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A positive standard cell potential tells you that the cathode is at a higher potential than the anode, and the reaction is therefore spontaneous. What do you do with a cell that has a negative " gii Electrochemical cells that rely on such nonspontaneous reactions cire called electrolytic cells. The redox reactions in electroljdic cells rely on a process called electrolysis. These reactions require that a current be passed through the solution, forcing it to split into components that then fuel the redox reaction. Such cells are created by applying a current source, such as a battery, to electrodes placed in a solution of molten salt, or salt heated until it melts. This splits the ions that make up the salt. 

Ve [aq) in a solution of V [aq) is to drop a piece of metallic iron into the storage container. Write the reaction that removes the Fe, and compute its standard cell potential. 

To do this problem, you need the Nemst equation. This means we must determine the number of electrons transferred and we must be able to calculate the standard cell potential from tabulated data. We can plug this information into the Nemst equation and adjust the concentration to obtain the desired voltage. 

The relation between the standard cell potential and the standard reaction Gibbs energy is a convenient route for the calculation of the standard potential of a couple from two other standard potentials. We make use of the fact that G is a state function and that the Gibbs energy of an overall reaction is the sum of the Gibbs energies of the reactions into which it can be divided. In general, we cannot combine the E values directly because they depend on the value of v, which may be different for the two couples. 

A table giving the cell potentials of all possible redox reactions would be immense. Instead, chemists use the fact that any redox reaction can be broken into two distinct half-reactions, an oxidation and a reduction. They assign a potential to every half-reaction and tabulate E ° values for all half-reactions. The standard cell potential for any redox reaction can then be obtained by combining the potentials for its two half-reactions. 

We separate the given equation into its two half-equations. One of them is the reduction of nitrate ion in acidic solution, whose standard half-cell potential we retrieve from Table 21-1 and use to solve the problem. 

Worked Example 7.19 We immerse a piece of silver metal into a solution of silver ions at unit activity and at s.t.p. The potential across the cell is 0.799 V when the SHE is the negative pole. What is the standard electrode potential E of the Ag+, Ag couple ... 

A voltaic cell converts chemical energy into electrical energy. It consists of two parts called half-cells. When two different metals, one in each half-cell, are used in the voltaic cell, a potential difference is produced. In this experiment, you will measure the potential difference of various combinations of metals used in voltaic cells and compare these values to the values found in the standard reduction potentials table. 

The standard hydrogen electrode (Fig. 5.5) is chosen as the reference electrode when a series of relative electrode potentials is presented. By convention, the standard potential of this electrode is set to zero. Connecting this reference electrode with other electrodes into a cell, one can determine a series of relative values of electrode potentials (potential differences across interphases). For example, consider the cell shown in Figure 5.9. This cell can be represented schematically in the following way ... 

The reduction-oxidation potential (typically expressed in volts) of a compound or molecular entity measured with an inert metallic electrode under standard conditions against a standard reference half-cell. Any oxidation-reduction reaction, or redox reaction, can be divided into two half-reactions, one in which a chemical species undergoes oxidation and one in which another chemical species undergoes reduction. In biological systems the standard redox potential is defined at pH 7.0 versus the hydrogen electrode and partial pressure of dihydrogen of 1 bar. 

Understanding voltaic cells, anodes, and cathodes Figuring standard reduction potentials and electromotive force Zapping current into electrolytic cells... 

Thus, the tables of standard electrode potentials predict those processes that tend to occur spontaneously if any pair of listed interfacial systems are built into an electrochemical cell that with the lower (algebraically, i.e., more negative) standard potential will spontaneously undergo deelectronation (oxidation), while that with the higher potential (i.e., more positive) will spontaneously undergo electronation (reduction). 

Strategy First, write the balanced equation and the corresponding expression for Q and note the value of n. Then determine E° from the standard potentials in Table 12.1 (or Appendix 2B). Determine the value of Q for the stated conditions. Calculate the cell potential by substituting these values into the Nernst equation, Eq. 7. At 25°C, RT/F = 0.025 693 V. 

