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Studies of Electron Transfer Reactions at the Interface Between Room-
temperature Ionic Liquid+1,2-Dichloroethane Solutions and Water by Scanning Electrochemical Microscopy

ZHANG Mei-Qin; LIU Hui; HU Hu; XIE ShuBao; JING Ping; KOU Yuan; SHAO Yuan-Hua   

  1. College of Chemistry and Molecular Engineering, Peking University,
    Beijing 100871, China
  • Received:2006-02-15 Revised:1900-01-01 Online:2006-07-10 Published:2006-07-10
  • Contact: SHAO Yuan-Hua

Abstract: The kinetic behavior of electron transfer(ET) reactions at the interface between room-temperature ionic liquid(RTIL, Omim·Tf2N) + 1,2-dichloroethane(DCE) solutions and water was studied by scanning electrochemical microscopy(SECM). The tip was positioned in the top RTIL+DCE solutions containing ferrocene(Fc), and potassium ferrocyanide[K4Fe(CN)6] was employed as the mediator in water(bottom phase). The effects of RTIL with different volume fractions(xRTIL) in the mixtures on the apparent heterogeneous ET rate constants(k) were investigated at the same concentration ratio of the common ion(Tf2N-) by fitting the experimental approach curves to the theoretical values. The results showed that with xRTIL decreasing from 1 to 0.1, the diffusion coefficient of Fc(DFc) in the mixtures increased from 2.730×10-7 to 9.131×10-6 cm2·s-1 monotonously, but k decreased firstly(from 8.0 to 0.32 mol-1·cm·s-1), and then increased a little(from 0.32 to 0.48 mol-1·cm·s-1). The possible reasons for observation of these behavior were discussed in details.

Key words: Scanning electrochemical microscopy, Liquid/liquid interface, Room-temperature ionic liquids, Electron transfer

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