THE OXYGEN-HYDROGEN PEROXIDE COUPLE AT THE DROPPING MERCURY ELECTRODE

1954 ◽  
Vol 76 (5) ◽  
pp. 1455-1455
Author(s):  
David M. H. Kern
Keyword(s):  
Hydrogen Peroxide ◽  
Mercury Electrode ◽  
Dropping Mercury Electrode

Oxidation of hydrogen peroxide at the dropping mercury electrode

1984 ◽  
Vol 49 (10) ◽  
pp. 2320-2331 ◽  
Author(s):  
Miroslav Březina ◽  
Martin Wedell
Keyword(s):  
Hydrogen Peroxide ◽  
Superoxide Anion ◽  
Ph Value ◽  
Mercury Electrode ◽  
Electrode Process ◽  
Electrochemical Processes ◽  
Dropping Mercury Electrode ◽  
Oxidation Of Hydrogen ◽  
Decreasing Ph ◽  
Rate Controlling Step

Reduction of oxygen and oxidation of hydrogen peroxide at the dropping mercury electrode are electrochemical processes strongly influenced both by the pH value and the anions in solution. With decreasing pH, both processes become irreversible, especially in the presence of anions with a negative φ2 potential of the diffusion part of the double layer. In the case of irreversible oxygen reduction, the concept that the rate-controlling step of the electrode process is the acceptance of the first electron with the formation of the superoxide anion, O2-, was substantiated. Oxidation of hydrogen peroxide becomes irreversible at a lower pH value than the reduction of oxygen. The slowest, i.e. rate-controlling step of the electrode process in borate buffers at pH 9-10 is the transfer of the second electron, i.e. oxidation of superoxide to oxygen.

A NOTE ON THE POLAROGRAPHIC ANALYSIS OF HYDROGEN PEROXIDE

1948 ◽  
Vol 26b (12) ◽  
pp. 767-772
Author(s):  
Paul A. Giguère ◽  
J. B. Jaillet
Keyword(s):  
Hydrogen Peroxide ◽  
Mercury Electrode ◽  
Limiting Current ◽  
Diffusion Current ◽  
Polarographic Analysis ◽  
Dropping Mercury Electrode ◽  
Strychnine Sulphate

The determination of hydrogen peroxide at concentrations higher than those normally covered in polarography was studied with various electrodes. The diffusion current was found to increase linearly with the peroxide concentration up to 0.15% with the dropping mercury electrode and up to nearly 1% with a fixed platinum microelectrode. Under these conditions the limiting current was about 10 times greater than that usually observed. Although the solutions were supersaturated with oxygen, traces of strychnine sulphate were sufficient to suppress all maxima.

Reduction and tensammetric pulse-polarographic currents of polynucleotides

1987 ◽  
Vol 52 (11) ◽  
pp. 2810-2818 ◽  
Author(s):  
Emil Paleček ◽  
František Jelen ◽  
Vladimír Vetterl
Keyword(s):  
Diagnostic Criteria ◽  
Pulse Width ◽  
Mercury Electrode ◽  
Pulse Amplitude ◽  
Single Strand ◽  
Pulse Polarography ◽  
Dropping Mercury Electrode ◽  
Adenylic Acid ◽  
Drop Time

The behaviour of electrochemically reducible single-strand polynucleotides (poly(adenylic acid)) and poly(cytidylic acid)) was studied by the differential (derivative) pulse polarography (DPP) and by other methods. Measurements were performed with the help of the dropping mercury electrode under various conditions specified by the pulse width, pulse amplitude, drop time etc. For the faradaic and tensammetric DPP peaks the diagnostic criteria were proposed which make it possible to classify even very small DPP peaks of double helical polynucleotides.

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