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The redox chemistry of the Prussian blue family (Table 7) has attracted considerable attention. The generation of thin films of Prussian blue has led to studies of its mediation in electron transfer reactions and of the electrochemical processes involved in its deposition and redox reactions. This work has been spurred by its electrochromic properties which have been used in prototype electronic display devices based, for example, on Prussian blue modified Sn02 electrodes. A recent review deals with the electrochemistry of electrodes modified by depositing thin films of PB and related compounds on them. Interestingly, true Prussian blue is somewhat difficult to process and modern iron blue pigments such as Milori blue are derived from the oxidation of rlin white Fe(NH4)2[Fe(CN)e] to give iron(III) ammonium ferrocyanides. 

The basket-handle and picket-fence porphyrins show dramatic effects not only during metallation and binding of small molecules but in their redox and coordination chemistry. Detailed studies on the electrochemistry of the iron complex have been made paralleling the earlier electrochemical studies on the free base, magnesium and zinc complexes of 192. and 201 ... 

The above material focuses on the conventional electrochemical methods, which typically means studies employing conventional-sized electrodes, DC waveforms, and solution phase redox chemistry in organic solvents containing electrolyte to provide adequate conductivity. With modern forms of electrochemistry, each of these parameters may be altered to facilitate studies in non-conventional media with respect to usual conditions employed in studies of coordination compounds. Examples of variations of methodology that broaden the scope of redox studies of coordination compounds include ... 

The techniques of direct electrochemistry are put to their best use in the study and manipulation of proteins for which the redox chemistry is not addressed effectively by other methods. Subjects to benefit particularly are proteins containing metal centres that may be intrinsically unstable or have redox chemistry at potentials beyond the stability threshold of the solvent system. Many proteins containing Fe-S clusters fall into this category. These centres are widely distributed in biological systems [164] where their most widely accepted role is as electron-transfer agents. 

By the end of the 1980s, it was clear that direct electrochemical observation of the redox chemistry of proteins required control of electrode surface structure and minimization of surface contamination [1-3], In this chapter, we discuss several strategies that combine these critical features with stable immobilization of native proteins in films on electrodes. In Section II, we discuss ordered surfactant films that provide biomembranelike environments for electrochemistry. In Section III, studies on polyion-protein films prepared by casting and grown layer by layer are snmmarized. Section IV presents studies on prototype bioreactors that make nse of electrode-driven enzymelike catalysis. Section V speculates about the future. 

The field of modified electrodes spans a wide area of novel and promising research. The work dted in this article covers fundamental experimental aspects of electrochemistry such as the rate of electron transfer reactions and charge propagation within threedimensional arrays of redox centers and the distances over which electrons can be transferred in outer sphere redox reactions. Questions of polymer chemistry such as the study of permeability of membranes and the diffusion of ions and neutrals in solvent swollen polymers are accessible by new experimental techniques. There is hope of new solutions of macroscopic as well as microscopic electrochemical phenomena the selective and kinetically facile production of substances at square meters of modified electrodes and the detection of trace levels of substances in wastes or in biological material. Technical applications of electronic devices based on molecular chemistry, even those that mimic biological systems of impulse transmission appear feasible and the construction of organic polymer batteries and color displays is close to industrial use. 

Electrochemistry can be broadly defined as the study of charge-transfer phenomena. As such, the field of electrochemistry includes a wide range of different chemical and physical phenomena. These areas include (but are not limited to) battery chemistry, photosynthesis, ion-selective electrodes, coulometry, and many biochemical processes. Although wide ranging, electrochemistry has found many practical applications in analytical measurements. The field of electroanalytical chemistry is the field of electrochemistry that utilizes the relationship between chemical phenomena which involve charge transfer (e.g. redox reactions, ion separation, etc.) and the electrical properties that accompany these phenomena for some analytical determination. This new book presents the latest research in this field. 

In the real world, the simple redox couple may be perturbed by finite ET rates, by adsorption of O and/or R on the electrode surface, and by homogeneous (i.e., in solution) chemical kinetics involving O and/or R. Various combinations of heterogeneous ET steps (E) with homogeneous chemical steps (C) are encountered. It should be clear that if one or more species in equilibrium in solution are electroactive, electrochemistry can be used to perturb the equilibrium and study the solution chemistry. 

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