Reactant adsorption in differential pulse polarography: Effects of adsorptive depletion of reactant,non-linear adsorption isotherms and uncompensated resistance

Digital simulation techniques are applied to the diagnosis of the ways in which the peak currents and wave shapes of differential pulse polarograms are affected by the adsorption of reactants or products. The changes in the polarograms introduced by the items mentioned in the title are examined and their magnitudes calculated and compared with experimental polarograms. Some implications of the results in analytical applications of differential pulse polarography are described.