of electrodes made with this polymer are compared to other reported results in Table 2. 

The electroreduction of some typically inorganic compoimds such as nitrogen oxides is catalysed by the presence of polymeric osmium complexes such as [Os(bipy)2(PVP)2oCl]Cl, where bipy denotes 2,2 -bipyridyl and PVP poly(4-vinylpyridine). This polymer modifies the reduction kinetics of nitrite relative to the reaction at a bare carbon electrode, and provides calibration graphs of slope 0.197 nA with detection limits of 0.1 pg/mL and excellent short-term reproducibility (RSD = 2.15% for n = 20). The sensor performance was found to scarcely change after 3 weeks of use in a flow system into which 240 standards and 30 meat extracts were injected [195]. 

Use of mediators e.g. Meldola s Blue, sodium ferrocyanide, ferrocene derivatives, osmium complex-modified conducting polymer, OsObpylsCls, tetrathiafulvalene,... 

The example considered is the redox polymer, [Os(bpy)2(PVP)ioCl]Cl, where PVP is poly(4-vinylpyridine) and 10 signifies the ratio of pyridine monomer units to metal centers. Figure 5.66 illustrates the structure of this metallopolymer. As discussed previously in Chapter 4, thin films of this material on electrode surfaces can be prepared by solvent evaporation or spin-coating. The voltammetric properties of the polymer-modified electrodes made by using this material are well-defined and are consistent with electrochemically reversible processes [90,91]. The redox properties of these polymers are based on the presence of the pendent redox-active groups, typically those associated with the Os(n/m) couple, since the polymer backbone is not redox-active. In sensing applications, the redox-active site, the osmium complex in this present example, acts as a mediator between a redox-active substrate in solution and the electrode. In this way, such redox-active layers can be used as electrocatalysts, thus giving them widespread use in biosensors. 

Figure 5.11 Scheme for the synthesis of a pyridinylimidazolyl ligand, its copolymerization with acrylic acid (AA) and butyl acrylate (BA), and subsequent ligand substitution reaction with an osmium complex to yield a redox polymer. From [147] with permission from Elsevier. 

Polymers containing all metal backbones of Ru-Ru or Os-Os bonds have been prepared via the electrochemical reduction of ruthenium and osmium complexes containing /ram-chloride ligands.81,82 Scheme 2.6 shows the synthesis of polymers with their backbones comprised solely of metal-metal bonds. The polymers were prepared by reducing [Mn(/ran.s-Cl2)(bipyXCO)2] (M = Ru, Os), 33, to M° complexes and forming the polymer after the loss of the chloride ligands. In both cases, the polymers were selective for the reduction of carbon dioxide. 

For each gold nanoparticle, it was coordinated to nine pyridine ligands from the P4VP block, and each particle was essentially labeled with an Os(bpy)2(pyridine) complex. Electrochemistry results suggested that the osmium complex enhanced the conductivity of the polymer/nano-particle composite film. 

A noted earlier, coordination of transition-metal ions to water-soluble polymers can allow for facile catalyst recovery, by ultrafiltration, from water-soluble substrates and/or products. For example, Han and Janda [22] used an osmium complex of the water-soluble polymeric chiral ligand 8 as a catalyst for the asymmetric dihydroxylation of alkenes in aqueous acetone (Eq. 5). However, they suggested that the catalyst should be recovered by precipitation with methylene chloride. Obviously the use of an ultrafiltration membrane for catalyst separation would be far more attractive. nu... 

Osmium complexes. Red light phosphorescence emitting devices have been reported using osmium complexes. Efficient red emission was achieved using an in situ pol mierized tetraphenyldiaminobiphenyl-con-taining polymer as the hole-transporting layer and a blend osmium complexes of PVK and 2-rm-butylphenyl-5-biphenyl-l,3,4-oxadiazole (BPD)... 

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