Silver iodide reaction kinetics

The growth kinetics of this process are reported to be second order and surface reaction controlled. The precipitation of silver iodide in ethanol by the reaction... 

The application of surface-enhanced Raman spectroscopy (SERS) for monitoring redox and other processes at metal-solution interfaces is illustrated by means of some recent results obtained in our laboratory. The detection of adsorbed species present at outer- as well as inner-sphere reaction sites is noted. The influence of surface interaction effects on the SER spectra of adsorbed redox couples is discussed with a view towards utilizing the frequency-potential dependence of oxidation-state sensitive vibrational modes as a criterion of reactant-surface electronic coupling effects. Illustrative data are presented for Ru(NH3)63+/2+ adsorbed electrostatically to chloride-coated silver, and Fe(CN)63 /" bound to gold electrodes the latter couple appears to be valence delocalized under some conditions. The use of coupled SERS-rotating disk voltammetry measurements to examine the kinetics and mechanisms of irreversible and multistep electrochemical reactions is also discussed. Examples given are the outer- and inner-sphere one-electron reductions of Co(III) and Cr(III) complexes at silver, and the oxidation of carbon monoxide and iodide at gold electrodes. 

Donnan, from Laplace s theory of the internal pressure of liquids, arrived at a theory of negative surface tension which was supposed to explain why substances disperse to form colloidal rather than true solutions, a minimum size of particle being stable. Donnan and Barker investigated adsorption (see p. 742), Donnan and Le Rossignol the kinetics of the reaction between ferri-cyanide and iodide (see p. 660), and Donnan and Miss K. A, Burke the kinetics of the reaction between silver nitrate and alkyl iodides. 

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