Electrochemically driven transfer of carboxyl-terminated PAMAM dendrimers at the water/dichloroethane interface |
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Authors: | Miguel A González-Fuentes J Manríquez R Antaño-López Luis A Godínez |
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Institution: | Centro de Investigación y Desarrollo Tecnológico en Electroquímica S.C., Parque Tecnológico Querétaro, Sanfandila, P.O. Box 064, Pedro Escobedo, 76703 Querétaro, Mexico |
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Abstract: | The transfer of PAMAM dendrimers bearing carboxylic acid peripheral groups between two immiscible liquids was studied by means of the three phase junction system, using a gold wire vertically crossing the interface and decamethyl ferrocene as the redox probe in the organic phase. While the voltammetric behavior indicates kinetic limitations of the overall ion–electron transfer process, thermodynamic data shows that the phase transfer process is entropically controlled. Four dendrimer generations were analyzed and it was found that the kinetics as well as the thermodynamics of the phase transfer reaction are size dependent. |
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