Abstract
Cyclic voltammetry and dynamic and steady state polarization measurements have been used to examine the electrocatalytic activity of glassy carbon, GC, bearing a layer of adsorbed hemin, Hm, Hm|GC, toward hydroxylamine, NH2OH, in neutral aqueous solutions. The results obtained have provided ample evidence that Hm|GC promotes the reduction and oxidation of NH2OH, as well as its disproportionation. Also presented is a mechanistic model that accounts quantitatively for steady state polarization data for the reduction of NH2OH recorded with a Hm|GC rotating disk electrode, RDE. This model predicts that a very large fraction of the current is attributed to the reduction of a Hm species axially coordinated by a NH2OH molecule on one side and a nitrosyl group on the other at lower overpotentials and NH2OH on either side at higher overpotentials.
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