Catalysis of the electrochemical oxidation of glucose by glucose oxidase and a single electron cosubstrate: kinetics in viscous solutions

Catalysis of the electrochemical oxidation of glucose by glucose oxidase with a single electron mediator (cosubstrate) may be used to transform mixtures of concentrated industrial sugars. How the high viscosity of such media may affect the enzymatic reaction and the transport of the mediator can be mimicked by addition of large concentrations of sucrose to glucose solutions. Cyclic voltammetry then provides a simple means of investigating the effect of an increased viscosity on the kinetics of the enzymatic reaction and the diffusion of the mediator. The diffusion coefficient of the mediator is decreased 10 times by addition of 1.6 M sucrose. At pH 8, in the presence of the same concentration of sucrose, the catalytic activity of the enzyme towards its substrate is only slightly affected. A 35% decrease of the glucose Michaelis constant is observed. The reaction of the reduced enzyme with the cosubstrate is six times slower and the mediator Michaelis constant undergoes a three-fold increase. It follows that glucose oxidase remains an efficient catalyst in such viscous media.     

Electrocatalytic Reduction of Chromium(VI) by Thionin: Electrochemical Properties and Mechanistic Study

The electrochemical properties of aqueous thionin (an electroactive water soluble dye) of pH 1–12 were investigated by cyclic voltammetry at a boron doped diamond(BDD) electrode. A well defined reversible redox couple was observed in acidic, neutral and alkaline solutions. The standard potential and kinetic parameters for thionin were obtained by fitting experimental cyclic voltammograms to those generated by the DigiSim program. The electrogenerated reduced form of thionin has been used as an efficient organic catalyst for the reduction of Cr(VI) at a BDD electrode immersed in aqueous media. The cyclic voltammetry measurements indicate that an electrocatalytic process occurs, where electrochemically generated thionin reduced species (Leucothionin) is oxidized by Cr(VI) back to the parent thionin species via a EC' reaction mechanism. The determination of catalytic rate constant (K_cat) was accomplished again by fitting experimental cyclic voltammograms with simulated ones.     

Fragmentation of aryl halide pi anion radicals. Bending of the cleaving bond and activation vs driving force relationships

Recent rate data for very fast cleaving of aryl chloride and bromide anion radicals may be accommodated satisfactorily within rate constant versus ArX/ArX*- standard potential existing correlations provided the standard potential is determined experimentally. Cyclic voltammetry is used for this purpose, taking careful account of the electron transfer/fragmentation reaction mixed character of the kinetics. The ensuing activation/driving force relationships allow the determination of the intrinsic barriers, the magnitude of which are discussed in the framework of a new Morse curve model that includes and emphasizes the role of bond bending.     

Pushing the Limits of Neutral Organic Electron Donors: A Tetra(iminophosphorano)‐Substituted Bispyridinylidene

A new ground‐state organic electron donor has been prepared that features four strongly π‐donating iminophosphorano substituents on a bispyridinylidene skeleton. Cyclic voltammetry reveals a record redox potential of ?1.70 V vs. saturated calomel electrode (SCE) for the couple involving the neutral organic donor and its dication. This highly reducing organic compound can be isolated (44 %) or more conveniently generated in situ by a deprotonation reaction involving its readily prepared pyridinium ion precursor. This donor is able to reduce a variety of aryl halides, and, owing to its redox potential, was found to be the first organic donor to be effective in the thermally induced reductive S? N bond cleavage of N,N‐dialkylsulfonamides, and reductive hydrodecyanation of malonitriles.     

Cryoelectrochemistry: electrochemical reduction of 2(RS)-methyl 1-(tert-butoxycarbonyl)-2-iodomethyl-2,5-dihydropyrrole-2-carboxylate

Cryoelectrochemisty with cyclic voltammetry and chronoamperometry has been applied to give an insight into a reductive pyrroline ring opening reaction, and has allowed the number of electrons participating in the reaction to be deduced from potential step experiments.     

