Electrocatalytic oxidation of organic compounds on noble metals in aqueous solution

✍ Scribed by C. Lamy

• Publisher: Elsevier Science
• Year: 1984
• Tongue: English
• Weight: 709 KB
• Volume: 29
• Category: Article
• ISSN: 0013-4686
• DOI: 10.1016/0013-4686(84)85012-4

✦ Synopsis

The oxidation of organic compounds on noble metal electrodes inaqueous solution is acompLex reaction due to the occurrence of several adsorbed intermediates and reaction products or by-products. This leads to a lot of electrocatalytic problems, such as the elucidation of the nature of the reaction products and the structure of adsorbed species, the role of tbe electrode material, the effect of the structure of the organic compound, and the role of the composition of the electrolytic solution. These topics are illustrated with the help of various organic compounds (formic acid, methanol, ethanol, ethylene-glycol, C-2 compounds derived from ethylene-glycol, butanol isomers) using principally two experimental approaches: cyclic voltammetry at the macroscopic level and infrared spectroscopy (either FTIRS or EMIRS) at the microscopic level.