An electrolytic cell is essentially composed of a pair of electrodes submerged into an electrolyte for conduction of ions and connected to a direct current (DC) generator via an external conductor to provide for continuity of the circuit. The electrode connected to the positive pole of the DC generator is called anode, while that linked to the negative one, cathode. The current flow in an electrolyte results from the movement of positive and negative ions and is assumed as positive when directed as the positive charges or opposite to the electrons in the external circuit. When the cell is not operating under conditions of standard concentration, the thermodynamic electrode (or cell) potential (ET) can be estimated from the Nernst equation ... 

The relation between the actual cell potential E and the standard potential E° is developed in the following way. We begin with Eq. 10 (page 14) which relates the standard free energy change (for the complete conversion of products into reactants) to the standard potential... 

While the redox titration method is potentiometric, the spectroelectrochemistry method is potentiostatic [99]. In this method, the protein solution is introduced into an optically transparent thin layer electrochemical cell. The potential of the transparent electrode is held constant until the ratio of the oxidized to reduced forms of the protein attains equilibrium, according to the Nemst equation. The oxidation-reduction state of the protein is determined by directly measuring the spectra through the tranparent electrode. In this method, as in the redox titration method, the spectral characterization of redox species is required. A series of potentials are sequentially potentiostated so that different oxidized/reduced ratios are obtained. The data is then adjusted to the Nemst equation in order to calculate the standard redox potential of the proteic species. Errors in redox potentials estimated with this method may be in the order of 3 mV. 

In Equation (18b), the activity quotient is separated into the terms relating to the silver electrode and the hydrogen electrode. We assume that both electrodes (Ag+/Ag and H+/H2) operate under the standard condition (i.e. the H+/H2 electrode of our cell happens to constitute the SHE). This means that the equilibrium voltage of the cell of Figure 3.1.6 is identical with the half-cell equilibrium potential E°(Ag+l Ag) = 0.80 V. Furthermore, we note that the activity of the element silver is per definition unity. As the stoichiometric number of electrons transferred is one, the Nemst equation for the Ag+/Ag electrode can be formulated in the following convenient and standard way ... 

Learning a few electrical variables and their nnits will enable us to do electrochemical calculations, both for voltaic cells and for electrolysis cells. These are presented in Table 17.1. In this section, potential, also called voltage, is the important unit. Potential is the tendency for an electrochemical half-reaction or reaction to proceed. In this section, we will be using the standard half-cell potential, symbolized e°. Standard half-cell potentials can be combined into standard cell potentials, also symbolized e°. The snperscript ° denotes the standard state of the system, which means that the following conditions exist in the cell ... 

The inherent tendencies of redox half-reactions to proceed are measured with standard half-cell potentials. The larger the (positive) potential, the greater the tendency for a reduction to occur. When combining half-cells into a complete cell, reversing an equation requires changing the sign of the potential, but altering the coefficients in an equation does not affect the potential. (Section 17.2)... 

Because the cell potential is sensitive to the concentrations of the reactants and products involved in the cell reaction, measured potentials can be used, to determine the concentration of an ion. A pH meter is a familiar example of an instrument that measures concentration from an observed potential. The pH meter has three main components a standard electrode of known potential, a special glass electrode that changes potential depending on the concentration of H+ ion in the solution into which it is dipped, and a potentiometer that measures the potential between the two electrodes. The potentiometer reading is automatically converted electronically to a direct reading of the pH of the solution being tested. 

The third largest class of enzymes is the oxidoreductases, which transfer electrons. Oxidoreductase reactions are different from other reactions in that they can be divided into two or more half reactions. Usually there are only two half reactions, but the methane monooxygenase reaction can be divided into three "half reactions." Each chemical half reaction makes an independent contribution to the equilibrium constant E for a chemical redox reaction. For chemical reactions the standard reduction potentials ° can be determined for half reactions by using electrochemical cells, and these measurements have provided most of the information on standard chemical thermodynamic properties of ions. This research has been restricted to rather simple reactions for which electrode reactions are reversible on platinized platinum or other metal electrodes. 

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