Weitere Untersuchungen über den Mechanismus der reduktiven Spaltung von Azoverbindungen

The experimental results of our earlier investigation of the azodye bleach mechanism are interpreted in a revised manner. The reductive cleavage of methylorange by a dihydroquinoxaline proceeds in two steps. In the medium pH-range the first step (production of the hydrazo derivative) is slower (and not faster, as considered before) than the second (reductive splitting of the hydrazo derivative). In strongly acid solution this relation is reversed. The rate of disproportionation of the hydrazo derivative of methylorange is proportional to the concentration of the protonated hydrazo compound. For this reaction a two step mechanism is proposed in which a molecule of hydrazo compound is cleaved in a rate determining first step to an oxidizing particle and an amine molecule. In the following fast reaction the oxidizing intermediate attacks a second hydrazo molecule yielding methylorange and a further amine molecule. Based on this reaction sequence an azodye bleach mechanism is formulated which is able to explain the kinetics of the reductive cleavage of methylorange by a 1, 4-dihydroquinoxaline at any pH value. The azodye bleach mechanism is much more complex if the 1,4-dihydroquinoxaline used is able to form a radical or to tautomerize. The resulting reaction kinetics are discussed.     

Studies on the interaction of protein with acid chrome blue K by electrochemical method and its analytical application

An electrochemical investigation on the interaction of acid chrome blue K (ACBK) with protein on the mercury electrode with different electrochemical methods such as cyclic voltammetry and linear sweep voltammetry was reported in this paper. In pH 3.0 Britton-Robinson (B-R) buffer solution, ACBK has an irreversible voltammetric reductive peak at -0.23 V (vs. SCE). The addition of human serum albumin (HSA) into the ACBK solution resulted in the decrease of reductive peak currents without the change of the peak potential and no new peaks appeared on the cyclic voltammogram. In the absence and presence of HSA, the electrochemical parameters such as the formal potential E0, the electrode reaction standard rate constant k(s) and the charge transfer coefficient alpha of the interaction system were calculated and the results showed that there were no significant changes between each other. Thus, the interaction of ACBK with protein forms an electro-inactive supramolecular bio-complex, which induces the decrease of the free concentration of ACBK in the reaction solution, and the decrease of the reductive peak current of ACBK. The binding constant and the binding ratio are calculated as 1.29 x 10(8) and 1:2, respectively, and the interaction mechanism is discussed. Based on the binding reaction, this new electrochemical method is further applied to the determination of HSA with the linear range from 3.0-20.0 mg/L and the linear regression equation as deltaIp"(nA) = 10.08 + 19.90 C (mg/L). This method was further applied to determinate the content of protein in the healthy human serum samples with the results in good agreement with the traditional Coomassie brilliant blue G-250 spectrophotometric method.     

New Aspects of Protein‐film Voltammetry of Redox Enzymes Coupled to Follow‐up Reversible Chemical Reaction in Square‐wave Voltammetry

Protein‐film square‐wave voltammetry of uniformly adsorbed molecules of redox lipophilic enzymes is applied to study their electrochemical properties, when a reversible follow‐up chemical reaction is coupled to the electrochemically generated product of enzyme's electrode reaction. Theoretical consideration of this so‐called “surface ECrev mechanism” under conditions of square‐wave voltammetry has revealed several new aspects, especially by enzymatic electrode reactions featuring fast electron transfer. We show that the rate of chemical removal/resupply of electrochemically generated Red(ads) enzymatic species, shows quite specific features to all current components of calculated square‐wave voltammograms and affects the electrode kinetics. The effects observed are specific for this particular redox mechanism (surface ECrev mechanism), and they got more pronounced at high electrode kinetics of enzymatic reaction. The features of phenomena of “split net‐SWV peak” and “quasireversible maximum”, which are typical for surface redox reactions studied in square‐wave voltammetry, are strongly affected by kinetics and thermodynamics of follow‐up chemical reaction. While we present plenty of relevant voltammetric situations useful for recognizing this particular mechanism in square‐wave voltammetry, we also propose a new approach to get access to kinetics and thermodynamics of follow‐up chemical reaction. Most of the results in this work throw new insight into the features of protein‐film systems that are coupled with chemical reactions.     

