Redox ferricyanide/ferrocyanide

In redox electrodes an inert metal conductor acts as a source or sink for electrons. The components of the half-reaction are the two oxidation states of a constituent of the electrolytic phase. Examples of this type of system include the ferric/ferrous electrode where the active components are cations, the ferricyanide/ferrocyanide electrode where they are anionic complexes, the hydrogen electrode, the chlorine electrode, etc. In the gaseous electrodes equilibrium exists between electrons in the metal, ions in solution and dissolved gas molecules. For the half-reaction... 

The Surface Potential arising from the Interaction between the Surface "States" and the Redox Couples in the Solution. When the ferricyanide/ferrocyanide redox couple is present in a 0.1 N NaOH solution, the dark cathodic current of the n-GaP (111)-face sets out at —1.1 V (SCE), showing that an electron transfer occurs... 

Figure 8. U, values for the (lll)-face of n-GaP (dark) at various concentrations of the ferricyanide/ferrocyanide couple (equal concentrations) (9) 0M (O) 0.005M (A) 0.05M (A) 0.4M E(Ox/R) redox potential of the redox couple determined by the cyclic voltammetry (ij/) the Us for a p-GaP in the absence of...

It is, however, to be pointed out that this simplified picture constitutes at the utmost a rough approximation to the real situation. In fact, a close examination of reorganization energies, derived from different series of experimental data shows large differences between X values of various ions and even between those concerning the same ionic species. Thus, for instance, the values of X mentioned in the literature for the ferricyanide/ferrocyanide redox couple vary from 0.4 to about 1.2... 

Using the same tests as for the redox system ferrocyanide-ferricyanide we found that when redox reactions take place on both sides of the membrane a pH gradient is formed in the layer adjacent... 

A way to reduce interferences by cooxi-dizable sample constituents is by keeping the applied electrode potential as low as possible. Therefore, a reaction partner is chosen to be electrochemically indicated that is converted at low potential. For this purpose, the natural electron acceptors of many oxidoreductases have been replaced by redox-active dyes or other reversible electron mediators. Among them are the ferricyanide/ferrocyanide couple, V-methylphenazinium sulfate, fer-rocenes, and benzoquinone. With these mediators an electrode potential around -1-200 mV can be applied, which decreases... 

The redox potential of DPN and TPN is —0.32 v. (62) as contrasted to the -f 0.43 V. (76) of the ferricyanide-ferrocyanide couple. This low potential makes the pyridine nucleotides unfavorable Hill... 

The redox potentials were determined by a chemical titration of the reaction center in tris-LDAO buffer at pH 7.8 with a potassium ferricyanide/ferrocyanide redox couple. The state of oxidation of the special pair was monitored by optical absorption spectroscopy. At most 70% reversibility to the original reduced state of the special pair was achieved with potassium ferrocyanide. At that point the solutions were so dilute that the concentration of the special pair could not be measured with sufficient accuracy. 

A typical outer-sphere charge-transfer reaction is the ferricyanide-ferrocyanide redox couple... 

A weighed amount of sample is dissolved in a mixture of propanone and ethanoic acid and titrated potentiometrically with standard lead nitrate solution, using glass and platinum electrodes in combination with a ferro-ferricyanide redox indicator system consisting of 1 mg lead ferrocyanide and 0.5 ml 10% potassium ferricyanide solution. The endpoint of the titration is located by graphical extrapolation of two branches of the titration plot. A standard solution of sodium sulfate is titrated in the same way and the sodium sulfate content is calculated from the amounts of titrant used for sample and standard. (d) Water. Two methods are currently available for the determination of water. 

II. The use of the zinc, ferrocyanide, ferricyanide redox system. Analy-... 

Microwave-activated voltammetry has been applied to the ferrocyanide/ferricyanide redox couple145, reduction of Ru(NH3)g 146, enhanced Pb02 electro-deposition, stripping and electrocatalysis147 and electrodehalogenation in non-aqueous media148. 

The energy levels in the solution are kept constant, and the applied voltage shifts the bands in the oxide and the silicon. The Gaussian curves in Figure 4b represent the ferrocyanide/ferricyanide redox couple with an excess of ferrocyanide. E° is the standard redox potential of iron cyanide. With this, one can construct (a) to represent conditions with an accumulation layers, (b) with flatbands, where for illustration, we assume no charge in interface states, and (c) with an inversion or deep depletion layer (high anodic... 

The accuracy of the ORP measurements depends on the temperature at which a measurement is taken. For solutions with reactions involving hydrogen and hydroxyl ions, the accuracy also depends on the pH of the water. In natural waters, many redox reactions occur simultaneously each reaction has its own temperature correction depending on the number of electrons transferred. Because of this complexity, some of the field meters are not designed to perform automatic temperature compensation. The temperature correction for such meters may be done with a so-called ZoBell s solution. It is a solution of 3 x 10 3 mole (M) potassium ferrocyanide and 2 x 10 2 M potassium ferricyanide in a 0.1 M potassium chloride solution. The Eh variations of the ZoBell s solution with temperature are tabulated for reference, and the sample Eh is corrected as follows ... 

A number of assumptions must be made in such calculations, and Hagan and Coury [34] studying the ferrocyanide/ferricyanide redox couple in aqueous KC1 at a 1 mm radius platinum disk arrived at a figure of 160,000 rpm. This corresponds to a very fast rotation that would be situated in the turbulent flow regime at a conventional rotating disk, and suggests that ultrasound can achieve limiting-current conditions beyond those attainable in practice by rotation. These workers... 

Fig. 9 shows the titration results for the following samples chloroplast lamellae and TSF-1 particles, both measured at 820 nm, and the CPI complex measured at 820 as well as 703 nm. Each sample was titrated oxidatively (starting with 100 pM ferrocyanide and adding ferricyanide to a maximum concentra tion of 10 mM) and reductively (starting with 1-5 mM ferricyanide and adding ferrocyanide to a maximum concentration of 10 mM). The titration is a plot of the light-induced AA V5. the actual redox-potential of the medium or the ferri-/ferrocyanide ratio as shown in Fig. 9. The plot of the data points clearly show that the titration was completely reversible and that P700 was in redox equilibrium with the ferri-/ferro-cya-nide couple. The solid line is the theoretical Nernst curve for a one-electron transition and the data points agree well with the theoretical course. The titration curve for both the chloroplast lamellae and the TSF-1, as well as D144 (data not shown here), yielded an value of+492 mV.

Shinbo et al. (1979) developed a potentiometric cytochrome b2 electrode. The change of the redox ratio of ferrocyanide/ferricyanide was indicated. The plot of the potential change versus the logarithm of lactate concentration yielded an S-shaped curve. 

The ready reversibility of the ferrocyanide-ferricyanide redox system makes it a potential catalyst for the decomposition of hydrogen peroxide by the mechanism of compensating oxidation-reduction reactions. Moreover, the well-known facts that in acid solution ferrocyanide is oxidized to ferricyanide, whereas in alkaline solution the reverse reduction occurs, seem a good indication that at suitable pH s both reactions might occur to give catalytic decomposition. But from the investigations to date it would appear doubtful whether any such catalysis occurs to a measurable extent, and that what seems to be ready reactions of ferro- and ferricyanides are in fact those of partial hydrolysis products of these ions in which water molecules replace the cyanide ions in the coordination shell. 

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