The mechanism of electrochemical oxidation of quercetin on a glassy carbon electrode has been studied using cyclic, differential pulse and square‐wave voltammetry at different pH. It proceeds in a cascade mechanism, related with the two catechol hydroxyl groups and the other three hydroxyl groups which all present electroactivity, and the oxidation is pH dependent. Quercetin also adsorbs strongly on the electrode surface; and the final oxidation product is not electroactive and blocks the electrode surface. The oxidation of the catechol 3′,4′‐dihydroxyl electron‐donating groups, occurs first, at very low positive potentials, and is a two electron two proton reversible reaction. The hydroxyl group oxidized next was shown to undergo an irreversible oxidation reaction, and this hydroxyl group can form a intermolecular hydrogen bond with the neighboring oxygen. The other two hydroxyl groups also have an electron donating effect and their oxidation is reversible. 相似文献
A procedure for estimation of measurement uncertainty of routine pH measurement (pH meter with two-point calibration, with
or without automatic temperature compensation, combination glass electrode) based on the ISO method is presented. It is based
on a mathematical model of pH measurement that involves nine input parameters. Altogether 14 components of uncertainty are
identified and quantified. No single uncertainty estimate can be ascribed to a pH measurement procedure: the uncertainty of
pH strongly depends on changes in experimental details and on the pH value itself. The uncertainty is the lowest near the
isopotential point and in the center of the calibration line and can increase by a factor of 2 (depending on the details of
the measurement procedure) when moving from around pH 7 to around pH 2 or 11. Therefore it is necessary to estimate the uncertainty
separately for each measurement. For routine pH measurement the uncertainty cannot be significantly reduced by using more
accurate standard solutions than ±0.02 pH units – the uncertainty improvement is small. A major problem in estimating the
uncertainty of pH is the residual junction potential, which is almost impossible to take rigorously into account in the framework
of a routine pH measurement.1
Received: 11 August 2001 Accepted: 22 February 2002 相似文献
Various water-pyridine mixtures have been selected in order to compare several of the most popular extrathermodynamic assumptions involved in the determination of the transfer activity coefficient of the proton, t(H+). Two techniques have been utilized for this purpose: voltammetry [study of the ferrocene, ferricyanide, or thallium(1) systems] and potentiometry at equilibrium (emf measurements of various galvanic cells, including liquid junctions and hydrogen electrode or silver electrode as a test electrode). The assumptions have been classified into various groups [e.g., t(Zp+)=t(Zq+) or t(X–)=t(Y+)], and the values of t(H+) have been experimentally determined in each case. The results vary depending upon the basic assumption (several pH units); less important differences (e.g., 0.5 pH unit) occur within a given group, and this may be assigned to the nature of the reference species chosen. A simple model of solvation has been also examined; the application of the law of mass action to the corresponding equilibrium provides results close to the t(X–) =t(Y+)type of assumptions which ultimately leads to most self-consistent results. 相似文献
The effect of pH on the flow behavior of ZrO2 suspensions containing polyacrylic and octanoic acids was evaluated. In the flocculated pH regime, the flow behavior is highly
shearthinning and can be described by a power-law model. The shear-thinning behavior increases with increasing degree of flocculation.
Maximum shearthinning was observed at the zero zeta potential condition. Hydrophobic interaction arising from adsorbed octanoic
acid was found to enhance the shear-thinning behavior. No such enhancement was observed for adsorbed polyacrylic acid. It
was also illustrated that the viscosity–pH behavior is a mirror image of the yield stress–pH behavior. A quantitative particle-pair
interactions model incorporating steric and hydrophobic interactions was proposed to explain the effects of polyacrylic and
octanoic acids on the maximum yield stress.
Received: 23 May 1997 Accepted: 4 June 1997 相似文献
The ability of malic acid to control calcium carbonate morphology has been investigated by aging calcium chloride solution in the presence of urea in a 90 °C bath. Malic acid favors the formation of calcite. A transition from single block to aggregate with special morphology occurs upon increasing malic acid concentration. The morphological development of CaCO3 crystal obviously depends on the starting pH. CaCO3 crystal grows from spindle seed to dumbbell in the pH regime from 7 to 11; while it evolves from spindle seed, through peanut, to sphere at pH=11.5. Both dumbbell and sphere consist of rods that are elongated along c-axis and capped with three smooth, well-defined rhombic {1 0 4} faces. A tentative growth mechanism is proposed based on the fractal model suggested by R. Kniep and S. Busch [Angew. Chem. Int. Ed. Engl. 35 (1996) 2624]. 相似文献
Titanium nitride was used as pH‐sensitive material to fabricate all solid‐state pH electrode. The fabrication and the response performance of the pH electrode were described in the paper. The TiN film electrode showed a linear response in the pH range of 2–12 with a near‐Nenstian response (?55 mV/pH). The response time was within 1 min, and the electrode had good reproducibility, stability and low sensitivities for different species. Compared with the glass pH electrode, the electrode exhibited some advantages, for example, without activation, rapid response and high mechanical strength. In addition, the electrode performed excellently in a corrosion medium containing F?(1 M). Electrochemical behaviors of TiN electrode in Britton‐Robinson buffers were studied with Electrochemical Impedance Spectroscopy (EIS). 相似文献
Measurements of the major cations Ca and Mg by the technique of diffusive gradients in thin films (DGTs) were systematically evaluated. The concentration in solution was calculated using Fick’s first law of diffusion from the directly measured flux to the DGT device. A selective cation exchange resin (Bio-Rad Chelex®100), which has been used extensively with DGT for trace metals, such as Cd2+, Cu2+ and Ni2+, was used for this work.
Elution of Ca and Mg from the resin with 1 M HNO3 was very reproducible. Measurements of Ca and Mg concentrations in synthetic solutions agreed well with the theoretical predictions. The negative response on uptake caused by lowered pH was investigated. Uptake was found to decline below pH 5. The capacity of the DGT device for Ca and Mg was also investigated to establish maximum deployment times for given concentrations.
Experiments with filtered and modified lake water show that DGT can be used to measure Ca and Mg when trace metals are present in the solution. An in situ deployment of DGT combined with an ultrafiltration study suggest that the Mg concentration measured by DGT is similar to the concentration found in the fraction <1 kDa. 相似文献