Experimental study of the interplay between long-range electron transfer and redox probe permeation at self-assembled monolayers: evidence for potential-induced ion gating

Evidence for the competition between long-range electron transfer across self-assembled monolayers (SAMs) and incorporation of the redox probe into the film is reported for the electroreduction of Ru(NH(3)) at hydroxyl- and carboxylic-acid-terminated SAMs on a mercury electrode, by using electrochemical techniques that operate at distinct time scales. Two limiting voltammetric behaviors are observed, consistent with a diffusion control of the redox process at mercaptophenol-coated electrodes and a kinetically controlled electron transfer reaction in the presence of neutral HS-(CH(2))(10)-COOH and HS-(CH(2))(n)()-CH(2)OH (n = 3, 5, and 10) SAMs. The monolayer thickness dependence of the standard heterogeneous electron transfer rate constant shows that the electron transfer plane for the reduction of Ru(NH(3)) at hydroxyl-terminated SAMs is located outside the film | solution interface at short times. However, long time scale experiments provide evidence for the occurrence of potential-induced gating of the adsorbed structure in some of the monolayers studied, which takes the form of a chronoamperometric spike. Redox probe permeation is shown to be a kinetically slow process, whose activation strongly depends on redox probe concentration, applied potential, and chemical composition of the intervening medium. The obtained results reveal that self-assembled monolayers made of mercaptobutanol and mercaptophenol preserve their electronic barrier properties up to the reductive desorption potential of a fully grown SAM, whereas those of mercaptohexanol, mercaptoundecanol, and mercaptoundecanoic acid undergo an order/disorder transition below a critical potential, which facilitates the approach of the redox probe toward the electrode surface.     

Stepwise and concerted pathways in photoinduced and thermal electron-transfer/bond-breaking reactions. experimental illustration of similarities and contrasts.

The electrochemical (cyclic voltammetry) and photoinduced (fluorescence quenching, quantum yields) reductive cleavages of four compounds, 4-cyano-alpha-trifluorotoluene (1), dimethylphenyl sulfonium (2), 4-cyanobenzylmethylphenyl sulfonium (3), and 4-cyanobenzyl chloride (4), are investigated and compared in terms of concerted vs stepwise mechanisms. Bearing in mind that an increase of the thermodynamic driving force shifts the mechanism from concerted to stepwise and that the driving force is larger under photochemical than under electrochemical conditions, 1 and 2 are typical examples where a stepwise mechanism is followed with compatible kinetic characteristics under both regimes. 4 undergoes a concerted electrochemical reductive cleavage, and the same mechanism is followed in the photoinduced reaction with consistent kinetic characteristics. The case of 3 is of particular interest, since a trend of passing from a concerted to a stepwise mechanism when going from the electrochemical to the photochemical conditions indeed appears upon analysis of the experimental results. The change of mechanism is, however, not complete since, in the photoinduced reaction, there is a balanced competition between the two pathways. In the same families of compounds, the unsubstituted benzylmethylphenyl sulfonium cations shows such a borderline behavior during the electrochemical reaction. In the photoinduced reaction, it is the 4-cyano derivative which behaves in a borderline manner, in line with the fact that it gives rise more readily to a concerted mechanism than the unsubstituted compound.     

Antimony‐Based Composites Loaded on Phosphorus‐Doped Carbon for Boosting Faradaic Efficiency of the Electrochemical Nitrogen Reduction Reaction

A nanocomposite of PC/Sb/SbPO₄ (PC, phosphorus‐doped carbon) exhibits a high activity and an excellent selectivity for efficient electrocatalytic conversion of N₂ to NH₃ in both acidic and neutral electrolytes under ambient conditions. At a low reductive potential of ?0.15 V versus the reversible hydrogen electrode (RHE), the PC/Sb/SbPO₄ catalyst achieves a high Faradaic efficiency (FE) of 31 % for ammonia production in 0.1 m HCl under mild conditions. In particular, a remarkably high FE value of 34 % is achieved at a lower reductive potential of ?0.1 V (vs. RHE) in a 0.1 m Na₂SO₄ solution, which is better than most reported electrocatalysts towards the nitrogen reduction reaction (NRR) in neutral electrolyte under mild conditions. The change in surface species and electrocatalytic performance before and after N₂ reduction is explored by an ex situ method. PC and SbPO₄ are both considered as the active species that enhanced the performance of NRR.     

