Electrocatalytic Oxidation of Estrogenic Phenolic Compounds at a Nickel‐Modified Glassy Carbon Electrode

This paper demonstrates for the first time, successful electrocatalytic oxidation of electroactive estrogenic phenolic compounds (EPCs) at a nickel‐modified glassy carbon electrode (Ni‐GCE). The electrode was evaluated in terms of electrocatalytic activity, sensitivity, linear dynamic range, limit of detection, and response stability. In comparison to bare glassy carbon electrode, current amplification was observed for EPCs at Ni‐GCE, for example, for a 40 µM estrone at Ni‐GCE was amplified by a factor of 1224. The Ni‐GCE gave good figures of merit with no evidence of electrode fouling. As an example, the limit of detection (S/N=3) for 17β‐estradiol was 100 nM and the response precision (n=5) was 3.4 %.