Biochemical and genetic bases of dehalorespiration

Some anaerobic bacteria can efficiently eliminate one or more halide atoms from halogenated compounds such as chlorophenols and chloroethenes through reductive dehalogenation. During this process, the bacteria utilize halogenated compounds as the terminal electron acceptors in their anaerobic respiration, called dehalorespiration, to yield energy for growth. Currently the genera of Desulfitobacterium and Dehalococcoides occupy the major part of the dehalorespiring isolates. The former can acquire energy not only by dehalorespiration but also by other respirations utilizing organic compounds and metals. In sharp contrast, the latter is specialized in dehalorespiration and plays a crucial role in the detoxification of chlorinated compounds in nature. From these bacteria, various reductive dehalogenases, which catalyze the dehalogenation reaction, were purified and their corresponding genes were identified. Most reductive dehalogenases exhibit similar features such as the presences of a Tat (twin arginine translocation) signal sequence, two Fe-S clusters, and a corrinoid cofactor. Some of dehalogenase-encoding genes are found to be flanked by insertion sequences. Thus, dehalogenase genes act as a catabolic transposon, and genetic rearrangements mediated by transposable elements occur well in dehalorespirers. Moreover, the genome sequences of some dehalorespiring bacteria provide many insights into the mechanism of dehalorespiration and the evolution of a dehalogenase gene.     

2,2’-二氨基苯氧基二硫化物的电极过程动力学研究

利用循环伏安法、线性伏安法及旋转圆盘电极技术，研究了2,2’-二氨基苯氧基二硫化物(DAPOD)在含有0.1 mol•L－1 LiClO4电解质的乙腈/四氢呋喃有机溶液中，铂、金、玻碳及石墨电极上的电化学行为.伏安结果表明DAPOD中的二硫键与硫巯基之间的氧化还原反应属动力学不可逆过程，这种在室温下表现出的电化学反应不可逆性是有机二硫化物普遍存在的不足，必须通过分子内或分子间的电催化来改善其可逆性能.旋转圆盘电极测试结果显示， DAPOD的阴极还原反应级数为0.5，阳极氧化反应级数为1.由此推知DAPOD电还原属两电子转移反应，分两步完成：第一步为平衡的化学反应步骤；第二步为电子转移步骤，属决速步.同时还测定了DAPOD的阴极与阳极传递系数、交换电流、平衡电势及标准速率常数等相关的动力学常数.通过比较铂、金、玻碳及石墨四种不同材料电极对DAPOD的电极过程的影响,发现石墨对DAPOD的还原过程具有电催化作用.     

Immobilization of ligands with precise control of density to electroactive surfaces

We report a broadly applicable surface chemistry methodology to immobilize ligands, proteins, and cells to an electroactive substrate with precise control of ligand density. This strategy is based on the coupling of soluble aminooxy terminated ligands with an electroactive quinone terminated monolayer. The surface chemistry product oxime is also redox active but at a different potential and therefore allows for real-time monitoring of the immobilization reaction. Only the quinone form of the immobilized redox pair is reactive with soluble aminooxy groups, which allows for the determination of the yield of reaction, the ability to immobilize multiple ligands at controlled densities, and the in-situ modulation of ligand activity. We demonstrate this methodology by using cyclic voltammetry to characterize the kinetics of a model interfacial reaction with aminooxy acetic acid. We also demonstrate the synthetic flexibility and utility of this method for biospecific interactions by installing aminooxy terminated FLAG peptides and characterizing their binding to soluble anti-FLAG with surface plasmon resonance spectroscopy. We further show this methodology is compatible with microarray technology by printing rhodamine-oxyamine in various size spots and characterizing the yield within the spots by cyclic voltammetry. We also show this methodology is compatible with cell culture conditions and fluorescent microscopy technology for cell biological studies. Arraying RGD-oxyamine peptides on these substrates allows for bio-specific adhesion of Swiss 3T3 Fibroblasts.     

Continuous-flow system for horseradish peroxidase enzyme assay comprising a packed-column, an amperometric detector and a rotating bioreactor

The roles of chemical kinetics and mass transfer in three types of bioreactors (packed-column reactors, rotating disk bioreactors and amperometric detector), used with continuous-flow sample/reagent(s) processing, are discussed in detail. A normalized quantitative comparison between these types of reactors clearly shows that rotating disk reactors afford a significantly more efficient utilization of active sites and permit the effective utilization of very small amounts of biocatalysts. Horseradish peroxidase (EC 1.11.1.7), in presence of hydrogen peroxide catalyses the oxidation of [Os(bpy)₂Cl(pyCOOH)]Cl. The electrochemical reduction back of this cosubstrate is detected on glassy carbon electrode surface at 0.00 V. Furthermore, the critical effect of substrate and cosubstrate concentration on amperometric immunosensors construction in which HRP is used as an enzymatic label was studied.     

Determination of Isotherm for Acetate and Formate Adsorption at Pt(111) Electrode by Fast Scan Voltammetry (cited: 3)

Fast scan voltammetry is an efficient tool to distinguish oxidative/reductive adsorp-tion/desorption from that for bulk reaction. In this work, we provide a methodology that the isotherm of oxidative/reductive adsorption desorption processes at electrode surface canbe obtained using just one solution with relatively low reactant concentration, by taking the advantage of varying the potential scan rate (relative of the diffusion rate) to tune the adsorption rate and proper mathematic treatment. The methodology is demonstrated bytaking acetate adsorption at Pt(111) in acidic solution as an example. The possibility for ex-tension of this method toward mechanistic studies of complicated electrocatalytic reactions is also given.     

Mechanism of benzylsuccinate synthase: stereochemistry of toluene addition to fumarate and maleate

Benzylsuccinate synthase catalyzes a highly unusual reaction: the addition of toluene to fumarate to form (R)-benzylsuccinic acid. The stereochemistry of this reaction has been examined using [d3-methyl]toluene and either fumarate or its cis stereoisomer, maleate, as the substrates. We demonstrate that when fumarate is the cosubstrate, deuterium is transferred from toluene to the C-3 pro-(R) position of benzylsuccinate, implying a syn addition of toluene to the double bond of fumarate. However, when maleate is the cosubstrate, the addition of toluene occurs in an anti fashion, so that deuterium transfer to the C-3 pro-(R) position of benzylsuccinate is also observed. This is consistent with the formation of the C-3 radical of benzylsuccinate as an intermediate, in which rotation about the C-2-C-3 bond can occur to relieve the sterically unfavorable cis conformation of the carboxylate groups when maleate is the cosubstrate.     

卡托普利在汞电极表面的电化学行为

用循环伏安法、阴极溶出伏安法和电毛细管曲线测量等方法研究了卡托普利在汞电极表面的电氧化机理。实验结果表明,酸性溶液中卡托普利比较稳定,而在中、碱性溶液中卡托普利不稳定。在酸性溶液中有质子参与电极过程,卡托普利在电极表面发生单电子转移,生成汞（Ｉ）－硫化合物,该化合物在电极表面有强吸附,并进一步转化成汞（Ⅱ）－硫化合物。按照实验结果,计算了卡托普利的扩散系数和电极反应速率常数,提出了卡托普利电化学氧     

The electrochemistry of cephalosporin C derivatives: Part II. Cephalothin,sodium salt

The electrochemical behavior of cephalothin has been studied by a.c. and d.c. polarography, cyclic voltammetry, and coulometry in both aqueous and nonaqueous media in order to gain a greater understanding of the reaction pathways involved in cephalosporin reduction. The reductive allylic cleavage of the 3′-acetoxy function has been found to produce Δ³-deacetoxy and 3-exomethylene cephalothin compounds (geometric isomers) and stereochemical isomers of the 3′-exomethylene compound at the 4-position. The ratio of these compounds to one another is dependent on the experimental conditions used, with adsorption playing an important role. The reductive allylic cleavage of the S₁?C₂ bond is a competitive reaction pathway. Δ³-Deacetoxy cephalothin may undergo further reduction, depending on the electrolysis potential selected.     

Electrochemical behavior of zopiclone

The electrochemical properties of zopiclone, an anxiolytic and hypnotic drug, have been investigated by different techniques. The compound is reduced in two 2-electron steps in the pH range 0-12. The first step, which corresponds to the reduction of the pyrazine ring, is reversible in acidic and neutral solutions. Strong adsorption phenomena accompany the reduction process in acidic and neutral media. Zopiclone can be quantitatively measured over the entire pH range using DC polarography. However, the use of differential pulse and square-wave modes for quantitative measurements is more limited due to a slope modification in the current-concentration relationship. Adsorptive stripping voltammetry can be applied to the determination of low levels of the drug at pH 9, but only short deposition times may be used because large amounts of material accumulated under stirring conditions due to fast adsorption kinetics are rapidly released from the electrode surface. Detection limits are 1 x 10(-7)M and 2 x 10(-10)M for polarography and adsorptive stripping voltammetry, respectively. Only the first wave is of analytical interest for both techniques.